I have been using the Macintosh computer off and on since 1989. On Friday, I'll share some tips and tricks using the computer and various accessories. All reviews and tips are my own.
I have been using the Macintosh computer off and on since 1989. On Friday, I'll share some tips and tricks using the computer and various accessories. All reviews and tips are my own.
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This week's LaunchBar Action is a Random Email Generator.
A random email generator is a great tool for engineers that want to test email functionality. Also great for consumers that don't want to use their real email address at the risk of getting tons of spam emails.
Emails addresses generated by this action can be check using Mailinator.
LaunchBar is a powerful productivity tool that helps you work faster and smarter. It provides instant access to your files, folders, applications, and more. With LaunchBar, you can launch apps with just a few keystrokes, search for information on the web or your computer quickly and easily, open documents and emails with just a couple of clicks, and more.
This week's LaunchBar action is a list of random words. This is useful when you need to test a listing functionality.
This week's featured LaunchBar action is the basic Random Word. There are times when you are at a loss of what word to put in a field. This action makes it easy to have a random word generated whenever you need it.
Sometimes I need a way to count a selected group of text. Usually, it's to see if it's long enough for a particular field.
If it was on a website, I would copy that text into BBEdit or another text editor. Then I would look at the status bar to see the number of words or length of the copied text.
There has to be a better way,
So I decided to create a LaunchBar action. It was really easy to do and a good task to brush up on my JavaScript skills.
Now when I need to get the information, I just follow these steps.
I get instant info on my selected text.
I figured other people may want to use this so I am making it publicly available.
Download the action. After downloading, double-click on the zip file to uncompress it. Then double click on the file to install in LaunchBar
This week LaunchBar did it's yearly update (Version 6/13). The update include many changes to various features of the application. You can read all about the latest changes in the LaunchBar Release Note.
One of the changes that I wanted to check out is this Action Change:
Updated and improved image conversion actions (rotate, flip, resize, compress, etc.). They are now better chainable with subsequent actions ' the resulting images can be immediately sent to another action.
These actions are best using "Instant Send." To use Instant Send, simply select an image and then click on the shift key twice. Now you have the power of LaunchBar in your hands.
Let's say that you need to flip an image:
To perform a compression, type in "Recompress." To Resize the image, type in "Resize." You can perform various actions to the same image.
The last task can be to airdrop the file to someone. Simply type in "air" and then
Just keep in mind when you perform these actions, the original image will be modified. If you want to do a comparison of the image, make a copy of the image.