Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘Quicksilver’

How To Shorten URLs With Bit.ly Using Quicksilver

A URL shortener service called Bit.ly launched today. It has some great features that convinced me to switch from using Metamark to shorten my URLs. Read on…

GTD: Integrating Remind, iCal, GCal, Quicksilver

A Unix program called Remind is one of the greatest tools for keeping your goals and projects on track. Where calendars like iCal and Google Calendar come up short, Remind fills in the gaps.

The Best Of Graham English 2007

2007 was the year of social networking. Twitter occupied most of time which led to much less blogging. But 2007 was not without its controversies and celebrations. Read on…

Update Twitter, Facebook, iChat, Adium, And Skype With Quicksilver

I’m a Facebook fanatic. I joined immediately after they opened to the public. In the beginning, there wasn’t much to talk about. None of my friends had joined and there really wasn’t that much I could do there. But since then, the buzz has caught my friends’ attention and Facebook’s extendibility has grown consistently, giving [...]

Append To OmniOutliner Quicksilver Action

One of my Twitter friends wished that you could use Quicksilver to append to an OmniOutliner document. This took me 5 minutes to whip up. I got the entire code from MacScripter and then wrapped it up as a Quicksilver action.
It’s pretty simple to use. Save it in your Quicksilver actions folder, restart Quicksilver, and [...]

My New Method Of Automated Journaling

I’ve been hacking this auto-journal script for a while and I’ve recently settled on using a local install of WordPress combined with AppleScript and Quicksilver. It’s really pretty easy.
Follow MacZealots’ tutorial on Installing WordPress on Tiger. If you have any trouble along the way, you might need to check out Mac OS X Server 10.4.4: [...]

Append To Inbox Quicksilver Action

For some people, Quicksilver doesn’t work as advertised. For example, I can’t get the ‘append to…’ action to work as a trigger. And since there’s one file that I’m continually appending, I wanted to customize my workflow. That’s why I created my own Quicksilver append action.
I’ve recently started using TextMate’s GTDAlt bundle for a number [...]

A Quicksilver Action That Creates A New TextMate Blog Post

I’ve been AppleScripting my @blogging context workflow. At first, I created a simple script that launches TextMate, NetNewsWire, and Safari along with some URLs to help me get started. It basically launches my workspace for my @blogging context. But I wanted something a little more flexible that would accept some initial user input.
Now what I [...]

Blogging With Quicksilver And AppleScript

Quicksilver gets more powerful everyday. I make it a point to learn something new about it almost daily. And it never ceases to surprise me with it’s power.
And I can say the same with AppleScript. Anything I do repeatedly, I see if I can script it. And when I combine AppleScript with Quicksilver… I feel [...]

Top 5 AppleScript Productivity Hacks for WordPress Bloggers and Podcasters

As bloggers, we tend to do the same repetitive tasks over and over again. We open the same URLs. We launch the same apps. We ftp, we search Technorati, we comment, we do this day in and day out. The 80/20 rule would tell us that creating content in the form of blog posts, [...]

Guess What… I’m Blogging This From Quicksilver Using AppleScript

Now this is an awesome Blogging hack. It’s not that flexible. I can’t choose categories or add excerpts but the novelty of it is just plain cool.
Plus, I tend to be more of an article writer and not so much of an off-the-cuff blogger like Scoble or Winer. Twitter has given me a voice for [...]

IM Status: Update Your Skype, iChat, Or Adium Status With Quicksilver

I got really tired of updating my online status on Skype and iChat every time I had to step away from my computer. I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be cool if I could update all my instant message apps at once with a few keystrokes using Quicksilver?

iQuickTwitter - My Quicksilver + Twitter + iChat + Growl Hack

When I read that you could use Quicksilver with Twitter, I felt as excited as Jack Bauer in an interrogation room full of terror suspects. It all started with Twitter Fan Wiki. And then I lost myself in hours of troubleshooting as I tried to force hack after hack to work the way I wanted them to. As these things are, it wasn’t nearly as hard in the end as all the work that led up to the final result.