After my epic three-part post on Saturday, I spent the rest of the weekend doing more “useful” things. Now it’s Sunday night (Monday morning, I think), and I’ve got some kind of minor food poisoning which is currently keeping me awake. Thus a “hey, cool trick” post.
automator, macos, ruby, service, webdesign
A simpler and faster alternative to wireframes – Attack Of Design Amen to that. sergeche/xmlview - GitHub Another “holy cow” Safari Extension. This one works in tandem with the XML Viewer plugin and provides Espresso-esque styling, XPath searching and sidebar nav for XML files in Safari. Snipe by Joseph Schmitt One of the coolest Safari Extensions I’ve seen yet, both in functionality and design. It lets you instantly jump to any open tab by typing any part of the tab&…
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We’ve covered a small truckload of Bash scripting ideas for Mac and OS X in the previous two posts. It’s time to put them to use and create an Automator app that we can use as a droplet in Finder. If you skipped straight here, it probably means you don’t really want to know about the messy details of the scripts, so this post won’t go into a lot of Unix mumbo jumbo.
automator, macos, terminal
In the previous post in this series, we looked at the basic Terminal commands we’d use to grab a Mac application’s icon from the command line. In this post, we’ll flesh out the script a little and turn it into a Bash function with some added features:
macos, terminal
I spent a few hours last night nerding out over an easy way to grab a Mac application’s icon. I sent the basic Bash script and an example Automator action off to the other writers at TUAW. Then there was dinner, a movie, drinks and dessert. I found myself back at it when I got home. I am Jack’s complete inability to leave well enough alone1.
macos, terminal
Show Hidden Files in Mac OS X Dialog Boxes with Command+Shift+Period Not new, but neat to know. Aliases - Git SCM Wiki Handy, handy stuff. I suppose that depends on whether you use Git or not, though. The Completely Redesigned Evernote for iPhone and iPod Touch Nice update. Very nice. Gauges Nice looking hosted analytics app from Ordered List. CSS3 Progress Bars – CSS-Tricks That’s pretty cool. A Hand-Coded Designer CSS UI Kit – MediaLoot Nice set of UI…
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Thanks to Michael Jones for brightening an otherwise dull day for me. He pointed me to placekitten, a site that mimics placehold.it and inserts dummy images into HTML mockups for you. The difference being that placekitten does it with pictures of, yes, kittens.
design, lipsum, textexpander
I know a lot of people are growing nervous about whether the promised version 1.0.8 of nvALT is actually going to reach fruition. It will. I’m not sure how much further I’ll take this incarnation of the project after that–the roadmap may be shifted to a new project–but I’ll follow through with the updates I’ve planned for the upcoming release.
notational velocity, nvalt
Stickto’s - Organization for people who love Moleskines A dynamic todo solution for Moleskins. A little silly, a little awesome. Command-line CSS spriting / Stoyan’s phpied.com Not the most bulletproof spriting method, but I love the curl command for using Smushit from the command line. HTML5 Tutorials and Techniques That Will Keep You Busy - Noupe Design Blog More HTML5 tutorials than you have time to read, unless that’s all you happen to be doing lately. Some…
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Using HTML5 To Transform WordPress’ TwentyTen Theme - Smashing Magazine Ready to start using HTML5? Some solid arguments for, with good examples of how. The Difference Between jQuery’s .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() - Alfa Jango Blog I know the basics of optimizing these, but this article really helps you understand why to use the various jQuery bindings. Why You’re a Bad PHP Programmer – Nettuts+ I don’t rank so hot on this. This post is an impetus…
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