February 2012
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Quick start a new iMessage from Alfred using the...
I was looking around at the new Messages (beta) this morning and just because I’m curious, got to looking through the Info.plist. Yes, I’m that kind of nerd. :) Guess what I found… an iMessage URL scheme. I don’t know if this has been mentioned elsewhere yet.. So what does that mean? As of Alfred 1.1 you can set specific actions when selecting data in the Alfred contact...
Feb 20th
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January 2012
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QuickSnip for Alfred
Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever! Description QuickSnip for Alfred is a simple little extension that allows you to...
Jan 4th
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December 2011
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Dec 21st
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Check for MAS Updates Faster →
Macgasm put up a nice little post showing how to skip straight to the “Updates” page in the Mac App Store. It opens and is ready SOO much faster if that is all you want to do is check for updates. Bonus: Alfred users, set the url as a custom search to open it quickly.
Dec 20th
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Alfred Tasks: Task Manager for Alfred
Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever! Description Alfred Tasks is a simple task/todo manager for Alfred. All interaction is...
Dec 7th
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Wolfram Alpha for Alfred
Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever! Description The Wolfram Alpha for Alfred is an older extension that hasn’t...
Dec 7th
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Adding support for Extension Updater to your...
So you want to add Extension Updater for Alfred support to your extension? Don’t worry, it’s easy. Below is a sample update XML. Create an update.xml file in your extension folder. The VERSION value is the value of the current extension. The URL value should be a url to another xml file on a remote server. I suggest using Github for storing the remote XML and extension download, but...
Dec 6th
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Extension Updater for Alfred
Extension Updater for Alfred Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever! Description Extension Updater for Alfred is a simple...
Dec 6th
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Install jQuery for Alfred
Install jQuery for Alfred  Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever! Description This is a basic extension (result action) that...
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
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Gtwthr update..
I’ve been working on rewriting Gtwthr, the weather service I was hosting to provide easy weather data to GeekTool users. Gtwthr was unfortunately shut down at the beginning on November when Weather.com decided to begin charging obscene amounts of money for access to their weather API. For Gtwthr to have continued the way it was would have required a ~$600/mo payment to weather.com, plus my...
Nov 27th
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Installing ZenCoding in Sublime Text 2
Installing Zen Coding into Sublime Text 2.. wow.. so simple but so hard to find a step by step of how to do it. I went to lots of different sites looking for a “how to” or a download link or something to get me going. I saw people suggesting a large array of different ways, none of which worked, except for this. There could be other, or better, ways to do this, this is just the...
Nov 23rd
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Weather for Alfred - Updated
Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever! Description Weather for Alfred was completely rewritten. The primary source for...
Nov 22nd
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Wunderlist for Alfred
Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever! Description Wunderlist for Alfred is a simple little extension that provides very...
Nov 22nd
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Color Converter for Alfred
Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever! What is Color Converter? I could be going crazy but I think a week or two...
Nov 22nd
Nov 21st
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Notes on the Upcoming Wunderlist Extension
So, as many of you know, I have been working on a Wunderlist extension for Alfred. I have been talking back and forth to the guys behind Wunderlist, getting help and such. Along the way though, I have come across several little… quirks with the Wunderlist extension. So I wanted to go ahead and document these quirks early on so you’ll know how things are going to go for now. Syncing Since...
Nov 21st
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Upcoming Extension for Alfred (hint)
This is more of a giveaway than it is a hint. It’s another extension (really kind of a framework) I’m working on though that will help all extension developers.
Nov 14th
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Mono Growl Theme →
I’ve had a lot of users ask me what Growl theme I use in a lot of my screenshots and such. The theme is called Mono. I thought I would share a link to it for all you guys looking for it.
Nov 14th
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Updated Screenshot Extension
Several users requested a timestamp in the filename when grabbing screenshots so older screenshots wouldn’t be overwritten. Well, here it is. Filenames are formatted exactly the same as OS X screenshots. “Screenshot <date> at <time>” Download
Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
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AlfredTweet
Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever! What is AlfredTweet? AlfredTweet is a new way to interact with Twitter via Alfred....
Nov 10th
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Screenshots with Alfred
Taking screenshots with Alfred This was an extension that a user requested the other day so I thought I would throw something together really quick. It’s a simple extension that allows you to take screenshots with Alfred using the screencapture application, and passing a few parameters to it. These include just the very basic functions including: 1. Screenshot, saved to desktop as png....
Nov 8th
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Alfred and Wunderlist
I just thought I would drop a little note for all the Alfred users out there that have been wanting a Wunderlist extension. I fired a tweet or two back and forth with the guys at 6Wunderkinder and asked if there was a 3rd party interface that I wasn’t aware of or if they have plans to add one. Just as I thought, there currently is not a 3rd party interface and they don’t have...
Nov 8th
Twitter for Alfred Update
I just thought I would throw up a quick update in case you guys didn’t see it on Twitter, but, I was able to get direct messages, mentions, follow, unfollow, block, and unblock all added to the Twitter for Alfred extension today. Things are coming along nicely. I’ve had several people ask if the extension would have some form of tab-completion. Unfortunately, it...
Nov 6th
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Nov 4th
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October 2011
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Gtwthr and GeekTool
Gtwthr Gtwthr is a little service I set up back in March or so that allows you to create GeekTool geeklets to display the weather information. Now, there are obviously several other places you can find instructions on how to setup weather geeklets that require a rather lengthy command line script. That’s where Gtwthr differs. Gtwthr is set up so that it’s easy for even a novice user...
Oct 10th
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Color Chooser
Color Chooser Extension Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive than ever! About the Color Chooser Extension So many cool Alfred...
Oct 7th
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Timestamps Extensions
Timestamps Extenstion Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive than ever! About This Extension Simple extension that helps convert or...
Oct 7th
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Desktop Toggle Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive than ever! About This Extension This is a simple extension that will toggle your...
Oct 7th
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Dictionary Extension
Dictionary Extension Introduction Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive than ever! About This Extension This extension will query...
Oct 7th
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Recent Downloads
Recent Download Extension I’ve got a new extension available today. This extension was a request from a Twitter user a week or so ago. I’ve been trying to work out a few issues with it and finally, with a little help from @alfredapp and @binaryghost, was able to get it working correctly. This extension, will find the most recently downloaded file in your ~/Downloads folder and...
Oct 7th
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September 2011
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New Alfred Extension: Thesaurus
Thesaurus for Alfred I’ve seen people request this feature in Alfred before, and I decided that, after needing to look up a synonym for a word today that I would throw together a quick extension to query synonyms and antonyms from thesaurus.com and display the results in Growl. This is the first, quick release of it. I may go back and refine it and add some error checking and such to it...
Sep 5th
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July 2011
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Alfred 0.9.9 Scripts, Now Available.
With the early dev release of Alfred 0.9.9 coming this afternoon I decided I would go ahead and share the rest of the scripts that I’ve made lately. Most of the scripts do require Alfred 0.9.9 because of the new built in Growl support. Each script will have a description and usage info and examples in the textarea once imported. If you guys have any other suggestions for scripts, let me...
Jul 8th
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June 2011
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Grabbing Lipsum Text with Alfred
A new day, a new script. This one was an idea from @maxtofa. The idea was to pull generated lipsum text from lipsum.com, and copy it to the clipboard, with Alfred. After looking at it, compared to some of the other sites I’ve parsed, this one is simple! Download Link: Lipsum The linked archive contains two files. One is a library used to parse html with php, and the other is the php script...
Jun 30th
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Scraping the Web with @Alfredapp, continued.
I’ve been kinda “poling the audience” looking for ideas for data that I may could scrape from the net and return to Alfred/Growl. Kris Lander, one of my awesome GtWthr users, threw out the idea of tracking packages. I came up with the idea early on of being able to track packages using a custom search with Alfred. The custom search was done using the site packagetrackr.com. Well,...
Jun 29th
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New Alfred Scripts: Scraping the Web
I have started looking for new ways to stretch Alfred to do more. I began wondering what data I could scrape off the web and push back through Alfred, returning it through Growl. I’ve come up with two or three new scripts lately.  Check eBay Item Status This script will query eBay, grabbing the item page html, and scraping it for the data necessary. I’m still testing some stuff with...
Jun 29th
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Andrew's Hot Chocolate: A lovely email from an... →
preppeller: Every so often, we get an email which isn’t from somebody asking for help, or requesting a feature… just a nice email, and I absolutely love those. I thought I would publish this one as it really made me smile :) Hello Alfred Team, My name is Panrubius and I’m quadriplegic. I just thought you…
Jun 27th
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Next in Alfred: Better Script/Extension Support
Alfred Addons The folks over at @alfredapp have been working their butts off lately getting ready for the upcoming release of Alfred. I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on an early version of it for some testing and see just what all I can do with the script support. Here’s a few of the things that I’ve come up with so far. Local Weather Andrew featured this one a while...
Jun 24th
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Setting up Alfred with Growl
I had several people ask yesterday about how I set up Alfred to use Growl notifications so I thought I would document it here for now. I know some of you may be asking why you would need Growl with Alfred. I primarily thought it would be nice to have some form of visual feedback from the silent terminal commands that I had set up in Alfred. Anyway, on with the setup. Step #1 Go to the...
Jun 1st
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