While working in Finder, sometimes I need to jump to Terminal.app to perform a command.
To do this I generally:

Launch the Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.app)
Type cd
Then drag the little icon from the Finder toolbar on to the Terminal

This copies the current path from Finder in to the command line.
This works fine, but there are [...]

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Here’s a link to an AppleScript to take the URL from Safari’s frontmost window and put a tiny URL in your clipboard. Here’s the script. It is useful for stuff like Twitter, or Facebook and so forth where it isn’t functional to have the entire URL. For ubiquitous use you then can make it into [...]

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Here’s a great script that creates a search function through AppleScript which, after being made into a Quicksilver trigger can be used ubiquitously.

– This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
– it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
– [...]

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macosxhints has the scoop on how to clear Safari’s history, cache, cookies and saved searches–with an AppleScript.
This is similar to Safari’s Private Browsing feature, however this lets you clear your browsing information at anytime.

Technorati Tags: applescript, safari

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