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...
