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Report the time in another city with Applescript

Santa Fe is in the USA, a long way away.

I created an Applescript to tell me the time in Santa Fe, which is in a different timezone. Here’s how my script works.

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Change loudness with Applescript

Applescript volume changer.

Applescript can remember the loudness your Mac is set to, while using a different volume for an alert. Here’s how.

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Today and Tomorrow in Applescript

Applescript short date.

I needed to grab both today’s date and tomorrow’s date within Applescript to use in some recordkeeping. Here’s how I made it work. It may help you too.

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Speak the time or date with Applescript

A date Applescript.

These simple Applescripts speak the time or the date. Here’s how they work.

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Random numerical quirks: 1234567890

Deep down, Unix based computers, such as those running Mac OS X, count time (and date) by the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight, 1 January 1970 — trickier and more complex than it sounds. There are 86,400 seconds in a normal day, so at the end of the first day the Unix [...]

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Gmail Labs adds date and search features I like

I switched to Google Apps last year for my FirstBite domain. For US$50 per year I have 26Gb of space available for email, some templated web pages, a calendar, Google Docs, and the power of Google. Gmail is particularly useful and I surprised myself by switching to using the web interface. I find the threaded [...]

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