Having trouble with your Snow Leopard Services menu telling you that it’s building (but never finishing)? Here are a few things you can try… (UPDATED!)
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Tech Links for Friday, October 30, 2009
“Spooky” Radios, Netflix on Your PS3, The Difference Between Mac and PC Programmers, The Coming of 10.6.2, and iPhone-tography tips!
- Homemade radio creates spooky sounds
Just in time forHalloNerd-o-ween: The Homemade Tesla Radio!
(Via boingboing ) - Netflix Movies to Stream to Sony’s PlayStation 3
Next month, the nine million American owners of Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles will have another entertainment option available: streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix.
(Via nytimes.com and Ars Technica) - Red Sweater Blog – And The Awarding Goes To
Why do Mac developers consistently produce the most refined, friendly, user-empowering, beautiful software on the planet? Daniel Jalkut, the founder of Red Sweater Software, offers his opinions.
(Via www.red-sweater.com ) - AppleInsider | Mac OS X 10.6.2 to update nearly 150 Snow Leopard components
Mac OS X 10.6.2 is coming…
(Via www.appleinsider.com ) - Apps and Tips for iPhone Photography
Some Great iPhone Photography Tips by Phil Coffman, Art Director of Springbox (and nascent phone-tographer).
(Via www.philcoffman.com )
Arts + Letters Links for Friday, October 30, 2009
Maurice Jarre Gets His Orchestra On In This Vintage Clip, David McCandless’s Beautiful Information, The Story of “Dorothy” The Chimp, and a Heart-Breaking Photo Series by Newspaper Photographer Romain Blanquart.
- YouTube – Maurice Jarre – Doctor Zhivago
Posted just because I wanted to see it again! I know that it looks like Maurice Jarre is flipping an incandescent double-bird to the world in the preview frame of this clip, but he’s really just conducting music for a tribute to David Lean in 1992. (Although he could have — the dude was genius!)
(Via www.youtube.com ) - Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, concepts, subjects – visualized!
David McCandless, designer and proprietor of Information Is Beautiful has a new book coming out called The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential Trivia. Looks Awesome! (Hey Larry — How about hooking a blogger up with a review copy? 😉 )
(Via Information Is Beautiful) - The story behind the “Do chimps grieve?” National Geographic Photograph
The story of “Dorothy”, the deceased chimp in the photo, is worth reading.
(Via boingboing) - Romain Blanquart – Bride
If that last one didn’t get you, this one will.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen the frailty of life captured as well as in newspaper photographer Romain Blanquart’s absolutely stunning photo series “Beautiful Bride”. Even if you’ve never lost someone that you’ve loved to cancer, I’ll bet you’ll be both humbled by the tremendous strength and dignity of these people — and also reminded by these images that, for some things in this world, there are no words.You’ll certainly be crying by the last one.
(Via blanquart.squarespace.com )
Snow Leopard Service: Evernote Search
Contextual Evernote Search Service for Snow Leopard
Updated On September 30, 2010
Here is a fun one for all you Snow Leopard users — a service which, with a simple mouse click, lets you highlight any text and search through all your Evernote items for it!
Instructions
Just highlight a passage of text anywhere that Snow Leopard’s Services are available. Control-Click (a.k.a., “Right Click”) to get a context menu and select “Search In Evernote” to search for that highlighted passage of text in Evernote!
When you highlight text and run the Service, Evernote will launch and a separate Evernote window of Notes will open up containing just your search results. Note — it may take a few seconds for the search results to appear so, just give it a few seconds if at first you see “0 Results”.
When I say “anywhere that Snow Leopard’s Services are available”, that means most applications on your Mac — but keep in mind that there are a few “straggler apps” where this service isn’t available. 1
One caveat — this new version of the Service doesn’t have the pop-over window and also requires Evernote Version 1.10 or above as it uses Evernote’s new AppleScript implementation. Personally, I think things work faster and cleaner this way but, if you prefer the old way, I’ve left the download button for that version of the script at the bottom of the page.
The Fine Print
(Otherwise known as “Stuff You Should Know Before Installing”)
- I am providing the Service for the benefit of the Mac community. While it works wonderfully for me, I cannot take responsibility for any data you might lose (or if your laptop turns into a pumpkin or something…)
- “Community” means “participation”. Please share with the rest of us how you think this service could be improved (and feel free to help someone if they don’t understand something!)
How to Install and Use
- Download the ZIP file from the link below:
- When unzipped, click on the installer package called “Search in Evernote Service” and follow the instructions. The installer will copy a Service to your system Services library.
Old Version of the Service
If for some reason you’d like to download the old version of the script (with the pop-over preview window) it is here:
Found a bug?
Click Here To Submit Your Bug Report!
Interested in what other Services are available for Snow Leopard?
Click here to see the latest list!
Interested in what AppleScripts are available for Evernote?
Click here to see the latest list!
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Save Your Safari URLs into Evernote!
Save Your Safari Bookmarks into Evernote with this AppleScript that Exports a List of Your Open Tabs!
Evernote user John recently posted this in the company’s Mac forum:
“I was looking for a better way to store bookmarks while I am researching something without storing the entire web page or a pdf of it. Dragging and dropping the icon from the web page URL into a note leads to a webloc file that has to be double-clicked to open, and does not work on the iPhone client. Copying and pasting the URL into a note leads to a nice link that can be single click accessed, or accessed directly in the EN client on the iPhone, which is a nice touch. I can’t see any advantage to the webloc file. Can the default behavior of the drag and drop be changed on the desktop client so that it acts like a paste of the URL? It would make much more sense than the webloc, unless I am missing something. If anyone else has ideas about how they store bookmarks while they are researching so that they can be accessed between the EN desktop and iPhone client I would love to hear it.”
How about an AppleScript to do the job?
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