If you’re a Things.app user (and a Terminal user), I’ve got a quick function for your .bash_profile that will allow you to quickly add todo items to your inbox with notes and natural-language date parsing.
productivity, scripting, terminal, things
Manton Reece recently released an excellent iPad application called Tweet Library (go ahead, read my post about it on TUAW. You know you want to). He priced it at $9.99, and I have no doubt it’s worth that. I plunked it down about 30 minutes after I started reading about the application. However, I’m apparently one of the weird ones.
commentary, opinion
If you use Skype and happen to be as clumsy as I am, you may have run into this at some point: you see a call come in, you fumble for your headset, you go back to your mouse, find the cursor on your big screen and then try to click the “Answer” button on the call window… only to miss the call because you took too long. I solved this for myself a while back, and thought I’d share my solution.
applescript, scripting, skype
I tried out a tip recently for controlling a Mac via Mobile Safari on your iPhone, and it got me thinking, which is often dangerous. I put together this little web app today as a proof of concept (that got a little out of hand). It basically provides a full interface for volume control, application starting and stopping and many iTunes functions, including volume and EQ. All features provide interface feedback and update you with current info from your Mac.
applescript, iphone, javascript, jquery, php, scripting
I keep trying out the social stream web app, HootSuite (I made a new icon for the Fluid app a while back), both in Safari 5 and in a Fluid browser. I like it, and given that I end up in it pretty often, I thought I’d polish up some edges that were bugging me. These changes may or may not be your cup of tea.
css, userstyle
I ran into a question yesterday that didn’t seem to have an obvious answer: how can I clear a stack of sticky Growl notifications using only the keyboard. It’s not been any secret that I’m a fan of keyboard shortcuts, as indicated by the extensive keyboard support I’ve added to Instapaper Beyond. So I decided to make an interim solution until a specific feature for this is added, either to the Growl preferences or via AppleScript support.
applescript, growl, keyboard, macos, scripting
I’ve been doing some screencasts lately, and have wanted to post them as HTML5 videos in many cases. I also wanted to serve them from my Cloudfront CDN. This is not a how-to post, just some things I learned that I couldn’t find existing answers to. For an excellent primer, see Video On the Web from Dive Into HTML5.
browser, chrome, firefox, html, safari, video
Update: Download link has been updated with a new Bing version. The Yahoo search API was sunset recently and the original service fails to work now. The new download will work for the time being…
experiments, search, searchlink, service, snow leopard, yahoo
TabLinks 2.0 is finished, and it’s a total rewrite. The changes have been submitted to Apple, and if all goes well, TabLinks will be updated in the Extensions Gallery shortly. Here’s an overview of the changes:
extension, safari, tablinks
Evernote introduced Site Memory today, providing an easy way to help people clip to Evernote from your site while maintaining control over how your content appears and is attributed. While some instructions are provided for WordPress, some of us will obviously want to customize things a little further.
Wordpress, evernote, php, tagging
4 quick scripts for TaskPaper users tonight, specifically for handling dates quickly. If you’ve used my other TaskPaper scripts, you know you can use natural language to set start and due dates, and then convert them with the Expand Dates script. These scripts allow you to assign shortcut keys to increment and decrement start and due dates.
applescript, date, scripting, taskpaper
I’m on a roll with stupid scripts today, but it’s Saturday… so, whatever. This is a quick command for creating semantic tags in TextMate. It’s short, but pretty smart: if your text is a mix of upper and lowercase letters, it will take the uppercase letters, in order, and create an acronym from them and insert an tag, using the original input as the title attribute. If it’s one of a couple other scenarios, it will give you the tag setup with…
html, tagging, textmate
This script may not be of use to many people, but I’m finding it so handy today that I figured I’d post it in the hopes that someone who needs it finds it. It’s really only useful to people who use VoodooPad to keep a journal or log with a page for each date, and all it does is jump to the current day’s page. Simple, but useful.
scripting, voodoopad
Primer: gleeBox is an amazing extension for Safari (and Chrome and Firefox) that gives you keyboard navigation of links, bookmarks, bookmarklets and more. If you haven’t tried it out, you should.
extension, gleebox, safari
