As I move along with my Jekyll/Octopress transition, I’m working to make the move as clean as possible. I’m importing my WordPress database rather than starting fresh, and I’ll be sharing tidbits of discoveries as I go. These posts will only be of interest to people making similar transitions, but they’ll also be serving as notes for myself and Google search results for people up against the same conundrums.
jekyll, octopress, ruby, scripting
Update: These are the notes for the original version, which worked by sending the toggle command to MuteMyMic. Coughbutton has been revised to work with On/Off commands for Skype directly, no longer toggling system mute. This is more useful to me, and hopefully to others. The Github link is the same, and there’s a post with revised information.
iphone, scripting
I mentioned nvNotes back in September. People seemed to dig the idea (Notational Velocity for iPhone), but there was one big thing missing: Dropbox sync. Well, it’s moved one step closer: it now saves your notes to a Dropbox folder. It doesn’t read them back or pick up new notes yet, but we’re moving in the right direction.
apps, iphone, notes, sale
rvl.io: Presentations Made Beautiful Oh, wow. wow, wow, wow. I spent years looking for a solid HTML presentation solution, and reveal.js is tops in my book. This is a Keynote-ish online editor to create reveal.js decks without HTML coding (or just paste HTML into the source panel). Amazing work. Send SMS to Messages and run commands with AppleScript - Mac OS X Hints There just are not enough hours in a day—even if you don’t sleep—to explore all of the tinkering…
bookmarks
I was chatting with Gabe Weatherhead yesterday about turning SearchLink into a Python script that could then run on Pythonista. That would allow you to copy text from an iOS editor, open Pythonista and run the script, then go back to your editor and paste with your links converted. I’m not sure it’s going to be possible, yet, because I don’t know how iOS and Pythonista handle network connections from scripts. I have a lot to learn.
ios, markdown, scripting, texteditor
I had the pleasure of hosting Christina Warren for this week’s episode of Systematic. We chatted about blogging, the future of film and television and, of course, Halloween costumes.
podcast, systematic
SearchLink is a System Service for OS X that handles searching multiple sources and automatically generating Markdown links for text. It allows you to just write, marking things to link as you go. When you’re done, you run it on the document and — if your queries were good — have your links generated automatically without ever opening a browser.
markdown, searchlink, service
Below are the winners of the Cleartones Organic giveaway. If your name is listed and the linked comment is yours, you should be hearing from both me and the developer with notification and a download link (respectively). If you don’t, let me know.
giveaway
Hazel is a great tool for automation on your Mac. It lets you trigger actions based on various filesystem activity, conditions and regularly scheduled events. It can clean up your downloads, upload your files to servers when they show up in a folder and tons more.
hazel, productivity
