I had the pleasure of hosting Christina Warren for this week’s episode of Systematic. We chatted about blogging, the future of film and television and, of course, Halloween costumes.
podcast, systematic
SearchLink is a System Service for OS X that handles searching multiple sources and automatically generating Markdown links for text. It allows you to just write, marking things to link as you go. When you’re done, you run it on the document and — if your queries were good — have your links generated automatically without ever opening a browser.
markdown, searchlink, service
Below are the winners of the Cleartones Organic giveaway. If your name is listed and the linked comment is yours, you should be hearing from both me and the developer with notification and a download link (respectively). If you don’t, let me know.
giveaway
Hazel is a great tool for automation on your Mac. It lets you trigger actions based on various filesystem activity, conditions and regularly scheduled events. It can clean up your downloads, upload your files to servers when they show up in a folder and tons more.
hazel, productivity
You hate obnoxious ringtones, right? I think we all do, yet they seem so pervasive out there in the real world. Sound and music designer Hugo Verweij offers an option for relief with Cleartones, and has recently released Cleartones Organic:
giveaway, review
Todd Mundt, editorial director of digital services at NPR, joined me for Systematic Episode 13. We had a lively discussion about memory, interests vs. skills, note-taking, and the usual excellent picks-of-the-week.
podcast, systematic
5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed I didn’t know, and now that I do, I’m just a little bit happier. dotfiles/bin/pinboardhtml A (better) script for grabbing Pinboard links to a local bookmark file. AppleScript Library - Brati’s Lover You know how you always tell yourself you’ll get all of your reusable code into a library and save yourself hours of heartache? AppleScript away… 12 Incredible CodePen.IO Demos These really are incredible. CSS/…
applescript, bookmarks, webdesign
I’m pleased to announce that Systematic Episode 12 is up and out. My guest this week was the illustrious Ashley Esqueda of Techfoolery, Geek Evolution and more red carpet reporting appearances than I can list. We talk about reporting tech, women in tech and some awesome picks-of-the-week.
podcast, readandtrust, systematic
Ever since doing a Macworld talk showcasing rapid-fire Mac tips with David Sparks and Merlin Mann, David and I have been working on a book of tips, complete with screencasts and detailed explanations. Today I’m happy to present 60 Mountain Lion Tips.
60tips, writing
Continuing yesterday’s foray into linking nvALT notes to any application, here’s the universal script that makes any text linkable to nvALT without extra urls.
nvalt, productivity, scripting, service
I devised a couple of strategies for attaching my notes to other places on my system where url links were ugly or inconvenient. It turned out to be a system that’s pretty effective in a lot of applications; even ones that provide a linking system to begin with.
mindmapping, notes, nvalt, productivity
You can add images to nvALT notes with standard Markdown syntax (). If you use images in nvALT, here are three tips to make life easier.
nvalt, productivity, quicktip
On the occasion that you’re working on a web-related project using GitHub, you may want to simply mirror your demo pages or entire branch over to the Github Pages for your project to make them web-accessible. An example case for this would be the development of a JavaScript tool that includes an “examples/” section. It would be most convenient to just let people browse that as a webpage from GitHub, keeping it up to date every time the branch changes.
git, github, quicktip
It’s frustrating how long it takes me to figure out how to do something in ImageMagick1. I know full well it can do it, but the options are a maze that feels like I’ll have to get a post-graduate degree to understand.
cli, imagemagick
I no longer have any faith that any API will stick around all that long. Search APIs are becoming fewer and fewer. Google1 still offers the Ajax Search API, but it’s not convenient to use with System Services and such because it requires non-default libraries to work in Ruby and other scripting languages. It’s easy in PHP, though. It’s not my favorite language to use for local scripting, but it was the easiest solution to the problem. I think…
markdownservices, php, service
