Better Hazel rules for renaming & sorting TV Shows
Piotr Gajos pointed me to these excellent tutorials on MacTalk.com that convert, rename and sort downloaded TV shows into the appropriate folders using Hazel.
I didn’t want to convert anything or manually add the metadata as I use Plex to watch them rather than importing them into iTunes, so I just used the part that sorts and renames the TV shows so that they appear in Plex. I tweaked them a little to how I wanted them renaming and also made it all work using Hazel only (where the other ones also use Automator for some of the renaming).
They’re much better than the old ones I created as it’s not necessary to create separate rules for each TV show. It should recognise any TV show by the name, copy it to a folder to be renamed and then automatically sort them into their appropriate sub-folders in your TV Shows folder. It even works with new TV shows and creates the necessary folders in your TV Shows folder.
The rules aren’t available to download from the tutorials on MacTalk.com. So after remaking them myself I thought I’d export them so that other people could download them, and not have to remake them again themselves. (I’m using the latest beta of Hazel 3 on Lion. If you’re using Hazel 2 or earlier they might not work.)
To use them first download these rules and import them into Hazel for your Downloads folder.
Create a folder somewhere for copying the TV shows to, so that they can be renamed and then sorted into your TV Shows folder (mine’s called “Media Sorting”).
Double click on the “Copy TV show to Media Sorting folder” rule and change the folder at the bottom to point to your own folder for sorting the TV shows.
Then download these rules and import them into Hazel for media sorting folder.
Edit the top 2 “Sort to…” rules to make them point to your own TV shows folder.
That should be it.
If you find any TV shows with different naming formats that aren’t picked up by Hazel you should be able to create some new rules to work with them. Or let me know and I’ll see if I can get it working with them.
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Homebrew AirDrop
I like the idea of AirDrop but wanted to be able to send files to my other Macs without having to open the AirDrop Finder window, without having to accept receiving the files on the other Macs, and without the Macs having to be turned on (or awake).
With this you drop files onto the droplet (app) on the Desktop or placed in the Dock.
It then shows a dialogue window asking where the files should be copied to.
You select a button and it copies the files to a specific folder in Dropbox. Once the files have synced over to the other Macs, Hazel (running on each Mac) moves them to the Desktop.
Put one of the “Copy to Macs” droplets on the Desktop (or wherever you like, and drag it to the Dock).
Place the “Homebrew AirDrop” folder in your Dropbox folder.
Open one of the “Copy to Macs” droplets in AppleScript Editor and you can change the name of the buttons to whatever you like. If you do this then also change the names for them at 2.a and 3.a to match the button names.
If you want to move the “Homebrew AirDrop” folder to another location in Dropbox then change the path in the AppleScript (2.b and 3.b, (and 4.b. if you use the 3 button version)).
Then on the other Macs open Hazel, add the folders (~/Dropbox/Homebrew AirDrop/Send to Mac 1, or Send to Mac 2) and create a rule similar to the screenshot.
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Olivier Charavel: Thoughts About Sparrow UI
INTRODUCTIONI began writing this blog post a week after Sparrow 1.0 release so I’ll talk about this version only. Minor updates released a little later don’t really deal with the UI, so most (if not all) of my points are still valid. Also, this blog post is meant to express my own opinion…
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Update Dropbox with the latest beta from their forum using Hazel (after downloading the DMG file)
If you regularly download the latest beta of Dropbox from their forum then you can use this script to update the app from the downloaded DMG file using Hazel. 
If your system HD is called something different to “Macintosh HD” you’ll need to change that in the script.
If you use a custom icon for Dropbox (so it shows up in Growl messages) you can get it to update that also with this version of the script (fill in your name for your user/home folder in the script).
(I don’t really know AppleScript so if anyone knows of a better way to do this please let me know.)
Reusable Bits: Say Hello to Snipe
Over the past few weeks I’ve taken it upon myself to learn Python. Learning a new programming language is fun and all, but it requires a ton of work and a ton of research. All of this research has left me with a lot of open tabs and windows that look a bit like this:
Or if you’re a crazy…
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