Fix certificate errors in Safari and Mail when using AKO

Every person in the US Army is required to maintain an AKO (Army Knowledge Online) account. AKO webmail is a terrible web interface for email, but soldiers are forced to use it. All Army military email addresses (@us.army.mil and @usar.armry.mil) are AKO addresses, and they cannot be automatically forwarded to commercial addresses (yahoo, msn, aol, .com, .edu, etc -- only .gov and .mil are supported). I hate AKO email and check my account only when told. One day, when I was getting "smoked" by my First Sergeant for not checking my email, I stared at the asphalt and thought to myself, "There has to be a better way." You are allowed access to your account using POP3, but Mail just won't work with it for some reason. Safari consistently gives error messages about "certificates" and unknown authorities, which make AKO all the more nasty. The Army does have a site that tells Windows users how to avoid the Certificate dialogs, and has a program PC users can download tha...

published on Friday, the 16. June 2006, macosxhints

Use SFTP for read/write access to AOL member space

With AOL's move to being a content provider, and slowly but surely dropping the already-abysmal support of the AOL 'client' software for Macs in favor of a few simple stand-alone apps like the Connect dialer, AOL Radio, and AOL Pictures, I was concerned about how to access my member 'webspace' or 'filespace'. Previously, the webspace/filespace could be accessed via FTP, but only if you were logged in via the AOL client for authentication into their system. Third-party FTP programs used a backwards-type of authentication, where one's AOL username was left generic (such as "anon"), and the password given was your full AOL email address. AOL then checked to see if you were logged in via their client software (on the same computer) and if so, would grant FTP read/write permissions to your file space. AOL tech support said that was still the only means of authenticating to the member webspace for direct FTP, so I assumed that FTP had become another internet din...

published on Monday, the 12. June 2006, macosxhints

EntourageABMenu 1.5

EntourageABMenu is a convenient and intuitive way to utilize your Microsoft Entourage address book data through a system-wide menu. The application provides quick access to your contacts' phone numbers, email, postal addresses, URLs, and notes. Selecting a menu item will trigger an action such as displaying the content in large type, copying it to the clipboard, creating a new email, dialing the phone, or showing an address on a map using an online mapping service.

published on Thursday, the 8. June 2006, scriptbuilders

Search in OpenBC from Address Book 1.0

Copy the script in ~/Library/Address Book plugins/ and execute it by clicking on the email text in the Address book

published on Sunday, the 30. April 2006, scriptbuilders

Dates to iCal 1.0.3

Dates to iCal is an Applescript Studio application which automatically syncs your Address Book birthdays, anniversaries and custom dates to iCal, creating alarmed, editable events in a separate calendar. With Dates to iCal you can: - Add Address Book date events automatically to iCal. - Choose which event types you want added (birthdays, custom dates or both). - Have any type of alarm you like for the event, from a message to emailing a whole Address Book Group. - Choose the notice in days and hours the alarms are set for. - Manually make changes (i.e. adding notes) to these events. - Add birthdays manually for people you don't have a separate card for in Address Book. Dates to iCal is donation-ware. Please make a small donation via Paypal at the Developers website.

published on Monday, the 3. April 2006, scriptbuilders

Simple Categorizer JRC 0.1

This simple script checks an incoming mail's From or Subject for certain strings you enter into the script, then sets a Category. The concept is that you can then use a view to sort on the category easily, and delete messages which have reduced meaning after a couple of days - messages that 'expire' or become 'stale'. To install, save script in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script Menu Items, where ~ is your user folder in OS/X. Edit the script to include the From email addresses you want to check, and the subject text you want to check. Use this script in Entourage 2004 rules. Select menu item Tools, then Rules. In the dialog, click New. Set rule name to 'Set to Expires Category' (for example), set the If section to All Messages, then set the Then section to 'Run AppleScript'. Select the script. Clear the 'Do not apply other rules...' checkbox as appropriate. Set the Enabled checkbox. Click OK to save. I moved this rule to the top of my rules list, and it fires for every message, setting the category to Expires when a message that has either the right text in the Subject, or, the right From address. Now when you have a bunch of messages in your Inbox, with the Expires category set, you can create a View to show them, and delete them regularly to save a little space.

published on Saturday, the 25. March 2006, scriptbuilders

Send Email from Addressbook 1.0

I wrote this because I wanted to be able to send an email from the Apple AddressBook using Eudora without using the mouse. I used QuicKeys to assign a shortcut to launch the script, it will copy the selected contacts email and create a new message in Eudora with this email as a recipient. There will be a message when there are no email addresses for the contact, it will run automatic if there is only one and there is a selection dialog if there are several addresses.

published on Thursday, the 23. March 2006, scriptbuilders

EntourageABMenu 1.0

EntourageABMenu is a convenient and intuitive way to utilize your Microsoft Entourage address book data through a system-wide menu. The application provides quick access to your contacts' phone numbers, email, and postal addresses. Selecting a menu item will trigger an action such as displaying the content in large type, copying it to the clipboard, creating a new email, dialing the phone, or showing an address on a map using the Google Maps service.

published on Thursday, the 23. March 2006, scriptbuilders

EntourageABMenu v1.0

EntourageABMenu is a convenient and intuitive way to utilize your Microsoft Entourage address book data through a system-wide menu. The application provides quick access to your contacts' phone numbers, email, and postal addresses. Selecting a menu item will trigger an action such as displaying the content in large type, copying it to the clipboard, creating a new email, dialing the phone, or showing an address on a map using the Google Maps service.

published on Wednesday, the 22. March 2006, scriptbuilders

EudorAttacheMulti droplet 1.0

Since my internet provider won't allow me to send email messages with lots of (big) attachements, I searched for an AppleScript that would automatically create a new message for each attached file. As I could't find such, I made this one. I based this script losely upon the 'Stuff and Mail' droplet by Thomas Johannes Matthias Kuehner, and I also used the 'Get File Name and Container 1.0' script line by David Lloyd (find it at http://scriptbuilders.net/file...'.) What it does: you drop a bunch of files on it (no folders), and the applet will ask you to type or paste a delivery email address, and then tell Eudora to create several new outgoing email messages with the address you just gave, with one of the dropped files attached to each one, and with the subject set to the attached file name. It will work with Eudora, and should be easily adaptable for other email clients.

published on Friday, the 10. March 2006, scriptbuilders