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April 9, 2008

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Boss around your Mac via email

Posted Apr. 9, ’08, 12:41 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Tips

appleScript1.jpgNot all of us are power-hungry management-types who can out of boredom order people around through email. I’M of course not speaking of any one of my awesome bosses, but I imagine these types of kingpins are quite common.

Well, thanks to Cory Bohon at TUAW, you can learn how to exercise some level of control, in the form of sending various commands to your Mac via email and watching it submit to your every demand without defiance. How do you amass such magnificent authority, you ask? Simple, my autocratically-inclined friend: through AppleScripts and Mail rules.

Bohon demonstrates how to use email and AppleScripts to shutdown, restart, and put your Mac to sleep, but you can make Mail trigger any script with any function. Check his post for the full how-to, and learn how to flex your dictatorial muscle.


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