Jul 28
2010
This was a quick plugin I put together last night when I got too frustrated to work on my actual jobs. It lets you define a single shortcut key which, after you input your Instapaper username and password, will let you send the currently-selected article in Google Reader straight to Instapaper. It works fine with themes like Helvetireader (Safari extension), and functions in both list view and expanded view.
Click below to download, unzip the extension and double click it to install. Head for Preferences->Extensions and set up your Instapaper username and password, and pick a hotkey…
Jul 26
2010
Instapaper Beyond version 1.8.9 is another small release with a couple of usability enhancements. Thanks to everyone who’s been submitting ideas and bugs, I’ll do my best to keep up…
Jul 25
2010
Update: I just pushed out version 1.8.8 with a minor fix for some spacebar-in-forms issues. The download link and auto-update file have already been updated. Thanks to John P for the bug report!
This is relatively minor update for Instapaper Beyond, the Safari extension which gives you full Ajax loading and keyboard control over Instapaper. It does, however, have one very cool new feature, and one often-requested fix.
The new feature is type-ahead folder selection in the popup HUDs for Move To and Go To Folder…
Jul 17
2010
If you haven’t tried it, gleeBox is an amazing extension. I have it installed in my Firefox and Chrome setups, and I’m more than thrilled that it’s finally available for Safari. It lets you do a lot of crazy (and useful) things with keyboard commands on any website. There’s a great writeup over at PimpMySafari.com, so I won’t go into depth on the wonderful parts. I’ll concentrate on the one thing that bugs me about gleeBox: the highlight colors on found and selected elements. They are, in my opinion, a little obnoxious.
Jul 16
2010
This is a bugfix release of Instapaper Beyond for Safari which brings the version up to 1.8.6. It fixes a few visual glitches, but most importantly it restores the functionality of the text style menu at the top of a read page, allowing you to set and remember the font, size, width and line spacing of your text view.
I actually ended up rewriting the existing javascript as a module in Instapaper Beyond, so there’s the possibility of easily extending it to handle more options. Background color, more fonts, etc. We’ll see how far I get with that…
Jul 15
2010
Safari 5 has brought several solutions for managing lists of open tabs, from the simple (like my TabLinks extension) to full session-management capabilities (see the beautiful Sessions extension). However, I’ve found I still like using my EverSave script in many situations, primarily because it allows me to annotate, tag and sync my important sessions for later retrieval. One thing’s been bugging me, though, and that’s the inability to do a mass restore on a tab list (i.e. open them all at once)…
Jul 01
2010
I have an admin username (it’s not admin) which I use to manage my WordPress blog, and an editor user with which I write posts and leave comments. Sometimes, though, I get confused, lazy or both, and end up leaving comments as my admin user. This rather defeats the purpose of using a non-default admin username, which is generally done for security purposes (if they can’t guess the admin’s username, it makes it that much harder to hack the admin account).
More out of laziness than anything else (we can call it efficiency, right?), I dropped the functions below into my […] file…
