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I FUCKING HATE ADOBE READER HIJACKING MY PDF VIEWING IN SAFARI

Jamie Phelps — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:47:56 +0000

I got really fed up with Adobe hijacking my PDF viewing with their bloated plug-in. Preview is just flat better for just reading a PDF. In the past, it was a configurable option in Acrobat Professional or Acrobat Reader preferences, but to my chagrin, they’ve now decided that the user can’t be allowed to choose how to view PDF’s as evidenced by this screenshot:

Frustrated, I turned to Twitter for help. Robert Marini (@wisequark) was Johnny-on-the-spot with the solution. Here’s the Twitter discussion in a thread for your easy following: http://quotably.com/jxpx777/statuses/794527269 So, it turns out that Adobe not only hijacks my PDF viewing, but any time I update any of my Adobe software (I have CS3 Master Collection.) They’re going to reinstall the thing. “Bullshit,” says I, so I fired up Hazel to fix it for good.

Read on for my solution using Hazel. First, add “/Library/Internet Plug-Ins” to your list of folders that you want Hazel to watch.

Next, create a rule for Hazel to apply to this folder. Here’s mine:

You can enter whatever you like for the description. I wanted something memorable for when I come back to this and wonder why I have Hazel watching Internet Plug-Ins folder. Then I can say, “Oh, yes, that’s right – because I fucking hate Adobe’s bad behavior.” The Growl notification is optional, but it will make me feel better. The key points to this rule are the [Name] [contains] “adobe” bit and the [Move file] to folder: [Trash] bit. Then, for good measure, I have an Applescript that empties the trash and relaunches Safari.

Take that, Adobe.

Applescript to Add Specified Track(s) to Specified Playlist(s)

Jamie Phelps — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:58:25 +0000

This is an Applescript I whipped up over the past day or so to facilitate adding the currently playing or currently selected track(s) to one or more playlists. It includes facility to create a new playlist to add the track(s) to. More information is in the included README file.

Download it here, and leave any feedback in the comments on this post.

iTunes Growl Applescript with Artwork

Jamie Phelps — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:35:40 +0000

Sometimes I don’t know what a particular track in my iTunes library is called. I usually know the artist and album, but mostly I know tracks by their numbers. When I can’t remember the name, I can’t think of any better way to display it than an on-demand Growl notification.

As any good scripter does before setting out to write his own, I went to Google. Sure enough Ryan Todd of plasticstare.com had written a script to do just that.

But, I wasn’t feeling the generic icon of iTunes accompanying my notifications, and I wasn’t in love with the verbosity of the notifications. So, again, like any good scripter, I modified it to suit me!

Here is my effort. All the credit for the general functionality of the script goes to Ryan. I essentially modified formatting (basically to make it more like the notifications I get from iScrobbler) and added the iTunes artwork as the image to display. Nothing too heady. As with my automatic notifications on track change, I prefer the music video Growl style for this.

Enjoy!