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Useful AppleScript / Automator scripts



There are some times one needs to do just a little bit more than the default MacOS apps can do out of the box. Here are three of my scripts (or scripts I found on the web and repackaged to Automator apps) that you may find useful. Enjoy!

OS X 10.8 Server landing page

Looks way better than the plain one that is shipped with 10.8 server ;)


Time Machine Backups on a networked Volume


Recently I bought a new 2TB external Hard Drive for my Media Server, which is a Mac Mini unit and while it is a good drive to store media content I wanted to do more with it. I figured I'd put it to good use by making it also a Time Machine Backup Drive and I wanted it a networked one. While it is an easy task to complete locally, I quickly found out that for a networked Time Machine backup solution, last were written when OS Tiger was King, but I'll be using OS Lion (10.7.3).

ACTA

W związku z najnowszymi wydarzeniami w Polsce dot. ACTA, nie pozostaje nic innego:








Geolokalizacja dla windowsa

Wraz z wprowadzeniem do sprzedaży windowsa 7 microsoft wyposażył system w usługę, mogącą wykorzystywać różnorakie czujniki, w które wyposażony jest komputer. Może on na ten przykład zczytywać dane z urządzenia GPS do podawania lokalizacji komputera.