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How-to: Use Butler and AppleScript to open a folder

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

I know what you’re thinking…how hard can it be to open a folder? Not very hard at all. But what I wanted was a way to open a certain folder with a certain view and sort order, even though I may then change that folder’s view and sort order, thereby messing up future openings of that same folder. In my case, I wanted my Downloads folder to open, at a given size and location, sorted in reverse date order. Moom can do 90% of this using saved window layouts, but it can’t do anything with the actual Finder window, such as setting the view and sort column.

After a bit of work with AppleScript, I came up with a solution that got me everything I wanted. By storing the AppleScript in Butler, I can now open my folder with the press of a hot key, at any time from any application. Here’s how I did it.

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Butler 4.1.12 released

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Butler 4.1.12 has been released, fixing one crashing issue (which only affected those running 10.7.x) and one cosmetic issue. The crasher wasn’t actually a bug in Butler, but a change in how the system deals with ejecting disks. Basically, if you used Butler’s Volumes menu to eject a disk/disk image, Butler would then crash and burn, but only in OS X 10.7 or newer.

(The cosmetic issue was an abbreviations window that wouldn’t disappear if you used it to run a web search while the browser was the frontmost window.)

You can get the update via in-app updates (the Updates item in the Preferences tab of Butler’s window), or by downloading Butler from our site.

Important: Butler 4.1.12 requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later; if you’re using Mac OS X 10.5 and/or a PowerPC-equipped Mac, you’ll need to stay on Butler 4.1.11. If you find issues with Butler on your PowerPC and/or 10.5 Mac, please send me an email and we’ll see what we can do about the problem.

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Moom 2.3.2 released

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

We’ve released a simple update for Moom to fix a regression (the reintroduction of a problem that was previously solved) in 2.3.1. The regression involved apps that didn’t fully implement Apple’s Accessibility API, such as LibreOffice. In some cases, having Moom 2.3.1 active while using those apps could cause them to crash. We’ve fixed this (again) in 2.3.2, and apologize for the troubles.

Important: Moom 2.3.2 requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later; if you’re using Mac OS X 10.5 and/or a PowerPC-equipped Mac, you’ll need to stay on Moom 2.3.1. If you happen to be using LibreOffice (or another app that seems to crash when Moom is running) on a PowerPC and/or 10.5 Mac, please send me an email and we’ll see what we can do about your issue.

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Moom 2.3.1 released

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Moom 2.3.1 adds a couple of features, and fixes a few minor bugs. Moom will now auto-activate saved layouts when screen resolution changes; this is perfect if you use your laptop closed at work with an external display, but open at home without one. Also, we’ve added a second AppleScript command (center), and fixed an issue with Safari Reader pages. If you’d like to read this same information again, check out Moom’s release notes.

As always, direct purchasers can get the update with in-app updating, or via our web site. App Store purchasers will find Moom in the Updates section of the App Store app. (If you don’t see it yet, just wait a bit; it’s on its way.)

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Name Mangler 2.4.6 released

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Name Mangler 2.4.6 has two new features and one bug fix. For users of Advanced mode, you can now use increment and decrement to do math-based renaming. Details on both commands can be found in the help file.

For users who work with hidden files, we’ve added a hidden pref (logical, right?) to enable you to create names that start with a period (which are hidden by the OS X Finder). You’ll find the command in the full Name Mangler release notes page.

Direct purchasers can get the update via in-app updating, or by downloading the full version from our web site. App Store purchasers should (shortly) see the update available in the App Store application.

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Leech 2.1 released

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Leech 2.1 is a relatively minor update that garners a “dot upgrade” number mainly because of one thing: Leech now works with Safari 5.1, albeit only via a new contextual menu (via the Leech Context Menu extension for Safari).

As much as we would love to bring back direct integration, it just isn’t feasible at this time. Given that, we felt the ability to send URLs to Leech via the contextual menu was the next best solution. (Firefox users can still get full integration via the FlashGot add-on.)

After installing Leech 2.1, launch Leech and select Leech > Install Safari Context Menu Extension. This extension will auto-update with any improvements we make in the future (assuming you’ve enabled updates to extensions within Safari). If Apple ever provides the ability to intercept download requests, we’ll do our best to bring back direct integration.

Also, not directly related to Leech 2.1, but Chrome users can gain at least some integration via the Download Assistant extension. While direct downloading doesn’t work (we’ve opened a trouble ticket with the developers), you can use the contextual menu to send URLs to Leech.

Note: If you’re using Safari 5.0 or earlier, and want to keep your browser integration, do not install Leech 2.1; Leech 2.0.7 will continue working just fine. If you’ve already updated, download Leech 2.0.7 again to restore your integration.

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Butler 4.1.11 fixes two minor bugs

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Today we released Butler 4.1.11, with two small bug fixes (one for System Preference panels with mixed-case extensions; the other for a problem with window layering and Butler’s docklet).

You can get the update via in-app updating, or by downloading the full program from our site. And yes, we know you’re all anxious for Butler 5. So are we, but we need to do it right.

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Moom 2.3 gets scriptable and automagical

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Today we released Moom 2.3, with a few notable new features and some bug fixes. The most interesting new features are probably these two:

  • Moom can now auto-detect changes in the number of connected displays, and (optionally) activate saved window layouts based on such changes. So if you regularly move between work and home with a laptop, you can now have Moom activate saved window layouts when you connect or disconnect the extra display.
  • Moom has very basic AppleScript support for activating a saved window layout via AppleScript. See the help file’s Usage section for the details.

Direct purchasers can get the update via in-app updating, or by downloading the full version from our site. App Store purchasers should see the update soon (if not already) in the App Store application. And as always, the full details on what’s new in this release (including a couple of hidden preference tweaks) can be found on the Moom release notes page.

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Witch and duplicated TotalFinder windows in Lion

Friday, September 9th, 2011

If you’re running Lion and using both Witch and TotalFinder, you may (will?) see duplicated entries for TotalFinder windows in the Witch switcher panel. If that’s the case, you can try this method to fix the problem:

  1. Disable Witch (uncheck Enable Witch) and quit the app (App Store version) or close System Preferences (independent version)
  2. Open Terminal (in Applications > Utilities), copy and paste the following text, then press Return:
    defaults write ~/Library/Application\ Support/Witch/Settings "Work Around TotalFinder (Lion or Newer)" -bool YES
    (That’s one long line; just select it and copy, and it should paste fine.) You won’t see any response from Terminal (other than a new command prompt), but Witch is now set up to work properly with TotalFinder.
  3. Restart Witch.

If you’re running Witch in a pre-Lion Mac OS X with TotalFinder, use this solution instead.

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Name Mangler 2.4.5 released

Monday, August 15th, 2011

We’ve just released a minor update to Name Mangler that includes only a couple of changes:

  • A new optional parameter (sequence identifier) has been added to Advanced mode’s Sequential Numbering function. If this sequence identifier is included, it indicates that sequence indexes are only inferred from the number of files that share the same identifier, as opposed to the overall number of files to be renamed.
  • Optimized the progress bar’s display when renaming thousands of files.

    • As always, direct customers can get the update via in-app updates (or by downloading the new version from our site). App Store customers should see the update available either now or very soon via the App Store program.

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