I wrote up my favorite new music player, VOX, this morning for TUAW. After working with the developers on the beta for a while, they’ve offered my readers a special promotion.
apps, macappstore, macos
To top off the recent rash of software giveaways1, I have five copies of Chatology ($19.99 US value)! It’s a Mac app that brings instant search to Messages, so you can quickly locate any chat you’ve had. It can even (optionally) take over the Command-F key in Messages, so when you hit the find shortcut, it loads up, ready for instant search.
giveaway, macos, search, utility
Pete and David only get the first half of the code and they have to guess the rest. That’s what you get for only giving me the first half of your name.
giveaway, macappstore, macos
First, pressing escape after running the bookmarklet will now cancel it and you can resume browsing without refreshing the page.
bookmarklet, bullseye, javascript, markdown
Update: I somehow completely overlooked that this extension already exists (see Append on the main extensions page.) The differences are minor, though mine does account for some additional (rare) character encoding issues. Nothing you should swap out for if you’re already using Append.
extension, popclip, text
A huge thanks to Smile for sponsoring brettterpstra.com this week with TextExpander touch 2.0. TextExpander is one of my all-time favorite, absolute must-have applications, and the iOS version is awesome!
snippet, textexpander
First off, welcome to the giveaways, most of Canada. I’m still excluding Quebec for inane legal reasons, but everyone else is welcome to enter!
apps, giveaway, macappstore, macos
My friend and co-worker Erik Sagen was this week’s guest on Systematic. It was one of the most random and twisting conversation I’ve ever recorded, but there were some gems that came out of it. Above all, I got to use a line from Saved. That was almost as much fun as slipping a line from Rushmore in when my wife was on.
podcast, systematic
I added a new extension to my PopClip collection this morning. It creates comments of various syntax from selected text. It’s called, creatively enough, the Comment Extension.
extension, markdown, popclip, text
GrabLinks went over pretty well, so I’ve been motivated to finish up a similar project I had going. It’s called Bullseye, and it lets you click a section of a webpage and “Markdownify” just that content. It’s like Readability, but you get to just tell it which part is the good stuff.
bookmarklet, bullseye, javascript, markdown
The next version of OS X (Mavericks) is going to have file tagging capabilities built directly into Finder (as well as save dialogs and iCloud browsers). In fact, it works in the same way as OpenMeta – the system I’ve espoused all these years – using metadata on the file itself to store the information and expose it to Spotlight. Apple is on the tagging train, and I’m certain they’ll be conducting it in short order.
apple, finder, macos, search, spotlight, tagging, tools, work
In no particular order, here are the randomly-chosen winners of the 2x myPhoneDesktop giveaway. Each winner receives two promo codes:
giveaway, ios, ipad, iphone, macos
Web hosting is many things to many people. Grandma wants to start a knitting blog? WordPress. New tech start-up needs a server to present their minimum viable product? Ruby on Rails, PHP, and MySQL. HostGator has you covered, and with one-click installs via the proprietary QuickInstall application, free with every hosting plan.
Here are a couple of my Bash functions for people who work with images in CSS or HTML. Nothing elaborate, just things that supplement my typical workflow.
base64, cli, css, function, scripting, shell, terminal
