


Choose a new directory, like for example Pictures -> NasaPictures.Īnd finally add a “Set Desktop Picture” action. Next drag in a “Get Image URLs From Articles” action and select “linked from the articles” from the drop-down.Ĭhoose a “Download URLs” action and drag that to the workflow. The desktop image settings you have will remain, so set the image to cycle through all the images in your new directory every thirty minutes for a background slideshow.ĭo as you did just now and open Automator, but this time choose to create an Application workflow.Īdd a “Get Specified URLs” action and give it the URL: Using RSS feeds and Automator, you can make an application that when you run it seeks out the RSS feed for NASA picture of the day, downloads all the pictures from the feed and sets the top one as your desktop image. This is a great one if you get easily bored with your desktop image. If they do, you will get something like the following output: Some apps don’t recognise the text is selected for various reasons, but many apps will. Save as “Word Counter MTE,” and the next time you want to count words in any app, select the words and go to the “Application -> Services” menu, and one of the selections will be “Word Counter MTE” (in supported apps). On run set theWords to count words of (input as string )ĭisplay dialog (“There are " & theWords & " words in this selection.
