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Making a Symbolic Link or a New Text File from the Finder

I was reading through some instructions on the Dropbox wiki for syncing things outside of the Dropbox folder and ran across a useful system service for Snow Leopard.

Nick Zitzmann’s Symbolic Linker provides a way to create symbolic links from within the Finder. There have been a few times where I found myself wanting to create a symbolic link from outside the Terminal, so I gave it a try. It puts an item in the “Services” sub-menu that appears in the Finder’s application menu, and it also shows up in contextual menus and the “Action” button in the Finder toolbar (the one with the gear icon).

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Centering Windows in Mac OS X with AppleScript

I can be a little OCD with the windows on my screen. I tend to line them up at the edges or try to center them in the display. Maybe it’s a bad habit, but it’s one I’m probably not going to shake any time soon, so the least I can do is try to avoid wasting too much time on it.

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