The Apple Blog: Quick Tip: Automator and Services in Snow Leopard - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Dec 09
  

  Scott M

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  • You can also choose what services show up, so if there’s one you never use, you can hide it.

  • Services are also contextual and will show up when you right-click on an actionable item like text in Pages or a file in Finder. If you click on a file in the Finder, and then the gear icon in the toolbar, you can also see what actions apply to that file.

    
    

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  • • Now that Automator can create Services, it’s really becoming a powerful tool.
    • Automator can now use data detectors, so if you select an address, you can use Automator to write an action that’ll look it up in Google Maps.
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    • In Snow Leopard, I’m looking forward to creating workflows I’ll be using daily.
    • Regarding the web view action

    • • Does anyone know why the “Find People with Birthdays” feature doesn’t produce any results on Snow Leopard? It brings up the Address Book and shows me the person with the birthday in the Smart Group, if there are any in them, but then it doesn’t produce results, so I cannot automate things further.

        
        

        
        

        
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          Bike4Life on November 4th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
          

          
          

          This bug has been driving me nuts and I have not been able to find an answer. I just keep find people with the same problem.

          
          

          
          

          
          

          
          

          
          
          
          
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    • I’ve watched the Sal Soghoian video about services and the one to locate an address in Google maps looks great! But I can’t find, anywhere, how to write such an Automator service. I can find the option to accept addresses (using data detectors), but I can’t figure out how to pass that address to Google maps. Any help?

      
      

      
      
• 28 Sep 09
  

  Tyler Wall

  automator mac

• 16 Sep 09
  

  Darren Wallace

  Services

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• 09 Sep 09
  

  Steven Josselson

  Apple automator osx macos scripting services snow_leopard tips Delicious

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