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nvIt -- Chrome and Safari extensions for nvALT

LOVE ElasticThreads and my old buddy Brett for putting this awesomeness together.

Brett and I just released nvALT 2.1 with a lot of bug fixes, UI improvements, and some new features. Some of my favorite additions:

- TextMate style auto-pairing of matched characters like parenthesis, brackets, and double quotes.

- Shortcut (CMD-Shift-L) for Inserting [[Links]]

Read more about it here. Full release notes here. You can use the in-app update mechanism or download it here.

But I also just finished up developing Safari and Chrome extensions to extend nvALT’s notational velocity (or something ;) into the browser.

They let you create a new note in Safari 4 different ways:

Click the toolbar button to have nvALT download the current page you’re on as a new note

Right-click on a link, and select the appropriate option from the contextual menu, to have nvALT download the linked page as a new note.

Right-click away from either a link or a selection, and select the appropriate option from the contextual menu, to have nvALT download the current page you’re on as a new note.

Right-click on selected text, and select the appropriate option from the contextual menu, to have nvALT create a new note with the selected text as well as a link to the current page you’re on.

There’s an preference setting to have nvALT use Instapaper’s Mobilizer when downloading pages into new notes, so that those notes are more readable. This is not turned on by default. To turn it on go to the extension’s preference page.

Since these extensions require OS X and nvALT 2.1, I don’t have any plans to release them on their respective Browser’s extensions page. Check back here or follow me on Twitter @elasticthreads for updates to the extensions.

Please email any bug reports to elasticthreads att gmail.com with “nvIt bug report” in the subject

Downloads:

Safari Extension

Chrome Extension

p.s. I’ll post the source for these on GitHub soon, but if you are willing and able to develop a Firefox version please email me.

Jul 29, 2011364 notes

#adorable #prescient #christina

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I’ll just add, I think this sums up exactly why looking at the Robert Scoble’s of the world as trendsetters or even understanders of how real people use the Internet, to quote G.O.B., “a huge mistake.”

I’m a power user and I wouldn’t want to use any tool that Scoble designed. You couldn’t pay me to use one, in fact.

chipotle:

parislemon:

Amazingly, near every point Robert Scoble makes would make Twitter completely inaccessible to the vast majority of users.

For those of you who have not read this latest profound example of Scobletitlement, let me summarize it for you:

blah blah blah blah engagement blah blah blah Klout blah blah blah engagement tracking statistics blah blah blah my ego gets fed.

(Seriously, “my ego gets fed” is in Scoble’s post. Points for honesty!)

Jul 18, 201134 notes

“A 2048 by 1536 iPad at $499 (or even $599) would blow away the displays on every Mac computer Apple makes, except—arguably—a $1,699 27” iMac or a Mac with the $999 27” LED Cinema Display.” —

Exactly.

Reality Check: A 2048x1536 iPad 2 Screen Would Trump Macs, HDTVs + Unicorns | iLounge Backstage (via jhollington)

Jul 18, 20112 notes

“Rumors of Apple bumping the iPad up to a higher-resolution display received a new boost today with The Korea Times reporting that Apple has been working with Samsung and LG on new LCD technology to produce displays with a resolution 2048x1536, double that of the existing iPad in each dimension.” —

A few thoughts. First, while I’m not going to go as far as calling The Korea Times as unreliable as Digitimes (which is so unreliable, it’s actually funny), I’d hardly call it a source worth trusting.

Second, this is interesting, considering LG is the main supplier for all iPad 1 and iPad 2 screens.

Third, I’m still extremely doubtful that Apple will release an iPad Pro or an iPad 3 this year. And no, that has nothing to do with wishful thinking, if Apple released a retina-display iPad tomorrow I have no doubt I could sell my 64GB Wi-Fi iPad 2 for a very small loss in an instant. Or I could bequeath my current unit to Grant and get a new one. Not the issue.

I just don’t see the actually industry need for Apple to do such a release. After all, they are just now catching up with consumer demand. This has played out identical to the first iPad, in that it took until mid-July for shipments to become readily accessible. I ordered my mom her 32GB iPad 3G the last week of July last year for her birthday on August 19. I think I finally got it on the 12th or 13th.

Simply put, what rationale does Apple have to release a successor when they are still selling iPad 2 units faster than they can make them? That isn’t to say the company couldn’t speed up its iPad introduction cycle to being more than once a year, I just don’t see the need right now.

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Jul 18, 20114 notes

What do you think about people like Kevin Rose redirecting their personal blog url to a Google+ profile versus a Tumblr or Wordpress blog?

I think that is far too premature. I can understand the excitement over Google+, heck I bought christinaplus.com, but I don’t know about redirecting your main domain to a profile on a social network.

For what it is worth, I’d feel the same way abou someone redirecting to Facebook or Twitter or [insert social network here].

My concern isn’t so much for loss of past content — it’s Kevin Rose’s site and domain, he can do with it what he wants, but I still think there is value in having your own space that isn’t tied up with someone else’s network.

Of course, you could argue that using Tumblr or WordPress.com or Blogger or any other hosted platform is no different than using a Google+ redirect.

I actually like the idea of using the domainname/+ .htaccess trick better than doing a full redirect. That makes it easy to remember and still gives you a landing page that you can use yourself.

Jul 17, 20111 note

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