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Comment on How To Add Time In Excel Or Numbers by Jonathan Laliberte

Jonathan Laliberte — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:24:04 +0000

Hey Brian. Did you figure this out? BTW, if you are using iTunes, it will tell you the length of a playlist at the bottom of the window, that might be an easier way to figure it out.
The easiest way to do this would be to enter the length of the song in in seconds, then at the bottom have a total of all the songs, in seconds. Then you can set a cell to be (#seconds/60) to find out how many minutes it would be.

Comment on How To Add Time In Excel Or Numbers by Brian D. Wallace

Brian D. Wallace — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:46:53 +0000

I’m trying to make a spreadsheet that adds up the running time of songs. I’m a DJ and I’m getting a volunteer radio show, so I’d like to type in my song selections and see how long the show would be. I’m new to the Mac and I’m using Numbers. Thanks.

Comment on Restore Previous Display Window Positions AppleScript by Jonathan Laliberte

Jonathan Laliberte — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:32:50 +0000

It may be possible, but I believe it would be quite the task. The current script solves most of the problem, but you do have to manually configure it.

Comment on Restore Previous Display Window Positions AppleScript by Kyle Hayes

Kyle Hayes — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:58:29 +0000

Thank you so much for this script! It is precisely what I was looking for. I’m even wondering if it could be expanded to loop through all the open windows and persist their position and size.

Thanks!

Comment on How To Add Time In Excel Or Numbers by SteveINtheUKok

SteveINtheUKok — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing that, saved me time in searching through functions, etc.

Comment on Move All Windows To Your Main Screen… by Recovering off screen windows in Mac OS X | Tony Amoyal

Recovering off screen windows in Mac OS X | Tony Amoyal — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:46:55 +0000

[...] Recovering off screen windows in Mac OS X By Tony | Published: February 18, 2010 I constantly lose windows on OS X. I think it’s because sometimes I am connected to an external monitor so OS X gets confused when I am not. I found a great solution online that I would like to re-post here so that I never have to look for it again and I can help share it with the world. All credit goes to the author of the original article. [...]

Comment on Move All Windows To Your Main Screen… by Cflex

Cflex — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:53:26 +0000

I tested this with a 3 display setup on Snow Leopard. I was hoping it would gather all windows on all 3 displays to my center display (my main display) where my dock resides. It didn’t work for me until I replaced the Finder tell block with the “set_screen” block as mentioned in this post above:

Jonathan Laliberte :
AFAIK, there is no way to get the size of the main display with Applescript (not easily anyway). The current Finder block gets the size of the desktop, which is going to be the size of all connected displays. The following change would accomplish what you are asking for though:
At the top of the script, remove the Finder tell block:
tell application “Finder”
set _b to bounds of window of desktop
set screen_width to item 3 of _b
set screen_height to item 4 of _b
end tell
replace it with:
set screen_width to
set screen_height to
So, if your screen resolution is 1440×900, you would have
set screen_width to 1440
set screen_height to 900

After doing that, it works for me perfectly. Any windows placed anywhere on my three displays will all magically transport themselves to the screen that contains my dock.

FYI, I found this exact same script (verbatim) on another blog. http://www.leonamarant.com/2008/04/02/how-to-get-off-screen-windows-back-on-your-mac-os-x-v105/#comments

I’m not sure who the real author is, but that blog didn’t have the solution to modify the script for 3 displays, and the blog here did.

So thank you to the original author, whomever that may be. I’m very happy now.

Comment on Restore Previous Display Window Positions AppleScript by Jonathan Laliberte

Jonathan Laliberte — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:34:15 +0000

I don’t doubt that there is a way to make it spaces-aware, unfortunately I do not use spaces and really lack the time to look in to this. Google around a bit, and maybe check out http://macscripter.net

Comment on Restore Previous Display Window Positions AppleScript by Chris Coleman

Chris Coleman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:53:30 +0000

This seems like exactly what I need, and it seems to be working for me — mostly. It seems like even if an application is running, it throws an error unless the application is in the current Space. Is there a way to make this Spaces-aware?

Comment on Restore Previous Display Window Positions AppleScript by Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:08:34 +0000

Thanks so much, this is a huge help! Mostly b/c I am so anal about my windows all being in a perfect position… I just wish Apple would add a listener into the finder that remembered the position with multiple displays!