Andreas Amann's Freeware
Here is a list of applications I wrote for MacOS. To get additional information about any of these applications and in order to download them, click the application's icon below. You can download and use the applications free of charge - however, donations for support and future development are very much appreciated.
Mail Scripts
Even though the Mail application included with MacOS X is a great program, it has some serious shortcomings in its implementation. Thankfully both, Mail and Address Book have large AppleScript dictionaries which allow almost every aspect of the programs to be scripted.
Mail Scripts is a collection of scripts that try to fill this gap - among others, it includes scripts to archive mail messages, filter sent messages, sent messages at a later time, and export addresses into text files. All scripts are AppleScript Studio applications with a complete UI and are localized into various languages.
To read more about the scripts and to download the current version, go to the
Mail Scripts page
Mail Scripts 2.2.3 has been named as one of the "60 Must-Have Utilities for Next to Nothing (or Nothing at All)" in the November 2004 edition of MacWorld and received a rating of 3.5 mice!
Mail Scripts 2.2.1 has been named as one of the "25 Terrific Tools - All-purpose utilities that every Mac owner should know about" in the August 2004 edition of MacWorld!
Mail Scripts 1.3.7 has been included on The VersionTracker Editors' Picks CD Vol. #1!
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Eudora Mailbox Cleaner
Eudora Mailbox Cleaner is a simple drag'n'drop application which helps you migrating your mail and related data between different client programs. Contrary to most other solutions, it preserves message status flags (read, replied, …) and re-attaches attachments Eudora stripped from incoming messages. It currently supports migrating the following information:
| Source Application | Target Application | Messages | Addresses | Filters |
| Eudora (MacOS or Windows) | Apple Mail | • | • | • |
| Eudora (MacOS or Windows) | Thunderbird | • | • | |
| Eudora 日本語 (Japanese Version on MacOS) | Apple Mail | • | • | • |
| Eudora 日本語 (Japanese Version on MacOS) | Thunderbird | • | • | |
| Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail (MacOS, Windows, or Linux) | Apple Mail | • | | |
To read more about the application and to download the current version, go to the Eudora Mailbox Cleaner page
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Dashboard Widgets
My first widget came out of personal necessity - as I have not found a
Traffic widget with well-presented and up-to-date information for my area, I decided to write my own (and try to pick up some Javascript on the way). The widget uses the maps from Sigalert.com and allows you to watch live traffic maps for most of Southern California.
After having written individual sports widgets (with live scores and standings) for baseball, basketball, football, and hockey I decided to combine them all into one single widget, the
Sports Fan widget.
The widget currently supports
Baseball (MLB and minor leagues),
Basketball (NBA and NCAA College),
Football (NFL and NCAA College Division I-A), and
Hockey (NHL).
For more information about the widgets and download links, go to the
Dashboard Widgets page
Miscellaneous AppleScripts
Over the course of writing Mail Scripts, I learned a good deal about the quirks and features of AppleScript in general as well as relating to Mail. In addition to the suite of AppleScript Studio applications released a Mail Scripts, I also write a few other small scripts. Since they have no nice interface, are not localized into anything other than English, and might not work on system 10.3.x like Mail Scripts, I decided to not package them with Mail Scripts but rather release them as individual scripts.
The scripts highlight some less-used features of some of the AppleScript dictionaries and will hopefully be helpful to others to figure out how to do certain things which weren't all that obvious to me on the first try.
To read more about the individual scripts and download them, go to the
AppleScript page
Eudora vCard Export
Eudora stores its nicknames in a format which cannot be shared with other applications.
Eudora vCard Export converts nicknames to vCards which can then easily be imported into other programs (Mac OS X Address Book, Palm Desktop 4, Entourage X …) or moved to your iPod.
To read more about the application and to download the current version, go to the
Eudora vCard Export page
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