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Send tweets from LaunchBar

April 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac

As I continue my attempts to increase my daily efficiency, I wanted to be able to post tweets through LaunchBar. There are numerous scripts that accomplish this. I found one that was almost what I was looking for.1 The only thing missing was the ability to automatically shorten URLs. You can find the resulting script [...]

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Creating a Hit List task from LaunchBar

April 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Mac

I’ve posted before about creating a Hit List task from an email message. But since I’ve switched to using LaunchBar, I’ve wanted to create tasks directly from there. So I delved a little deeper into the dark world of AppleScript. A language I still have very little understanding of. One of the life savers I [...]

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Getting Things Done on the Mac

March 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Mac

It seems like every Mac user is obsessed with productivity and Getting Things Done (GTD). As a result there is a plethora of tools to improve efficiency, track tasks and get your work accomplished. I’ve tried my fair share and have recently reached a steady state with my tools. Here’s an overview of what I’ve [...]

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Integrating The Hit List with Mail.app

March 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac

Here’s a simple Applescript program to create The Hit List tasks from Mail.app mail messages. It will create them in the Hit List Inbox with a start date and notes taken from the body of the mail message.
 
tell application "Mail"
try
set theSelection to the selection
if the length of theSelection is less than 1 then error "One [...]

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Convert Excel tabs to CSV

November 12th, 2008 · View Comments · Mac

I recently had the need to build data for a client in an Excel spreadsheet.  Each tab in the spreadsheet had information that was easily editable by business staff.  But the data in each tab had to eventually be processed by a Ruby script for manipulation and eventual insertion into a database. 
I’m working on [...]

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