SocialCount Despite pointing out that “Share this” buttons on most sites live between 0-24 shares, I still get plenty of requests for them. Next time I think I’ll forgo AddThis for SocialCount. It’s very lightweight (provided you’re already including JQuery), customizable, and loads in such a way that it won’t block the display of your …
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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 …
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
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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 …
Sharing content on social networks without Javascript
I’m often asked how add share links without using javascript (for example, in an HTML email or in a PDF). Here are the URLs for the most common ones: Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url={articleUrl}&description={articleTitle} LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url={articleUrl}&title={articleTitle}&summary={articleSummary}&source={articleSource} Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&p[title]={articleTitle}&p[summary]={articleSummary}&p[url]={articleUrl} Twitter: http://twitter.com/share?text={articleSummary}&url={articleUrl} Google+: https://plus.google.com/share?url={articleUrl} Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u={articleUrl}&t={articleTitle} Mail to: mailto:?subject={articleTitle}&body={articleSummary}%20(full%20article%20at%20{articleUrl}) Replace {articleUrl}, {articleTitle}, and {articleSummary} with the appropriate content for your …
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