I’ve been trying for years to get a decent Bluetooth “proximity” setup going so that my iPhone can trigger lighting setups as I enter and exit a room. I think I’ve finally nailed it, though I’m sure there’s plenty more testing to do.
bluetooth, lion, macos, proximity
My weekend project turns out to be the most popular thing I’ve ever done, at least based on web traffic (besides that one thing that I don’t like to talk about). It’s had more pageviews in two days than my whole blog gets in a typical month, and I haven’t even officially announced the final page outside of Twitter. Insane. Seriously.
ios, itexteditors, texteditor
I don’t like outliners. It’s not that I see anything wrong with them, they just don’t click with the way my brain works when I’m brainstorming or planning. It’s why I use mind maps. Nonetheless, I had to try Tree (MAS link) when I saw it. It looked different. It was.
appreview, macos, mindmapping, productivity
There was an impressive response to the call for crowdsourced iOS text editor comparison. The “final” spreadsheet is available here (link updated to point to the new page). I froze it this morning as there were a lot of deletions happening that were breaking results. It was reverted to restore a few major deletions, and I did my best to replace individual additions and edits that happened since the restore point. If your edit/addition was lost or you have more to add, just contact me directly…
ios, itexteditors, texteditor
This is a quick experiment with Google Docs, CSVs, MultiMarkdown tables and CSS3 selectors. It’s really hackish, but it’s a start. I wanted to take Google Docs spreadsheet output and turn it into a clean table with color coding and my own styling. Here’s what I’ve done so far (example output here):
googledocs, multimarkdown, ruby
I’m not a minimalist. By no stretch of the imagination is anything about my personality minimal, nor have I lived a life that indicates any of the discipline required to say “enough.” Take my workspace as a micro-example of my entire life.
bookreview, books, minimalism, review
I added a little hack to Fletcher Penney’s MultiMarkdown Quick Look generator to give it a default style (Github CSS) and allow for customization via a file located in your home folder. Full details and download available on Github.
macos, markdown, multimarkdown, quicklook
I’ve been working tirelessly on Marked since 5pm on Friday. I’ve wrapped up fixing almost all of the bugs I’ve created in this development cycle, so I’ve been sprucing things up. I especially needed to revamp the “Welcome” popup for Marked’s upcoming release. I ripped off the design idea1 because I’m too tired to come up with anything cool by myself today. Besides, I really dig the way it came out. All CSS3, all the time:
marked, video
For those who downloaded the original “Create Dropbox Collection” service and experienced errors, a new version has been posted (all download links updated). The issue was that if the files were in the root of the Public folder, it was trying to find a sub-path that wasn’t there. All patched up.
dropbox, service
Markdown lovers rejoice, Byword for iOS is here! I’ve been beta testing it for a while now and it’s my new favorite way to write Markdown on my iPad. There’s also full iCloud (and Dropbox) sync with the desktop version, so the writing circle is complete (at least for me). For background, see some of my previous thoughts on Byword.
appreview, byword, ios, productivity, writing
