Category Archives: Alfred

Alfred Tip: Convert files to an Apple Tv compatible format

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Don from dirtdon.com recently lured my interest in shell scripts that makes sense to use from Alfreds actions menu. He did so by writing an amazing article with some of favorite bash scripts, that he had made specifically for Alfred. He had a fantastic script for converting video files to an Apple Tv friendly format, that I saw great potential in. I therefore tried to get the script up and running on my own machine, and in the process of doing so, I found a bug in his script. I fixed it and told him about my fix.

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Alfred Tip: Show/Hide hidden files in finder

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If you ever have to view the hidden files on your mac, you will know that it can be quite cumbersome to remember and then use the terminal commands for showing these files. I do this all the time, so I thought I would make a shell script that could do it for me. The nice thing about shell scripts is that they can be nicely integrated with alfred. The way I have it setup, lets me simply type “show hidden files” in alfred when ever I need to see them, and if I do it again they will magically be hidden again.

You can get the same setup by downloading my script, and make a shortcut to it in the alfred preferencepane.as shown below.

 

Alfred Tip: Google Browse by Name

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I discovered one of those amazing google services today. It’s called “Browse by Name”, and it’s basically an improved “I’m feeling lucky”. If you don’t know what “I’m feeling lucky” is, it’s a button on www.google.com that will redirect you to the first hit on what ever you have googled. This is a great time saver, however using the “I’m feeling lucky” button does not always direct you to the site you wanted. So what “Browse by Name” does is to try and improve that with some google mojo. “Browse by Name” will only redirect you to a site if it is certain that the first hit is correct, otherwise it will simply return a regular search.

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