Better Display in Marked.app Service

Here is a better version of the Display in Marked.app service which does not need any customization. This version which uses a shell script in Automator rather than an Automator action + AppleScript was originally written by Brett Terpstra, creator of Marked.app.

Posterous seems to have problems with my attached zip-file, so I have hosted it off site: →Marked.workflow.zip

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Display selected text in Marked

A side effect of posting the previous post was that I wrote a OS X Service that takes the selected text, saves it as a temporary file and opens that temporary file in Marked.

I have attached the Service. Just put it in ~/Library/Services

Click here to download:
Display_in_Marked.workflow.zip (68 KB)

Update 2011-09-05: There is a new version available which you do not have to customize here.

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Detect displays via command line

When I get to work, I connect my Macbook to a second monitor. However, in my case, if the monitor is not switched on, the Macbook cannot detect its ID (which lets it load the last set resolution, desktop background and physical arrangement). What I would have to do is to open the Display preference pane and click “Detect displays” which is quite annoying. Today I found a command line tool (which does the same thing), so now I just have to shift-cmd-enter to bring up my DTerm and type detectdisplays.

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