This next geeklet is quite similar to the Top CPU Processes geeklet I last shared. It finds the apps and processes with the biggest memory footprint on your system and lists the top 10. The output looks like:
geeklet, geektool, nerdtool, scripting
I’d like to welcome Donald Curtis as a guest blogger today, here to talk about a very cool script we worked on to add some Markdown love to MindMeister. It started with a DM from Donald on Twitter with a link to a GitHub gist, and after some back and forth it became a very cool (and useful) tool. Cool enough that I really wanted to share it here. Since the script is his brainchild and almost entirely his handiwork, I thought it would be cool if Donald did the honors.
guestblogger, markdown, mindmapping, ruby, scripting
When it comes to keyboard navigation, Vim impresses the hell out of me, but TextMate keyboard shortcuts take up more of my muscle memory than any other app. I’m sure anyone who’s used any IDE for a while has their share of keyboard chops and preferences. Even in the graphics world, you are absolutely not considered a Photoshop pro until you’ve learned at least 36 keyboard shortcuts.
apps, keyboard, markdown, text
This one was just for fun. I’m sharing it mostly as a starting point for anyone who wants to dig in and make their own theme for Simplify ($2.99 on the Mac App Store), a music controller for Spotify Desktop and iTunes.
css, design, themes
If you read A solution for scatterbrains yesterday, but were left feeling like the solution just wasn’t geeky enough… here’s a Saturday morning post to help you out. You do actually need to read that for this to make any sense. Here, I’ll link it again for you.
doing, productivity, scripting
Quick tips are random posts regarding something I discovered on my way to something bigger. They usually get longer than “quick” would imply, for which I refuse to apologize.
growl, launchbar, quicktip, scripting, shell
As I’ve mentioned here before (see QuickQuestion), I’m a total mess when it comes to remembering what I was tinkering with late at night or early in the morning. By the time my lunch break rolls around and I want to hack a little more, I have to search through git logs and Spotlight’s Recent Files just to figure out what I was working with and where I was at with it. Two days later, not a chance. Sometimes it even happens when I’m intent on completing a todo item and let…
doing, logging, nvalt, productivity
I found Quiet today. I’ve used plenty of these “distraction-free” apps that cover your desktop and other windows before, but mostly just for screencasting. Command-option clicking the icon of the app that I wanted to focus on has generally been enough for me, but Quiet takes it a few very useful steps further.
appreview, macappstore, productivity
Ok, I made something interesting (to me) last night. It’s probably not worth taking the time to write up, but someday someone might find it and think it useful. I apologize for the messiness of the code, if I take this further and clean it up, I’ll update this post.
javascript, jquery, scripting, writing
Just a quick note here to let you know that Marked 1.3.1 has been approved and is up for sale in the App Store. If you’re not familiar with Marked yet, check out the Marked product site (recently updated!).
markdown, marked, multimarkdown
One for the coders: I discovered CodeRunner by Nikolai Krill a few months back, and it’s proven to be very, very useful in the kind of work that I do. It allows you to test blocks of code and see the results quickly and easily. It has syntax highlighting and autocompletion, as well as the ability to handle a wide variety of languages.
Code, appreview, macos
Reading List for iPhone is a polished app that does one thing, and does it well: track your books. It helps keep track of the books you want, the books you have, the books you’re reading and the books you’ve read. If you still enjoy the rustle of paper pages in this era of the E-Reader, this is a handy app to have.
appreview, ios, iphone, review
