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Bottom posting in Mail.app (with Quicksilver)

By Will Norris | Published: July 18, 2007
John Gruber posted his applescript for Mail.app to “bottom-post” reply to an email last week (and I’m just now reading it, sigh). However, he talks about using FastScripts to invoke the script whereas I prefer Quicksilver for things like this if possible. The advantage of FastScripts is that it grabs the keystroke before [...]

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Lock Screen

By Will Norris | Published: July 18, 2005
Yet another application (locktight) that I’ve replaced with Quicksilver… After reading the comments in this hint at macosxhints.com, I discovered this little bit of applescript. tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to activate You’ll want to add this to a Quicksilver trigger so you can it from the keyboard (I use Cmd-Opt-Shift-L because that was the default in locktight and I’m [...]

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quicksilver and itunes

By Will Norris | Published: June 27, 2005
I’m generally a big fan of the Unix axiom of applications doing one thing and doing it well, but when each of those applications is running all the time and takes up 20MB of active memory I tend to make an exception and Quicksilver is providing an excellent alternative to several smalls apps I use. I [...]

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