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  • AppleScript for Making Clipboard Contents Filename Ready
    Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 14:46

    Today I wanted to go through my downloads folder and clean things up a bit. I have a lot of random pdfs in that folder with random names like "fulltext(1).pdf" and "fultext(9).pdf" (thanks IEEE eXplorer, or was that ACM) and others with equally informative names like "S1350482701003061a.pdf". Clearly these simply won't do. What should the filename be? Well the paper/documents title of course! If you open up the pdf and copy the title of the paper you can't paste it as the filename as it might have have undesirable characters in it, especially new lines.

  • matplotlib, Preview, and AppleScript -- Oh, My!
    Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 15:36

     I use matplotlib fairly frequently in my research, it rocks. However, the fact that the MacOSX backed doesn't let me use 'Cmd-Q' to close things down is annoying. So my solution is a combination of pycario and preview with a little AppleScript through in for fun. I program in Eclipse with PyDev, however I run my python programs exclusively from iTerm. Hence, I'm used to cmd-tabbing back and forth between iterm and eclipse. However, when I run a program that opens up a gui, such doing "pylab.show()" things get annoying.