Minimize It For Me!
When I’m at work, I have a second monitor, and I use it for very important, and very lucrative things (more or less). However, when I’m ready to go home, I no longer need the extra real estate, so I minimize any open window on the second screen, to reopen the next day when I return to work.
The tragedy is that I have to do all this by hand, and it’s annoying! Sure, it’s not that annoying or time consuming, but it’s something else I have to do that should be done in a single click…
Enter MinimizeIt!, the super fantastic script I wrote that will automatically send any windows on the second display to the dock. It has a few limitations, like certain applications that don’t recognize it’s siren song of minimization, but otherwise is rather helpful.
Comments, Questions, Suggestions? I’m here to help and always looking for feedback!
If you manage users, or support your friends and family, it can be helpful to quickly get information about their Mac. It’s not too difficult to ask them how much hard drive space they have free, or how much RAM their machine has, but getting stuff like their MAC address or serial number is tricky.
Hence the above script, which will do all that for you! The user simply runs the app, which will prompt them for an email. They put in your email address, or whoever needs to receive the info, and then off it goes.
Here’s what it grabs:
MAC Address
Serial Number
Model Number
Network/Shared Name
Sure, there are other important items, and it’s a fairly easy edit to add others, but again, my main goal was to get the information it’s difficult to describe getting to the non-geek inclined.
Comments, Questions, Suggestions? I’m here to help and always looking for feedback!
As a sequel to my previous post, this script generates a concise list of all the file extensions recognized by your OS. I say concise, because the list is quite long, but I exclude any extension longer than 4 characters, and shorter than 2.
It runs through Applescript, but it wouldn’t take much to have it output to a text file, PDF, etc. As always, happy to answer any questions.
Special thanks to Barney-15E from the Apple Forums for his help. See our conversation here.
The Launch Service Programming Guide from Apple was also very helpful in understanding how extensions are organized in the OS.
It’s amazing what simply changing a file extension on your Mac can do. Want to read Apple system files? Change them to XML! Need to submit a picture file but it’s a PNG and they require a JPG? Just Drag and Drop! Sure, you can change the extension in Finder, buy why not just drag, and have a predefined list appear!
How it works:
- Click this post’s title to download the Script Zip file to your Mac.
- Place the ExtensionChange app somewhere convenient, like on your Dock.
- Drag and drop a file onto the app.
- Choose the file extension you would prefer it be from the list that appears, and then click okay.
Voila! Your file is now a different format, ready for use.
You can edit the default extensions list by changing the list in the raw Applescript included with the app. Then, simply do a Save As, make it an Application, and replace the old app with it.
Questions and feature requests welcome!
