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published yesterday, 1 day 3 hours 14 minutes ago, scriptbuilders
Create Growl alerts for Address Book contacts' birthdays
I have a lot of people in my Mac OS X Address Book. I thought it would be a nice idea to have the system check the birthdays in Address Book, and inform me of any forthcoming birthdays via a Growl notification. So I've created an Apple Script to do that (with a lot of help from a few other peoples). First, install Growl if it isn't installed. Also install the Terminal growlnotify command, which you'll find in the Extras folder on the Growl disk image. Next, copy and paste the following into AppleScript Editor: delay 0.5 set isRunning to 0 set timer to the time of the (current date) repeat while isRunning = 0 tell application "System Events" set isRunning to ¬ ((application processes whose (name is equal to "GrowlHelperApp")) count) ...
published on Thursday, the 11. March 2010, macosxhints
An AppleScript for timers using Quicksilver and Growl
QuGrTimer is an AppleScript that combines the power of Quicksilver and Growl to make a wonderful timer application. Take the following code, paste it into Script Editor, and save it as an AppleScript to ~/Library » Application Support » Quicksilver » Actions: using terms from application "Quicksilver" on process text time_ set sleepTime to 0 set theText to time_ set defaults to AppleScript's text item delimiters set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " " -- use " " as delimiters set theWords to text items of theText set timesToRun to (number of theWords) / 2 set n to 0 -- index -- parse time. repeat timesToRun times set n to n + 1 set tempTi...
published on Tuesday, the 8. September 2009, macosxhints
Quick add currently-playing track to an iTunes playlist
Oftentimes when I'm listening to music in my library, randomly or in the "recently added" list, I'll think to myself "wow -- that's a great love song, I need to add that to my 'lovesongs' playlist..." But I am too lazy (or busy) to switch to iTunes and drag it over. So I created an AppleScript that's triggered by a keyboard shortcut to add the currently-playing iTunes track to a playlist I specify.Features:Prompts you for the playlist nameWill create the playlist if it doesn't existWill not add the track if it's already on the designated playlist Designed to be executed with a hotkey "trigger" event (keyboard shortcut) with Quicksilver or some other shortcut program. See how-to on adding keyboard hotkeys with QuicksilverUnobtrusively shows the result with a growl message...
published on Monday, the 13. July 2009, macosxhints
View hash-tagged Tweets using Growl and AppleScript
I decided to try and create a tool that would improve the experience of a Bad Movie Club, or even a Good Radio Club. If you don?t know what either Bad Movie Club or Good Radio Club are, they are essentially chatting via Twitter whilst watching a movie or listening to radio. And hashtags are like codes, for example #badmovieclub, that let you filter just the tweets that contain that code. I've written up the full how-to on my blog, but here's a summary: First get the excellent Vienna RSS Reader. There aren?t any calls in AppleScript that get RSS feeds, so I decided to use this lovely tool. If it isn?t already on your system, install the fabulous ...
published on Tuesday, the 3. March 2009, macosxhints
Disable Growl pop-up notifications via AppleScript
This happens to my friends and I all the time ... you're giving a presentation, watching a movie, or whatever, and the Growl notifier starts popping up with your gChat messages or messages from GMail. I finally wrote an AppleScript to easily toggle the two notifiers for such circumstances; I hope this is helpful for others! Here's the script: tell application "System Events" set isRunning_Growl to (count of (every process whose name is "GrowlHelperApp")) > 0 set isRunning_Google to (count of (every process whose name is "Google Notifier")) > 0 end tell if isRunning_Google then tell application "GrowlHelperApp" set the allNotificationsList to {"Growl Toggler"} reg...
published on Thursday, the 4. December 2008, macosxhints
Growl iCal 04-2008
Growl iCal is an Applescript deamon application that reads your iCal calendar and uses Growl to notify you of upcoming events. You can mark a calendar for Growl iCal, it will notify you of all events in that calendar, even if you have not set up individual event alarms. Please read README for instructions. Alternative download site is at http://homepage.mac.com/engyew... Complete source code available, including code to parse and process iCal recurring events.
published on Tuesday, the 25. March 2008, scriptbuilders
Apps: CIDTrackerX, RapidoStart, VisualHub
CIDTrackerX 1.2 ($15) Caller ID program for the Mac that can decode the caller ID information from a caller ID modem. It networks with other caller ID programs on Mac or windows using the NCID, YAC or Caller ID Sentry protocols. It has full Growl, AppleScript and Address Book support and can send an email with call details. The new release is also ...
published on Monday, the 10. September 2007, macintosh-news-network
iTunes - Growl scripts for rating, skipping, and artwork
I've posted some of the AppleScripts I use constantly to manage my iTunes library on my blog. Specifically, there's the standard rating/display info scripts that incorporate with Growl, and are designed to work with the very small Smoke notification window, displaying not only the title - artist - album, but also star rating, album art (as the notification icon), and the position of the playhead and total time. Additionally, I have a script that skips ahead within the current song to either 25%, 50%, 70% or three seconds from the end, whichever is next from the current position of the playhead. Finally (and most useful in my case), is a script that takes the album cover fetched by GrowlTunes (which is cached locally, but not set as the track's album cover), and sets the album cover of the song, but only i...
published on Monday, the 30. July 2007, macosxhints