Feb 26
2010

I’ve pushed out an update to Clip­pable, for bet­ter or worse. In addi­tion to the pre­vi­ously added line num­ber removal for code blocks, it removes spans used in Text­Mate for­mat­ted code and adds some key­board shortcuts:

• Left arrow: switch to light on dark
• Right arrow: switch to black on white
• Delete key: return to nor­mal formatting
• Escape key: return to orig­i­nal page

These fea­tures are added with­out mod­i­fy­ing the orig­i­nal book­marklet, so if you’ve got it installed, you’ve got the good­ies already. Oth­er­wise, head over to the Clip­pable book­marklet page and try it out.

The big news, though, is the intro­duc­tion of Clip­pable Mobile. It’s a work in progress, but installs on an iPhone and makes use of the spe­cial for­mat­ting options avail­able in Mobile Safari. It shrinks images, cuts off code blocks, etc., mak­ing every attempt to pro­vide a read­able page that doesn’t scroll hor­i­zon­tally. There are occa­sions where it fails on first attempt, but run­ning it again right away fixes every­thing. I’m still work­ing on fig­ur­ing out why that hap­pens… a lit­tle sleep will prob­a­bly help. Head over to the Clip­pable Mobile page on your iPhone and fol­low the instruc­tions to install it. Bug reports are welcome!

Dec 12
2009

Erica Sadun recently released her lat­est app, Draw (iTunes link), into the wilds of the App Store. I take a spe­cial inter­est in this release because I designed the inter­face for it from the ground up. Erica, of course, made all of the magic hap­pen; she’d take my pho­to­shop sketches and send them back as amaz­ing work­ing inter­faces. In the end, it was a really fun process to go through and Erica was great to work with. Here’s a quick walk-through of the design process.

Con­tinue read­ing “Designing Draw…”