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Using AppleScript To Size A Window To 16×9 On MacOS

As part of an automation workflow I’m building around Elgato Stream Deck, I needed a way to size an application window to 16×9. This would be one component of a workflow that would allow me to launch an app, size the window, position it on the screen, and hide all the other windows with the push of a Stream Deck button.

The easy part was the Stream Deck configuration. The hard part was the AppleScript–I had never written one.

The Script

This AppleScript is crude, but it’s a start. I explain what the script is doing using inline comments, which in AppleScript are noted by the leading double-hyphens, although pound signs and (* *) delimiters for multi-line comments are also supported.

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-- SET VARIABLES
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-- theApp = name of the app MacOS will act upon
set theApp to "ApplicationName"

-- appWidth = how many pixels wide we'd like the window
-- appHeight is calculated as a 16:9 ratio of "appWidth"
-- Note that "as integer" means decimal portions of a 
-- calculation are truncated.
set appWidth to 1600
set appHeight to appWidth / 16 * 9 as integer

-- screenWidth = display pixel width
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Fortinet Firewall Update Tames 5G, IoT ‘Elephant Flows’

The company claims the appliance is capable of simultaneously juggling millions of connections per...

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3 Ways to Learn More About Intrinsic Security at RSAC 2020

Last year, we introduced powerful new innovations that make networking more secure and intrinsic to your infrastructure. These innovations included our Service-defined Firewall and introduction of optional distributed intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS).

At RSAC 2020, VMware is making it easy to learn how intrinsic security can benefit your business with opportunities to engage us in 1:1 conversations, view demos and more.

Here are 3 ways that you can learn more about intrinsic security at RSAC 2020.

1.) Join Tom Gillis’ Breakout session:  Unshackle Legacy Security Restrictions for 2020 and Beyond

Tom Gillis, SVP/GM of Networking and Security at VMware, will be speaking at the RSA Conference in a breakout session. His session covers data center and branch security approaches and will feature demos across the VMware security portfolio including NSX Data Center, VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer, and VMware SD-WAN.

Be sure to reserve a seat for his session!

2.) Meet with VMware Security Executives

Schedule an exclusive conversation with a security executive to discuss how intrinsic security for your network and workloads can enable proactive security that’s easy to operationalize.

Meeting time slots are limited so request a meeting now.

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Daily Roundup: Dell Sells RSA, Bags $2B

Dell bagged $2B with the sale of RSA; AT&T shared threat intelligence; and Orange teamed up...

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ExtraHop Extends Network Detection and Response to IoT

It becomes increasingly important as operators rollout 5G networks and enterprises connect billions...

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BrandPost: What You Need to Know about NVMe-oF™

The era of NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) is quickly approaching. By 2025, most data centers will likely have adopted NVMe-oF for some part of their architecture1. Accessing data from a shared storage system will be essentially as fast and as low latency as accessing data from direct attached storage (DAS). The year 2025 seems like a lifetime from now but the reality is it will be here before you know it.Here are some of the top questions we hear from customers about this emerging technology. In this blog, our data center experts offer their responses, and point you to additional resources for understanding both the NVMe™ protocol and the fabric that stitches it together.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Stumbles, Fumbles, and Pratfalls: Steps to Avoid When Future-Proofing Your WAN

When SD-WAN was introduced, it was widely seen as an MPLS alternative. Today just about any credible, Internet-based SD-WAN solution can be used to replace a regional MPLS network. The bigger question is what happens the day after you networked your regional offices.How will your SD-WAN deliver predictable application experience overseas or where Internet routing is unpredictable? How will your SD-WAN adapt to the cloud and mobile users, the new tenants of the modern enterprise? In short, understanding how your SD-WAN will accommodate the unpredictable is essential if you hope to future-proof your WAN.To read this article in full, please click here

Dell Sells RSA Security Biz for $2.075 Billion

The companies announced the deal a week before the annual RSA mega-cybersecurity conference kicks...

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Network Break 271: Global Espionage Agita Kicks Up A Notch; Forescout Gets Bought For $1.9 Billion

Take a Network Break! Global espionage tensions ratchet up between the United States and China, the CIA is revealed to have owned a company that sold doctored cryptography systems to allies and adversaries, VMware adjusts its licensing, and more tech news. Guest analysts Keith Townsend and Ned Bellavance step in for a vacationing co-host.

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Network Break 271: Global Espionage Agita Kicks Up A Notch; Forescout Gets Bought For $1.9 Billion

Take a Network Break! Global espionage tensions ratchet up between the United States and China, the CIA is revealed to have owned a company that sold doctored cryptography systems to allies and adversaries, VMware adjusts its licensing, and more tech news. Guest analysts Keith Townsend and Ned Bellavance step in for a vacationing co-host.

BrandPost: Performance Drives Innovation and Security Vendors Need to Keep Up

In 1969, the very first e-message was sent over the ARPANET from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's UCLA laboratory to a network node located at Stanford. That event kicked off a digital revolution that has utterly transformed our world. And ever since that first defining moment, the one question that has driven nearly all subsequent digital innovation has been: “How can we do this even faster?”We are still wrestling with that same challenge today. The latest advances in computing, such as edge device hyperconnectivity and the hyperscalability achievements of advanced data center architectures are the result of the desire to achieve better performance. Speed is the driving force behind the digital transformation of today’s business infrastructures. It enables access to critical data and resources, drives business efficiencies, scales application development, increases productivity, generates revenue, and accelerates ROI.To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco: 5G Will Power a Fraction of Mobile Connections By 2023

The vendor’s Annual Internet Report projects the average 5G speed will be 575 Mb/s by 2023.

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AT&T, Singtel, and Telefónica Share Threat Intel, Boost Customers’ Security

This anonymized data from the operators’ security operations centers and investigations is then...

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The Never-Ending "My Overlay Is Better Than Yours" Saga

I published a blog post describing how complex the underlay supporting VMware NSX still has to be (because someone keeps pretending a network is just a thick yellow cable), and the tweet announcing it admittedly looked like a clickbait.

[Blog] Do We Need Complex Data Center Switches for VMware NSX Underlay

Martin Casado quickly replied NO (probably before reading the whole article), starting a whole barrage of overlay-focused neteng-versus-devs fun.

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The Never-Ending “My Overlay Is Better Than Yours” Saga

I published a blog post describing how complex the underlay supporting VMware NSX still has to be (because someone keeps pretending a network is just a thick yellow cable), and the tweet announcing it admittedly looked like a clickbait.

[Blog] Do We Need Complex Data Center Switches for VMware NSX Underlay

Martin Casado quickly replied NO (probably before reading the whole article), starting a whole barrage of overlay-focused neteng-versus-devs fun.

IBM consolidates storage products under a single brand

IBM says it is consolidating its Storwize and the Flash Systems lines of storage products under a single family, the FlashSystem, that will span from entry level to advanced. It also announced a trio of all-flash storage products, spanning a range of use cases.Eric Herzog, chief marketing officer and vice president of worldwide storage channels for IBM storage, made the announcing in a pair of blog posts here and here. He noted that different organizations have different requirements for storage, and that storage vendors have traditionally responded with unique storage platforms to meet themTo read this article in full, please click here

IBM consolidates storage products under a single brand

IBM says it is consolidating its Storwize and the Flash Systems lines of storage products under a single family, the FlashSystem, that will span from entry level to advanced. It also announced a trio of all-flash storage products, spanning a range of use cases.Eric Herzog, chief marketing officer and vice president of worldwide storage channels for IBM storage, made the announcing in a pair of blog posts here and here. He noted that different organizations have different requirements for storage, and that storage vendors have traditionally responded with unique storage platforms to meet themTo read this article in full, please click here

Dell Reveals Servers, AI-Powered Software for the Edge

“We see the edge as really being defined not necessarily by a specific place or a specific...

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5 Hot network-automation startups to watch

With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic.Not only can automation help address these problems, they can also improve overall application-response time by anticipating and addressing looming congestion. Modern applications, such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, and architectures that incorporate IoT and hybrid cloud have yet to reach their true potential because network capacity seems to always lag behind demand.  A common problem is that too much networking infrastructure is still manually maintained and managed, but major vendors are starting to addressing these  issues, as are startups that seek to break bottlenecks through automation.To read this article in full, please click here