The Problem Chat tools are great for being able to work remotely, at least until you get bombarded by one chat after another. I’ve often wondered if I could come up with a way to track who my chats are with and how much time was spent chatting with each person. My initial attempts involved […]
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Applescript to periodically raise unsent Outlook replies to the foreground
I’ve had a particular problem starting replies in Outlook for Mac and then losing track of them or forgetting about them. This script is a fairly naive attempt at having such replies raised to the foreground. It doesn’t distinguish between a reply you’re reading and one you’re writing. It also won’t notice email that you’re […]
Applescripts to Mute or Unmute Lync
In preparation for hooking up Lync muting and unmuting to separate hotkeys, I wanted to make sure that my scripts no longer toggled the mute button, but only muted or unmuted. For that to work, I needed to retrieve the current state of the checkbox. set theCheckbox to checkbox 5 of splitter group 1 of […]
Toggling the mute button in Microsoft Lync for Mac via Applescript
Through liberal use of the dictionary for Microsoft Lync, the Accessibility Inspector, and a few web links, I’ve come up with this script which toggles the mute button in Lync for Mac. tell application “Microsoft Lync” activate end tell tell application “System Events” tell process “Microsoft Lync” repeat with aWindow in (get every window) set […]