Automated search and link text Service

I've had this one laying around for a long time, so I thought I'd toss it out on the 'net and see if anyone else had a use for it. It's actually really handy, and a big timesaver. It takes selected te

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Is your URL too short? Try our system, free!

URL Extender SystemI was sifting through my previous blog after Jeffery Zeldman kindly sent a lot of visitors in that direction for some TextMate starter tips. Whilst milling around, I stumbled upon an old trick I used

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EverSave revisited, now with session restore!

Safari 5 has brought several solutions for managing lists of open tabs, from the simple (like my TabLinks extension) to full session-management capabilities (see the beautiful Sessions extension). How

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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'

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A System Service for to. url shortening

I'm fascinated by http://to. It's a url shortener with no TLD. Some browsers, and apparently some DNS setups, don't like the urls it creates (they want a .com or .org or anything at the end), so it's

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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 today, my m

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Updated: Songza Lucky Link Service

Songza.fm has moved to Songza.org, so I've rewritten the old Songza Lucky Link Service for Snow Leopard to match. This new version of the service runs without dependencies, so it should work for any S

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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...

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

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A (fairly) simple equation evaluation service for Snow Leopard

ExpressionevalheaderDownload the Evaluate Expression Snow Leopard service: EvaluateExpressionService.zip

This is a stripped down version of a command I have in the TextMate bundle we use at TUAW. It allows you to select

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Songza Lucky Link Service

This is a quick and dirty Snow Leopard Service that scrapes Songza.fm to find a song related to your selected text in most applications. It replaces the selected text with an is.gd shortened link and

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Clippable to Evernote Snow Leopard Service

clippabletoevernote110309 Clippable to Evernote will allow you to trigger the Clippable bookmarklet in Safari and copy the result directly to your "Unfiled" notebook in Evernote. This service is Snow Leopard-only. If you need

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