Roo

Increasingly, I love that OS X seems to be designed to want to do what I tell it to. Don’t let me get started on the wonders of the mouse (two-finger scrolling, three-finger swiping, shrink/enlarge, screen zoom, and rotate). But in interfacing with this oh so lovely OS, there’s one thing that keeps coming back to annoy me: keyboard shortcuts.

Largely, I’ve learned those I find most useful. Minimize. Hide. Hide All. Preview. Open. Switch application (forwards and backwards). Application specific shortcuts. But always, several shortcuts were missing. Specifically, those to…

• maximize/restore the current window
• label files with specific colors
• show all windows

Then AppleScript and Butler came into my life…

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After irritation at e-mail list keepers who don’t respect unsubscribe requests, but who’s messages I don’t want to introduce into my spam filter, I hacked out this little mechanism to selectively bounce e-mail back to them. I never see it. They get bounces. My spam filter is unaldultered. Perfect.

I typically publish a single e-mail address which is hosted by a Linux server running qmail. I collect e-mail from diverse sources here and forward it to GMail, which I use mostly as a client, preferring my own domain(s) to the @gmail.com domain.

The solution is simple, effective, and might it be useful for you, too?

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