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Automator-Service to add Task to Wunderlist

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I started using the fantastic app “Wunderlist” for my personal Task Management on the Mac, of course with synchronisation to iPhone and the web.

Before I used to write all my To-dos simply into the Stickies.app – which worked, but was not too flexible. While migrating all pending Tasks from my notes, I realized that I’d love to be able to use the right-click-contextmenu to send the current text selection to Wunderlist. As I have done similiar things already for image manipulations, etc. using an Automator Service, I knew where to start for my new requirement :)

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How to prevent somebody using your Domain for sending SPAM Mails

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Spam E-Mail not deliveredI really enjoyed the possibility to register new accounts or subscriptions for different services under a dedicated e-mail address. But recently I noticed that I receive regularly “Delivery Failures” and “Out of office replies” for mails I have never sent. It was obvious that somebody started to use my domain for sending SPAM e-mails to various addresses – and for each recipient who was not reachable or had an auto-reply activated, an according message returned to my inbox. Just as perfectly summarized by the Open SPF Project:

Today, nearly all abusive e-mail messages carry fake sender addresses. The victims whose addresses are being abused often suffer from the consequences, because their reputation gets diminished and they have to disclaim liability for the abuse, or waste their time sorting out misdirected bounce messages.

This all was because I had a feature enabled which redirects anything sent to any e-mail address @mydomain to my personal e-mail account. This is not only annoying, but also your domain could get “black listed” as soon as some big SPAM protection services realize that this type of mails are being sent from your domain – resulting in blocking any future mail you send from it, even the ones you really did send yourself.

Thanks to a very detailed forum post on Digital Point I got some ideas how I can (quickly) prevent receiving the mentioned messages and – hopefully – not getting my domain black listed. I summarized below the actions I took, so this might also help anybody who runs across the same issues with a personal domain.

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OS X: Create ZIP archives without hidden System files

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ZIP from Mac to Windows

It’s a common problem between Mac and Windows users, when you create a ZIP archive under Mac OS X, that it will contain a bunch of unwanted files, which you don’t want to have included in the archive. In OS X’s Finder you won’t notice that, because the Finder is hiding them from you. But they will show up on the Windows side after unzipping the archive.

OS X Standard ZIP Archive with hidden Files

Fortunately there is quite a simple and straight-forward solution for Mac OS X to create so called “Clean Archives”, using a predesigned Automator action.

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OS X: Delete single objects from Time Machine backups

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OS X Time Machine IconI already posted a step-by-step guide on how to delete old backups from your Time Machine drive in order to free up space. What I did not mention in that article was how you can delete single files & folders from within backups, if you want to have even more free space available for future backups.

The steps to do so are slightly different – especially the fact that you do not navigate to your backup drive in Finder, but use the Time Machine application instead.

Here are the instructions, if you want to delete specific files & folders from existing Time Machine backups:
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Project Server 2010: Export Status Report Responses using Excel

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ProjectServer2010 LogoMicrosoft didn’t spend too much time on the “Status Reports” module in Project Server 2010, leaving it with many disadvantages and even a somewhat not so intuitive handling. This affects especially the extraction of Responses to Status Reports – which you can only export to a non-editable Word template.

Having not found any better solution on the internet for improving the retrieval of Staus Report responses (except a scheme of the required tables), I decided to make my own SQL-Query to do so.

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Project Server 2010: How-to add Notifications for your Users

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ProjectServer2010 LogoUnfortunately Microsoft’s Project Server 2010 doesn’t allow an administrator to set default settings for Notifications for all Users. They basically would have to go into their “Personal Settings > Settings for my Alerts and Reminders” themself and set the notification settings for Tasks, Status Reports, etc.

And as we all know: the User’s won’t do it.

So I had to figure out a way how I can “force” my Users to receive certain Notifications. After various Google Search Queries I had to realize, that there is no other way than digging into the database directly (although NOT SUPPORTED BY MICROSOFT!) and add the reminders for my Users manually (if this is not true, please let me know!!).

  • Affected Database:
    • ProjectServer_Published
  • Required Tables:
    • dbo.MSP_REMINDER_SUBSCRIPTION
    • dbo.MSP_REMINDER_DEFINITION
    • dbo.MSP_RESOURCES

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