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Mobile Mac Secrets: Automator for Travellers


By Daniel Dwase

Automator, Tiger's automation tool, can be such a valuable traveller's aid. It can help you take care of all sorts of little travel-related chores. Here are a couple of Automator workflows that take advantage of the iPod to help mobile Mac users. They're also examples of the kinds of things Automator can do, so feel free to mix and match them and experiment further.

Copy documents to your iPod

It's every traveller's nightmare: losing your laptop. You can alleviate that anxiety a bit by saving backup copies of your most important documents (Keynote presentations, Google maps of your itinerary, and so on) on your iPod. The bonus is that you can also review those documents without firing up your laptop (as long as the documents are legible on the iPod's screen).

To create the workflow, open Automator and assemble the actions indicated in the order given. (If, for example, a step starts with "PDF: Render PDF Pages as Images, find the PDF' library of actions in Automator's left-most pane. Then find the ‘Render PDF Pages As Images’ action in the middle pane and drag it over to the right). Configure each action as specified.

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