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Merge PDFs Natively With A Right-Click In OS X

Merge PDFs Natively With A Right-Click In OS X

UPDATE 2020-05-23: I removed the Get selected Finder items, which was causing duplicates (see comments). I also updated it with screenshots from macOS Catalina. I updated the post to reflect all these changes. UPDATE: If you installed this script today (2016-08-15), you may need to update it. I added a

Convert DOCX to PDF Natively With A Right-Click

Convert DOCX to PDF Natively With A Right-Click

Microsoft Office for OS X is usually very sluggish and slow. This is one reason I don’t like working with DOCs or DOCXs in OS X. Yes, you can easily view the document using QuickLook (pressing the Space bar while the file is highlighted), but if you actually want

Make Animated GIFs In OS X With A Right-click

Make Animated GIFs In OS X With A Right-click

UPDATE 2020-05-23: I updated the post with instructions and screenshots for newer versions of macOS. The biggest thing to note is to remove the "Get selected Finder items" task. Create animated GIFs from the OS X Finder in just seconds. It only takes a few minutes to set up and

Give Your Mac A Voice-activated Self Destruct Command (Just Like Star Trek)

Give Your Mac A Voice-activated Self Destruct Command (Just Like Star Trek)

OS X Yosemite has a new feature called Dictation Commands. This allows you to press Function key twice, speak your command, and then have the computer do something for you. While there are some useful built in ones, it is much more interesting to make your own. In this example,

Automator: Scale Down Large Images From the Contextual-menu

Automator seems to be one of those unknown or ignored Apple-made apps. But it is very powerful and can save you a lot of time. It has also been part of OS X for a long time. PurposeTo save time by automatically scaling down images (while keeping the original file)