PageSender 4.1 adds Leopard, speed

SmileOnMyMac has released an upgrade to PageSender, its Mac-based fax application. Users can send faxes and PDF e-mails directly from the Print dialog, and receive them through a fax modem; these can then be printed, e-mailed, or integrated into AppleScript. Filters sort spam by station name, and live addressing is possible with clients such as A...

published on Tuesday, the 23. October 2007, macintosh-news-network

OmniFocus Actions from Mail 1.0

This AppleScript lets you create an action in the OmniFocus Quick Entry window from one (or more) messages in Apple Mail. Simply highlight the desired email, run the script, and a new action appears with a note containing the message body and a link back to the original email. This approach has two distinct advantages. First, you get instant confirmation that the script actually worked. But more importantly, you can leverage OmniGroup's existing technology to edit the action's project, context and other fields, prior to sending it to OmniFocus!

published on Friday, the 12. October 2007, 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

Add Sender to Group 1.0

In organizing my inbox last night, I realized how crappy Mail's 'Send to Address Book' button was. I wanted to pick which group the sender would be added, to keep my contacts organized, yano I scoured the internet, found nothing, so I stayed up all night to figure out how Applescripting works, and came up with these nice scripts. Not bad for my first shot, I think. So there are 2, see. One will add the sender to a specific group, which you can redefine in the code (mine is currently Potential Clients). Coupled with indev software's MailActOn, I can now hit a button and add the sender to my new potential client list. But I figured there would be times when someone wanted to add a new contact that wasn't specifically a potential client, so I made a separate script where you can select from a list which group you'd like to add it to. If you don't select one, it adds it to no group. I put mine in HD>Library>Scripts><s​pan class="found">Mail Scripts, though I guess you could put it wherever you want, as long as you set up your rules to the right spot or whatnot. Hope someone finds it useful.

published on Sunday, the 10. June 2007, scriptbuilders

Send one email to the senders of multiple Mail messages

As an editor for a school publication, I have a folder in Mail set for content that other students submit. Recently I found myself needing to send one email to every submitter (nearly 150 emails in all!), yet I found that I could not simply do a Command-A and hit Reply.After a bit of AppleScript work, I came up with this script:set thesenders to {}set thesenderstext to ""tell application "Mail" set themessage to the selection repeat with i from 1 to the number of items in themessage set thesender to (the sender of (item i of themessage)) if thesenders does not contain thesender then set thesenders to thesenders & {thesender} end if end repeat set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", " set thesenderstext to thesenders as text set the clipboard to thesenderstextend tellIt creates a comma-separated list of the senders of the selected messages, and then sets the clipboard to said list (it also removes duplicates). Select a bunc...

published on Thursday, the 24. May 2007, macosxhints

Send todos to iCal 0.9

This script allows you to email yourself action items from remote locations that will automatically appear as an iCal todo item. (Useful, for example, to those of us who are obliged to use Windows at work) It is designed for use with iGTD but can be used alone or with any other productivity program. It may be easily altered to send events as well. This script must be attached to a 'Mail' rule in order to work. Go into 'Mail' preferences go to the rule tab and create a new rule. Give it a name, set the drop down box to 'any' and set the contion to 'subject' 'begins with' the signal word -- the default signal word is: todo: All one word, no spaces, with colon. You may, no, make that ought to, choose your own signal word. It must be one word, no spaces, and you must alter one line (the fourth line) of the applescript below to accommodate your choice: set signalText to 'todo:' (insert your own word for todo: ) After you have set the 'mail' rule contidtion, you must set the action, namely, running this script. Once that is done, any email which begins with the signal word (that presumably you sent yourself) will appear with the email's subject as a to do item in iCal '@Inbox' calendar with the signal word stripped off, and the email's contents as a note. Alternatively, you may presort it into the right calendar/context , project or priorty, or due date using @ [ ] # or !, the way you would in the iGTD Quicksilver interface. Then, Synchonize iGTD to move all the tasks to iGTD as actions in the appropriate contexts and projects. For those unfamiliar with this, beginning the task desciption (but following the signal word) with the name of a calendar/context that begins with @. You may use any abbreviation or set of initials that will uniquely identify the calendar. You may set task priority by including ! !! or anywhere in the task desciption. <!, !!, not included> no priority low priority ! medium priority !! high priority You may set the due date by including # followed by a numerical date such as #5/2 (May 2 '07) or #8-25-2009 (Aug 25 '09) or use natural language such as #tomorrow, #today, #next week, #in 2 months etc. The due date will be stripped out of the task when it is put in iCal. You iGTD people may put the task in a project by including [<project name>] either at the end or the beginning of the task depending on your preference setting in iGTD (if projects are set up to go at the beginning, put them after the calendar/context if that is included.) (Note: project names may not be abbreviated). Don't forget the email contents appears in iCal as a task note. Examples: emiail subjects: todo: Investigate AppleScript #next week puts task: 'Investigate AppleScript' in calendar: '@InBox' with no priority and a due date of one week from today. todo: @computer-online Investigate AppleScript! #5/23/07 puts task: 'Investigate AppleScript!' in calendar: '@Computer-Online' with medium priority and a due date of May 23, 2007. todo: @compOn Investigate AppleScript! #5-23 same result as above this time where '@Computer-Online' is abbreviated. todo: @Hm Investigate AppleScript!! #in 5 days [MailScript] puts task: 'Investigate AppleScript! [MailScript]' in calendar: '@Home' with high priority and a due date of five days from today. When this is next synched with iGTD will become an action in project 'MailScript'.

published on Wednesday, the 11. April 2007, scriptbuilders

Automatically upload screenshots to Flickr

Someone has written a script that automatically sends screenshots to Flickr using AppleScript and Mail.app.Read More...

published on Tuesday, the 10. April 2007, ars-technica

Set up an Entourage rule to add a calendar reminder

I know there have been a lot of Entourage «» Mail «» iCal «» Applescript hints, but I think this one is a bit different. I use my Entourage calendar as a pseudo "string around my finger" for quick reminder notes to myself for things that I need to get done later in the day. Sometimes, however, I am at a different computer, and I normally just send myself a reminder email, which doesn't ever get into my calendar.I decided to write a rule and an applescript to place mail messages whose subject start with "[calendar] " (no quotes) into the Entourage calendar automatically, and to immediately remind myself. It turns out that Microsoft already has a "Create Event from Message Reminder" in the script menu, so I just modified it accordingly.Create the AppleScript in Script Editor, and save it to /Users » username » Documents » Microsoft User Data » Entourage Script Menu I...

published on Wednesday, the 7. March 2007, macosxhints

Entourage Bulk Mailer Example 1.0

Note: This script is a free, working example for AppleScript tinkerers. It is not a finished product and has no GUI. Also, I assume that spammers have a more elegant solution to this problem. But please do not use this script for any nefarious purpose. I started a little business a couple weeks ago and needed to send out a customer service bulletin. To my surprise, I could not find any good AppleScripts for doing this on OS X. First, I downloaded a shareware application called 'Mailings', couldn't get it to authenticate with my SMTP server, and got no reply from the developer. So, I did not buy it. Then I wrote a script using Mail.app, and it would work for awhile but then tell me that the server rejected my password. So, for my next bulletin I used Microsoft Entourage and, after some tinkering, got it to work. There are lots of comments in the code, and besides changing my example subject, recipient list and message to yours, you will probably need to do some other tinkering to meet your needs. I t works with Entourage from Office 2004; I do not know whether it will work with earlier verisons of Office. Have fun, and please send me an email if you learn more about it than I did. Jerry Krinock Sheep Systems Contact information: http://www.sheepsystems.com

published on Sunday, the 25. February 2007, scriptbuilders

Sleep a Mac with a text or email message

Left your Mac turned on? Send it a message from your phone or email account and send it to sleep. Follow these steps, or just watch the screencast to see them acted out, complete with comments.First, download Apple's free sleep action for Automator. Create an Automator workflow that has a Pause action, and then a Sleep action. Save it as an application called whatever you like -- sleepnow for instance. You'll now need a one-line AppleScript to call the Automator application. In Script Editor, create this script:tell application "sleepnow" to runChange the part inside the quotes to the name of your Automator application. Save the script and remember what you named it.Finally, open Mail and go to the P...

published on Tuesday, the 2. January 2007, macosxhints