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
I wrote this Service a while ago for a friend who kept all of his mockups in Dropbox folders to share. He shared the public links to a group of people who didn’t all use Dropbox, so he’d spend a fair amount of time grabbing links and pasting them into emails. I made this to save him some time, but thought it might help a few of you out, too.
dropbox, service
First and foremost, this is a total ripoff of an idea by Gabe Weatherhead over at Macdrifter. I just expanded on the idea a little bit.
cheaters, productivity
Here’s a quick tip about two apps that I love: nvALT and Magic Launch. I’m not sure about the project status of Magic Launch, or how it will fare with Mountain Lion, but for now it’s one very useful app. This is more of a multi-tip than a review, but take it as you will.
apps, review, utility
This is just a quick post to mention a new idea I had while working on Marked today. I was, as usual, using TaskPaper to organize the project and track my progress. I use a different TaskPaper file in the main folder for each project I have going. The last script I posted is effective enough, and I should probably leave well enough alone, but I had to try one other thing.
dayone, productivity, ruby, taskpaper
I wrote a while back about some Day One geekery, and shared the git wrapper I set up for bagging some of my larger commit messages to Day One entries automatically. Then Rob went and asked me if I could do something similar with TaskPaper, logging archived tasks to Day One on the fly. Had to try it.
applescript, dayone, logging, productivity
I needed some relaxing regular expression fun tonight, so I’ve updated a couple of services in the Markdown Service Tools and made some small additions. The main new feature is for handling blockquotes, and there are two versions of the Service. I’m providing some brief explanations after the jump, but feel free to skip to the Markdown Service Tools page and just check the changelog.
markdown, markdownservices, service
I love ThinkUp for managing what there is of my social presence, as well as for archiving my Twitter and Facebook posts. So much so that it gets its own Fluid1 app. The favicon for the web app (which Fluid uses as the app icon by default) is really sad-looking in the Dock, though, so I whipped up an icon and thought I’d share it. Nothing special, just a little more pleasing to me than the blurry mess the favicon creates.
design, fluid, icon
Chetan Kunte recently sent me a TextExpander experiment he was working on, and I thought I’d post it and my explorations of it. It’s designed to add auto-pairing for bracket and quote characters to MarsEdit, and it’s based on a bit of information that I hadn’t been aware of before.
experiments, marsedit, scripting, snippet, textexpander
I added a new group to the TextExpander Tools collection this morning: a set of snippets for working in AppleScript editor. The group is pretty barebones right now, but handy nonetheless. Feel free to submit any additions or expansions you come up with, I’ll gladly include them in the set (and credit you publicly).
scripting, snippet, textexpander, tools
