While I’m not sold on using BBEdit for my writing workflow, I’m really impressed with its Automator support. There are so many services I could cook up with these toys. Where to begin?
Continue reading →Home Screens – Jorge Pedroso
This week’s home screen features my newest friend from Portugal, Jorge Pedroso (Twitter). Jorge is one of the two developers that created my current favorite simple text editor, Byword. Jorge loves his iPhone and agreed to share. So Jorge, show us your home screen.…
Continue reading →Managing Spammy Friends
Spam is usually a simple problem for me. Somebody sends me a spammy e-mail and they get the honor of a special rule in Mail.app that looks something like this. Basically, anything from that person goes straight to trash. Problem solved. SpamSieve also helps.…
Continue reading →Macworld Article on OPML
I explained my OPML workflow today in this Macworld article. Enjoy.
Continue reading →Markdown Reference Links Revisited
Following recording the most recent MPU episode, I got serious about Brett Terpstra’s Markdown Services. These are a really nice collection of tools that I’m completely incapable of replicating with my usual bag automation tools and chewing gum. I used to do this with…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 57: Power Text Editing
Mac Power Users Episode 57, Power Text Editing, is available for download. I’ve been looking at TextMate and BBEdit and wondering how they fit in a writing (as opposed to coding) workflow. We had Brett Terpstra join us and explored the question in detail.…
Listen & read notes →Paste Plain Text with TextExpander
Reader Chris sent me a great idea using Text Expander to remove formatting from text. Create a plain text snippet with nothing but the %clipboard command. When activated, it pastes sans format. Slick.
Continue reading →Home Screens – Darren Rolfe
Darren Rolfe (Twitter) is the genius behind the MacSparky and original Mac Power Users logo. I’ve known Darren for years and consider him a friend. (Darren also loves his daughter, Ella, very much.) In addition to his amazing graphic design work, Darren pens his…
Continue reading →Speaking About the Cloud
I’m speaking this weekend at the Southern California Macintosh Owner/User Group about the present and future uses of emerging cloud technologies. If you are in the Orange County, California area on Saturday morning, drop in to meet some very nice people and put your…
Continue reading →Easy Timeline from BeeDocs
(Disclosure: BeeDocs, maker of Easy Timeline is a sponsor of MacSparky.com. I’ve used (and paid for) BeeDocs’ products long before they started sponsoring the website.) I’ve always been a fan of BeeDocs Timeline 3D. As a lawyer, I find its powerful timeline tools useful…
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