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
nvALT users have waited a while for this version, and Elastic Threads and I are excited to finally be posting it for you. It’s also available through automatic updates, so current users should be seeing an internal notice soon as well.
nvalt
A few people have asked how to get Textile working in Marked. You need to have a Textile converter available from the command line. There are a few options, including Pandoc, but the two easiest I’ve found are RedCloth for Ruby and Textile for Perl (requires that the Developer Tools be installed). Install one or the other:
marked, textile
Well, my “secret” project is up and out: Marked was approved by Apple today for sale in the Mac App Store. It’s a Markdown previewer which can watch any text file for changes, updating the HTML preview whenever you save it. It adds Markdown preview to any text editor.
macappstore, markdown, marked, multimarkdown
I just spent the weekend experimenting with the idea of converting this whole blog from WordPress to Jekyll. It’s a blogging system that runs entirely off of static html files, and you can store your posts as individual Markdown files. Add a post and you can regenerate all of the indexes and archives at once and deploy the static site. The speed and stability increase is immense.
Wordpress, jekyll
Here’s another simple Bash function that I’ve used so much recently I thought I should share. It’s called , which stands for Open File Type, and can be used as a standalone shell script or as a function in your . When run, it looks in the current directory for files with extensions that match (or partially match) the first argument and opens them.
scripting, terminal
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, until I got a request from Patrick regarding an OmniFocus CLI and LaunchBar. I thought it might be time to dig this up and post it.
appscript, omnifocus, otask, ruby
I store all of my writing as separate Markdown files. A basic tagging system1 adds more “searchability,” and I can quickly locate any file with Spotlight2. Given the amount of time I spend in Terminal (well, iTerm 2 these days), I use quite a bit to do the Spotlight searching. This function just makes it a little more convenient to search for and quickly edit an existing document.
markdown, mdfind, scripting, spotlight, terminal
Thanks to everyone I met at WWDC this year and to the friends I got to see for a great time. San Francisco was as beautiful as ever and the Mac and iOS development communities are, as usual, full of new and brilliant ideas. It’s always heartening to see. TUAW and MacTech will be posting the result of our blogging work at WWDC over the next few weeks.
personal, wwdc
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.
macappstore, macos, quicktip, solutions
