November 2011
14 posts
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Evernote Daily Log with LaunchBar
I’ve always thought Evernote would make for a workable place to keep something like a daily log, but I could never find a friction free workflow to make it happen. However, I was recently reminded that LaunchBar is more than just an application launcher and can execute actions, which can be AppleScripts. Since I know a little AppleScript, I wrote one that would basically solve this...
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Interesting Links - Week 47
I really enjoy Brett Terpstra’s web excursions, so I’ve decided to shamelessly steal the idea. Look for new installments Saturday-ish (unless I don’t find anything interesting to share).
Here are this week’s links:
Calepin - Markdown + Dropbox = Blog.
(An ((Even Better) Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) - Title says it all.
SmalltalkHub - A source code repository for,...
Followup: Book Cover Images
A quick followup to my stealing Amazon image cover images post. I wrote a short AppleScript that will let you grab a one-off. First you’ll need to visit the book’s page on Amazon, highlight the ASIN in the location bar and copy it to the clipboard. Then run this little guy:
Assuming you stay on the item’s Amazon page, it’ll be replaced with just the image, which you can...
Type2Phone (Mac App Store Link) →
Send keystrokes from your Mac to your iOS (or Android, if you must) device. It even works with a Bluetooth keyboard that’s paired to your Mac.
(via osxdaily)
OmniFocus is now on speaking terms… →
So this is pretty awesome. Well done Omni Group.
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Evernote
I’ve decided to abandon my plain text note-taking system in favor of Evernote. nvALT and Byword, Elements and PlainText, these are all great applications and I’ve gotten a lot of use out of them over the years, but there was one use case that they weren’t addressing for me: sometimes it’s helpful to have images, or some other kind of non-textual data, accompany a note. The...
Don't Steal My Shit
There are a bunch of licenses people use for their web content these days. The most prolific is probably Creative Commons and its many variants. But the one constant in all licenses is pervasive legalese. So with that in mind I present to you the Don’t Steal My Shit License:
You can read my shit
You can quote my shit
But don’t be a dick and steal my shit
Simple, permissive, to the...
Brett Kelly - Using Evernote to Archive Your... →
I’ve created and maintain an exhaustive (well, as of a few weeks ago) archive of all almost all of the crap I post on the Internet. You should, too.
This is something I’ve starting doing with ifttt too. I also use it to tweet anything I post here since Tumblr’s auto-tweeting is anti customizable.
Di-Verge
Re: my last link, I feel like I should explain, briefly, why I have no use for sites like Engadget or the Verge (hereafter referred to as General Purpose Tech Blogs, or GPTBs) instead of just saying they suck.
For better or worse, I’m only interested in a small area of the tech world. GPTBs, as my pithy initialism suggests, all cover broad categories of tech topics, most of which I...
Finally, The Verge →
Shadoe Huard:
The truth is simply that I’ve outgrown websites like The Verge. I don’t care for comments, forums or nifty side by side product comparisions. I no longer enjoy websites with front pages littered with dozens of clicable boxes and scrollable banner ads.
I’ve never cared for sites like that, but I checked out The Verge anyway.
My opinion remains unchanged.