Use iWeb as a NetNewsWire Weblog Editor

An AppleScript to post the current item in Net News Wire as an iWeb blog entry. [ via Ranchero]

Scrubbing Undo

Matt Webb talks about hooking a Griffin PowerMate (USB dial control) to BBEdit’s undo and redo so you can scrub back and forth through changes to a document.

A Couple of XSLT/XPath Links

Edward Vielmetti took a REST web service for querying the Ann Arbor library’s catalog, and wrote an XSL transform to produce a page that looks like a card from a catalog:

Todd Ditchendorf released a Mac application called AquaPath that lets you run XPath expressions against XML and see the results highlighted in the source document.

Google Earth for Mac

Some days I don’t get Google.
Tuesday they announced a public release of Google Earth for Mac, (which should make Kathryn Cramer happy.) But their presense at Macworld was a tiny booth in the indy/small developer area on the eastern edge of the exhibit hall. Looking around, I couldn’t find the Google representative in the [...]

WebnoteHappy: bookmark manager for Mac

I’ve been using Luis de la Rosa’s Webnote Happy for the past few days to clean up the twenty or so tabs I have open across three or four browser windows at any given time.
Webnote Happy’s a bookmark manager that lets you store the URL, title, and a description for a web page. You can [...]

Safari Guide 1.3 adds XSLT

Todd’s 1.3 release of Safari Guide adds support for XSL Transforms.

Safari Guide 1.2: Greasemonkey for Safari

Todd Ditchendorf released a new version of his Safari Guide app last Friday. It already let you execute XPath and XQuery on the contents of the frontmost Safari window. Now it lets you execute JavaScript user scripts against the front window. It’s Greasemonkey for Safari!
Meanwhile if you’re anxious to try out XQuery, Michael Kay, the [...]

Set BBEdit to lookup references for PHP functions

[ Steve Cooley via Peter Rukavina via Professional PHP ] Switch BBEdit to use the PHP website for the Find in Reference command:
% defaults write \

com.barebones.bbedit Services:ADCReferenceSearchTemplate \

“http://www.php.net/%@”
Link

iTunes Sharing at Work

[ via Lee Iverson ] Georgia Tech study of iTunes sharing in workplaces: people used their sharing to project an identity. However, when the boss looked in on the sharing, people ‘clammed up.’

SQLite Database Browser

A free (beer + source) browser for SQLite databases: Mac/Win/Unix

Creating Video Podcasts on Mac OS X

How to create a video blog using QuickTime Pro on Mac OS X. [ thanks Ernie ]

Safari Guide

[ via Elliotte Rusty Harold ] Safari Guide: evaluate XPath and XQuery expressions against the current page in Safari.

You Forgot Live Journal

Dori! You missed Live Journal in your review of blogging tools for the Mac.

It’s free (but you can pay for more features.)
It provides Atom and RSS feeds.
It’s geared for use by groups of friends.
You can post private entries.
There’s a great Mac client for posting and managing entries.
It consumes RSS/Atom, so you can use it as [...]

Fugu: GUI for SFTP and SCP

My coworker Ron was horrifed to learn I’m a command line luddite, and still run scp to move files between servers.
He’s using Fugu, a graphical wrapper for scp and sftp.
If you’ve set up ssh keys for a server, Fugu will use them. It can also open remote files in your editor.
Fugu’s written by the University [...]

XML Nanny

[ via Daring Fireball ] Todd Ditchendorf’s XML Nanny checks an XML or XHTML document for well-formedness* and validity.

Yeah, I know I shouldn’t send a text/html content type header, and Sam Ruby has some nice stuff for sending the right header on a user agent basis, but hey, I’m going to let it pass.
*Well-formedness is [...]