List of OS X Services
I’m often asked by readers about where to find Mac OS X Services. Here’s a directory of some of the Services and Workflows that I know about (Updated Regularly!).
-Justin
| Source | Service | Description |
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Veritrope.com Services | Amazon.com Background Search | Have you ever been reading about a book, movie, or an album and wanted to find it quickly on Amazon.com without losing your place on a page? Now it's as easy as clicking your mouse! Click here to see a video of it in action! |
| Search in Evernote | Allows you to Control-Click (a.k.a., "Right Click") a highlighted passage of text anywhere that Snow Leopard's Services are available and search through your notes in Evernote! |
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MACOSXAUTOMATION.COM | Navigation Services | Go to Folder... (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) |
| Applescript Services | Open with AppleScript Editor, Open Dictionary of Frontmost Application, New Script for Frontmost Application, Open Application Scripting Dictionary (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Unix Services | Get Manual for Command, Apply Command to Selected Items, Insert Current Finder Directory, Insert Selected Finder Items, New Terminal Window to Insertion Location, Launch Terminal (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Finder Services | New Disk Image with Selection, Rename Selected Items, Set Spotlight Comments (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Audio Services | Encode to iTunes Format (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| iPhoto Services | Import Into iPhoto, Add iChat Snapshot to iPhoto, Send Selected Photos with Narration, Send Photo to Everyone in the Picture, Show Me Where They Live, Spotlight Search for Detected People (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com | |
| Image Services | Add Metadata to JPEGs, Rotate Clockwise, Rotate Counter-Clockwise, Import into iPhoto, Print Image Files, Change File Type (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Media Picker Services | Browse Photo Library, Browse Movie Library, Browse iTunes Library (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| PDF Services | Encrypt File, Set Metadata (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Movie Services | Apply Color Profile, Browse Movie Library, Play Selection in Sequence, Show Info, Encode Media (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Internet Services | Open URLs in Safari Tabs, Download Image from My MobileMe Gallery, Download Image from Other Gallery, Lookup in Wikipedia (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Mail Services | New Mail Message with All Addresses, New Message with Video Snapshot, New Audio Message (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Numbers Services | New Attendance Table for AB Group (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Safari Services | Add to Web Clips, Currency Converter, Search in YouTube, New Event for Selected Date, Create Formatted Link for Front Document (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| Facebook Services [BETA] | Upload to Facebook, Capture Selection to Facebook, Capture Window to Facebook, Capture Screen to Facebook, Share Selected URL, Share Link on Clipboard (Free -- Via macosxautomation.com) | |
| DEVON Technologies | BlueService | Easily send selected plain or rich text—in the form of notes or short messages (SMS) — to Bluetooth–compatible devices directly from your favorite Services-aware Cocoa or Carbon application with a single click. This service is extremely useful if your phone is not yet supported by the Mac OS X Address Book and its SMS capabilities. (For the technophiles out there, BlueService uses OBEX Object Push or OBEX File Transfer). |
| CalcService | CalcService calculates the results of selected formulas from within all Cocoa applications (such as TextEdit, Mail, iChat, Safari, XCode, or our commercial applications). It then attaches the result to the formula, or replaces the formula with the result. In addition, you can display the result in a panel without modifying the text. With CalcService there is no longer a need to launch Calculator (or any other similar program) if your only need is to calculate some values immediately within text windows or dialog fields. | |
| PDF2RTF | PDF2RTFService is a free filter service that enables many Cocoa applications, e.g.TextEdit, to open Adobe PDF, PostScript, and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files as paginated rich text documents. (Note: The application just needs to be able to read rich text documents for the service to work). The actual conversion is done by Quartz and the PDFKit of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger; PDF2RTFService post-processes and paginates the output for better results. | |
| Word Service | This service provides 34 functions to convert, format, or speak the currently selected text, as well as insert data or show statistics of the selection within all Cocoa applications (such as TextEdit, Mail, iChat, Safari, XCode) and Carbon applications supporting services. Features: Reformat, Remove line attachments/endings/links/multiple spaces/multiple feeds/quotes, Trim line beginnings/line endings/lines, Sort lines ascending/descending, Shift left/right, Initial caps of words/sentences, All caps and lowercase, Mac/Windows/Unix line endings, Rotate 13, Straight/Smart Quotes, Encode/Decode tabs, Insert date/date and time/time/contents of path, Speak native/German text, Statistics. |
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ELASTIC THREADS | File Collector | Collect Selected Files Into A New Folder (Free -- Via elasticthreads.tumblr.com) |
| Google Voice/SMS | Initiate a phone call or send a text message through your Google Voice account -- just by selecting a phone number in any application and right-clicking! (Free -- Via elasticthreads.tumblr.com) | |
| URL Shortener | Three Services that take URLs selected in any application and creates a shortened URL (Free -- Via elasticthreads.tumblr.com | |
| Instapaper Service | Send Link to Instapaper (Free -- Via elasticthreads.tumblr.com) | |
| Text Clippers: | Several Text Clipping Services (Free -- Via elasticthreads.tumblr.com) | |
AUGUST LILLEAAS | Amazon S3 Uploader | Upload a File to Your Amazon S3 Bucket |
BRETT TERPSTRA | Select Any Basic Numeric Equation And Evaluate It, Replacing The Selected Text With The Results | Allows you to select any basic numeric equation and evaluate it, replacing the selected text with the results. It will ignore your text if it contains anything but numbers and basic mathematical symbols. |
| Songza.Fm Scraper Finds A Song Related To The Selected Text | Scrapes Songza.fm to find a song related to your selected text in most applications. It replaces the selected text with an is.gd shortened link and the name of the first song it found. | |
| Clippable-To-Evernote | Allows you to trigger the Clippable bookmarklet in Safari and copy the result directly to your “Unfiled” note book in Evernote. (Free -- Via brettterpstra.com) | |
NULL WEB | Google Text In Firefox | Search any text in Google through Firefox. (Free -- Via nullweb.com) |
MACROMATES | Textmate Services | TxtToTM sends text selected in any application and opens a new TextMate window with that text inserted. Edit in Textmate will open any file or folder selected in Finder in Textmate. (Free -- Via macromates.com). |
CULTURED CODE | THINGS/Apple Mail Linking | A service for Mail to link the selected message to Things to-do list. (Free -- Via culturedcode.com) |
DROPBOX | Post to Dropbox Service | Files will be put into your Dropbox public folder, auto-synched and the URLs to these files will be put in the clipboard. (Free -- Via dropbox.com) |
SEAN SPERTE | Creating a ‘Make Title Case’ Service in Snow Leopard | A system-wide service for converting text to title case — utilizing John Gruber’s TitleCase script. (Free -- Via seansperte.com) |
KAVASOFT | KavaServices | A Bundle of Many Services that translate languages, move and copy files to particular folders, search websites, encode special characters into HTML entities/URL links, calculate mathematical expressions, convert currencies and other units, sort lines, remove duplicates, remove blank lines, convert to lowercase, uppercase or title case, convert accented characters to plain ASCII text, calculate MD5 and SHA1 checksums, execute terminal commands, etc. ($25 -- Via kavasoft.com) |
MACSTORIES.NET | ShoveBox Mobile-to-Yojimbo | An Automator workflow to export items from Shovebox mobile and import them into Yojimbo! (Via macstories.net) |
Miscellaneous | A tri.im URL shortening Service | |
| A standalone Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Service to delete files and folders immediately, bypassing the Trash. |
Want to learn more (or add to this list)?
If you’re interested in learning more about Services, AppleScript, and Automation on your Mac, be sure to look at Veritrope’s Mac Automation Resources page as well!
Know of a Service or a Workflow which isn’t on this list?
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