Aug 09
2011

Just for giggles, and because Jeffrey Way was kind enough to provide a simple API for Prefixr, here’s a System Service that will turn your standard CSS3 properties into cross-browser, vendor-prefixed versions.

You can select an entire stylesheet and it will send back the text with the necessary changes, or just run it on a single rule to have it vendor-prefixed for you. It turns this:

May 23
2011

The table syntax in MultiMarkdown is intuitive and can be really fast to work with. Much faster than coding HTML tables, to be sure. Unless you’re pretty religious about your spacing, though, the plain text version can get out of hand pretty quickly. If only there were some way to make them pretty in one click…

Mar 07
2011

After my epic three-part post on Saturday, I spent the rest of the weekend doing more “useful” things. Now it’s Sunday night (Monday morning, I think), and I’ve got some kind of minor food poisoning which is currently keeping me awake. Thus a “hey, cool trick” post.

I actually already own an app which can do this to some extent, and I know there are more available…

Sep 14
2010

Update: Download link has been updated with a new Bing version. The Yahoo search API was sunset recently and the original service fails to work now. The new download will work for the time being…

I’ve had this one laying around for a long time, so I thought I’d toss it out on the ‘net and see if anyone else had a use for it. It’s actually really…

Aug 14
2010

I was sifting through my previous blog after Jeffery Zeldman kindly sent a lot of visitors in that direction for some TextMate starter tips. Whilst milling around, I stumbled upon an old trick I used to use in Quicksilver (before I gave up on it[^quicksilver]), but had forgotten about since.

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…

Apr 28
2010

I’m fascinated by http://to. It’s a url shortener with no TLD. Some browsers, and apparently some DNS setups, don’t like the urls it creates (they want a .com or .org or anything at the end), so it’s not exactly in heavy usage. Still, I wish they had an API. In lieu of that, here’s a quick Ruby script that will run on a stock OS X install as a System Service. It’s so…