How to search via contacts' nicknames on the iPhone (1)
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While the nickname field of Address Book entries does sync to the iPhone, it's not searchable on the iPhone. Also, it's not used as the display name in call lists or SMS chats. I much prefer reading friend's short names or nicknames instead of their full name when they call.The easy solution to achieve that is to turn your friends into companies. Use each person's nickname as the company name, and check the Company box ...
Add folders to the iTunes library via the command line (2)
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If, like me, you like to make yourself feel all l33t by doing a lot of system and file management on the command line, you'll have been frustrated at least once by failing to be able to add freshly-downloaded MP3s to the iTunes library (once you've salted them away in your carefully-ordered music stash, naturally) via Terminal.Well, be frustrated no more! Here is a handy-dandy AppleScript I wrote to do just that right in the ...
macosxhints.com - Sync with .Mac (MobileMe) from the command line (4)
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I noticed a new post on a very old thread on the Mac OS X Hints forums site, which was about being able to start a sync to .Mac (MobileMe) from the command line. The new post showed how to use an AppleScript to control the MobileMe preferences pane and then click the Sync Now button. While this may work, I suspected that there must be a better way, and so I had a dig ...
Keep multiple calendars synced and viewable on iPhone (5)
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I use a Mac at home and a PC at work. At home, I have a personal calendar on iCal and a family calendar on Goggle Calendars. At work, I have a work calendar on Outlook and a company calendar on Google. From Outlook, I publish my work calendar to a private server. At home, I publish my personal calendar to MobileMe. At work, I subscribe to the Office calendar, my personal calendar and the ...
Use a longer alphanumeric passcode on the iPhone (11)
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A lot of people don't know that Apple provides a free iPhone configuration utility, but they do, and it can add some great features you can't get any other way. The simplest use of the program is to enable complex passcodes on the iphone. I know some people don't want to have to type in a long password to get into their iPhone, but I'm a bit paranoid -- so protecting all of my email ...
One way to scroll in form boxes on the iPhone (1)
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As many have discovered, the trick for scrolling in list boxes on the iPhone (using two fingers) doesn't work in form boxes. If you've ever tried typing a post on a forum or elsewhere from the iPhone, you've discovered that editing what you've typed is a near impossibility if the text entry box is too small, as two-finger scrolling doesn't work. By tapping/holding inside a form and bringing up the magnifying glass, you can scroll ...
macosxhints.com - Quickly extract all email addresses from Address Book (2)
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To quickly (as compared to using nested loops in AppleScript) extract all email addresses from the Address Book, you can tap into Address Book’s SQLite database using the command line (in Terminal): sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb "select ZADDRESSNORMALIZED from ZABCDEMAILADDRESS;" If you want to alphabetize and remove duplicates: sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb "select ZADDRESSNORMALIZED from ZABCDEMAILADDRESS;" | sort | uniq Please note: This works in Leopard, and should work in Tiger too. However, the database filename looks ...
Import Address Book contacts into a new Verizon phone (2)
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Here's the scenario:You have a phone with Verizon, and you have 1,000 contacts in your Mac's Address Book. Perhaps you've had a previous Verizon phone, but you've never backed up your contacts from that phone -- but you do have your contacts on your computer and want to get them into your phone. I'm here to tell you that yes, it can be done, I promise. What this does is turn your Firefox web browser ...
One way to scroll in form boxes on the iPhone (1)
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As many have discovered, the trick for scrolling in list boxes on the iPhone (using two fingers) doesn't work in form boxes. If you've ever tried typing a post on a forum or elsewhere from the iPhone, you've discovered that editing what you've typed is a near impossibility if the text entry box is too small, as two-finger scrolling doesn't work. By tapping/holding inside a form and bringing up the magnifying glass, you can scroll ...
Put the quoted form of POSIX paths into Script Editor (1)
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As a beginner learning the basics of do shell script in AppleScript, I'm finding that most of my file and folder names have spaces in them. As such, I have two choices when writing paths: either escape all the spaces as I type them, or use the AppleScript quoted form of POSIX path construct.Both methods still require significant typing and exact spelling, and I'm from the generation that didn't learn to type. To ease my ...
An advanced script/web solution to track stolen Macs (7)
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I worked in a school district for a few years where we had two break-ins that included thefts of Mac laptops. So I decided to create something that would help track laptops in the event they were stolen. This is of course free, one of its major advantages. It is also hosted by yourself, so it is easy to control. This has run on about 1,500 computers without causing any type of overload on machines ...
macosxhints.com - An advanced script/web solution to track stolen Macs (12)
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I worked in a school district for a few years where we had two break-ins that included thefts of Mac laptops. So I decided to create something that would help track laptops in the event they were stolen. This is of course free, one of its major advantages. It is also hosted by yourself, so it is easy to control. This has run on about 1,500 computers without causing any type of overload on machines ...
macosxhints.com - Sync Outlook, iCal, iPhone, and Google Calendars (2)
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For a while now, I have been looking for a way to keep my iPhone calendar in sync with my work Microsoft Outlook calendar. Now I've found a way!Part 1: MobileMe, iCal, and iPhone:At home, I sync my iPhone calendar with iCal on my Mac. Now with the new MobileMe, my iPhone stays in near constant sync with my MobileMe calendar. My Mac at home also stays in sync (syncs every 15 minutes) with my ...
Automatically reconnect iChat if connection drops (1)
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I've had the problem with my iChat Jabber connections (gtalk and yahoo.jabber.org.uk gateway) constantly crashing, causing an error dialog in iChat. Since the Chax add-on no longer seems to support automatically reconnecting to crashed connections in 10.5, I found this great idea for a crontab script to force a reconnection using AppleScript. However, the only problem is that this would start iChat even if it was not running. So I used this slightly extended script ...
Quickly extract all email addresses from Address Book (2)
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To quickly (as compared to using nested loops in AppleScript) extract all email addresses from the Address Book, you can tap into Address Book’s SQLite database using the command line (in Terminal): sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb "select ZADDRESSNORMALIZED from ZABCDEMAILADDRESS;" If you want to alphabetize and remove duplicates: sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb "select ZADDRESSNORMALIZED from ZABCDEMAILADDRESS;" | sort | uniq Please note: This works in Leopard, and should work in Tiger too. However, the database filename looks ...
Sync Outlook, iCal, iPhone, and Google Calendars (7)
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For a while now, I have been looking for a way to keep my iPhone calendar in sync with my work Microsoft Outlook calendar. Now I've found a way!Part 1: MobileMe, iCal, and iPhone:At home, I sync my iPhone calendar with iCal on my Mac. Now with the new MobileMe, my iPhone stays in near constant sync with my MobileMe calendar. My Mac at home also stays in sync (syncs every 15 minutes) with my ...
Back up a UNIX box (or folder) to a DMG image file (3)
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To back up a local UNIX serving box (ALIX1C motherboard with FreeBSD), I wrote a simple but efficient bash script to save all or part of it in a DMG image disk file. This backup should be used as often as required (launching with cron needs a password-free RSA login). This backup is a differential one, and an exact replication is done assuming the RSA user has sufficient privileges to do so.Why save in a ...
10.5: Use Apple Remote Desktop for OS X Server install (2)
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You can use Apple Remote Desktop to connect to a machine that is booted from the O X 10.5 server installation disk by typing the first eight characters of the computer's serial number into the password field while leaving the user name field blank. [robg adds: I haven't tested this one, and I don't know if it works with the Client installation disk as well.]
macosxhints.com - Add an iPhone call log to iCal via AppleScript (7)
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If you're like me, it is often nice to know the time spent on a call (especially if you charge your services by the minute) and even though the cheapest cell phones out there can tell you the time you were just on the phone, that data is buried deep in iPhone's records and unaccessible from the touch GUI. I have been using a script created in ruby called calllog2ical, which you can download from ...
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tested, worked, nice to have *g*
Add an iPhone call log to iCal via AppleScript (8)
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If you're like me, it is often nice to know the time spent on a call (especially if you charge your services by the minute) and even though the cheapest cell phones out there can tell you the time you were just on the phone, that data is buried deep in iPhone's records and unaccessible from the touch GUI. I have been using a script created in ruby called calllog2ical, which you can download from ...
