Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category

Mar 14
2012

Markdown lovers rejoice, Byword for iOS is here! I’ve been beta testing it for a while now and it’s my new favorite way to write Markdown on my iPad. There’s also full iCloud (and Dropbox) sync with the desktop version, so the writing circle is complete (at least for me). For background, see some of my previous thoughts on Byword.

Mar 07
2012

I wrote this Service a while ago for a friend who kept all of his mockups in Dropbox folders to share. He shared the public links to a group of people who didn’t all use Dropbox, so he’d spend a fair amount of time grabbing links and pasting them into emails. I made this to save him some time, but thought it might help a few of you out, too.

Mar 04
2012

First and foremost, this is a total ripoff of an idea by Gabe Weatherhead over at Macdrifter. I just expanded on the idea a little bit.

Cheaters is a collection of HTML-based cheat sheets meant for display in an Automator-based popup browser which can float on your screen while you work in other apps. Most of the time I create TextExpander snippets for commonly-forgotten…

Mar 02
2012

Here’s a quick tip about two apps that I love: nvALT and Magic Launch. I’m not sure about the project status of Magic Launch, or how it will fare with Mountain Lion, but for now it’s one very useful app. This is more of a multi-tip than a review, but take it as you will.

You probably know of nvALT, so I’ll describe Magic Launch. Magic Launch overrides the default file…

Feb 28
2012

So it’s happening. nvALT 2.2 is being released tonight as a beta. Before you get too excited and implode, please read this.

Note the word beta above. It’s not finished. It has a lot of fixes and a ton of new editing features, but there’s plenty left to do before we finish a stable release. Here’s the advise in our release notes:

Feb 25
2012

This is just a quick post to mention a new idea I had while working on Marked today. I was, as usual, using TaskPaper to organize the project and track my progress. I use a different TaskPaper file in the main folder for each project I have going. The last script I posted is effective enough, and I should probably leave well enough alone, but I had to try one other thing.

Feb 24
2012

Links of interest from February 1, 2012 through February 24, 2012: