Ok, this is for the extremely lazy (or efficient, you pick). With Quicksilver or LaunchBar, you can launch just pretty much everything...so why not open URL links with it? I use Basecamp on a daily basis and it gets a bit tedious trying to find a specific project, especially if you have a ton of them.

Enter Basecamp Favorites, a simple script to slurp your Basecamp projects and create web shortcuts for them you can quickly launch with Quicksilver/LaunchBar/whatever.

Download basecamp_favorites.zip

Requirements:
- Ruby and RubyGems installed
- xml-simple gem (sudo gem install xml-simple)
- API access and https enabled on your Basecamp account

Usage:
1. Setup your Basecamp connection:
@@session = Basecamp.establish_connection!('YOUR_BASECAMP_URL', 'YOUR_BASECAMP_USER', 'YOUR_BASECAMP_PASSWORD', true)

Make sure you omit the http/https from the url, the last parameter in the call specifies whether or not to use an https connection.

2. Open up a terminal, cd to the script directory, and:
ruby favorites.rb

Your shortcuts will be generated in the same folder you run the script. You can re-run the script whenever you want, and for bonus points, you can set up a cron job to periodically run the script to catch new projects that have been added.

How to send text from any application to Prowl

Tuesday 07/21/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  No Comments

This post is a follow-up to Prowler, my Firefox extension that lets you send selected text to Prowl.

I thought it would be nice to be able to send text from any application to Prowl, say if a friend sent you directions via IM or you need to send text from a Word file.

This assumes you have Quicksilver installed.

Setup:
1) Install the growlnotify utility by running ./install.sh within the growlnotify directory [download]
2) Download this shell script somewhere (I put mine in my Documents folder) and chmod 777 the file. This script sends any text in your clipboard to the growlnotify command line tool.
3) In Quicksilver Triggers (⌘'), add a new hotkey command
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4) Start typing "Documents/prowl.sh" and select "Run a shell script"
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5) Assign a hotkey to the command -- I chose ⌘+Alt+Shift+P

Usage:
To send text to Prowl, just copy (⌘+C) the text you want to send, then hit the hotkey combo you setup to run the shell script. When you hit the hotkey combo you should see the text in your clipboard pop up in a Growl notification which should be caught and forwarded to Prowl.

Flickr Search iPhone app

Monday 07/13/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  No Comments


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Download Flickr Search 1.1

I couldn't find any simple Flickr search apps in the App Store; they had too many other features and the photo viewer wasn't very good.

I wanted the user experience to be like the native Photos app (being able to swipe through results, pinch and zoom) and also have download functionality. To do this, I used Joe Hewitt's three20, a library of useful classes extracted from the extremely popular Facebook app. It has made a lot of developers' lives easier...kudos to Joe!

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I stumbled upon Prowl this week and I have to say it's a pretty brilliant idea and an excellent use of the new push notification system in iPhone 3.0. Since they have an open API to send whatever you want to a user (defined by their API key), I decided to create an extension based on IPS to send whatever text you select to your iPhone. This could be phone numbers, directions, recipes...whatever you want to quickly send. It functions like a copy and paste across devices, similar to what Evernote's Web Clipper does but with the added bonus of having whatever you sent pushed as a push notification.

UPDATE: Download Prowler 1.0.2
Download Prowler 1.0

Usage:
This assumes that you have the Prowl account and have the plugin and iPhone app installed. If you don't, get up to speed here.

1) Generate an API key under 'settings'.
2) Install the Prowler extension and restart Firefox when prompted
3) Copy and paste the API key you just generated into the Prowler Options preferences (under Tools > Prowler Options) and close the dialog
4) To send text to Prowl, select any text (up to 10000 characters), right click and click "Send Selected Text to Prowl"

That's all! Let me know how it works for you guys.

iPhoneSender updated for Firefox 3.5

Monday 07/13/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  No Comments

If you haven't noticed, I've just gotten around to updating my extensions :)

Download iPhoneSender 1.0.3

Some new features in this version:

  • Default email address: you can now set a default address within Tools > iPhoneSender options. If you leave it blank it will prompt you for an email like before.
  • Custom subject: you can edit the subject line to anything you want.

With iPhone 3.0 push notifications, I'm thinking of adding an option to send the map link via Prowl. Prowl is a really neat iPhone app that forwards Growl messages to your iPhone as push notifications (that also get archived within the app). The nice thing is that they provide an API so you don't have to use it through it Growl--you can use the API to push a notification of whatever text you want.

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