Federico Viticci mentioned my little TitleCase project in a MacStories post recently, but I never got around to officially announcing it. It’s a very simple API for title casing a string of text (AP rules) which can be used in iOS workflows, Mac services and CLIs, and any tool that can get a response from a URL.
api, writing
I’ve answered some questions about my own experience with creating screencasts recently. I’m not by any means the most prolific screencaster in the community, but I learned a lot creating 60 Tips with David Sparks for the iBookstore, and creating my own screencasts for Marked 2 and my blog. It seemed like the kind of info that might be of use to the world.
productivity, screencast, tips, video
I just updated iTunesIcon, my little app for grabbing icons for any App Store application. This is a bugfix release, updated to fix the recent bug that only saved the 100x100px version of an icon.
ios, iphone, itunesicon, macos, scripting, search
Nova, a new icon set from the creator of the fantastic Streamline set is out. It includes 4000 icons (both line and solid versions) in Sketch, Illustrator, SVG, and PDF formats.
design, freebie, icons
I made a little bookmarklet this morning for cleaning up highlighted code blocks in web pages for copying into my notes. You just click it on any web page and all blocks and elements will be turned into plain text.
bookmarklet, code, javascript
I wasn’t planning to do anything with Marked 2 for Black Friday this year. More than that, really, I was planning not to do anything. Then I went outside.
markdown, marked, sale
Thanks to Clarify for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been using Clarify for a long time, and I’m honored to have Blue Mango supporting this blog.
sponsor
I’ve mentioned WALTR before, and am a happy user of Boom 2—a great utility for boosting and eq’ing all the sound that comes out of your Mac. Add Elmedia Player PRO and Beamer 3, and you have a great kit for high-quality movie viewing on your Mac (and sending to Apple TV or Chromecast).
sale, video
It’s often useful to quickly see line numbers when viewing source code files. The command and related tools can display with line numbers. There’s also the command, but it doesn’t number blank lines and tends to mess up formatting. There’s are ways that are more flexible and better looking. Enter and .
bash, terminal, unix
