Archive for 2010

August 27, 2010 0

Dial numbers (incl. conference bridges) with Skype via Launch Bar, Quick Silver or others

By Max in Work at JBoss

I’ve been pretty happy with my previous Service Apple script to dial a specific conference call bridge, but as I started having to use more it got too annoying to add a script per specific numbers. Now I’ve updated the script to be able to use directly from LaunchBar (or other launchers) as the dial [...]

July 31, 2010 0

Converting thousands of WMA files to MP3

By Max in Java

I’ve been using a Mac Mini for a while now to run my media center but recently I discovered that I actually had more than 8.000 songs in WMA format that iTunes silently ignores when importing. This blog is about how I managed to get that converted without too much fuzz. UI Conversion tools There [...]

July 11, 2010 3

Calling conference bridge numbers with Skype

By Max in Work at JBoss

I like Skype, but one of the features it has always lacked is a way to directly call into conference call bridges. With a little help from AppleScript I finally managed to make that happen: on run {input, parameters} set phone_number to “+1……” set dtmf to “1234567894#,*1234#” tell application “Skype” set active_call to send command [...]

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January 30, 2010 0

Migrating from Serendipity (s9y) to WordPress

By Max in Java

I migrated this blog from from Serendipity (s9y) to WordPress. It turned out to be pretty simple to import s9y posts to WordPress with the s9y importer, but making sure the old links to posts and feeds turned out to be a bit trickier. I found a blog post that outlined how to use .htaccess to solve [...]