Posts tagged ‘textexpander’
New Blackbird.py for embedding tweets
January 12th, 2012 at 11:45 pm by Dr. Drang
If you have access to the NewNewNew Twitter (as I did for about a day several weeks ago, but haven’t since), you’ll find a button that’ll give you the HTML code necessary to embed any given tweet in your blog or webpage. This is a big improvement on the common way of showing a tweet,…
Simpler Apple affiliate linking
January 5th, 2012 at 9:26 pm by Dr. Drang
Last night I posted a TextExpander snippet that automated the procedure for generating Apple affiliate links for the items in iTunes and Mac App Stores. This morning I got an email from David Smith, who pointed out that affiliate links can be much shorter and easier to read if you’re willing to forgo the click…
Apple affiliate links via TextExpander
January 4th, 2012 at 9:26 pm by Dr. Drang
This is a relatively simple way to get affiliate links to Apple’s digital offerings: Mac apps, iOS apps, songs, albums, ebooks, audiobooks, movies, TV shows—anything Apple sells through iTunes or the Mac App Store. It’s a bottom-up rewrite of a workflow I described last week that’s more accurate and more flexible. Affiliate link primer Let’s…
Fortunate tweets
December 28th, 2011 at 9:27 pm by Dr. Drang
Earlier this month I read a couple of things that made a connection in my head and turned into this little program. As best I can tell, it has absolutely no value other than to give me something to do while sitting in airports and on planes. A perfect project for the week between Christmas…
Mechanics lipsum
December 14th, 2011 at 11:11 pm by Dr. Drang
In yesterday’s Back to Work, during the commercial for Smile Software and TextExpander, Merlin Mann talked about a snippet he uses that inserts a specially-crafted lorem ipsum that’s exactly 500 characters and 100 words long. Most people use lorem ipsums (or lipsums) as placeholder text when designing the layout of a publication or web site.…
Erm
December 1st, 2011 at 10:38 pm by Dr. Drang
I did kind of van Hœtty thing on Twitter today, and I’d like to explain myself. In doing so, I will become even more van Hœtty. Jean MacDonald (@macgenie) of Smile Software tweeted a short shell script that could be used as a TextExpander snippet to strip out dashes from phone numbers. The idea is…
Why is this key different from all other keys?
September 7th, 2011 at 10:25 pm by Dr. Drang
I don’t want to get all Talmudic, but I have good reasons for using the semicolon as a “signal character” to start off all my TextExpander abbreviations. They’re given in my usual painful detail in this post, but I can summarize here: I want to use TextExpander’s immediate expansion option instead of having it wait…
Embedded tweet improvements
August 26th, 2011 at 2:45 pm by Dr. Drang
In Monday night’s post about scrolling, I included this tweet of mine: I gave the Lion scrollbar visibility default a chance, but I like knowing where I am at a glance. http://t.co/XlR975c8:37 PM Wed Aug 17, 2011@drdrang Dr. Drang As you can see if you run your mouse over it, it’s not simply a screen…
One last set of TextExpander symbols
June 29th, 2011 at 8:30 am by Dr. Drang
As a followup to this post and this one, here’s my last set of simple TextExpander snippets for inserting special characters. To insert Type ☒ ;xbox ☑ ;chbox ☐ ;box ✓ ;check ♫ ;notes ☼ ;sun ☁ ;cloud ☂ ;rain ♥ ;heart ♠ ;spade ♣ ;club ♦ ;diamond ♺ ;recycle ☃ ;snow ★ ;star As…
A few more simple TextExpander snippets
June 19th, 2011 at 11:19 pm by Dr. Drang
Here’s another simple but useful TextExpander snippet library. It’s called “Numeric” and it’s what I use to insert fractions and other numeric and sort-of-numeric symbols. You can download it from here. The symbols and their abbreviations are as follows: To insert Type € ;euro £ ;pound ¢ ;cent ′ ;ft ″ ;in ½ ;1/2 ¼…
