I thought I’d mention that I’ll be joining David Sparks and Merlin Mann on stage at Macworld this year (well, next year, technically). We’ll be presenting “40 tips in 40 minutes” (it will be more than 40). Tickets to the conference track are only US $75 this year, so I highly recommend getting in on this! Prices go up a little after December 5th, so get your pass to all of the Tech Talks now!
macworld
Continuing the very exciting Thanksgiving giveaways today I have five promo codes for Fletcher Penney’s MultiMarkdown Composer (reviewed here). It’s a text editor packed with features for editing Markdown and MultiMarkdown, including syntax highlighting, document header navigation, shortcuts for adding MultiMarkdown syntax and much more.
giveaway, macappstore, macos, markdown, multimarkdown
Since it’s Black Friday, I’m going to run a second giveaway today: TextExpander. It’s one of my all-time favorite Mac utilities, and I have quite a few free snippets available to demonstrate its usefulness. It’s available in the Mac App Store for US $34.99, and it’s worth every penny. Today, though, you can comment below and be entered for a chance at one of three free licenses.
giveaway, macappstore, macos, textexpander
Well, it’s Black Friday. If you’re not trampled outside of some big box store somewhere, I have a special surprise for you. Five App Store codes for Dropzone (US $13.99), to be precise. It’s one of my favorite Mac utilities and–if you don’t already have it–I recommend jumping on this chance for a free copy!
giveaway, macos
I caved and jumped on the Black Friday bandwagon. Marked is 50% off ($1.99, was $3.99) in the App Store from Friday through Sunday. The price will jump back up on Monday, so grab it while it’s cheap!
markdown, marked, sale
As part of my Thanksgiving holiday giveaways, I have five promo codes for the iOS Markdown editor, WriteUp. It’s a slick Dropbox-powered editor for both iPhone and iPad that I recently reviewed. It’s definitely worth a look if you want to edit Markdown files on the go.
giveaway, ios, ipad, iphone, markdown
I hate Black Friday. I hate the whole idea, what with the crowds and the rushing and my internal instinct to avoid both. Instead of leaving my house, I’ll be posting a series of app giveaways, starting today with Reading List (my review here). Watch for a couple more over the Thanksgiving holiday.
giveaway, iphone
I just added a pull request for my latest Dropzone (review) Destination. It’s called “Open URLs,” and with it you can open text urls from any number of text files, drag text straight from any application, or just click it to scan your clipboard. The files, text or clipboard contents are scanned for any http(s) links and they’re sent to your default browser using the system command.
dropzone, ruby, scripting
Dropzone recently showed up on the Mac App Store. I’ve been using the previous incarnation daily for years now, and I was ecstatic to see it hit the App Store and still be under active development. As with any pre-App Store app that makes a 100% conversion to the App Store environment, plenty of users are bitching and moaning about having to pay again (as well as changes that were necessary to comply with Apple’s guidelines), but I’m not among them1. It’s worth every…
appreview, dropzone
I received my Nest (advanced learning thermostat) on Friday. I was on my way out the door to see WITS in St. Paul1, Minnesota. I opened the package and read the 8-page setup manual on the way. I got home late, so I tackled the installation the next day.
hardware, review
If you’re still looking for a slick Markdown editor for iOS, there’s a new candidate up for your vote. WriteUp is a polished editor that covers the basics well. With Dropbox support and available as a universal app for both iPad and iPhone, it makes a nice addition to your all-around writing workflow.
appreview, editor, ios, ipad, iphone, markdown, writing
As the next part in the keybindings series I’m demonstrating some improvements I’ve made to the original “surround” commands since my first time around. This set of commands is designed to wrap selected text in a variety of paired characters. The keys are the same, but the commands now work inside of single-line text fields (like you often find in Safari), prevent auto-pairing in apps like nvALT, MultiMarkdown Composer and Byword, and a few refinements to cursor positioning.
keybindings, keyboard, macos
Thus far, Marked has had a great reception and has, overall, worked superbly with a wide range of text editors. I frequently get requests for integration with more complex editors, but have been unable to fulfill them because Marked requires an actual text file to watch. To try and fix this situation, I’ve been scripting “watchers” for various applications which embed their files inside of bundles or otherwise obscure the actual content files from Spotlight.
marked, ruby, scripting
If you’ve poked around this blog at all, you know I dig System Services and TextExpander snippets more than is probably healthy. I have a new obsession, though, and it’s been taking up a lot of my playtime. Welcome to part two of (what is now) an ongoing series about Mac OS X Key Bindings. Originally inspired by Lauri Ranta, I’ve come to believe that system-wide keybindings for the Cocoa Text System are one of the most powerful tools available to any text nerd.
keybindings, markdown
