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)…
Jun 06
2010
I’ll be the first to admit that I get a little obsessed with projects that aren’t really going to improve my life all that much. Those projects can be fun to blog about, though, so I present you my brief obsession for this Sunday afternoon.
You may have noticed on this blog that some posts have header images, and some don’t, and that they get styled differently based on whether there’s an image or not. It pulls the header images from one of two places: the post thumbnail (which I can’t edit from MarsEdit) or the first image in the post content with a class of “headerimg”…
May 11
2010
There are quite a few things I love when it comes to my Mac. I love Spotlight. I love OpenMeta tagging. I love Evernote. I love being able to collect information from any source, and find anything I’ve saved, anywhere, no matter what program I used to create it. I especially love programs that allow me to accomplish that.
Unfortunately, one of my favorite apps right now, Delibar, doesn’t integrate with Spotlight or OpenMeta, despite the fact that it would be relatively easy to do. Delibar is an excellent (and sexy) menubar application for creating and searching Delicious (and Pinboard) bookmarks…
May 08
2010
I’ve been using Things for task management lately, mostly because it has a decent iPad app. I really do love my iPad… however, I often use TaskPaper from Hog Bay Software for weekend to-do lists and for tracking bugs and fixes on my various freetime projects. I sometimes edit my TaskPaper files (which are just plain text) in TextMate and use some Ruby scripts adapted from the GTDAlt bundle to do some fun things, but I really like the interface you get when you actually use TaskPaper…
Mar 08
2010
I posted a way to save your Safari tabs to Evernote, which I’ve found is generally a great way to save bookmarks. It syncs automatically to your other computers and your iPhone, and it’s fast and easy. If you really want to highlight a few tabs to make sure you get back to them, you might consider this script, though. Once you’ve saved your entire Safari browsing session for later, close everything except for those special urls, run the code below as a script, and your open tabs will be saved as entries in your InstaPaper account.
There are two “property” lines at the top of the script…
Mar 06
2010
I primarily use Safari for web browsing, mostly because it’s smoother and faster than Firefox, and the Web Inspector is just as useful as Firebug. As time passes, I end up with a lot of web pages open, and I like to clear out my browser tabs on a regular basis. Safari doesn’t really have a long-term session-saving option, so I save lists of open tabs to various applications. I used to use SafariStand to do this, but it got too buggy and slow for me. I use VoodooPad for it, but I like the sorting and searching option in Evernote, both on my desktop, and synced online and to my iPhone…
