Comments on: Quick Tip: Automator and Services in Snow Leopard

By: Scott Brown

Scott Brown — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:37:26 +0000

Yes but the Speech option doesn’t show up when you use Chrome. This is why I would like to create a Service as well.

By: Amagination

Amagination — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:26:54 +0000

I like opening PDFs in Preview because it’s fast — but sometimes Preview is not enough and I’d rather see the PDF in Acrobat instead? Is it possible to use Automator or other Mac functions so that in the open Preview document, I can click on services to “Open current document in Acrobat and close it in Preview”? Thanks.

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:57:44 +0000

[...] which also works really well, but having OS level integration is always nice. Snow Leopard has enhanced the integration of the automator services into the OS which makes it much easier to provide [...]

By: v3lvet

v3lvet — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:33:24 +0000

What happed to to “Save as Plug-In” in Snow Leopard? iCal no longer runs my scheduled workflows. Why did they remove this feature?

By: Bike4Life

Bike4Life — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:39:36 +0000

This bug has been driving me nuts and I have not been able to find an answer. I just keep find people with the same problem.

By: Allen Watson

Allen Watson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:35:36 +0000

I’ve watched the Sal Soghoian video about services and the one to locate an address in Google maps looks great! But I can’t find, anywhere, how to write such an Automator service. I can find the option to accept addresses (using data detectors), but I can’t figure out how to pass that address to Google maps. Any help?

By: Agnes Riley

Agnes Riley — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:19:04 +0000

Does anyone know why the “Find People with Birthdays” feature doesn’t produce any results on Snow Leopard? It brings up the Address Book and shows me the person with the birthday in the Smart Group, if there are any in them, but then it doesn’t produce results, so I cannot automate things further.

By: Life With Snow Leopard: One Month Later

Life With Snow Leopard: One Month Later — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:01:51 +0000

[...] new Automator is really amazing. I wrote about it already, and I stand by that article. Automator alone has been worth the upgrade fee for [...]

By: Mari Kaimo

Mari Kaimo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:26:28 +0000

Tm, I’ve found where they put Speech in Snow Leopard. It was a favorite service of mine as well. They’ve actually made it much easier to use than before. Simply highlight the text you want read then right-click. One of the options offered there is Speech. :)
Way to go, Apple!

By: St. Clair Software Blog » Blog Archive » Move Items Contextual Menu for Snow Leopard

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:51:52 +0000

[...] menu plugins are dead in Snow Leopard, replaced by the revamped Services system. A user recently contacted me because he wanted to replicate the “Move Items” [...]