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30Boxes + Firefox + Address Book for MacAugust 29th, 2006 by Narendra |
A little AppleScript and you can do quick Buddy lookups from your Mac Address Book. From Applications > AppleScript, open your Script Editor and paste in
using terms from application “Address Book”
on action property
return “email”
end action property
on action title for p with e
return “30 Boxes Buddy Page”
end action title
on should enable action for p with e
return true
end should enable action
on perform action for p with e
set params to “”
if value of e is not missing value then set params to value of e & ” ”
try
tell application “Firefox”
OpenURL thirtyBoxes & params
activate
end tell
on error
display dialog “You must have Firefox installed to use this plug-in.”
end try
end perform action
end using terms from
Save the file as “30 Boxes Buddy Page.scpt” and then open your Address Book. You should be able to CTRL (or Right) Click on a contact’s email address and then choose “30 Boxes Buddy Page” — it will open Firefox and presto, up to the minute information.
Tags: 30boxes, firefox, applescript, addressbook, macosx
30 Boxes!
August 30th, 2006 at 5:17 am
Hm. Does not work for me. I get an error about the ‘application “Adress Book”‘. It would be nice to have it somewhere as a regular download so that there are no copy&paste mistakes possible and to make sure that somebody already has compiled it once and that it is working.
Cheers,
Arvid