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Drag email from mail.app to create a shortcut, not eml
Title is self-explaining.
Once I succeeded, and there was .inetloc file including xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" ...
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Auto switch input source to English when entering Spotlight, typing URL in Safari, etc
I don't have files with non-english names, and don't type non-latin URL's, so question is how to auto switch system input source in these occasions.
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Select all hyperlinks in Pages
Is it possible to select all of the hyperlinks in a document?
I want to change the colours for every link in the document but it seems a bit odd that i have to go through all of them manually.
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How do I create a SSB for Outlook web mail using Fluid?
Has anyone successfully created a fluid app for outlook web mail (aka live mail)? I've tried but either the site opens in my web browser or (after white listing variations of the site url) I get an ...
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What is the easiest (fastest) way to get direct link to MP4 video on YouTube?
My Mac is rather old and has issues (many dropped frames) with playing YouTube videos in HD on fullscreen, whether in Flash or HTML5.
However, playing them in VLC makes no drops whatsoever, and what ...
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How can I open Windows network links on Mac OS X?
I started using a Mac recently in a workplace where most people use Windows. We share with each other links to work files that exist on some server here. So I may get a URL via email that looks like ...
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How to set Mail.app to always open URL's in the external browser in the background?
I'm on Mountain Lion and in Apple Mail whenever I click a link in an email it opens my browser in front of Mail.
I'd like to keep reading the email and open all links behind Mail, then switch to my ...
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Fading of the URL in Safari 6's Unified Search and URL Field
With Safari 6, the omnibar fades the non-server part of the URL, so that the actual server name is more visible. Presumably, this is to reduce phishing attacks.
However, I find that the remainder of ...
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Smart Folder: what is the URL?
I added the criteria: all files whose URL contains /. I would have thought that this just matches all my files. But it doesn't list any. Why?
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How do I re-associate HTTP links with my browser in OS X?
I installed iTerm2 the other day, and was playing around with it. In the process I seemed to have messed up the handling of HTTP hyperlinks on my system. Sometimes (annoyingly, not every time, which ...
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Fluid: when I try to login, my Fluid App launches the default browser instead
I've created a Fluid App for my favorite website.
But there's a problem when I try to login to the website in the Fluid App I created: my default web browser (in my case, Safari) launches instead.
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Source a script from a URL in bash
I gather this should work in bash:
source <(curl -s https://example.com/script.sh)
or
bash <(curl -s https://example.com/script.sh)
or
curl -s https://example.com/script.sh | source ...
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safari copy only plain link
I'm copying a link from Safari, via "Copy Image Link". When I'm pasting it to some places, like Messages.app, or some input fields on the Web (not every one, but many of them), I just get a file-name:
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How can I convince Safari to be responsible for ttp:// URLs as well as http:// URLs?
When somebody sends me a URL in an email, it is opened by Safari.
But often people make a mistake when copying the links (how I do not know) and the URL starts with ttp:// instead of http://.
Is ...
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How to obtain the direct link to a specific podcast episode in iOS iTunes Store?
My friend, on her iPhone, wants to email me an iTunes Music Store link directly to a specific episode of a podcast. She wants to do this without downloading any 3rd party apps.
Problem is....at ...
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Information missing from Safari location bar [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to fix Safari 6 on Mountain Lion that doesn’t show the full URL in the address bar unless I click it?
The address bar of Safari all of a sudden has stopped ...
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Copy text from mac to ipad
I'm often reading stuff on my Mac but then I want to switch to my iPad to read it there. Is there a simple way to copy text or an URL from my Mac to my iPad?
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How can I associate URL files with a specific browser in Snow Leopard?
Until Snow Leopard URL files (.webloc files that you get when you drag a URL onto the desktop) opened with OmniWeb on my computer and some URLs were configured to open with Safari.
After upgrading to ...
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Is there a URL scheme for the Music app that allows me to link to a playlist?
I have started using Launch Center Pro and I'd like to create a shortcut for a playlist on Music. Is this possible using the URL scheme of the app? If so, how?
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URL-scheme details for Reminders application
The Reminders application understands the reminders: URL scheme, so that you can invoke it, for instance, from Terminal as open reminders: (use of // is optional).
What I'm looking for is ...
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Is there any way to block certain sites, eg MacKeeper?
MacKeeper (and other sites) adverts pop up on some video sites which I find very irritating. Is there any way to block specific URLs in Safari?
This occurs both on Mac and iPad. Ideally, I'd like a ...
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Can Safari copy both the URL and page title during a drag-and-drop?
I frequently want to paste a URL and page title into a document or email message. When I drag and drop a URL from Safari and other browsers (by dragging the URL icon) I see the page title being ...
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Open Terminal.app with directory from a given URL?
With the URL <file:///Library/Fonts> (for example in a note in NV) I can open the finder with the given location. Can I do something similar for the terminal? That is, if I write for example ...
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Is there any significance to the dimmed text in Safari 6?
Text in the address bar of Safari 6.0 is displayed differently than in previous versions. Prior to 6.0, all text was black
but in 6.0, all text after the domain is grey:
Is there any ...
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Open a specifc URL in Fluid.app
I use Fluid.app for particular websites, such as a bug tracker, or a Wiki. However, when I receive notifications in an e-mail with that URL and click on it, I'll get the page opened in the default ...
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URL to individual email
Is it possible to have an url that links to an individual email message on my local machine? So that if I click on osxmail://759847982 my mail client will open that specific message.
GMail can do ...
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Complete documentation of the iOS Settings app's URL scheme
The iOS Settings app provides an URL scheme (prefs:) which can be used to open the app directly on a particular page from other apps, in particular, shortcut apps such as Launch Center.
There are ...
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iOS Remote.app URL Scheme
I've discovered that Apple's Remote.app on iOS has a URL scheme. Opening remote:// opens the app. Does anyone know of any other ways to, say, open a certain playlist/shared library via this URL ...
