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mals14 / idletime.sh
Created August 13, 2018 10:51 — forked from Neil-Smithline/idletime.sh
Mac OS X Idle Time Shell Script
#!/bin/sh
# Get MacOSX idletime. Shamelessly stolen from http://bit.ly/yVhc5H
/usr/sbin/ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | /usr/bin/awk '/HIDIdleTime/ {print int($NF/1000000000); exit}'
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mals14 / get_url.scpt
Created August 12, 2018 14:53 — forked from prashanthrajagopal/get_url.scpt
AppleScript to get url from Safari, Firefox and Chrome
display dialog "Name of the browser?" default answer "Safari"
set inp to text returned of result
tell application "System Events"
if inp is "Google Chrome" then
tell application "Google Chrome" to return URL of active tab of front window
else if inp is "Safari" then
tell application "Safari" to return URL of front document
else if inp is "Firefox" then
tell application "Firefox" to activate
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mals14 / copyURLPlusSafari.scpt
Created August 12, 2018 14:51 — forked from chmurph2/copyURLPlusSafari.scpt
In Safari, this applescript copies the title and URL of the current tab to the clipboard.
-- In Safari, this copies the Title and URL of the current tab to the clipboard.
-- Save the script in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Safari
-- Using QuickSilver, I assign a trigger to this script using the hotkey ⌥-C (option c), with the scope of the trigger limited to Safari.
-- Inspired by CopyURL + (http://copyurlplus.mozdev.org/)
-- Christopher R. Murphy
tell application "Safari"
set theURL to URL of front document
set theTitle to name of front document
set the clipboard to theTitle & return & theURL as string
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mals14 / GetNameAndTitleOfActiveWindow.scpt
Created August 12, 2018 14:51 — forked from timpulver/GetNameAndTitleOfActiveWindow.scpt
[AppleScript] Get Name of active window | Returns the name / title of the active (frontmost) window
# taken from user Albert's answer on StackOverflow
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5292204/macosx-get-foremost-window-title
# tested on Mac OS X 10.7.5
global frontApp, frontAppName, windowTitle
set windowTitle to ""
tell application "System Events"
set frontApp to first application process whose frontmost is true
set frontAppName to name of frontApp