I’ve mentioned EventScripts before, but I’m finding it awesome enough lately to mention again. I use it in tandem with BetterTouchTool, but for different purposes.
bluetooth, ios, iphone, macos, proximity
Ok, this will be the last update to Sidecar for a little while (no promises). 1.5 seems like a nice number to hold at while I work on some other projects. I’ve put enough hours into a project with a very limited audience to feel mildly guilty, but I’m having a lot of fun with this. Hey, I respect your life choices.
jacket, sideshow, simplify
I was considering adding a feature to Jekyll that would let me provide “.txt” links that return Markdown versions of posts the way that MacDrifter’s Pelican install does and I’m pretty sure Gruber used to. I got bored with the idea of writing a generator for it, so I hacked a workaround that turned into something quite different from the original objective. That happens a lot.
experiments, markdown, marky, nvalt
The ZenDock kickstarter campaign has made quite a splash around the big Mac news sites. I was feeling a little left out, as it was designed for MacBook Pros and I had just shipped my last one off to my brother and moved everything to a 13” Air. Then, in the last 48 hours of the campaign, ZenBoxx announced a little brother to the ZenDock: ZenDock Air.
hardware
Sidecar 1.4 is up. I really should save these changes up and make larger releases, but this is fun. I’m playing a little more with the controls and color variations, so this does add some fun stuff.
sideshow, simplify
PDFpenPro is the advanced version of PDFpen. PDFpenPro does everything that PDFpen does, such as add signatures, edit text and images, perform OCR on scanned documents and export Microsoft Word documents. It also has the ability to create a PDF form, build a table of contents, and convert HTML files to PDF.
I’ve updated Planter to 1.3 with a few new features. Previously, it created directory structures based on tab-indented folder trees in plain text, using either the command line or LaunchBar (original post, and the LaunchBar version). Now, it handles file templates as well as slightly more advanced variables.
planter, ruby, scripting
I had a great time getting to know Stu Maschwitz today. He’s a filmmaker with an impressive list of credits, and also the creator of a new plain-text screenwriting app called Slugline.
podcast, systematic
I mentioned Write — a Markdown text editor with a ton of sharing options — a while ago, and I was impressed with it overall. A new version just came out, and an iPad version to go with it. It’s not just a companion app, though. In addition to a round of bug fixes, there’s something else really neat going on here.
appreview, ios, ipad, iphone, texteditor
It turns out I like Sidecar (my new jacket for Simplify) enough to keep playing with it a little. I present version 1.2 for your review.
css, design, music, sideshow, simplify, themes
I took a minute to throw together an Alfred 2 workflow for the new version of Cheaters. Once you configure it to point at your local Cheaters install, you can type “cheat keyword” to jump straight to a specific cheat sheet. For example, “cheat jq” would jump to jQuery, and “cheat git” would jump to the Git cheat sheet, assuming you have it active.
alfred, cheaters
I had a little fun this morning making a very large theme for the Simplify music controller. I wanted something that made use of the background screen real estate on my Thunderbolt display. “Sidecar” is what I came up with… keep in mind it was pretty early in the morning. Naming things before 6am is not my strong point.
css, design, music, sideshow, simplify, themes
A quick note for Cheaters hackers: as of a recent update, Cheaters can now handle linking directly to a specific cheat sheet using url hashes. You can use a zero-index number to link to a page if you know the order (index.html#3 to link to the fourth item), but because the order is configurable and subject to change, it also supports string matching. For example, if you wanted to link directly to the Siri cheat sheet, you could use .
cheaters, cheatsheet
