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Filed under: Software, Hacks, Productivity, Tips and tricks, Bad Apple

Quicksilver Trigger, Strip Clipboard Formatting

Sometimes even the best intentions of developers can't account for user preference, and after speaking with many other Mac users, this certainly seems to be the case with OS X's habitual tendency to preserve the formatting of text copied to the clipboard. For example:

I copy text from OmniWeb:

Pasted text before running the trigger:

Pasted text after running the trigger:


Quicksilver maven Dan Dickinson has figured out a sneaky way to strip out this formatting, and has turned the method into a handy Trigger. The trick works by pasting the contents of the clipboard into a terminal shell (where it loses all formatting), and then re-copying the text to the clipboard. For the trigger to work, you must have the Terminal Plugin installed. A full how-to is available on Dan's website.

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, Freeware

Instant replay in QuickTime

Have you ever been listening to something (or watching something) in QuickTime and wish that you had an Instant Replay button that would jog the player back 8 seconds? Perhaps there was an awesome action scene, or someone mumbled something and you just wanted to see it again.

Michael Mccracken did, and so he wrote a simple AppleScript which does the job (and you can even make it go back further than 8 seconds if you like). He went ahead and assigned the script to a Quicksilver trigger and now he can go back 8 seconds in a blink of an eye.

Tip of the Day

To get an instant map to any address, just go to your Address Book and right click on the address field of any one of your contacts and select "Map Of." The address will then be revealed in Google Maps on Safari. You can do the same if a data detector determines there is an address in an e-mail in Mail.


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