An updated Tweetie for Mac bookmarklet

What follows below is a variation on the Tweetie for Mac bookmarklet that comes "included" from atebits, the Tweetie for Mac developer.

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Posted on: 14th May, 2009 in Software

Bookmarklet to add the currently viewed web page to Omnifocus

A couple of problems I came across whilst using OmniFocus were that:

• whilst on the Mac the the 'Add to Inbox' keyboard shortcut doesn't work inside Firefox
• when I am away from my Mac (i.e. at work on my PC) I have no way to send stuff into OmniFocus for later (of course, I could use the iPhone app, but typing out long protracted URLs isn't the best use of my time!)

So I set about writing a bookmarklet for my browser that would take the web page I'm looking at, wrap it up in an Gmail/Google Apps email and send it to an 'unused' email address (I use my MobileMe one) so that later, when I start up Mail.app on my Mac OmniFocus would process them into its inbox.

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Posted on: 13th Mar, 2009 in Software

A Firefox keyboard shortcut to quickly jump to links in a web page

If you use Firefox as your browser, and you’re a fan of keyboard shortcuts, then this is the tip for you.  Using this shortcut may mean you never need the mouse again.  Ok, maybe not strictly true, but it may mean you reach for the mouse that little bit less often.

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Posted on: 5th Mar, 2008 in Software