Here you find some more Actions for downloading. All Actions are free to be configured for your special needs or may serve as templates for your own Actions.
All Actions need TurboTool Version 2.1 at least. So please download the latest version.
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Download instructions
Depending on your Browser you have to open the context menu on the links below, to download the actions to your Desktop. From there you may double-click them to get them imported into TurboTool. Please note that TurboTool expects a Action Group to be selected, where the new action will be put into.
The Actions Archive
| Cool Stuff |
The place for, errr, ... |
| Background Saver |
Show Screensaver in background (until 'Stop Action'). One of the very cool features of Aqua! Your configured screen saver (Preferences) will be shown behind all windows and icons! Try one of the OpenGL savers! |
| Asks for Input |
Simple (shell) examples which asks the user for input |
| Show man as HTML |
Asks the user for the name of a Unix command and creates its man(ual) page, formatted into HTML. Only '/usr/share/man' is searched, though. |
| Show man as Text |
Asks the user for the name of a Unix command and creates its man(ual) page in plain text format. |
| Filter |
All actions to be used from the Services menu TurboTool Filter The selected text will be processed by TurboTool - the result will then replace the selection. |
| All lowercase |
Example for sed's transpose command: replace capital characters with their lower counterpart. |
| Tag Selection bold |
Surround the selected text by <b>...</b>, which means bold in HTML. |
| All UPPERCASE |
Example for sed's transpose command: replace characters with their CAPITAL counterpart. |
| Rot 13 Filter |
Simple rot13 algorithm using sed's transform 'y'. This means that every character is replaced by its 13th 'neighbor', e.g. 'a' by 'n', 'b' by 'm', ... |
| Decipher Rot 13 |
Simple rot13 decipher algorithm using sed's transform 'y'. This means that every character is replaced by its 13th 'left neighbor', e.g. 'a' by 'n', 'b' by 'm', ... |
| Prefix lines with # |
Small sample for a small Search&Replace filter. Here: add '# ' to beginning of lines |
| Service |
All actions to be used from the Services menu TurboTool The selected text will be used as input to TurboTool - the result will mostly be presented in TurboTool. |
| Search String in Google |
Use the built-in command openURL to pipe a selected string as a search string to Google. To use this one, select a text in another Cocoa application and call "TurboTool" from Services menu. |
| ImageMagick |
(needs ImageMagick to be installed: download ~12.7 MB) |
| Image Info |
Prints image information for several formats, but not for icns |
| Frame Image |
Creates a frame around the image. By default this is colored gray. |
| Blur Image |
Blur dropped image and open in default application. A gaussian operator is used with radius and sigma of 2 |
| Sharpen Image |
Sharpen dropped image and open in default application. A gaussian operator is used with radius and sigma of 2 |
| Misc on files |
Drop the respective file onto the FileWell and Perform Action. |
| Tail File |
Shows the (ever changing) tail of the dropped file. Switch on the top atomic to try this with '/var/tmp/console.log', which is the systems default log file. |
| MD5 checksum |
Show the MD5 checksum of the dropped file (whatever this means ;-) |
| Open in vi |
Open the respective file with 'vi', a text editor for the Unix people. |
| List content of Package |
Shows file list of dropped software package. It requires a bom file, which is not part of every .pkg wrapper, unfortunately. lsbom, found in MacUP 09/2002 |
| Developer |
Some actions for developers or those who wants to become ... |
| Remove CVS entries |
Remove all CVS folders somewhere inside dropped folders (e.g. nib or app wrapper) before shipping your product. |
| Create openable nib |
Some nib files in system applications are not openable by Interface Builder. This script shows a little bit complex example to workaround this. For the curious: 'nib' comes from 'NeXT interface builder' |
| Open all Info.plist inside |
Find and open all 'Info.plist' files inside the dropped folder or application wrapper. |
| Misc |
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| Read vCard |
This is an example how to read vCards (.vcf) dropped from Address Book. The interesting fields are found using sed and awk. |
| Troubleshooting |
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| Repair Droplet |
Droplets from TurboTool before version 2.2 may not work when double-clicked. Perform this action on the droplet in question and it will be repaired. |
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Last update: March 5, 2003 |