Just a quick note for those who may have missed it: Songza is back at http://songza.org! This is exciting to me personally, as I had been having a lot of fun searching and automatically creating links to Songza pages, mostly just to back up obscure music references when I pushed them on unsuspecting victims. Hooray!
songza
I posted a way to save your Safari tabs to Evernote, which I’ve found is generally a great way to save bookmarks. It syncs automatically to your other computers and your iPhone, and it’s fast and easy. If you really want to highlight a few tabs to make sure you get back to them, you might consider this script, though. Once you’ve saved your entire Safari browsing session for later, close everything except for those special urls, run the code below as a script, and your open…
applescript, instapaper, safari
Just a quick change to my post on the bash function that I’ve been using. A small modification has greatly improved its usability: make the cancel option always be first in the menu. Just move “Cancel” before the bit. It’s a little odd that I didn’t do that to begin with…
function, scripting, shell, terminal
I primarily use Safari for web browsing, mostly because it’s smoother and faster than Firefox, and the Web Inspector is just as useful as Firebug. As time passes, I end up with a lot of web pages open, and I like to clear out my browser tabs on a regular basis. Safari doesn’t really have a long-term session-saving option, so I save lists of open tabs to various applications. I used to use SafariStand to do this, but it got too buggy and slow for me. I use VoodooPad for it, but I…
applescript, evernote, safari, websurfing
I’ve pushed out an update to Clippable, for better or worse. In addition to the previously added line number removal for code blocks, it removes spans used in TextMate formatted code and adds some keyboard shortcuts:
bookmarklet, clippable, iphone, mobile, readability
I apologize for the recent downtime, which also affected the Clippable bookmarklet’s ability to work. Dreamhost has been pretty awful with downtime lately, and my attempt to switch to a different physical server resulted in a horrible mess for myself and several clients. I have to say that Dreamhost support was extremely helpful in repairing the situation… their support is the main reason I’ve stuck with them through the 4 hours of downtime I’d had up to that point. I&…
clippable, news, songza
I’m sitting at the airport in Minneapolis, waiting for a flight to Atlanta. I’m headed for Big Nerd Ranch for a week-long crash course in iPhone programming. I’ve done a little, but I think it will be a great way to start from the basics and fill in all of the holes in my knowledge. The thing is, I’m a little torn about the circumstances; Big Nerd Ranch is paying for this trip and providing a week of classes in order for me to review the facilities for The Unofficial…
bignerdranch, personal, travel, tuaw, writing
This is a stripped down version of a command I have in the TextMate bundle we use at TUAW. It allows you to select any basic numeric equation and evaluate it, replacing the selected text with the results. It will ignore your text if it contains anything but numbers and basic mathematical symbols. Sure, there are plenty of ways to do calculations in OS X (Spotlight, Launchbar, Quicksilver), but I’ve had more and more incidents lately where I just wanted to do quick calculations inline, so…
Code, ruby, service, snow leopard
I made a couple of minor changes to the Clippable bookmarklet, mostly in the way it handles SyntaxHighlighter code blocks. The SyntaxHighlighter plugin is used (too) often to format and color code source snippets in websites. The result when clipping a page is that the code you get still has line numbers, but no option to view the raw source without going back to the web page. Then you end up manually editing out the line numbers if you want to copy and paste the code, which can be a pain in…
bookmarklet, clippable, evernote, javascript, snippet, source
Erica Sadun recently released her latest app, Draw (iTunes link), into the wilds of the App Store. I take a special interest in this release because I designed the interface for it from the ground up. Erica, of course, made all of the magic happen; she’d take my photoshop sketches and send them back as amazing working interfaces. In the end, it was a really fun process to go through and Erica was great to work with. Here’s a quick walk-through of the design process.
appdesign, design, draw, ericasadun, iphone
Well, I’ve been out of touch with a lot of people for the last four days, and I thought I’d save some time and provide a place I could link everyone to for a quick explanation. On Tuesday evening, in the middle of what the weather service is calling our “worst storm in 20 years,” I started having stomach cramps. I won’t go into detail about what followed, but I’ll skip forward to the part where Aditi (my loving and amazingly dedicated wife) packed me into her 4-wheel…
personal
I do a lot in Terminal. Sometimes, it’s easier. Sometimes it’s faster. Sometimes I’d just rather type it out. Whatever the reason, I’ve never been able to stand looking at a boring shell prompt. Bash is my primary shell, mostly because I’ve never taken the time to learn much else. I’ll get there someday. For now, here’s my current Bash shell prompt…
prompt, terminal
