PROJECTS

HOW-TOs, etc.

• How to reset OmniFocus WebDAV logins
• Display notifications when Jekyll-based operations complete
• How to generate a blog-wide word count in Jekyll
• How to merge two sitemap.xml files
• Using Keyboard Maestro to create new Jekyll posts
• Up and running with Jekyll
• Use TextExpander to sanitize formatted text
• Multiple Octopress blogs, one Amazon S3 bucket
• My unencrypted sync hell … and my salvation
• Use Drafts to maintain SMS/iMessage unread status
• Readable bookmarklet, customized to look like iA Writer
• Readability bookmarklet, modified to close the current tab
• Selectively enable Flash in Chrome without an extension
• Use AppleScript to determine which media app is currently playing something (or was last paused), and have your PowerMate act accordingly
• Control Spotify with a Griffin PowerMate
• How to make any app look like iA’s Writer
• How to do a 30-second skip in iTunes
• How to tweet via LaunchBar
• “Bookmark” tweets from within Twitter’s iOS apps
• How to set custom field values with WordPress’ iOS apps
• How to set post slugs with WordPress’ iOS apps
• Create a personal link-shortening service with Droplr
• Use FlexTime, LaunchBar, Spaces and AppleScript to get things done
• An RSS feed for the latest Chrome extensions (using Yahoo! Pipes)
• Restart Flash without quitting Safari or Chrome (using AppleScript and LaunchBar)
• Blogging with TextMate and Chromium/Chrome
• Write with whatever you want, sync with Notational Velocity
• Sleep well or don’t wake at all
• Fix broken scrolling in mid-2010 MacBook Pros
• Create a simple timer using LaunchBar and AppleScript
• Blogging with TextMate, and using AppleScript and JavaScript to ease the pain
• Remove Spotlight’s menubar icon in Snow Leopard
• Use LaunchBar to execute, in the “background,” commands via a shell
• Instapaper bookmarklet, updated to close the tab every time
• Instapaper bookmarklet, modified to close the current tab
• Select certain tabs in Safari (or WebKit) using keyboard shortcuts
• Use Yahoo! Pipes to get your Twitter feed in shape
• Easiest way to give your Griffin Powermate system-wide control of iTunes
• Use Dropbox to sync MarsEdit across multiple machines
• Twitter Tools, modified to ignore @tweets
• Twitbin + NoScript
• Fixing Safari + Saft on Leopard
• Footnotes, Textpander, and shell scripts
• Remove those trailing slashes from your URIs
• Some simple changes I’ve made to Pixelpost
• Peppering Mint and filtering referrers
• Teaching Image Magick who’s boss
• Prettify your shell prompt
• Per-user CGI through Apache on Mac OS X
• Mac OS X, Windows Mobile, Bluetooth modem
• Shortening individual archive URIs
• Use CSS to place Firefox tabs where you want them
• Disabling auto-paragraphs in WordPress
• From iPhoto to iView MediaPro
• Archives without using WordPress’ Pages
• Footnotes and Textpander
• Related Entries apostrophe error
• Syncing the K750i with Mac OS X Tiger
• Tiger PowerBook overheating
• WordPress find and replace
• Help a brother out
• Use Gmail as a spam filter (three ways)
• Nice[r] titles
• Limit number of posts with WordPress
• Maintaining URIs between Movable Type and WordPress
• Movable Type total word count
• Instrasite searching with Google
• Integrating Del.icio.us with your weblog
• “Outsourcing” this website
• Google Hacks
• Browser session restoration on Mac OS X
• Nested archives with Movable Type
• Mail.app and broken spam filters
• iPhoto and image resizing
• Mail.app and very large mailboxes
• Getting more out of Gmail
• How to create a linkblog in Movable Type
• Quicksilver
• Managing mobile phone purchases
• Using Westlaw with OmniWeb 5
• Required OS X programs
• iPhoto metadata
• Years of e-mail
• Future-proof your URIs
• Clear: both
• OS X Tip: verbose boot
• Relative dates in Movable Type

Publications

• Google Hacks (3rd edition): technical Editor

• Hacking Gmail: technical editor; contributor

• Google Hacks (2nd edition): technical editor; contributor

• Smart Archives for WordPress — A better way to present your WordPress weblog archives

• CF Setter for WordPress — Allows you to define a custom field value from within the body of a post

• Slugger+ for WordPress and MarsEdit — Allows you to specify a post slug from within MarsEdit

• Relative Dates for WordPress — Displays the date of your WordPress posts relative to the current date and time

• Amazon Associates Bookmarklet — A bookmarklet to convert any Amazon product page into a page ‘tagged’ with your Amazon Associates ID

• Prolific for WordPress — Calculates the weblog-wide word count and writes it to a file each time you publish a new post

• Post Count minus Category for WordPress —Displays the total number of WordPress posts not belonging to a specified category

• Slideshow — A very simple photo viewer written in PHP