Speak a summary of arriving mail messages 1.0
Uses your address book to lookup contact information for emails as they arrive. Then, it speaks a summary. Example: '2 emails just arrived from Alice Smith, and 1 from Joe Thomas, and 3 from unknown senders.' This little bit of information is nice to have so you can decide whether to walk to the computer or not. To install the script: - Place the .scpt file somewhere in your documents. - In Mail.app, open the Mail->Preferences menu, and go to the Rules section. Add a new rule to apply to all incoming messages and choose 'Run AppleScript' as the action to perform.
published on Sunday, the 5. October 2008, scriptbuilders
Note2Self 2.0 adds a WiFi server, auto pause
WebIS has announced the latest version of its audio recorder application for the iPhone, Note2Self 2.0. The release offers improvements including a WiFi web server, automatic level pause, multi-note delete, audio scrubbing, and three defaults emails with contact pictures for sending mail. Voice notes can be recorded, saved, and automatically sent to an email address, without pushing any buttons....
published on Friday, the 3. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
iTunes Store purchasing troubles and .Mac names
If you have a MobileMe account, and are using your old DotMac address as your Apple ID, you may have trouble ordering from the iTunes Store. When you attempt to confirm your purchase buy hitting the Buy button, the same page will reload with a rather cryptic error message as follows: Please enter your Apple ID and password, then click Account Info to approve your email address for use in the iTunes Store. If you cancel you will not be able to buy music until you have approved your email address. But, you'll see no place to enter your Apple ID and password. The solution is to go to the Apple Account Information page by clicking on your Apple ID in the upper right hand corner of the iTunes store. From there, click on the Edit Account Info button. On the Account Information page, you'll see your Apple ID shown as your old DotMac address. Enter your MobileMe address in the Email Address box and click Done. This is apparently what Apple means about nee...
published on Wednesday, the 24. September 2008, macosxhints
Encrypt Mail, Address Book, and iCal data
Like many of you, I keep lots of personal information on my laptop that I would like to keep private in case I lose physical control of the computer (theft, or more likely these days, sudden seizure by the government). There are a few ways to accomplish on-the-fly encryption with OS X, of course, but none of them really fit my needs. FileVault has not been known to be exceptionally reliable (although I've never tried it in Leopard) and is totally unconfigurable. Whole disk encryption is a little overkill for me, so I don't feel like eating the CPU overhead that it entails. On the other end of the spectrum, casual security like an Open Firmware / EFI password, and a strong login password are easily defeated, and only deter those with no interest in your data anyway. What I really want is a way to encrypt just a certain set of private data (like my email in Mail.app, contacts in Address Book, and calendars in iCal), with as little inconvenience as possible. The best ...
published on Monday, the 22. September 2008, macosxhints
Filemailer simplifies email file transfers
Altomac has launched Filemailer for the Mac, a utility that simplifies the task of transferring files via email. The software allows a user to quickly move data files ñ such as PDFs, images, and documents ñ without needing to open an email program and compose an email for the sole purpose of sending a file. Filemailer sends the file to the receiving party's email address. It also avoids build-up o...
published on Sunday, the 21. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
Quickly extract all email addresses from Address Book
To quickly (as compared to using nested loops in AppleScript) extract all email addresses from the Address Book, you can tap into Address Book?s SQLite database using the command line (in Terminal): sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb "select ZADDRESSNORMALIZED from ZABCDEMAILADDRESS;" If you want to alphabetize and remove duplicates: sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb "select ZADDRESSNORMALIZED from ZABCDEMAILADDRESS;" | sort | uniq Please note: This works in Leopard, and should work in Tiger too. However, the database filename looks like it could change at a...
published on Thursday, the 28. August 2008, macosxhints
Another way to set up a 'unified' iPhone email inbox
With no unified Inbox (for good or bad), people have come up with lots (and lots) of ways of combining their email accounts into one. And with MobileMe offering push, I'm guessing some people have tried this configuration: having all their emails forward to their mac/me.com address.However, then the problem is with replying ... when you do so, you'll expose your mac/me.com address. So, there's always the option of setting up extra SMTP servers (which has already been documented). But that doesn't allow you to truly reply from a different account (let's say your email address is for a business, and the name is different).At least for Google (and other IMAP accounts?), there's a way to create a "send-only" account -- which has already been documented as using the "manual" checking of that account only. But that could leave you with more emails unread than you expect (as your phone may check the non-MobileMe account).So is there a way to:Set up a Gmail a...
published on Monday, the 25. August 2008, macosxhints
iPhone 3G Connectivity Affecting 2% of Customers? Software Fix Soon?
One MacRumors reader claims to have received a response from Steve Jobs after emailing in a complaint about the current iPhone 3G connectivity issues that have been widely reported. According to the email response which is addressed f...
published on Monday, the 18. August 2008, macrumors
Use many email addresses on one iPhone email account
Using Mail on OS X, you can assign multiple sender addresses to one account. As covered in this ancient hint, this is done by just separating each address with a comma in the account's setup screen. This same trick now works with the iPhone 2.0 firmware -- before it would just use the first address in the list. So if you have, for example, a Gmail account where you forward all your other mail addresses, you can now easily send mail from all of those addresses. Of course, your SMTP server must allow sending from foreign addresses for this to work.
published on Tuesday, the 29. July 2008, macosxhints
Use MobileMe push on iPhone with alternate From address
This hint is for those who have a primary email address, say a@default.com, and would like to use this email address, but would like the 'push' aspects of their MobileMe account, say a@me.com. It would be useful to be able to send email from a MobileMe account, but have a@default.com show up by default as the From address. This hint is similar tothis previously-posted hint, in that one can set their primary email address to forward a copy to their MobileMe account. However, this previous hint does this, but only by subscribing to their MobileMe account as a standard IMAP account, which would not use push.For this hint, one also needs an additional Gmail account (which may or may not be the primary email address) -- assume this account is a@gmail.com. and one would need to subscribe to that within the iPhone as well. Under the Mai...
published on Thursday, the 24. July 2008, macosxhints