Taking the Markdown to Evernote service further

Martin Kopischke has taken my little Markdown to Evernote Service and made it whole. I dropped the project pretty quickly as I stopped using Evernote as my primary storage for text notes, and

Quick Link: Terminal navigation utilities

If you follow me on Twitter, you've probably seen me express my adoration for autojump, a command-line utility for navigating frequently-used folders. The only problem is that I deal with a lo

Quick Tip: clean up your MultiMarkdown tables

The table syntax in MultiMarkdown is intuitive and can be really fast to work with. Much faster than coding HTML tables, to be sure. Unless you're pretty religious about your spacing, though,

The Mac and iOS mind mapping app extravaganza

Most of my projects start out as mind maps (which I may have mentioned before). Whether it's a packing list, a blog post or a TextMate bundle, I find it easiest to organize my (often scatter

Bored with your MacVim icon? Me too.

I got bored with the default MacVim icon a long time ago, before I was even using it regularly. I've been using Daniel Fischer's replacement icons since then, but today I got bored again. I di

TextMate as WriteRoom, for free

I use TextMate for editing most of my Markdown. I could name a dozen reasons why this is the case, but let's leave it at auto-pairing, wrapping and the Blogsmith Bundle features. Anyhow, I got

Pinboard redesign experiment

A Pinboard redesign built off of the styles started by Josh Pigford, I'm providing a bare stylesheet which works with StyleBot on Chrome and User CSS on Safari. The Chrome version can be insta

Grabbing a Mac app's icon: Automator style

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 Fin

My Desktop, February 2011

What the heck, right?

This is what I see when I slide four fingers up my Magic Trackpad (or hit F11). NerdTool does all of the heavy lifting: top memory processes, top CPU processes, 5 min

Markdown in ScreenSteps

I love ScreenSteps, the app from Blue Mango which makes creating documentation for screen-based applications as fast and easy as making documentation can possibly be. It's a little clunky some

Notational Velocity update breaks nvALT

The latest update to the original Notational Velocity is awesome, and includes a lot of changes which I'll be merging in the next release of nvALT. However, it uses a newer database structure

On my way to Macworld '11

I'm sitting at the airport on free wifi right now, getting ready to embark on a trip from Minnesota to California for Macworld. If anyone is headed out there, I'd love to meet you. TUAW will b

Testing from Vim

This is a quick test from the VimPress script to see if I can blog from Vim. I've got Vim pretty pimped out now, with great themes, great plugins (git support, auto-pairing, auto-completion, Z

GMail tip: super-mass editing messages

Update: Jeff Scott totally nailed me on this one:

You may already know this one, but if you don't, it's pretty handy.

I have a typical blogger's inbox, with about 80k messages just from th

Quick Link: Sparkup rocks my world a little

I just discovered Sparkup (via NetTuts+). It adds the one thing I find lacking in Zen Coding: the ability to traverse backward in a shortcut (among several other improvements).

Background: Ze

Quick Link: historio.us

I found a great new service via Smashing Magazine today: historio.us. It's a bookmarking service with some seriously impressive twists.

I've been using Delicious with Delibar for quite a whil

A little HootSuite userstyling

I keep trying out the social stream web app, HootSuite (I made a new icon for the Fluid app a while back), both in Safari 5 and in a Fluid browser. I like it, and given that I end up in it pre

Quick notes on cross-browser HTML5 video

I've been doing some screencasts lately, and have wanted to post them as HTML5 videos in many cases. I also wanted to serve them from my Cloudfront CDN. This is not a how-to post, just some th

gleeBox gets prettier highlights

Primer: gleeBox is an amazing extension for Safari (and Chrome and Firefox) that gives you keyboard navigation of links, bookmarks, bookmarklets and more. If you haven't tried it out, you sh

Instapaper Beyond microsite

Due in part to the inclusion of Instapaper Beyond in Apple's Safari Extensions Gallery, I've put together a dedicated "microsite" for Instapaper Beyond. You can check it out at http://brettter

Instapaper Beyond in the Safari Extensions Gallery

I just got word from Apple that Instapaper Beyond is being added to the Safari Extensions Gallery! That's great news, for the most part... it means that I'll have to run all future updates thr

Three things I discovered today

Amidst trying to get ready to launch a major website and playing with my own personal projects, I realized three things today. How important they are is debatable, and their usefulness depends

A cleaner HootSuite icon for Fluid/Prism

This is just a quick pointer to an icon I whipped up this evening for HootSuite. I thought I'd share it in case anyone else found the default icon packed with the Fluid SSB download (available

Notes on cleaning up the MediaTemple hack (JohnnyA)

NOTE: Be sure to read through the comments, there's a lot of additional and very useful information in there. I'll compile the notes as soon as I'm able and add them to the main post.

First,

New Safari Extensions give good source

A couple of very cool Safari Extensions came down the pipe today, both geared toward web developers and code monkeys. The two of them combined make viewing source in Safari a whole lot better.

An ode to Twilight, and a TextMate tip

A good friend of mine, Christina Warren, just published a piece on Mashable / Dev & Design about TextMate themes, and it warms my heart to know there are other people as dedicated to this

Antique on PimpMySafari.com

There was a nice mention of Antique today over at PimpMySafari.com. Thanks, Scott! Despite having sworn off the Reader hacking, I've actually been continuing development, making tweaks and exp

MultiMarkdown in MarsEdit

I've just started using MarsEdit again (in combination with my TextMate blogging bundles), but I've run into a couple of issues. First, I can't assign thumbnails to my posts directly. This is

My weather report. Seriously.

I did some massive Spring cleaning over the weekend, and found a lot of "treasures" that, after having been momentarily cherished, are on their way to the dump. A pile of Dead Kennedy's and TC

Targeting and filtering IE with relative ease

I just read a blog post by James Scariati regarding a method to target every version of IE from a single stylesheet. The idea was to add a wrapper div with a specific class using conditional c

Compress PDFs with Preview

It's probably old news to most, but I just realized this today. Since Leopard, OS X's multi-talented Preview.app can compress needlessly large PDF's in a matter of seconds. My clients (and tod

Songza is back!

Just a quick note for those who may have missed it: Songza is back at http://songza.org! This is exciting to me personally, as I had been having a lot of fun searching and automatically creati

Clippable updated, goes mobile

I've pushed out an update to Clippable, for better or worse. In addition to the previously added line number removal for code blocks, it removes spans used in TextMate formatted code and adds

Designing Draw

Erica Sadun recently released her latest app, Draw (iTunes link), into the wilds of the App Store. I take a special interest in this release because I designed the interface for it from the gr

Getting back into real TextMate blogging

It may take me a while to convert my setup back to the old days of TextMate blogging. I've primarily been blogging for TUAW, which uses a blogging system with very poor XMLRPC support. The en