I recently added a PopClip extension for dialing Skype to my collection. It scans selected text for a 7 or 10-digit phone number, offering a Skype button in the PopClip popup if it finds one. When activated, it dials the first match in the selected text.
applescript, popclip, regex, ruby, skype
Simplify 2.7 is out and Sidecar has updated to make use of the new API. The biggest improvement you’ll notice is that background clicks are now captured perfectly, so clicking anywhere on Sidecar will start and stop your music properly on the first click. Double-clicking advances the track, and Command-clicking seeks to a position in the song based on where you click in the vertical progress meter.
sideshow, simplify
Have you been waiting to pay the full-yet-surprisingly-cheap price of $3.99 US for Marked? Now’s your chance: from now until it’s not, Marked is 0% off1!
humor, marked, sale
I stumbled upon a BetterTouchTool setting that filled me with glee today. It probably should have been obvious to me earlier, but I hadn’t tried right clicking a gesture in the table view. When you do, you get this menu:
bettertouchtool, gestures, macos
I’m just full of news this morning. Systematic 47 is live with my guest Fletcher Penney. Fletcher, in addition to his medical career, is the creator of MultiMarkdown and MultiMarkdown Composer.
podcast, systematic
Byword 2.0 for both Mac and iOS platforms has been released. It may look the same on first load, but the under-the-hood improvements are great. Byword is one of my absolute favorite Markdown editors, and despite its billing as a “minimalist” editor, it packs a lot of editing power.
byword, markdown, texteditor
It’s “Sale Day” at brettterpstra.com today. In addition to the sale on 60 Mountain Lion Tips, Marked is 50% off for a couple of days as part of $2 Tuesday. If you still haven’t tried it out, now would be a great time!
marked, sale
David Sparks and I are in the mood to celebrate WWDC and the Mac community. 60 Mountain Lion Tips, the multimedia book I co-authored with David, is on sale this week in the iBookstore. You can pick it up for $2.99 US until Sunday.
60tips, ibooks, sale
