January 2011

01/28/2011 15:45:00

Best @ScrivenerApp Find of the day

I just discovered the very useful “Convert Web Archive to Text” function. (DocumentsConvertWeb Archive to Text) It does what it says.

However, this is even more useful with the Instapaper Text bookmarklet (second from bottom).

Workflow:

  1. Read something on the web
  2. Decide it’s worth being kept as reference in Scrivener
  3. Activate Instaper Text 4.Drag the URL of the, cleaned up, webpage to Scrivener’s Research section
  4. Wait until Scrivener has downloaded the webpage as Web Archive
  5. DocumentsConvertWeb Archive to Text

Love it!

UPDATE UPDATE!!!

01/13/2011 19:04:06

GeekTool and OmniFocus export [UPDATE]

As of OmniFocus ver. 1.8, it can be written much more simply, without recursion. Adopting WhPalmer4’s improvement to allow for special characters when writing the file, the whole script could now be abbreviated to something like…

Nice improvement. Thanks for sharing.

Source

01/12/2011 00:08:00

A script to update Chromium to its latest version

(hopefully with H.264 support)

Original taken from this OS X Hint

#!/bin/sh
# Get current build for Chromium on Mac.
# 
# @version  2009-05-22
# @author   XXXX 
# @todo     Nothing yet

# setup ------------------------------------------------------------------------
tempDir="/tmp/`whoami`/chrome-nightly/";
baseURL="http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/";
baseName="chrome-mac";
baseExt="zip";
appName="Chromium.app";
appDir="/Applications";
version=~/.CURRENT_CHROME;
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function checkForErrors {
    if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
        echo "Unkown error (see above for help)!";
        exit 3;
    fi
}
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Setup...";
mkdir -p "$tempDir";
cd "$tempDir";
checkForErrors;
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Checking current version...";
touch $version
currentVersion=`cat $version`;
latestVersion=`curl -s $baseURL/LATEST`;
checkForErrors;
echo " * your/latest build: $currentVersion / $latestVersion";
if [ "$currentVersion" == "$latestVersion" ]; then
    echo " * build $currentVersion is the latest one.";
    exit 1;
fi
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Downloading and unpacking...";
chromePID=`ps wwaux|grep -v grep|grep "$appName"|awk '{print $2}'`;
if [ "$chromePID" != "" ];then
    echo " * chromium is running. Please stop it first.";
    exit 2;
fi
curl -o $baseName.$baseExt "$baseURL/$latestVersion/$baseName.$baseExt";
unzip -qo $baseName.$baseExt;
checkForErrors;
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Installing...";
cp -r $baseName/$appName $appDir
checkForErrors;
echo $latestVersion > $version;
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Done. You're now running build $latestVersion";
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

01/05/2011 19:01:06

A first all JavaScript and CSS3 implementation of the iPad. How awesome!

01/02/2011 19:03:06

iTunes 10 Tip: Show in Finder Keyboard Shortcut

To give iTunes 10 its “Reveal in Finder” or, as it is named now, “Show in Finder” keyboard shortcut back go to System Preferences and open the Keyboard Preference Pane.
Add (+ symbol) a new keyboard shortcut for:

Click Add. In this example the keyboard shortcut will be ⇧⌘R. As many will remember the previous shortcut was ⌘R, but ⌘R won’t work.
In iTunes 10 ⌘R is used by iTunes DJ and the iTunes Store to Reload and Refresh Page.
So if you rather not want to memorize a new shortcut you have to remap those two first, before ⌘R will be a possible shortcut for Show in Finder.
I find the second solution a bit tedious and awkward as ⌘R is also used in almost every application to refresh or reload content, so I decided to use a different shortcut for Reveal in Finder.