One of my all-time favorite utilities on the Mac is BetterTouchTool, an app that expands the capabilities of your trackpad, Magic Mouse and/or keyboard with a wide variety of configurable gestures and actions. Andreas Hegenberg has just released a companion iPhone app called BTT Remote ($1.99) that makes your iPhone part of the fun, too.
appreview, ios, iphone, utility
This is going to be quick. I plan to make Pro HDR a pick of the week on Systematic, so I’ll elaborate more then, but I thought it was worth a pointer for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.
appreview, ios, ipad, iphone, photography
Systematic episode 17 is live. I was joined by Kristian Carter, a freelance technologist and copywriter out of London, U.K. It was a fun chat about iPad minis, social networking and a tangent that ends up comparing P90X to a religion. Or maybe a cult. Entirely my fault.
podcast, systematic
I added a couple of simple TextExpander snippets to the Tools set. The first pair grabs the current (foreground) url from Chrome or Safari and inserts it, the second pair does the same but shortens with Bit.ly.
snippet, textexpander, tools
David Sparks was kind enough to fill in on short notice for today’s episode, and we had a great talk about time management, stress (or lack of), Markdown note-taking and more. The top three picks for the week were, as always, a blast and I think everyone will find something useful in there.
podcast, systematic
Coughbutton, my podcaster’s iPhone-based cough button for your Mac, has been upgraded to 1.3 and undergone a major switcharoo. It now works with Skype (and, by default, only with Skype), which is all I really needed anyway.
podcast, scripting
I seriously enjoyed talking with Dave Caolo of TUAW, 52 Tiger and the Home Work podcast this week on Systematic. So much so, in fact, that I had to edit out almost 40 extra minutes. I only cut out parts where we discussed the drinking habits of various nationalities and other things that might just be better not put on the air. Hopefully I didn’t break any continuity.
podcast, systematic
As I move along with my Jekyll/Octopress transition, I’m working to make the move as clean as possible. I’m importing my WordPress database rather than starting fresh, and I’ll be sharing tidbits of discoveries as I go. These posts will only be of interest to people making similar transitions, but they’ll also be serving as notes for myself and Google search results for people up against the same conundrums.
jekyll, octopress, ruby, scripting
Update: These are the notes for the original version, which worked by sending the toggle command to MuteMyMic. Coughbutton has been revised to work with On/Off commands for Skype directly, no longer toggling system mute. This is more useful to me, and hopefully to others. The Github link is the same, and there’s a post with revised information.
iphone, scripting
I mentioned nvNotes back in September. People seemed to dig the idea (Notational Velocity for iPhone), but there was one big thing missing: Dropbox sync. Well, it’s moved one step closer: it now saves your notes to a Dropbox folder. It doesn’t read them back or pick up new notes yet, but we’re moving in the right direction.
apps, iphone, notes, sale
rvl.io: Presentations Made Beautiful Oh, wow. wow, wow, wow. I spent years looking for a solid HTML presentation solution, and reveal.js is tops in my book. This is a Keynote-ish online editor to create reveal.js decks without HTML coding (or just paste HTML into the source panel). Amazing work. Send SMS to Messages and run commands with AppleScript - Mac OS X Hints There just are not enough hours in a day—even if you don’t sleep—to explore all of the tinkering…
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I was chatting with Gabe Weatherhead yesterday about turning SearchLink into a Python script that could then run on Pythonista. That would allow you to copy text from an iOS editor, open Pythonista and run the script, then go back to your editor and paste with your links converted. I’m not sure it’s going to be possible, yet, because I don’t know how iOS and Pythonista handle network connections from scripts. I have a lot to learn.
ios, markdown, scripting, texteditor
