I’ve updated the service mentioned in the post “Automated search and link text.” The Yahoo API broke (was sunset) and I needed to rewrite it to work with Bing instead. The result is below, and can also replace the md-Luck Link service from the Markdown Service Tools.
markdownservices
In the interest of actually getting going on app reviews on this blog, I’m mentioning a somewhat obvious one: Byword. While I still write my drafts in nvALT and do the heavy lifting and linking in TextMate with my Blogsmith Bundle, Byword has quickly become the place where I actually do my writing.
appreview, byword, macos, writing
Yesterday’s news of Steve Jobs’ resignation was sad for me. My concern is not for Apple; Apple is a vibrant community of designers and developers and Tim Cook will be excellent at the helm. My concern was for Steve Jobs. He has been one of the few people in my later life that I’ve truly admired, and his work and principles have been of great inspiration to me. I’d like to join many others in saying “thanks, Steve.”
apple, personal
I’ve been wanting to write more here, and seriously considering what I want to write about. Obviously, I should stick with what I know. What do I know best? Apps.
appreview, news
I’m super-duper excited to announce that Marked version 1.2 is now in the Mac App Store. It’s a rewrite from the ground up… same great flavor, all new file watching mechanism. It uses Spotlight to track changes now, which is far more stable and adept at handling things like name changes and deletions of open files. The only catch is that you have to have Spotlight indexing turned on and available in the folder where your file is (i.e. not set to private in Spotlight settings…
macappstore, markdown, marked, multimarkdown
There’s a somewhat mysterious individual who is consistently leaving brilliant little pieces of code and information in my comments. Dr. Drang has been visited by this apparition as well. We’re both duly impressed with what he (or she?) does.
keybindings, keyboard, macos
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.
hacks, html, macappstore, markdown, markdownifier, marked, quicktip, terminal
I’ve been trying to get Option-arrow keys to move by word in iTerm2. I figured out a solution, but it’s weird. If anyone has an explanation or a better way to do this, let me know.
keyboard, terminal
Just for giggles, and because Jeffrey Way was kind enough to provide a simple API for Prefixr, here’s a System Service that will turn your standard CSS3 properties into cross-browser, vendor-prefixed versions.
css, macos, service
Elastic Threads has also put together some amazing browser extensions (Safari and Chrome) to go with the nvALT 2.1 release. Clip links, selected text and entire pages (optionally using Instapaper Mobilizer) straight to nvALT.
browser, nvalt
