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Apple scripting again

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

This time I have no idea where to start (at least with the last one, I had some guidance already).
What I’m trying to do is create a rule in Mail.app that will change emails received from one particular person to plain text. At the moment, the Preview displays the message in really small text that [...]

XML file too big to import

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Part of “Going self-hosted with Wordpress : A Wolfie Guide”
On one of my older posts (Going Self-Hosted with Wordpress) Lisa has asked a question about how to import a larger than 2MB XML file into her new self-hosted WordPress installation, from her existing WordPress.com blog.
The first thing to say is that this is not a [...]

John Connor? Anyone seen John Connor?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Is it just me that’s worried about this story: satellite Skynet 5C has just been launched, completing the Skynet ‘installation’ and giving military computers the power to talk directly to each other, rather than the voice-only communication provided by the previous version of the system. It worries me when computers called Skynet can talk to [...]

Problem solved

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

After my plea for help yesterday, I’m happy to say that the problem has now been solved - thanks to Niel and xnav over at the AppleScript forum on the Apple website. They gave me the help I’d needed to complete my editing of the script that I originally found thanks to lundy over at [...]

Calling AppleScript gurus everywhere

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I’m using the BBC iPlayer to watch a lot of TV at the moment. The problem is that, to get uninterrupted viewing, I have to keep changing my screen saver and display sleep settings (or sit really near the screen so I can keep moving the mouse to keep everything awake).
I found an Apple Script [...]

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