Mac Kindergarten

In a previous post we looked at Automator and how it can help us to automate tasks (such as a copy-and-paste installation).

A very short while ago, we also looked at how to create a todo system, based on color labels in Finder.

Today we will use these concepts and expand them using Butler, so we will create a file dispatcher for Finder, looking something like this:

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Previously, we looked at how to install custom QuickLook plugins, so we can preview more kinds of file types using this awesome feature of Mac OS X Leopard.

Today we will learn how to automate this process of copying a file into a certain location. So we only need to click the file, select the action and it’s installed.

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