I know spring is here because I heard Meatloaf’s “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” on the radio
The really isn’t any other song that says ‘springtime’ better than that.
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I know spring is here because I heard Meatloaf’s “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” on the radio The really isn’t any other song that says ‘springtime’ better than that. It’s As If Tom Brady Was Playing Pop Warner:
I completely support the idea of spreading this new term. I just was cleaning up my Applications folder and opened up Yojimbo, which I had stopped using once I realized I had DEVONthink Personal. It alerted me to the fact that my trial time had expired and had the usual options – buy a license, enter license information or quit. What caught my eye, though, is that it also offered the option to export the data it had – so that if I needed to, I could quit and still have access to the data through another software package… rather than holding my data hostage. So, while I don’t need Yojimbo, I’ll certainly keep Bare Bones Software towards the top of the list for other packages I might want. I had an a-ha moment today. I’ve been dabbling a little in Applescript – I had a need for a timestamp, so I wrote a small script that would create one and dump it into the clipboard. I set it to trigger off CMD-1 via Quicksilver, and now, if I do CMD-1, CMD-V I get a nice little time and date stamp pasted wherever the cursor is. Then I started thinking. For work, every week I copy a bunch of files from where I work on them out to a shared folder on the network, then send an email to management saying “hey, they’re updated.” I then attach them to an email to send to one manager who doesn’t have access to the networked folder. I realized today that the entire process could be automated via Automator, linked to a Quicksilver trigger and *poof* the whole thing would be done. This is the kind of stuff I was looking forward to doing on the Mac that I couldn’t do as easily on the Windows side. |
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