Sam’s random musings

The birth of a new app:

Giles Turnbull: “Enter Sam DeVore, full-time dad and part-time programmer. He saw the need for something new, and suspected he could create it very rapidly. He posted to the list, announcing his plan, and set to work.”

Being the self centered narcissist that I am, and that the internet lets me expose myself as, here are some places that have linked to this.

• Ranchero.com home of Brent S. The man behind MarsEdit and NetNewsWire two fantastic apps
• Studio Log
• TruerWords.net - “I just turn on the watcher, copy the URL I want, then copy the text I want, then go to the next page I want to quote from and do the same thing. When I’m done, all of my quotes and URLs are together and ready to be used”

More Information about Clipboard Watcher

shellbar.htm

There must be a reason to write a software. We use unix-like shell scripts in application development on mac os X. Some scripts copies resource files, some other completes application bundles, some others prepares tar and gz files or send mails with attach. Other scripts can make automatic back-ups or other important operations.

This is a nice implementation for building feedback from shell scripts…

STC fontBrowser:

I really wish that I would remember to use STC fontBrowser. Instead of using the handy web app to see what a given text sample looks like in any of the fonts I have installed on my system, I always use Photoshop to awkwardly run through all my fonts. Instead of dealing with easily overrun text boxes and inverted colors, I should just plug my text (”My Totally Awesome Homepage!“) into fontBrowser and let it do the work. But I always forget.

Wow this is really a cool tool. Always nice to see not only a good demonstration of a technology (flash in this case) but also in a really useful way.

(Via Fontleech: The Free Font Blog.)

MarsEdit 1.0 Released!:

MarsEdit makes weblog writing like writing email, with each post edited in its own window, the ability to save posts as drafts, spell-checking, and a familiar Mac OS X interface.

While designed to be easy to use for new webloggers, MarsEdit also includes features power-bloggers need: support for categories, text filters, trackbacks, custom templates, AppleScript, and more.

It also works with NetNewsWire and other newsreaders for OS X that include a post-to-weblog feature. The newsreader’s post-to-weblog command can be used to send a news item to MarsEdit, where it can be commented on and then posted to a weblog.

I love this app it makes writing for a blog that I should do more writing and not just linking. The slick hidden feature is that it saves your work as you go, so you can recover from a crash of somekind… no more, my browser crashed and I lost a great post excuses…

(Via Ranchero.)

Michael Tsai has released DropDMG 2.5 Seth says…

I use this little tool all the time, and just last week was wondering if I needed any new features.

New features include: - mount a disk image anywhere in the file system - it can convert lots of archive file formats into disk image files - mounted images can have custom (pre-defined) icon - you can save your preference set into a file so it’s easy to switch back and forth between sets - DropDMG can now process multiple commands from AppleScript or the command line at the same time. - over 30 others

and those are just some of the ones that Seth pointed out

(Via TruerWords.)

Flickr Gallery 0.4:

Flickr Gallery 0.4: Plugin for WordPress. This one should be really cool. From what I can tell from the plugin, you post to Flickr and the plugin will get the photographs from Flickr, cache them locally and then post them on your blog. REST is used to make the API calls to Flickr to get the information. The coolest part of this plugin is that it incorporates the “Notes” of Flickr. This code can be used outside of WordPress as well since it really does not use any of the WordPress code.
Thanks Ray!

Ok been looking for this coolness

(Via Weblog Tools Collection.)

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p>Ask Dave Taylor:

A new (to me) and useful resource: Ask Dave Taylor! He’s written books about everything from HTML to Unix on OS X, so he’s got plenty of info in his head, and he’s willing to share. You can read any of the many questions he’s already answered, or just ask him one yourself.

Coolness nice set of tips to point nimrods too

(Via Backup Brain.)

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