Movies in QuickTime

This application will let you select several .mov files to play in QuickTime in sequential order. First, you will be asked to select movie files. Next, you can select the viewing size for the movies and whether to display them on a primary or secondary display. QuickTime will open and the first selected movie will play. When the movie is finished or when you close that movie file, the next movie will automatically open and play.

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Create Image Thumbnails

This application will let you create thumbnail images for any photos or images. After the thumbnails are created, they are opened with Preview.

First, you will be asked to select images. Next, you can set the size and extension for the thumbnails. After that, the images will be opened with the Preview application.

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Browse Movies in Safari

This application will let you view QuickTime compatible movies in Safari. You can select one or several movie files and they will be opened in Safari. Afterwards, the movies will be played, one after the other, until the last movie has ended. You can stop the playing of any movie by clicking in the Safari window. This application works with Mac OS X 10.5 and Safari 3. It has not been tested with Safari 4.

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Play Songs I Want

This application will let you select songs you want from your iTunes collection, adjust settings for the songs and add the songs to a new playlist. iTunes will then play the songs from the new playlist, using the options you selected.

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Add Song Info to Multiple Songs

This application lets you add information to multiple songs at one time. For example, you can change the genre for several songs when you run the application.

First, you will be asked to select a playlist in iTunes. Next, you can enter information for all of the songs in the playlist. You can then add all of the songs to an existing playlist or create a new playlist for the songs. Note that you need to manually put a check in the box for the information you want to add or the application will not change the data in iTunes.

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Add to iPhoto

This application lets you select multiple images to add to an album in iPhoto or you can create a new album for the images. You can also have the application delete the source images after they are imported into iPhoto.

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Batch Spotlight Comments - Files

Select multiple Finder files and you can add the same Spotlight comment to all of the files with this application.

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Back Up, Archive & Burn

With this application, you can select multiple folders and the contents of all the selected folders will be copied to a new folder. A compressed archive file will be created from the new folder and you can then burn the archive file to a CD or DVD.

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URL Links to TextEdit

This application will extract links on a Safari web page and create a list of the links in a TextEdit document. Note that if you have a document already open in TextEdit, the application will append the links to the open document rather than creating a new document with the links.

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PDF Contact Sheet

This application will take any images you select and create and save a PDF contact sheet of all the images. You can then view the contact sheet in Preview or Adobe Reader. This is an easy and quick way to view several images at one time.

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Create Audio Email

Create an email message in TextEdit and launch this Automator application. Your message will be converted to an audio file and attached to an email message that you can send to a friend. The audio file is saved in .aiff format so it will be a large file if your message is long. This application is best for short messages you want to send as audio files.

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Combine PDF Files

Do you sometimes have small PDF files that you would like to combine into one file? With this application, you locate the PDF files to join and Automator creates one file for you and then asks you to select a program for viewing the file.

This is my favorite and most used Automator application that I've created. I often download several PDF files that I need for a blog post and it saves me time and paper when I can combine and print them as one file instead of as several separate files.

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