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Creating tons of tasks for keeping track of the series you’re watching

Things HIMYM

Since I started watching “How I Met Your Mother” somewhen the last two weeks I was wondering how I should keep track of the episodes I’ve already seen. So I spent a few minutes googling. I assume there are some web services or apps that do that for you. But I neither wanted to sign up for another service nor did I want another app for that.

“Why not add all the episodes to Things?”, I thought. That would make perfect sense for me since Things is the application I’m using for all the tasks one can tick off. Yeah, I love making lists and ticking off things to see the progress I made.

I remembered Things is fully scriptable so I decided to build a quick and dirty AppleScript to batch-create all these tasks. :) Hope this helps someone.

tell application “Things”

repeat with theSeasonValue from 1 to 6

repeat with theEpisodeValue from 1 to 22

set epsiodeIdentifier to (“S” & theSeasonValue as string) & “E” & theEpisodeValue as string

set newToDo to make new to do with properties {name:”watch HIMYM ” & epsiodeIdentifier} at end of area “Personal”

end repeat

end repeat

end tell

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hare33 asked: when using your dell 1320, do you need to have your PC on, or can you rely on the network server in the printer.
I mean, the cool part about printing from the ipad is, that you don't have to go an turn on your pc

I did not try it without the computer being turned on yet. But since the configuration happened on that machine I would guess that it wouldn’t work without it.

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Using AirPrint with every (?) printer

Since Apple announced that we’d be able to print directly from our iOS devices once 4.2 arrives I was pretty excited to get my hands on the new version. Equally disappointed I was when I first saw the list of supported printers.

Today I ran across a German blogpost which describes how to get every printer working with AirPrint by running an Apple Script and re-installing the printer. You can download the script here. Follow these steps once you have downloaded Simone’s script:

  1. Run the script by double clicking it
  2. Authorize as an administrator
  3. Restart your Mac*
  4. Remove the printer you want to make available
  5. Re-install it and make it accessible on the network
  6. That’s it!

I tried it with a DELL 1320c at the office and an HP Officejet J6400 at home and it worked like a charm with both of them!

Thank you, Simone!

*) You don’t need to neccessarily restart your Mac. It’s ok to run

sudo killall cupsd

in Terminal.app. 

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think .: What Makes A Good Bug Report?

mhay68:

A good bug report is one that describes the problem well enough that someone familiar with the project can understand and act on that bug report without talking to the person who wrote it.

That’s the line. Anything less is simply not good enough.

Any group that develops software needs to…