My feeble entry for Veerle’s What is Graphic Design Poster Competition.
It seems that Metamark is the new TinyURL.
Since I can’t really like Safari, I hacked a slightly different version of Jason Snell's AppleScript in order to use it with my browser of choice.
So, without further ado, here it is:
tell application "Camino"
set longURL to URL of current tab of window 1
end tell
set shellScript to ("curl --url \"http://metamark.net/api/rest/simple?long_url=" & longURL & "\" ")
set shortURL to (do shell script shellScript)
set the clipboard to shortURL
This AppleScript should get the url of the active tab in your frontmost window in Camino, pass it to Metamark and insert the shortened version in the clipboard, ready to be pasted.
Please keep in mind that it is my first ever AppleScript, so I cannot guarantee that it works on your system, nor help you debug it.
The Zeldman writes about HTML in e-mails. A good read, as often it is, which point is that e-mail was, and still is, a pure text medium.
Then, he concludes:
ASCII means never having to say you’re sorry.
Well, after all these years, I was hoping that e-mail could have been ready at least for Unicode.
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Step aside Desktop Tower Defense, and damn you, fish! ;-)
Keep it around.
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Apparently the opinions about the new icons for Adobe CS3 products are strong and varied.
As for me, I have a little personal nitpick that I haven’t yet seen elsewhere: a disturbing inconsistence in naming conventions. In particular, that regarding Illustrator: why, oh, why its is the only icon in which the “A” from Adobe is present?
Yes, I know, the extension for the file format itself is .ai, the name itself is not a compound of two words, and so on.
But, let aside the fact that Illustrator is maybe one of the less likely candidate as a flagship product, I suspect that the real reason of this naming anomaly is that it would have been difficult to cram a single icon with something like APsLr.
And, speaking of Adobe naming inconsistencies, there’s another that bite me daily:
In the long forgotten days of non-X systems I would have promptly renamed the offender, but somehow, the big cats don’t allow the same level of confidence in non breaking things with actions apparently so mundane.
Update: It seems that I'm not alone in this (via Daring Fireball).
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