on 15 October 2007 in Show Notes tagged by The MacBites Crew
- News: iPhone WebApps Directory, 3rd Party iPhone development, T3 Awards, iPhone ads
- Switchers Corner: Mail, O2M
- Software Review: SpamSieve
In the news this week:
- Intrepid hackers have brought Apple’s shiny new menus to older models.
- Apple Launches WebApps Directory. Apple has launched a directory of web-based applications designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
- Apple to Announce 3rd Party iPhone App Development?
- Apple iPhone 2 for Macworld Expo? As confirmed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in September, Apple is already working on the development of the second-generation iPhone.
- The Good: T3 – Apple cleans up at T3 Awards
- The Bad: Royalty demands may have kept Valve’s Half-Life 2 off the Mac
- The Ugly: The new iPhone ads on the US site.
Switchers Corner
- Using Mail
- Reasons for transferring for Outlook to OSX Mail
- Using O2M (from littlemachines.com) for importing mail from Outlook.
- Price: $10
Software Review
- SpamSieve – powerful spam filtering for Mac OS X.
- More information about SpamSieve can be found at c-command.com
- Requires: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later (10.4.0 or later recommended)
- Works with: Apple Mail, mailer, Entourage v.X through 11.x (2004), Eudora 5.2 or later (Sponsored or Paid), GyazMail, Mailsmith (bundled with Mailsmith 2.1), Outlook Express 5, PowerMail (optional bundle with PowerMail 5), Thunderbird
- Free Trial: fully-featured (30 days)
- Price: $30
- This week’s Cool Tool scores a coveted 5 Golden Bites
Feedback/Comments
- Tip of the week – taking screen shots
How to Print a Mail Message without printing the “To” field (or any others)
Open Automator and then add the following actions:
Get Selected Mail Items
Combine Mail Messages
Filter Paragraphs (do not contain)
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Filter Paragraphs (do not contain)
Recipient
Filter Paragraphs (do not contain)
Repeat as required for any other information to exclude
New TextEdit Document
Run AppleScript
(the box contents should be as below)
on run {input, parameters}
tell application “TextEdit”
print document 1
close document 1
quit
end tell
return input
end run
Save as workflow (for editing etc.)
Save as Plug-in for Script Menu e.g. as Print Mail Message
In Mail select the message(s) to be printed and then, from the Scripts Menu, run the new Plug-in
TextEdit will open with a new document containing the text ready for printing. If OK then print and click OK again to close TextEdit without saving the document, OR click cancel and do further editing of the mail(s)
Can you add the facility for posters to add attachments? I could have posted the completed workflow/plug-in then.
To schedule mail goto
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/mailscripts.html
and download the scripts.
Apple states, amongst other things,
Schedule Delivery (Mail): Allows you to send individual messages at predefined times (this script uses iCal for scheduling message delivery).
Did Eleaine gets Snapz pro off her machine if not I came across this!
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t96225.html
Thanks for that Gazmaz … perfect!
I’ve been working with a training application that integrates with various screen capture techniques and still John’s method works by far the best … more on the very cool training application soon!!
Thanks again
Elaine
Rob,
thanks for your suggestions….I guess you qualify as a geek more than I’d ever dream to.
But, as I’m always trying to find the quickest route to a result I’ve actually found it quite easy to get a text selction into TextEdit by using the services menu option.
I still believe there will be a less clicky option to do this trivial task.
Hmmm, maybe there’s a way I can get it done with Quicksilver actions.
We do love a challenge though.
MikeB