Launchbar: Dialing phone numbers with Fritz!Box (Applescript)
Update: The script on this page no longer works. Please refer to this one. Launchbar is a very convenient application launcher for Mac OS X. Among other great features like instant send, it can execute a script when invoking a phone number from your address book. I own a Fritz!Box 7170, which is one of [...]
Include website’s title in Tweetie’s bookmarklet
Tweetie is the most hyped twitter client for Mac OS X at the moment. It offers a bookmarklet for simple tweeting of websites opening its quick post dialog and showing the URL. But the usual format of my tweets when posting websites is the title of the page, followed by the URL in parenthesis. So [...]
Using GMail as one and only Inbox
If you’re like me, then you’ve got lots of different mail accounts. As nice as this may be to reduce spam and to always have the right address for any opportunity, as annoying it is when it comes to checking your mail “on the road”. It results in visiting several webmail sites which is really [...]
Create RSS feeds with PHP
RSS is a format for publishing frequently changing content like news, a list of blog posts or directories. Using RSS readers like Google Reader or Apple Mail, you can read all your daily information at one place, offering a much better overview and faster processing than visiting every single website. An RSS feed from the [...]
Manual duplex printing with OSX presets
Duplex printing means printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. There are many printers supporting automatic duplex, so the printer takes care of printing on the front- and on the backside without user interaction. But especially low-cost printers don’t support this very useful feature that not only saves paper but also space. That’s [...]
Easy file sharing using dropbox
Dropbox is an easy way to synchronise your files across computers. First of all, it offers a web based interface where you upload files and store them in your account. Additionally you can install client software on Mac OS X, Linux or Windows, that creates a special dropbox folder on your computer. As soon as you [...]
Twitter URLs using Quicksilver
Wouldn’t it be nice to send the URL you’re currently looking at in Safari directly to Twitter by just executing a Quicksilver command or even by hitting a hotkey? I think, yes it is! And so I wrote an Applescript that performs the folowing tasks: Read the URL and title of the website currently shown [...]
Applescript: add document currently shown in Safari to Delicious
I just switched from Firefox to Safari and was looking for a nice way to add the website currently shown in Safari to my Delicious bookmarks. Delicious itself offers a bookmarklet for that purpose, but I prefer leaving the bookmark bar hidden. So I came up with a litte Applescript… It does nothing [...]
Add book price comparison to Amazon
I wrote a small Greasemonkey-Script, that adds links to the most famous German book price comparisons to the Amazon website.
Faster blog commenting with 1Password
Are you also tired of entering your name, mail adresse and URL of your website every time you want to comment a blog post? Well, I am… But with a little help of the awsome tool 1Password, it’s not more than 2 mouse clicks or one hotkey. Just add a new identity to 1Password, and [...]