Hints and Tips

A quick Textexpander hack

Textexpander on the Macintosh is one of the those utilities that becomes more and more useful over time. Just the other week I was looking at some of Brett Terpestra’s snippets and trying to figure out how to use them for my workflow. I often copy URL links for blog items between my RSS newsreader and a browser, like Firefox. But I really dislike the cruft that Feedburner puts into the URLs and I don’t want to save that cruft on any bookmarking services I might use.

Design Style Change

I finally changed the default design of Eccentric Eclectica. I basically combined the default clean style from MovableType with some of my own ideas about the sidebar, dropping the calendar, rearranging the lists of recent enties and the list of archives. The change is pretty simple and already I can see some tweaks I might make over the next few days. One credit where it’s due for the use of Adam Kalsey’s ArchiveDateHeader plugin.