Yeah, I know, you're probably getting sick of these Automator services. But I really do create a new one of these practically every day to make my life a little easier, and maybe some of these will be useful to others.

This one puts a UTC timestamp on the clipboard. The timestamp is an ISO 8601-format string like "2009-11-09T13:14:03Z". If you'd like a different format, type "man date" in Terminal to see how to change the output format of the date command in the shell script below.

Here is yet another Snow Leopard Automator service: This one takes an image file and scales it down to 75% of its original size. This is great for screenshots, as all the text is still readable at that size, but you can put it in a web page or document without filling the screen.

Here's another Snow Leopard Automator-based service: It takes the Finder selection and puts the file paths on the clipboard, for easy pasting into command lines or scripts.

As part of my "write a blog entry every day during November" commitment, I considered imposing a minimum word limit for each entry. I've decided against that, because I don't want to feel pressure to add filler, but before deciding that, I created an Automator service that would help me to count words.

To make it easier to put content on my Sony Reader, I've created a service, using Automator, that will invoke calibre's ebook-convert tool on files selected in the Finder.