The business networking platform openBC (soon to be named Xing) has a nice plugin for synching one’s address book on windows working with Outlook, but as of now there is no useful alternative for MacOSX.
However, a clever use of DEVONagent and Automator helps to export all vcards of one’s contacts on OpenBC, which can then be opened and imported into iCal or any other address book application.
The workflow looks a bit like this: (and can be downloaded here)
Ⅰ believe a similar workflow may be created with other tools, but if you are serious about web research you should check out DEVONagent nevertheless!
Ⅰ often need to open web pages in Firefox, even though DEVONagent is my favorite and default browser. As DA is very scriptable there is an easy solution to this, without having to manually copy the URL around. The following apple script will do it. Just copy it into ~/Application Support/DEVONagent/Scripts. Make sure the filename ends with ___ and a keyboard short cut, such as Cmd-Alt-Ctrl-o or similar. (here is a version of the script for you to download)
try
tell application "DEVONagent"
if not (exists browser 1) then error "No browser windows are open."
set this_browser to browser 1
set this_URL to the URL of this_browser
end tell
tell application "Firefox"
activate
OpenURL this_URL
end tell
end try
Ⅰ just hacked together a little applescript that grabs files from your temporary directory to another place, renames them according to the current applications main window’s name. Basically this sounds like nothing, but what it actually does is very useful if you like to save some of the songs playing on a flash based radio stream like pandora.com. download the file here (2.4 kB zipped file).
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