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Weekly link dump

Clear for Mac

Clear comes to the Mac. Syncs directly to the iPhone version via iCloud. The interaction that’s so great on a fully touch device falls a little short on the Mac, but I find the syncing invaluable. I use clear to track my “To Do Today” tasks.

Pencil Project

A desktop wireframing tool that comes preinstalled with stencil sets for the most common cases. It’s a little rough around the edges, and doesn’t feel native, but it’s off to a great start! I used it this week to wireframe an iOS web app.

Solving my annoyances

This is where I bookmark fixes for the little things that drive me nuts. You might find something useful in there, too.

Resizing images in the terminal take two: sips

MacLife has an article on the scriptable images processing systems, or sips. sips is very powerful, but it also has a really simple syntax. To duplicate my one-liner for imageworsener, all you would need is:

sips --resampleHeight 33 *.png

Weekly link dump

SomaFM

On the off chance you haven’t come across this, Soma is the best site for streaming electronic music out there. They also have some fun novelty stuff, and do great Christmas streams.

The secret to making great coffee revealed

A Slate article on the pour-over coffee-brewing method. Londoners, this is how Monmouth makes their filter coffee.

How to Use If-Then Planning to Achieve Any Goal

Planning your activities based on a trigger and a response. This is very similar to how the author of “The Power of Habits” describes the process by which habits are strengthened.

Resize all images in a folder with imageworsener

I used to use imagemagick for resizing in the command line, but imageworsener has a much cleaner syntax. Use this to resize the height all pngs to 33 pixels:

for i in $( ls *.png); do imagew -height 33 $i re_$i; done

If you’re on Mac OS X, you can install imageworsener through Homebrew.