May 05
2012

I made a small update to the natural language date Service that I put together a while back. I wanted it to handle input formats like “+3″ to get a date for 3 days from right now, and to handle adding times to the output if there’s a time-like string in the input.

Now you can use, for example:

Mar 31
2012

I’m shocked that this hasn’t been done before. I’m sure it has, really, but my searches didn’t turn anything up…

Many web devs/designers are familiar with Zen Coding, a little tool available for many text editors which turns shorthand strings into full HTML, among a lot of other nifty tricks. A derivation called Sparkup came out a couple of years back. It…

Mar 14
2012

For those who downloaded the original “Create Dropbox Collection” service and experienced errors, a new version has been posted (all download links updated). The issue was that if the files were in the root of the Public folder, it was trying to find a sub-path that wasn’t there. All patched up.

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.

Feb 22
2012

I needed some relaxing regular expression fun tonight, so I’ve updated a couple of services in the Markdown Service Tools and made some small additions. The main new feature is for handling blockquotes, and there are two versions of the Service. I’m providing some brief explanations after the jump, but feel free to skip to the Markdown Service Tools page and just check the changelog.

Feb 14
2012

Inspired by a Twitter request this morning, I’ve updated the Markdown Service Tools to version 1.3.1 to include an experimental version of a new service: Unwrap Paragraphs.

Opposite from the “Preserve line breaks” service, this one will look for consecutive lines and merge them together into one paragraph. It handles hyphenated words and won’t mess up em/en dashes in…

Feb 11
2012

I updated the Markdown Service Tools today to include some recently-developed services and some revisions to existing services.

Notably, Force Line Breaks has become Preserve Line Breaks, a slightly more elegant service for getting github-style linebreaks in your documents. If you have a block of text with hard returns in it…