In response to a tweet from @gl3media, I’ve added a quick modification of the MultiMarkdown to HTML service to the Markdown Service Tools project page. It simply renders the selected text to HTML via MultiMarkdown 2 (Perl) and SmartyPants, putting the result on the clipboard and leaving the original text alone.
markdown, markdownservices, multimarkdown, service
I tweeted the other day that @eternalstorms is way too good at solving my problems for me. What I was referring to was Yoink, which just became available today. It’s an uber-simple app which provides a drawer for dragging files between spaces and full-screen apps. I wrote it up on TUAW this morning, so I won’t go into detail here.
appreview, lion, macos, utility
Anyone who’s read this blog, used my projects or has talked to me about anything nerdy for more than five minutes knows I’m a fan of Markdown. The question doesn’t come up often, but occasionally someone dares to ask–despite the apparent probability that it will lead to a lengthy explanation–why I use Markdown in so many of my workflows. I give just about the same response to seasoned nerds as I do to my not-so-computer-savvy friends. This isn’t the Markdown…
blogging, markdown, text, writing
Joe Workman put out a utility today for sharing Application Support folders between machines using Dropbox. It uses symlinks to allow moving the folder out of and into your Dropbox but keeping it accessible to the application. This is a great trick, and the Joe’s utility makes it dead simple to pull off. The biggest concern, however, is the possibility of corruption and other issues if you run the application on multiple machines simultaneously.
dropbox, scripting
I’ve heard complaints over the last year that apps such as nvALT and Marked slow down when handling large documents. I’m constantly working to optimize the code and the preview processes, but here’s a tip that I hope will be taken to heart: split your longer text documents into manageable portions.
nvalt, text, writing
Here’s a little gem of an app: Launchpad-Control. It’s actually a Preference Pane, and it allows you to use simple checkboxes to show and hide items, folders and even entire pages of applications in Lion’s Launchpad.
appreview, launchpad, lion, macos
Thanks to a pointer from Jeremy Lu, I’ve got the Antique Safari Reader hack running in Safari 5.1. I can’t begin to tell you how much I’d missed it since updating to Lion. I’ve updated the instructions page to include the Lion location of Reader.html.
antique, reader, safari
I’ve updated the service mentioned in the post “Automated search and link text.” The Yahoo API broke (was sunset) and I needed to rewrite it to work with Bing instead. The result is below, and can also replace the md-Luck Link service from the Markdown Service Tools.
markdownservices
In the interest of actually getting going on app reviews on this blog, I’m mentioning a somewhat obvious one: Byword. While I still write my drafts in nvALT and do the heavy lifting and linking in TextMate with my Blogsmith Bundle, Byword has quickly become the place where I actually do my writing.
appreview, byword, macos, writing
