Tag: Utilities

Alfred Extensions

Posted on March 29, 2013 in OSX Utilities Scripting

Workflows and Extensions for Alfred hosted on https://github.com/Bilalh/AlfredExtensions Itunes Ratings Allows you to set the rating of the currently playing song. Support halves stars and empty ratings based off https://github.com/qlassiqa/qWorkflow/tree/master/example%20workflows Toggle Extension A file action which toggles the visibility of file extensions for the selected files’ bashmarks Allow the use...

Read more...

Tagger 1.6.2

Posted on September 22, 2012 in Release Utilities

Tagger 1.6.2 has been relaesed. Tagger launches much faster (Now loads instantly compared with 10 seconds before). File size reduced by over 50%. Auto taging rewriten in C++/Objective C instead of Ruby hence much faster. Updated Libraries. Full Changelog Download Link Project Page GitHub Repository

Read more...

Pipe output from command line tools to a text editor

Posted on April 22, 2012 in OSX Scripting Utilities

A useful feature is to pipe the result of a command such as ls to a text editor. This can be done by using: ls | open -f Using the -a flag for open makes this even more useful allowing you to specify the application to open the output in...

Read more...

Sync iCloud Calendars on Snow Leaopard

Posted on April 15, 2012 in OSX Utilities iCal

Syncing iCloud’s Calendars on Snow Leopard is quite simple. The only information that requirement is your iCloud Server Number which nearly always in the form pXX-caldav.icloud.com. To find this number open Safari and login to your iCloud account. Click on Calendar and then chose Windows —> Activity from menu bar....

Read more...

Fixing corrupt mp3s

Posted on December 24, 2011 in Unix Utilities Audio

How to fix corrupt mp3 using 'mp3val' on Mac or Unix

Read more...

MPlayer Keybindings

Posted on December 09, 2011 in Unix MPlayer Utilities

A list of MPlayer’s keybindings since it hard to find a complete list online. If using a Mac consider using MPlayer OSX Extended which is the best GUI for MPlayer on the mac. Common p / SPACE Pause (pressing again unpauses). q / ESC Stop playing. f Toggle fullscreen #...

Read more...

TextMate Theme

Posted on October 23, 2011 in OSX Utilities TextMate

My theme for TextMate, works well for Ruby, CSS, Markdown, C, Bash and TeX: Ruby TeX Markdown CSS Download Link GitHub Repository

Read more...

fn lock

Posted on August 29, 2011 in OSX Applescript Utilities Scripting

The below scripts toggles function keys on mac keyboards, between the media and the standard functions keys. The script is most useful in either the script menu, which is done by placing the script in the /Library/Scripts/ or using Alfred/Quicksilver. tell application "System Preferences" set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.keyboard"...

Read more...