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One of the nice things about Wordpress, or even the previous blog engine I used, staticDimension, I was able to use a bookmarklet to capture ideas on the go. It is not so difficult on a dedicated computer, I always have a text editor and can even upload a file to my Dropbox with out having the client installed. I have even made the process easier by creating few TextExpander snippets.

xblog for filenames:

%Y-%m-%d-%|.markdown

bdate for post dates:

%Y-%m-%d %H:%M

bblog for post header formatting:

---
title: "%|"
layout: post
date: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M
external-url:
categories: []
published: false
---

But on my iPhone and iPad, I have to open up a text editor, like Nebulous Notes (my editor of choice), use the TextExpander snippets, and then go back to Mobile Safari copy the URL, switch back to Nebulous Notes and paste the URL in the external-url: field. If I want to quote anything on the page, that means I have to repeat the process again. Only then can I start writing.

Not every efficient.

So I cobbled together a bookmarklet, with the base code borrowed from Sean Korzdorfer’s iOS Bookmarklet Gist that will add the correct post header formatting and incorporate the page name, URL and date. I have also created a version that will automatically insert the markdown quote (>) and I can paste the content that I found interesting and get to writing.

Quote version:

javascript:var%20d=new%20Date();var%20padded=function(v)%20%7B%20var%20res%20=%20v.toString();while%20(res.length%20%3C%202)%20%7Bres%20=%20'0'%20+%20res;%7D%20return%20res;%7D;var%20dstamp%20=%20%5BString(d.getFullYear()),%20padded(d.getMonth()%20+%201),%20padded(d.getDate())%5D.join('-');var%20tstamp%20=%20%5Bpadded(d.getHours()),%20padded(d.getMinutes()%20+%201)%5D.join(':');window.location='nebulous://new?contents=---'+escape('%5Cn')+'title: "'+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'"'+escape('%5Cn')+'layout: post'+escape('%5Cn')+'date: '+dstamp+'%20'+tstamp+escape('%5Cn')+'external-url: '+encodeURIComponent(document.location.href)+escape('%5Cn')+'categories: []'+escape('%5Cn')+'published: false'+escape('%5Cn')+'---'+escape('%5Cn%5Cn')+'>%20';

Standard version:

javascript:var%20d=new%20Date();var%20padded=function(v)%20%7B%20var%20res%20=%20v.toString();while%20(res.length%20%3C%202)%20%7Bres%20=%20'0'%20+%20res;%7D%20return%20res;%7D;var%20dstamp%20=%20%5BString(d.getFullYear()),%20padded(d.getMonth()%20+%201),%20padded(d.getDate())%5D.join('-');var%20tstamp%20=%20%5Bpadded(d.getHours()),%20padded(d.getMinutes()%20+%201)%5D.join(':');window.location='nebulous://new?contents=---'+escape('%5Cn')+'title: "'+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'"'+escape('%5Cn')+'layout: post'+escape('%5Cn')+'date: '+dstamp+'%20'+tstamp+escape('%5Cn')+'external-url: '+encodeURIComponent(document.location.href)+escape('%5Cn')+'categories: []'+escape('%5Cn')+'published: false'+escape('%5Cn')+'---'+escape('%5Cn%5Cn');

Rob Trew’s scripts are some of the best Omnifocus scripting out there.

Boolean operations

Like a web search field, Spotlight supports boolean operators like AND, OR, and NOT. You can also use a minus sign (-) to exclude terms. For example:

chocolate recipes -coconut

Use quotation marks to enclose phrases and parentheses to enclose search terms:

chocolate AND "peanut butter" NOT (almonds OR coconut)

Searching by date

The ‘Modified’ and ‘Created’ attributes can accept all kinds of dates. You can use things like:

Yesterday  
Today  
To search before a date: 1/1/2011  
To search in a date range: 1/1/2011-3/13/2011

Suppose you wanted to see every text file you modified in the month of March containing the word “monkey”:

monkey kind:text modified:3/1/2011-3/31/2011

Searching by metadata

Here are a few common attribute types:

name (i.e. the file name)

kind (e.g. App, Text, PDF, Spreadsheet, Document, Image, Movie, Music, Folder, Message, and more)

modified

created

Special file types like music have even more. You can use things like “by” to search music by artist.

Using the name attribute is a powerful way to narrow searches. It cuts out any hits that come from matching content. I usually remember some piece of file names, and I almost always know what kind they are. Like, say I was trying to track down my Nikon manual:

name:nikon kind:pdf

To “unlock” documents in Lion, System Preferences > Time Machine > Options.

from @TedLandau

In terminal, type:

cd /usr/local/apache2/conf/
openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048
openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.pem
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 3600 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt -sha1

Modify conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf:

SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/apache2/conf/server.pem

In httpd.conf, uncomment:

Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

In terminal, run:

chflags nohidden ~/Library

Open Image Capture and go to the Preferences menu (under the Image Capture menu item). Under the General tab, change the option for “When a camera is connected…” to “No Application” instead of “iPhoto”.

30 18 * * * rm /home/someuser/tmp/*

Fields:

1. minute (0–59)
2. hour (0–23)
3. day of month (1–31)
4. month (1–12)
5. day of week (0–6, 0=Sunday)
6. command

By default cron sends an email to the user account executing the cronjob. If this is not needed, add:

>/dev/null 2>&1

Add something like this to your .bash_profile:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin

If, after installing Java for OS X 2012–006 and Java 7, you want to disable Java 7 and re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 plug-in, follow these steps.

Note: You must be logged in as an adminstrator.

Note: If prompted for your administrator password after a command, enter it and then press the Return or Enter key.

1. Open Terminal, located in the Utilities folder.
2. Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
   
   sudo mkdir -p /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/disabled
3. Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
   
   sudo mv /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/disabled
4. Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
5. sudo ln -sf /System/Library/Java/Support/Deploy. bundle/Contents/Resources/JavaPlugin2_NPAPI.plugin /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
6. To re-enable Java SE 6 Web Start, enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
   
   sudo ln -sf /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands/javaws /usr/bin/javaws