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Trigger Any Terminal Command With A Keyboard Shortcut Using Automator

Life

4 years ago

Trigger Any Terminal Command With A Keyboard Shortcut Using Automator

Thorin Klosowski

Add A Merge PDF Button To Your Mac’s Right-Click Menu

Life

4 years ago

Add A Merge PDF Button To Your Mac’s Right-Click Menu

Thorin Klosowski

Quickly Convert DOCX Files To PDF With An Automator Action

Life

5 years ago

Quickly Convert DOCX Files To PDF With An Automator Action

Thorin Klosowski

Mac: Not a fan of using an office program just to read a DOCX file? Blogger Jacob Salmela shares an Automator script that will convert DOCX into a PDF with a right-click.

Make Animated GIFs From Still Images In OS X With A Right-Click

Life

5 years ago

Make Animated GIFs From Still Images In OS X With A Right-Click

Thorin Klosowski

Schedule Emails To Send Later On Your Mac With Automator

Life

6 years ago

Schedule Emails To Send Later On Your Mac With Automator

Dave Greenbaum

Mac: Sometimes you need to send an email at a specific time. Maybe it’s an anniversary or just a reminder. Chrome extensions like SndLater let you do this with Gmail. If you have a Mac, Automator lets you schedule mail through Apple’s default Mail app.

Compose Gmail Message Lets You Send Email Without Seeing Your Inbox

Life

6 years ago

Compose Gmail Message Lets You Send Email Without Seeing Your Inbox

Herbert Lui

This Mac Workflow Swaps Out Text Instead Of Copy Or Pasting It

Life

7 years ago

This Mac Workflow Swaps Out Text Instead Of Copy Or Pasting It

Thorin Klosowski

Create Floating Desktop Webapps In OS X Lion With Automator

Productivity

10 years ago

Create Floating Desktop Webapps In OS X Lion With Automator

Whitson Gordon

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Webapps are great, but sometimes you’d like something separate from your browser. For that, OS X Lion has a “website popup” feature built-in to Automator that sticks webapps in their own desktop window.