This is kind of a "duh" tip but still one I use every day. I have several DuckDuckGo site specific searches in Launchbar. For this site, I just used the html parameters that show my own custom search results.
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=*&sites=www.macdrifter.com&sort=date&kj=%23C0724F&k3=macdrifter&kx=%23C0724F&ky=t&kaa=%23919191&ka=a&kt=h&kk=s&ko=1&k9=%23A90101&kg=g But really the basic site search prototype in LaunchBar looks like this, where the asterisk indicates where LaunchBar will insert the search terms:
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=*&sites=www.macdrifter.com Once it is saved and indexed:
From Dan Benjamin
I just realized that DuckDuckGo provides a search bang to automatically search BeerAdvocate.com. They get me.
!beer pretty things Gets a list of some excellent beers.
A timely article linked by Gruber.1 Paul Ford's take is one of the best things I've read all week. Smart.
Brace yourself for the initial angry wave of criticism: How dare you, I hate it, it's ugly, you're stupid. The Internet runs on knee-jerk reactions. People will test your work against their pet theories: It is not free, and thus has no value; it lacks community features; I can't believe you don't use dotcaps, lampsheets, or pixel scrims; it is not written in Rusp or Erskell; my cat is displeased.
I’ve done an exhaustive job making a case for the new generation of podcasts and podcast networks. This seems like an appropriate time to talk a bit about Mule Radio.
New Kid on the Block Initially Mike Monteiro premiered his podcast, Let’s Make Mistakes, on the 5by5 network. It was a dark and cynical perspective on design work and to a lesser extent business in general. I loved it. The podcast featured Mike and Katie Gillum.
Simperium is the company behind Simplenote. It's now also a data syncing service. Simperium announced the Simperium API and it looks nothing short of amazing.1
Here's a fantastic example from their API Samples page:
Simperium is offering libraries to incorporate this impressive data sync into iOS, Javascript and Python based apps.
There are a number of other concept videos showing how developers can think about the Simperium service. I'm not sure if this could be done with iCloud in iOS, but I do know that this is not something that can be done with JavaScript and iCloud.
Michael likes where Evernote is going with their acquisitions of Skitch and Penultimate. I'm not as enthusiastic.
Background I was an ardent Evernote user from the early days. I started exploring it when it was still web centric. When Phil Libin focused like a laser on the Mac, I was thrilled. I pumped massive amounts of info into it. I had two pro accounts just to support the company.
My enthusiasm waned when I wanted to extract my info into an archive.
I moved to Webfaction 1 5 months ago and I couldn't be happier. It's the best host I've used and the support is almost unbelievable. The support group respond to my requests like I was some sort of Gruber.
Need proof? Here's a typical2 Pingdom Monthly Report:
That's an affiliate link. If anyone uses it to sign up I get 10% credited to my account to cover the cost of my hosting.
My favorite web based text editor, TextDrop received a subtle yet transformative update: Sort by modification time stamp. It now fits almost all of my needs for a basic Dropbox centric text editor.
How is this only $5 per year?
A well oranized resource for HTML character encoding from Penn State.
