For a while I have been using a simple AppleScript script to convert URLs into shortened URLs. The flow goes something like:
Initiate script from Quicksilver Grab URL from the front-most window in Safari Submit URL to URL shortening service (previously xrl.us, but more recently bit.ly) Copy shortened URL to system clipboard (for pasting into Twitterific) Notify of process […]
So just a couple of days ago I talked about locking your screen with Quicksilver. Today I discovered that Quicksilver actually has a lock screen in the “Extra Scripts” plugin, but it’s not visible by default in Tiger (seems to work out of the box on Panther). The problem is with the file […]
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 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 […]