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
Due in part to the inclusion of Instapaper Beyond in Apple’s Safari Extensions Gallery, I’ve put together a dedicated “microsite” for Instapaper Beyond. You can check it out at http://brettterpstra.com/instapaperbeyond.
extension, instapaper, instapaper beyond, safari
I just got word from Apple that Instapaper Beyond is being added to the Safari Extensions Gallery! That’s great news, for the most part… it means that I’ll have to run all future updates through Apple before releasing them, but I assume that will just be a minor formality in the grand scheme of things.
extension, instapaper, instapaper beyond, safari
Amidst trying to get ready to launch a major website and playing with my own personal projects, I realized three things today. How important they are is debatable, and their usefulness depends entirely on what you’re working on right now.
aditi, emma, experiments, family, markdown, multimarkdown, voodoopad
I was sifting through my previous blog after Jeffery Zeldman kindly sent a lot of visitors in that direction for some TextMate starter tips. Whilst milling around, I stumbled upon an old trick I used to use in Quicksilver (before I gave up on it1), but had forgotten about since.
experiments, launchbar, service, snow leopard, terminal, url shortener
I love the keyboard, and I love keyboard shortcuts. It’s one of the reasons TextMate and I get along so well. There’s one thing that bothers me any time I’m editing text (in any application), though: having to move my right hand all the way over to the arrow keys just to move forward a couple of characters, say, after an auto-paired set of parenthesis that I want to get out of.
keybindings, keyboard, terminal, textmate
I just pushed a tiny little update to the GReader Instapaper extension. It shortens the default speed at which the notifications disappear, and adds a settings item in preferences so you can adjust it if you want to. I think the 1300ms delay is a pretty good one, it was 5000 before (and everyone complained). All better.
extension, instapaper, safari
Yesterday, I posted a quick TextExpander snippet for inserting placeholder images into an HTML layout using placehold.it. I took a minute today to convert this to a TextMate snippet as well, and wanted to share it as I find it immensely useful.
snippet, textmate
When designing for the web, placeholder images can come in handy during initial layout, and even during wireframing, if you happen to wireframe in markup. I’ve been using a TextExpander snippet to generate instant placeholder images at any size (almost) and with appropriate titles using Placehold.it. It’s a really handy snippet to have in your web design toolkit.
snippet, textexpander, webdesign
This is just a quick pointer to an icon I whipped up this evening for HootSuite. I thought I’d share it in case anyone else found the default icon packed with the Fluid SSB download (available here) unsatisfactory. Their icon is too big and looks awkward in my Dock, so I trimmed it down and vectorized the owl to clean up the lines a bit.
design, fluid, icon
