If you use MarsEdit for posting to WordPress a good solution for customizing your slug is with the Slugger Plugin.
UPDATE: This happened to be a test post, and waddayaknow: it worked like a charm.
UPDATE 2: Somehow I completely overlooked the slug field in MarsEdit. Just go to “View” and select “Slug Field”. It shows up right underneath the title field. (Thanks to Josh and Chris for pointing it out.)
Today was a good day thanks to the notorious Daring Fireball linked list. Sometimes John Gruber links to something smart, and sometimes he links to something that is a great read. And then, sometimes he points out an article that is smart and a really great read.
I’m talking about Lonelysandwich and his Post-Macworld Wrap-up, Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV; in which he writes about the MacBook Air, iTunes movie rentals, the iPhone update and Google Maps, but not like you think it’s being written about.
Adam Lisagor is a crazy-good writer and thinker. And by that I mean I just read four articles in a row chuckling so hard my wife was looking over her shoulder at me with the raised eyebrows thing going on, and I’m thinking to myself “Wow. Funny. Wow. This guy is smart.”
I can’t believe I didn’t know about Lonelysandwich until just now. Ah well; thanks John, and hi Adam.
Sean Sperte’s Mildly Geeky Keynote Reactions –
There are too many good points and one-liners to try and squeeze into a few in blockquotes. (My favorite is the sentence about his mom and backups. You’ll see.)
And by the way, Sean’s site is a must read. Do yourself a favor and subscribe to his feed. You can thank me later.
I get quite a few emails asking about the desktop wallpaper displayed on the Apple Cinema Display in my office setup pictures. The image is a picture Glenn Wolsey took, and he just posted it to the public. Go forth and download my friends.
Smart little workaround by Matt to avoid lame WebClip Icons on your iPhone. I imagine that all this hububb about WebClip Icons will be mute in a very short time. But so goes the blogosphere, eh?
Most people have Mint in a subdirectory like /mint. This is a problem if you want to set an iPhone favicon for your root domain, but change the favicon in subdirectories because the iPhone looks in the root directory for the favicon.
A joint effort over Twitter between Cameron and I to hack Mint to display the Mint Icon on your iPhone instead of a picture of your Mint page or the default WebClip you have uploaded to your root directory.
By “hack” I mean slightly edit, and by “joint effort” I mean I resized the 3 different colored Mint Icons to 57×57, and Cameron figured out the edit and wrote the tutorial.
UPDATE: If you’re still stuck with your site’s root folder’s WebClip try “Red X-ing” out of your Mint browser window, restarting your iPhone and then re-navigating to your Mint install.
iPhone Tips & Tutorials: A semi-comprehensive link list –
Just updated. Now with 57 links to iPhone Web Apps, Tips, Tutorials, Articles, and more.
HOW TO: Create WebClips Icons –
I’m always happy to link to Brett’s site. Not to mention he posted it first.
My best friend and his wife just had their first little girl, Isabella, so I am off to the hospital to say ‘hi’. In the mean time, while you all wait with baited breath for Steve’s keynote I’d suggest listening to Episode 14 of The Talk Show, where “Dan and John lay down their predictions for Macworld 2008.” It just got posted so I haven’t even listened to it yet, and probably won’t get to until tomorrow on my flight to Colorado.
Nice redesign to Phil Bowell’s site. It looks great, Phil!
Sam Brown posted a great (M)interview with Shaun Inman on Peppermint Tea.
I love this answer:
SAM BROWN:Â You are one of the very few designer developers out there that is able to marry your brilliant code with a gorgeous design… How have you come to accomplish this feat that is rarely seen elsewhere?
SHAUN INMAN: Oh this one’s easy. I just don’t know when to stop. I will bang my head against the proverbial wall until I understand something—to the detriment of everything else. Sleep. Relationships. It’s really not the enviable quality everyone makes it out to be. It’s not a quick process either.
Of course, I am a classically trained graphic designer. As for code and development, I had a couple computer science friends who pointed me in the right direction early on. A collection of dense, occasionally impenetrable O’Reilly books and googling got me the rest of the way.Â
And for additional reading, here is the review of Mint I wrote a few weeks back.
(Now I just need some Transmit news to publish and my day will be complete.)
One of my favorite Mac applications, NetNewsWire is now $29 off.
What we’re working to do is to saturate the market with our clients. Anyone who wants a rich experience for consuming content, or anyone who uses multiple computers or devices and wants a best-of-breed experience on each can now use our clients. Using a Mac at home, along with an iPhone? NetNewsWire and our iPhone reader will sync up. Have a PC at the office? FeedDemon will sync with your other two applications. And they’ll all sync with NewsGator Online. It all just works.
In my review of NNW and NNW Lite I stated that the free version of 3.1 was primed to be the best free news reader available. But now that the full version is free, it’s no contest.
My article, “Be A Better Designer“, is featured in this week’s Design Taxi.