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Snow Leopard Services in practice: Amazon S3 uploader

by Brett Terpstra (Sep 6th, 2009)

I stumbled upon a great example of the Snow Leopard Services that I've been drooling over. The S3 Upload Service by August Lilleaas is available as a workflow which can be opened in Automator, so you can examine its inner workings. It uses AppleScript and Ruby, easily passed back and forth thanks to ...

Friday Favorite: Dropzone

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 21st, 2009)

One of my favorite new tools is Dropzone from Aptonic Software. Cory mentioned it back in early beta, but it's come a long way since then. Dropzone lets you set up "destinations," and when you click its icon in the dock it pops up a HUD-style window with icons for each destination. You can drop ...

Mac Automation: take and sync pictures to Apple TV

by Cory Bohon (Jun 2nd, 2008)

Parties can sometimes be boring, but with a Mac with an iSight and an Apple TV, you can liven up any party! In this how-to, I am going to show you how to create an Automator workflow that will take pictures at specified times and sync them over to your Apple TV, all without you ever lifting a ...

Photon 1.1 Released

by Steven Sande (May 10th, 2008)

Photon, the speedy digital photo workflow app and labor of love from Mike Bernardo's Green Volcano Software, has been updated to v1.1. Photon differs from Aperture, Photoshop, and the like by focusing on the front end of the photography workflow. Importing RAW images from DSLRs is fast, and ...

Mac Automation: listen to a text document

by Cory Bohon (Feb 28th, 2008)

Don't have time to read that Word, Pages, or TextEdit document at your desk? Why not listen to it on your iPod instead? In this Automator how-to, I am going to show you how to create an audio file using text that you have in an open document, then sync that using iTunes to your iPod or iPhone. ...

Mac Automation: Automator for Leopard

by Cory Bohon (Dec 18th, 2007)

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Mac_automation_Automator_for_Leopard'; A few people commented on my first Mac Automation post that they didn't understand Automator. This post will clear that all up. AppleScript is very powerful, but it has a learning curve. When Apple set out to make ...

Develop a WordPress theme on your Mac

by Scott McNulty (Dec 26th, 2006)

I'm going to tell you a secret, that I hope we can keep between us: I am a big fan of blogs and blogging. I love to write and I love to read, so blogging is a natural extension of that (and I hope my level of enjoyment makes its way into my posts here). WordPress is the hottest blogging tool out ...

Working with Metadata views in Aperture

by Scott McNulty (Dec 26th, 2006)

Aperture is Apple's tool designed for professional photographers who take lots and lots of pictures. As such, handling metadata is an important part of any workflow involving Aperture. James Duncan Davidson has some tricks to help you get the metadata you need into Aperture as quickly as possible. ...

Photoshop Automator Action Pack 2.2

by David Chartier (May 31st, 2006)

Ben Long has released a v2.2 update to his most excellent set of Photoshop Automator Actions, a collection of over 70 workflow-enhancing actions for automating everything from switching color modes to cropping images and even archiving them to a disc. New in v2.2 is Intel Mac compatibility (some ...

Aperture Tricks

by Scott McNulty (May 21st, 2006)

Aperture Tricks is devoted to, shockingly, tips and tricks for everyone's favorite photography workflow solution made by Apple. If you are obsessed with Aperture news, or just want to get the most bang for your photogenic buck then Aperture Tricks is the place for you. ...

Apple Design Awards 2006 now accepting entries

by David Chartier (Apr 26th, 2006)

"Show off your latest feat of programming genius," says the Apple Developer Connection email announcing the call for entries to their 11th annual Design Awards. Recognizing "technical excellence and outstanding achievement in developing Mac OS X software," there are eight award ...

MacWindows.com - OS X and Windows integration resource

by David Chartier (Jan 3rd, 2006)

As we Mac fans and users must concede, we do still live in a Windows world. For those of who also work in a Windows world (including banging your heads against a wall), I've found a site that could help Windows and OS X shake hands and (dare I say it) work together better: MacWindows.com. Need to ...

Automator - Yay or Nay?

by David Chartier (Aug 27th, 2005)

A post yesterday at MacSlash asking how useful Automator really is inspired me to bring the question to the TUAW audience: do you use Automator? Do you find it useful or useless? I know plenty of workflows make their way through the TUAW postings, and I'm personally a huge Automator fan and user for ...

Automator Action: Automatic v.1.0

by Dave Caolo (Jun 21st, 2005)

Creating actions with Tiger's Automator is fun, easy for most users and certainly useful. If you're like me, you already have more than a few custom workflows floating around. "More than a few" can become an unwieldy crowd quickly, which is why I like Automatic so much. Automatic is an ...