I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($42 value each) for Hazel. Hazel lets you create automations based on changes to files, allowing you to do things like automatically filing PDFs, sorting downloads, running optimizations on new images, or just about any file operation you can imagine.
giveaway, hazel, macos
So it turns out Google now offers an API (once again). It’s limited to 100 searches per day for the free version, so I don’t want to put my API key into the public distribution of SearchLink, but if you want to tap into Google’s power for your searches, you can now add your own API key to the config and get 100 searches per day for free. If you should, for whatever reason, run out of searches in a day, it should gracefully switch out to the previous DuckDuckGo configuration.
api, google, search, searchlink
Thanks to Tower for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I swear by this app, and anyone who uses Git for any part of their work or play should check it out.
git, sponsor
First, I’ve created a repo for SearchLink plugins. This is mostly going to be example code, but you might find some useful ones in there. If you’ve never checked out SearchLink and do any kind of writing that requires linking to web sites/pages, app landing pages, Gist embeds, or basically any kind of blogging, web writing, or show notes, you should check it out.
markdown, plugin, search, searchlink, snippet, text, textexpander
SearchLink 2.3.50 is out and contains fixes for some recent changes in DuckDuckGo’s responses. It currently passes all tests except for one (TMDB is returning a movie for the search result “Brad Pitt”, rather than the actor page, and when I add “actor” to the search it dumps out to IMDB, which I don’t fully understand).
markdown, ruby, search, searchlink
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 licenses ($19.99 value each) for WordCounter. Just in time for NaNoWriMo, WordCounter is an app for writers who want to track the most important metric in their daily goal: how many words you write and where. It records your writing productivity automatically in any app, allowing you to just write.
giveaway, macos, writing
I’ve created a forum for discussing all things nerdy, the BrettTerpstra.com Forum. I wanted a place to have conversations about my various projects, but also to allow more interaction with my readers. I’ll be active on it, and I hope you will too.
comments, email, forum, notifications
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 licenses ($59 value each) for Scrivener. Scrivener is the ultimate app for writers. Organize your story, add research, and get to writing with full support for notes, links, footnotes, rich text, Markdown and so much more. With story organization features, character tracking, and a complete set of writing tools, it’s the most fully-fledged writing app you’ll find. Get ready for NaNoWriMo! (By the way, it also integrates well with…
giveaway, macos, writing
A long time ago I published a tool called iTunesIcon that would grab an app icon from iTunes. It worked well in its time, but has been mostly broken in recent years. It was designed mostly for writers who were reviewing apps and needed to get an app’s icon for artwork, but could be used by anyone with a need for such things.
icons, imagemagick, ios, iphone, itunes, itunesicon, macos, ruby, scripting, search
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 1-year subscriptions ($39.96 value each) for TextExpander. TextExpander is a long-time supporter of BrettTerpstra.com and I’m very proud of that. It’s the first app I install on a new Mac and I almost can’t function without it. It saves me untold hours of typing, and with its shell scripting capabilities it goes well beyond simple text expansion.
giveaway, macos, textexpander
