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…

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…