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As usual with projects I didn’t plan to take as far as I did, my version numbering scheme is, well, stupid. With the next release I’m going to implement my own feed for automatic updates, so I’ll

After a few late nights of off-hours programming, I’m putting Notational Velocity ALT out as a version 1.0. Obviously built on the backs of others, I’m just giving it a versioning scheme of its own

I love ScreenSteps , the app from Blue Mango which makes creating documentation for screen-based applications as fast and easy as making documentation can possibly be. It’s a little clunky sometimes

I spent a few hours last night nerding out over an easy way to grab a Mac application’s icon. I sent the basic Bash script and an example Automator action off to the other writers at TUAW. Then there

In the previous post in this series, we looked at the basic Terminal commands we’d use to grab a Mac application’s icon from the command line. In this post, we’ll flesh out the script a little and

We’ve covered a small truckload of Bash scripting ideas for Mac and OS X in the previous two posts . It’s time to put them to use and create an Automator app that we can use as a droplet in Finder.

After my epic three-part post on Saturday, I spent the rest of the weekend doing more “useful” things. Now it’s Sunday night (Monday morning, I think), and I’ve got some kind of minor food poisoning

If you’re a web designer with a Mac, you probably use–or at least know of– CSSEdit . In it’s heyday, it was the way to edit CSS. It’s fallen a little out of repair it doesn’t recognize new selectors

Hey, you’re just in time for another “stupid trick of the day” script. I have good reason for this one, and it only took me about 8 minutes to set up. It will take me longer to write about it than it

Most of my projects start out as mind maps (which I may have mentioned before ). Whether it’s a packing list, a blog post or a TextMate bundle, I find it easiest to organize my (often scattered)

Quick tips are random posts regarding something I discovered on my way to something bigger. They usually get longer than “quick” would imply, for which I refuse to apologize.

Just for giggles, and because Jeffrey Way was kind enough to provide a simple API for Prefixr , here’s a System Service that will turn your standard CSS3 properties into cross-browser, vendor-

There’s a somewhat mysterious individual who is consistently leaving brilliant little pieces of code and information in my comments. Dr. Drang has been visited by this apparition as well. We’re both

In the interest of actually getting going on app reviews on this blog, I’m mentioning a somewhat obvious one: Byword . While I still write my drafts in nvALT and do the heavy lifting and linking in

Here’s a little gem of an app: Launchpad-Control . It’s actually a Preference Pane, and it allows you to use simple checkboxes to show and hide items, folders and even entire pages of applications in

I tweeted the other day that @eternalstorms is way too good at solving my problems for me . What I was referring to was Yoink , which just became available today. It’s an uber-simple app which

Yet another giveaway here at brettterpstra.com. We’re wheeling, we’re dealing… and I got you five licenses for the excellent QuickCal application for Mac (and iOS, but we’re not giving those out… yet

I’ve made a small update to QuickQuestion . It adds the ability to specify part of the answer to be copied to the clipboard when one of the scripts (Alfred, Launchbar, CLI) runs. You format it with

One for the coders: I discovered CodeRunner by Nikolai Krill a few months back, and it’s proven to be very, very useful in the kind of work that I do. It allows you to test blocks of code and see the

Well, it’s Black Friday. If you’re not trampled outside of some big box store somewhere, I have a special surprise for you. Five App Store codes for Dropzone (US $13.99), to be precise. It’s one of

Since it’s Black Friday, I’m going to run a second giveaway today: TextExpander . It’s one of my all-time favorite Mac utilities, and I have quite a few free snippets available to demonstrate its

Continuing the very exciting Thanksgiving giveaways today I have five promo codes for Fletcher Penney’s MultiMarkdown Composer ( reviewed here ). It’s a text editor packed with features for editing

I’m really excited to be putting this one up: Five promo codes for Byword for Mac. It’s US $9.99 on the App Store , but leave a comment on this post and have a chance to pick up a copy for free! I’ve

Following up on the 50% off Marked sale over the weekend, I’m putting three more Marked promo codes up for grabs. Marked is my own MultiMarkdown preview app which works with any text editor to

This is the last of this run of Thanksgiving giveaways. There will be more soon, I promise, but Smile was generous enough to donate–in addition to the TextExpander licenses I gave away yesterday–

I linked LiveReload on Twitter the day I discovered it, but I haven’t given it a truly thorough test until tonight. Suffice to say I was impressed enough to take some time out to write it up.

Here’s a quick, simple AppleScript to help you hook Notational Velocity / nvALT into Address Book. I sometimes want to attach a note or list of links to an entry in my address book, but I don’t like

I wrote something a couple of nights ago that I thought I’d share. I’m calling it “Gather,” and it’s basically an “appified” version of my Readability/Markdownify work. A Cocoa version of Marky the

I added a little hack to Fletcher Penney’s MultiMarkdown Quick Look generator to give it a default style (Github CSS) and allow for customization via a file located in your home folder. Full details