App Review: Tunesque

Tunesque just popped up on my radar today. It’s a free utility that searches the iTunes store, Spotlight-style. It runs in your menubar, and when you enter a query it returns instant, as-you-type results from all areas of the iTunes Store, App Store and Mac App Store. Hovering over an item displays item details (the way Lion Spotlight does). With light and dark themes and the ability to filter what results you see (and from what country’s store they’re from), it’s about… appreview, itunes, search

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How to Be Popular at Parties

If you want to be popular, you need to spend most of the party loudly pontificating on really, really nerdy stuff. It will seem like it’s not working at first, but keep going. I promise everyone will love you in the end. Here are a couple of inspiring topics for your next soire (this intro paragraph is me trying to justify a rambling post that will likely not make me many friends). git, markdown, nvalt, wiki

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An Average Morning

I was looking at some numbers on a web page. A wide variety of fairly large numbers. The web page didn’t provide any kind of average for the numbers, and I was curious. Curious, of course, meant writing a script to solve the problem. Yes, I could have copied the numbers out, punched them into a calculator one by one, or opened up Numbers and pasted them into cells… bah. I wanted to be able to copy text with all kinds of other junk in it and just get the average of all the values in… experiments, scripting, service, textmate

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Some Chrome Love for the Markdown Service Tools

The Markdown Service Tools–which already received one update today–just got a little bit of Chrome support. The “md - Links from Safari Tabs” now has a Chrome counterpart. At the time that I first wrote the Markdown Service Tools, Chrome didn’t support AppleScript well enough for this to be feasible, but opening up the AppleScript dictionary now reveals a full set of commands and objects. Nice to see. markdown, markdownservices, service

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Why Markdown? A Two-minute Explanation

Anyone who’s read this blog, used my projects or has talked to me about anything nerdy for more than five minutes knows I’m a fan of Markdown. The question doesn’t come up often, but occasionally someone dares to ask–despite the apparent probability that it will lead to a lengthy explanation–why I use Markdown in so many of my workflows. I give just about the same response to seasoned nerds as I do to my not-so-computer-savvy friends. This isn’t the Markdown… blogging, markdown, text, writing

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Dropbox and Seamless mutli-Mac Computing?

Joe Workman put out a utility today for sharing Application Support folders between machines using Dropbox. It uses symlinks to allow moving the folder out of and into your Dropbox but keeping it accessible to the application. This is a great trick, and the Joe’s utility makes it dead simple to pull off. The biggest concern, however, is the possibility of corruption and other issues if you run the application on multiple machines simultaneously. dropbox, scripting

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