May 2013
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VOB to M4V to iBooks Author
If you have a VOB you wish to add to an iBooks Author file, you can do so easily by using Compressor.
Compressor will convert the file to .M4V, after which you can add a Media-Widget inside iBooks Author and drag the file from Finder to it.
The Movie Optimization will start, and after that, well.. There it is! :)
February 2013
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January 2013
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December 2012
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AppleScript to check for App Updates in iTunes'11....
Hi, this AppleScript will only work in iTunes’11. It’s fairly simple:
1- Launch iTunes
2- Activate iTunes
3- Press CMD-L (Go To Current Song - this exits the Search-bar :) )
4- Press CMD-7 (switch to Apps-view)
5- Press CMD-R (Check for App-updates)
6- Stop.
tell application “iTunes” to launch
delay 2
tell application “iTunes” to activate
tell...
September 2012
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My one issue with iOS6
Hi.
I’ve been using iOS6 for a few days now. I have one issue to report. I know you’ll think it’s what everyone else is talking about, but it’s not.
So, here goes.
In iOS6, Apple changed when the “email sent” sound is played. The sound is played when you click “Send”. No longer is the sound played when the e-mail has been sent to the server.
In...
May 2012
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Critics, go sit in the corner (Apple Maps)
Why people who have no imagination and no purpose in life should keep in the shadows instead of venturing out to criticize Apple, or, the dangers of pigeon-hole-based thinking.
Yesterday, rumours started trickling through of a forthcoming iOS update, iOS6. Those, who have paid attention from the start, have been waiting for months upon months for what the Apple Geo Team would come up with, and...
January 2012
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Two workflow improvements for iBooks Author
I’m kind of amused at iBooks Author. It is most definitely the first iteration of the software, and that’s fine. Hopefully it will be more deeply integrated with future versions of iMovie and iPhoto, and soon.
While there is nothing we as end-users can do (except Provide iBooks Author Feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks-author.html) to the code itself, there are some...
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How to run iBooks Author on OS X 10.6.8
iBooks Author is amazing. I’ve been waiting for something like this for eons. However, you can only purchase it from the Mac App Store if you are running OS X Lion 10.7.x. This is a real drag for me, especially right now (creditcard in lock-down mode). However, many have posted variations of these instructions. OS X Daily was the one I came across. The instructions worked, so…
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Automatically Add to iPhoto: Automator Folder...
iTunes has a nice folder by the name of Automatically Add to iTunes. It’s a very handy folder, I recommend looking into it. The presence of this folder, which was added back in 2009, begs the question:
If an end-user was able to influence Apple by sending a feature-request for the creation of Automatically Add to iTunes, to make it simpler to add songs to iTunes whether iTunes is open or...
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Journalists, do the work. Apple 19th January 2012...
(Tried to post this on http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/big-apple-event-to-feature-digital-textbooks-rumor/12002, but failed)
I’ve been reading these “articles” on the 19th January big Education event. I’m what one would call a big Apple fan. I’m surprised at what is presented by journalists as the leadup to this event. I appreciate that some of these articles popping...
November 2011
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Selection of Screen to URL on Server to Clipboard
Use Alfred.app and install this attached AlfredExtension.
After installing, you are presented with this:
To break this down, there are really just four things to do in this method of getting a selected screen estate on your server and on your clipboard as a direct, pasteable URL:
Use screencapture to capture a selection with -is. Tell it where to save the resultant screenshot and finish the...
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Changing Skitch Shortcut for History
Skitch continues to amaze me, especially with it’s iPhoto integration, and the relaxed History view. I decided to go ahead and change “History…“‘s default ( CMD-SHIFT-H ) keyboard shortcut to CMD-H. How? Read on.
Open System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> All Applications.
Click on the +.
Select Skitch.
Type “Hide Skitch”...
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Shortcut to open System Preferences... everywhere!
System Preferences. I tend to run it quite often per day while I configure my workflows and keyboard shortcuts, IAC Bus stuff and whatnot. While loading System Preferences with Alfred is fairly quick and all, it just kind of feels like a shortcut should be available for opening System Preferences.
How about CMD-Shift-, ?
Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts...
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Running GrandPerspective while you sleep...
UPDATE: If you leave DVD Player or VLC Player in fullscreen-mode, this relatively simple AppleScript does not know what to do about itself, so you’ll wake up to a bunch of shortcut keys having been fed to random software :) Also, this does not “freeze” keyboard/mouse input during the starting of GrandPerspective, so it’s best to set this to run while you are not awake!
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Ableton Live: Slice to New MIDI Track (Keyboard...
Ableton introduced the “Slice to New MIDI Track” functionality a while ago. It’s available both as the right mouse button context menu in the Session View, and in a little place that looks like this:
Now, my experience is that Slice to New MIDI Track is not available as a shortcut by default. It is possible that no-one else has this experience of not having this quite wicked...
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Logic Detect Transients&Create New Sampler Track...
Today we will be cooking up a script which provides a function not currently available in Logic Pro 9. Ever since I moved from Logic Audio Platinum 5.5.1 to Logic Pro 9 it has been an interesting experience to say the least - Logic has changed quite a bit. One of the nicer changes was the addition of Transient Detection for Audio Bin content, and after a sample has been processed through Transient...
Send Selection to Server as Screenshot (Alfred...
UPDATE: Attached the Alfred Extension file to this re-post
Here’s a simple method to use Alfred.App to ask you to select a part of the screen, capture it, upload it to your server and paste the direct URL to said image onto your clipboard.
The name of the file is supplied by yourself. Here is an example of how I use it:
Activate Alfred.
Type “ul thenameyouwant.png” and press...
