Jan 24
2012

This post should have been titled “What happens to my mornings.”

I get a lot of one-off requests for scripts and tips on how to handle tasks specific to people’s workflow or writing style. I generally keep myself pretty busy, so I usually reply with a quick idea or thought and leave it up to them to run with it. David Coleman emailed me this morning, though, with…

Jan 19
2012

I’m enjoying logging with Day One right now, and getting geeky with it. To that end, I put this project together during the few breaks I’ve had over the last couple of days leading up to the new Engadget live blog launch today. The result is a practical proof of concept in the form of a System Service for clipping any text to Day One. I figured that this could actually be really…

Sep 02
2011

Update: found a little bug (well, stupid mistake) in the HTML to Clipboard command. Download version is now 1.2.1, update if you grabbed 1.2.

I’ve posted two more updates to the Markdown Service Tools. The first change is a fix for UTF-8 characters in the HTML to Clipboard Service I introduced yesterday. I had no idea that pbcopy didn’t like UTF-8 by…

Sep 02
2011

I was looking at some numbers on a web page. A wide variety of fairly large numbers. The web page didn’t provide any kind of average for the numbers, and I was curious. Curious, of course, meant writing a script to solve the problem. Yes, I could have copied the numbers out, punched them into a calculator one by one, or opened up Numbers and pasted them into cells… bah…

Sep 01
2011

The Markdown Service Tools–which already received one update today–just got a little bit of Chrome support. The “md — Links from Safari Tabs” now has a Chrome counterpart. At the time that I first wrote the Markdown Service Tools, Chrome didn’t support AppleScript well enough for this to be feasible, but opening up the AppleScript dictionary now reveals a full set of…

Sep 01
2011

In response to a tweet from @gl3media, I’ve added a quick modification of the MultiMarkdown to HTML service to the Markdown Service Tools project page. It simply renders the selected text to HTML via MultiMarkdown 2 (Perl) and SmartyPants, putting the result on the clipboard and leaving the original text alone.

Aug 20
2011

I knocked out a quick project before I got around to my first App Review, so I figured I’d go ahead and share it…

A few people have requested a TextExpander set for dates. The problem is, getting the current date is easy with TextExpander variables, so that one’s not worth the time to me. Anything else requires some scripting, and to be really flexible the set would need…