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Growling Tweets
I’ve messed about with the twitter API before in a ham fisted sort of way (say ObliqueTweet, twitter presenter or Tweets @iowconference08) by basically borrowing various snippets of code, this is...
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Comment Tracking
There has been a fair bit of comment recently on how twitter is taking over from blogging and commenting on blogs. My own blog has never had a high number of comments, but the number has dropped....
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Delicious AppleScript
A while back I stopped splicing my daily delicious links into my RSS feed via FeedBurner, a couple of folk told me they did not find it very helpful. I’ve been wondering if a weekly list would be of...
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Dropbox, FastScripts & TextMate
This is a ‘mac’ post not really aimed at education except in so far as a lot of educationalists seem to be using Dropbox. Dropbox is of course a cloud storage & synchronisation application....
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Glo.li Url shortner
Consolerium games guru Charile Love has come up with a pile of interesting stuff linked to his work and glow. A while back he published a guide to Creating Your Custom Glow Theme which has been very...
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EDUtalk @agarwal to the rescue
A couple of weks ago I had posted More Posterous Worries I had tweeted to @posterous and mailed the help to no avail. Then a week ago I tweeted to Sachin Agarwal @agarwal and got this response : Sachin...
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Testing a new system
This is a quick test of a alternative way to post to my blog. I tend to blog from my MacBook. I’ve been testing various iOS systems for blogging on the go. I’ve also read a lot about blogging systems...
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OCR via dropbox with Tesseract
This is going to be another slightly geeky post. The previous one, Testing a new system, was about a way to blog using dropbox and AppleScript folder actions had me thinking about other things that...
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huffduffer and Not Huffduffer
I like listening to podcasts. I usually listen to them while driving. I use instacast to play podcasts on my iPhone. Instacast allows you to subscribe to podcast feeds, it downloads episodes while you...
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iOS Icon Extraction
The other day a colleague and I were trying to remember how to get the icon art for iOS apps to help write notes. We though we remembered a way to get them out from examining the package. Later I was...
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Microcast 5: Choices
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Audio-Recording-2016-11-20-at-19.33.mp3 Some thoughts about making choices about the software and systems you use, they may have hidden...
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Microblogging adventures pt 2: Alfred post to WordPress for micro.blog
I’ve been beta testing micro.blog. There is a new page here for status type posts, these get sent to micro.blog/johnjohnston and to twitter. This has renewed my interest in finding different ways to...
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Exiting audioboo(m) part 1
AudioBoom is closing its free tier: If you take no action, then after 2nd October 2017, you will no longer be able to upload new content and your account will become private. We will continue to enable...
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Figured out how to automate posting of old AudioBoos with AppleScript, test here more to come then #Edutalk.
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I got a request from a teacher who wanted to download a years worth of images from a Glow Blog (for end of year slideshow). Although there are plugins that can do this these are not available on Glow...
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Printing Multiple Notes
As I’ve mentioned before we use Apple Notes a lot in our class. If the class are writing, unless there is a need for formatting or layout, I often ask the pupils just to stick to notes. Notes are...
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Bookmarked Severinsen's Script: Share Location Betwe… - Apple Community (discussions.apple.com) he Apple Script lets you select a group of photos in Photos. If one (and only one) photo got location...
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Liked FastScripts 3.1.1 by Daniel Jalkut (redsweater.com) • The FastScripts menu can now be presented by keyboard shortcut even if the menu bar icon is not visible This is nice, I can keyboard the...
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jdberry/tag: A command line tool to do tags on Mac files. I don’t use tags much, mainly to quickly mark a set of files going down a list with quicklook. I’ve now got an applescript that will simply tag...
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