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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 w

Grabbing a Mac app's icon: building blocks

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

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 Finder. If

Grabbing a Mac app's icon: advanced Bash usage

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 tur

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 sometimes, b

Notational Velocity ALT 1.0 release

After a few late nights of off-hours programming, I'm putting Notational Velocity ALT out as a version 1.0. Obviously built on the backs of others, I'm just giving it a versioning scheme of its own to

Notational Velocity ALT 5.3

As usual with projects I didn't plan to take as far as I did, my version numbering scheme is, well, stupid. With the next release I'm going to implement my own feed for automatic updates, so I'll prob

Clear sticky Growl notifications with a keyboard shortcut

I ran into a question yesterday that didn't seem to have an obvious answer: how can I clear a stack of sticky Growl notifications using only the keyboard. It's not been any secret that I'm a fan of ke

MultiMarkdown in MarsEdit

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

Fun with MarsEdit, part I

I'll be the first to admit that I get a little obsessed with projects that aren't really going to improve my life all that much. Those projects can be fun to blog about, though, so I present you my br

Instapaper Beyond 1.3

I just pushed out a fairly large update for Instapaper Beyond^instapaperbeyond, my little userscript for Fluid which adds extensive keyboard navigation and additional functionality to the Instapaper w

Delicious, Spotlight and OpenMeta tags, revisited

I've taken a little time to improve the script I'd posted previously. It saves bookmarks you add to Delicious as webloc (Safari bookmark) files on your local hard drive, optionally with thumbnails and

Delicious bookmarks and OpenMeta tags

There are quite a few things I love when it comes to my Mac. I love Spotlight. I love OpenMeta tagging. I love Evernote. I love being able to collect information from any source, and find anything I'v

TextExpander experiments

I've seen a few people around the 'net sharing their TextExpander snippets, so I thought I'd join in. Not familiar with TextExpander? It's a Mac utility that expands short snippets into full text you'

A better System Service for Evernote clipping - with MultiMarkdown

Update: If you're looking for a Markdown -> Evernote, check this out.

Another post, quickly and with less explanation...

The fact that Evernote processes HTML so much better than it does plain or ri