A collection of commands that may be from a CLI Shell, or programming language such as AppleScript, which are executed in order with limited iteration, usually as a way of automating actions or events.
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Remove Little Snitch via script
I want to be able to uninstall Little Snitch over Apple Remote Desktop. I came across the script below here: http://fromtheadmin.com/kill-and-remove-little-snitch-application-via-ard-script/
However ...
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Batch update the birthdays in my iPhone contacts
Years ago when I got my first iPhone, AT&T transferred all of the contacts from my old phone. My old phone didn't have a birthday field in the contacts. Instead of leaving the field empty on the ...
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Scripting on iPad - accessing features like accelerometer, GPS, etc
Are there any scripting languages for the iPad that can access native functionality like accelerometer, GPS, text messages, etc?
I know that it is possible to write Scheme and Python scripts but I ...
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how to create daily task for GMVault in automator
I just moved to Apple, being an experienced (i'd like to think so) Windows user.
Recently I started using GMvault (gmvault.org) to backup my Gmail account locally, but it's become a pain having to ...
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An Automator workflow for extracting text as speech from PDF files
I get PDFs to revise course content which I want to convert to MP3 files and take with me as spoken audio.
Automator offers 'text to speech' conversion and it's great. When I try and build a workflow ...
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How can Growl trigger an shell script or AppleScript (NOT vice versa!)
When a Growl notification gets issued I want to trigger an AppleScript. I had a look at the "Actions" in the Growl preferences, and you can trigger things like an email or a text-to-speech call, but ...
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Programmatically read both per-tab Terminal.app titles
When bringing up the Inspector (⌘I) in Terminal.app to edit the title (⇧⌘I), there are actually two titles that can be entered. The first is known as the Tab Title and affects the terminal window ...
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Is it possible to trigger a script when drive is ejected from the Finder?
I'd like to run a script (removing non-OSX .* files) on a USB drive whenever that drive is ejected - is there a way to trigger a script automatically when a drive is ejected from the Finder?
To ...
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With Lion, Problems Accessing Shared NTFS Folders with SMB://
We are testing a local login script that we created for our Macintosh users on Lion. It has worked fine on all OS X versions prior to 10.7. Listed below is the script that we are using. When we run ...
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How to create an apple script that forwards a flagged email
I want to create an apple script that will forward a flagged email to x@mail.asana.com
I have tried this script:
on run
tell application "Mail"
repeat with _acct in imap accounts
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Can I use the Terminal to find all OpenMeta tags on my system?
I know that there are apps that can do this, so I figure it must be possible: I'd like to compile a list of every OpenMeta tag that I've used on my Mac (OS X 10.8.3). But here's the rub: I'd ideally ...
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How can I open Google Chrome in Presentation mode using a shell script
Previously in 10.6.8, I was able to start Google using
open /Applications/Chrome.app --args --kiosk http://www.google.com
Now, on newer systems, that does not work anymore correctly. The only way to ...
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How can I make an Apple script for iCal event?
I'm trying to find a script to create a specefic type of event with iCal. Actions that I'm looking for in the script are:
Create an event
Choose a time and date
Choose an alarm
Choose a specific ...
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How to verify when disk drive detection is done (diskutil will list all drives) during boot process?
In a system where SATA disks are connected to a third party (Highpoint) controller, the wish is to create a bash shell script that will run every system boot.
The shell script will test whether each ...
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Script MBP keyboard backlight to full brightness?
I've been searching around and trying some simple apple scripts, but have been completely thwarted in my attempts to set the MBP keyboard backlight to full brightness from any sort of script or ...
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Advanced Apple Script iCal Help
This is what I have so far. All works ok, except for my duplicate check. Just receiving tell statement for "Event Discarded: Old.". When this is not the case. Any Help?
to ...
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Start PhotoShop with remote connections enabled
I'd like to be able to start PhotoShop from the command line with remote connections enabled. I'd like the script to take 2 arguments, "service" and "password".
The way I do this now:
1. Double ...
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sudo defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages gives error
I know
defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages
gives result correctly. But doing
sudo defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages
gives
The domain/default pair of ...
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Further question automate QT movie script
I have a time lapse camera running for 3 years and it takes a jpeg every 2 minutes 24 hrs/ day. it puts 10,000 jpegs in one folder and then when that is full it creates another folder.
Rob has ...
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How can I create (nested) Keynote.app slides from a XML file?
I have some nested lists (XML/OPML file) and I am looking for a (automated) process to create Keynote presentations from them. Use case: I write concepts for presentations in an Outliner, then would ...
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How can I switch to the window playing music in a single keystroke?
How can I set up a single keystroke to jump to the app or web site playing music? I currently use Rhapsody, iTunes, Pandora, Spotify, Rdio, VLC, and Soundcloud to listen to music, as well as the ...
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How do I copy Chrome to TmpDisk on startup/RAMDisk creation?
I have set up TmpDisk to create a 1GB RAM Disk on startup.
This works fine.
How do I get it to automatically copy Chrome onto the RAM Disk every time it starts up?
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Script to Update/download most recent iTunes podcast WITHOUT opening iTunes at all?
I have a couple favorite podcasts that I subscribe to in iTunes.
I'm using You Control (so I don't have to open iTunes to play my music).
I'm using Keyboard Maestro.
I've made a macro that runs ...
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OS X 10.8 'cannot execute binary file'
I have a third-party software to preprocess my data (the data is recorded with the device of the third-party). This software was written for unix systems and runs without any problems on the following ...
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Login hook to test if this is first login
I want to know if a login hook runs before or after a home directory is created in /Users during the first time a user logs in. If the home directory is created before the login hook runs, then I want ...
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Is there a simple way for daemons and agents to communicate?
I've got a daemon that periodically checks for, and if applicable updates, some software (macports) and I'd like the user to get a GUI indication, using terminal-notifier, when that occurs.
Since ...
