A few years ago, back when the Macworld conference was still a thing, I did a presentation with David Sparks and Merlin Mann. We delivered 60 Mac tips in 60 minutes. It was quite a feat, and a dizzying amount of information. David and I decided to turn that into a more usable compendium, and released 60 Mac Tips on iBooks. Today we’re announcing Volume 2.
60tips, writing
MultiMarkdown Composer has been my top pick for serious Markdown editing for quite a while now. Version 4 is a big upgrade from the previous version, and I’m excited it’s finally available to the public.
editor, markdown, multimarkdown, review, texteditor
So any and all users who’ve upgraded to the High Sierra preview has had issues with the nvALT. I know this because of the number of emails and tweets and various other means of complaining that are absolutely not the GitHub Issues page I try so hard to point people to for such communication. Also, because I’m running High Sierra, too.
nvalt
Last month John Gruber mentioned a widespread complaint about Safari’s lack of favicons in tabs. I agree. So did Daniel Alm (developer of Timing), so he put together a helper app to do it.
browser, macos, safari
I just wanted to mention that today is the last day of the Learn Ulysses intro sale. Starting tomorrow the price will go up to $29, but you can still get the intro price of $23 for a few more hours.
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You may or may not recall my Sidecar jacket for Simplify, the macOS controller for Spotify and iTunes (and others). Sidecar is my “Minimalist Yet Huge” version, and I still use it every day.
macos, sideshow, simplify
If you like Ulysses, the powerful writing app for Mac and iOS, or even if you’re trying to figure out why you should like it, there’s good news today. Shawn Blanc and The Sweet Setup have released a new video series called Learn Ulysses.
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Let’s address the headline first. This post is about the tags on files that Apple started supporting in Mavericks. Up until iOS 11, they didn’t work on iOS devices, so they eventually became “Finder tags.” I think “Apple Tags” is going to have to be the nomenclature moving forward (now that they’re starting to work on iOS as well), but I don’t think it’s a widely accepted phrase yet. So I’ll use “Finder tags” for a little while longer.
macos, scripting, tagging, terminal, vitag
Here’s a quick script I swear I’ve written before but couldn’t find. If given a string as an argument, it converts it to seconds, and if given just a series of numbers, it converts the number to a human-readable string.
cli, ruby, scripting
