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Merlin: How to update…

on 31. August 2009

Whenever a new Merlin version appears, Merlin will prompt you for an update. This can happen automatically on Merlin’s start up, or the next time you have defined in the preferences that the application should check.

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Written by Vicky Stamatopoulou
Vicky Stamatopoulou works at ProjectWizards. She contributes to the MacPM.net blog, Merlin user forums, or other web spaces of ProjectWizards. The content provided is about Merlin or Mac usage, documentation, AppleScripting, or customization. Google+

Merlin Server: How to update…

on 28. August 2009

Sharing your projects for remote, web or iPhone access is very easy and straight forwards. If you follow the simple steps described in the Quick Start Quide, everything works as expected, nice and silently.

When a new Merlin version appears, Merlin will prompt you for an update, but how to proceed for updating the Merlin Server? Surely you don’t want it causing additional traffic just for its checks. And you definitely do not like updating a server software during the active working times interrupting its service, or even have it done unattended.

So here is the recommended updating procedure for Merlin Server:

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Written by Vicky Stamatopoulou
Vicky Stamatopoulou works at ProjectWizards. She contributes to the MacPM.net blog, Merlin user forums, or other web spaces of ProjectWizards. The content provided is about Merlin or Mac usage, documentation, AppleScripting, or customization. Google+

Expanding the ‘Send To’ submenu of Merlin

on 12. August 2009

File > Send ToA very practical feature of Merlin is its “Send To” submenu.  It can extract information out of a Merlin file and send it to another application. Per default you find only the application “Billings” listed, but you can expand this submenu by creating your own AppleScripts.

To demonstrate how this works, we are going to tell Merlin to create automatically a PNG picture file of the current Gantt chart and to send it to the Preview.app

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Written by Vicky Stamatopoulou
Vicky Stamatopoulou works at ProjectWizards. She contributes to the MacPM.net blog, Merlin user forums, or other web spaces of ProjectWizards. The content provided is about Merlin or Mac usage, documentation, AppleScripting, or customization. Google+

WWDC: New iPhone, New MacBooks, Safari 4, and Snow Leopard

on 10. June 2009

It’s become a tradition for Apple to announce new products at the WWDC Developer conference. True to form, Apple did not disappoint this year with the unveiling of the new iPhone 3G S, iPhone 3.0 Software Update, updated MacBooks, Safari 4, and the unveiling of  Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Check out the Apple Press Releases for the official “word” or better yet, watch the  WWDC Keynote Address where all the action took place.

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Written by John Kranz