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Airport Codes with Alfred

Here's a quick Alfred workflow to get the airport code for a given city or the city based on an airport code. You can search either by the 3-character airport code or by the city name. You can make your search specific enough to return one result, such as "dublin … [Read More]

2014-01-18

Category: Tech

Tags: alfred, automation

Travel Notifications with Launch Center Pro and Pythonista

I've been doing a lot more traveling in the last year. Each time I take off or land, I found myself sending nearly the same text message to multiple people. After a while, it began to feel more like a chore than the kind gesture of letting others know I … [Read More]

2014-01-14

Category: Tech

Tags: automation, pythonista

My Photo Workflow

After listening to the Mac Power Users episode on photo management and reading the slew of follow up blog posts on other photo management workflows, I thought I would share mine as well. While my workflow will be fairly similar to Federico Viticci's with a few exceptions, I thought I … [Read More]

2014-01-11

Category: Tech

Tags: hazel, automation, dropbox, ios, photos

Organizing Special Photos with Hazel

Nearly all of my photos are sorted based on year, month and day. Hazel easily takes care of of this for me, but occasionally I will have projects where photos need to be excluded or organized in a different way. With Hazel, I can still account for these special cases … [Read More]

2014-01-05

Category: Tech

Tags: hazel, automation, photos

Exploring Pelican: Automation Part 1

Pelican is a great python-based static blog generator. After a few months using it, I’ve decided to automate the content generation as much as possible. [Read More]

2013-12-29

Category: Tech

Tags: automation, pelican

Create a Scratchpad with Alfred

I created a quick Alfred workflow that takes the contents of my clipboard and opens a new file in Sublime Text (or Text Edit). [Read More]

2013-12-28

Category: Tech

Tags: alfred, automation

Quick Conversions with Launch Center Pro and Soulver

There are some great tools out there to convert things like currency, distances and measurements. Even Siri can do this fairly well, but the one thing I always find frustrating is that the process of doing this can be fairly slow and in a lot of cases requires a data … [Read More]

2013-12-03

Category: Tech

Tags: ios, automation

Pebble's New Notifications

It's been over a year ago now that I backed the Pebble Kickstart project. I had really high hopes for this watch and was excited to see what it could do. Pebble recently released a big new update to the watch's firmware which takes advantage of iOS 7's notifications and … [Read More]

2013-11-12

Category: Tech

Tags: pebble

Using Dropbox to Host Images on your Website

I notice a lot of people asking about why they can't get images to display on their website when using Dropbox shared links. Dropbox is a great way to post an image quickly on a forum or as free hosting for your low traffic website, but there are a few … [Read More]

2013-11-03

Category: Tech

Tags: dropbox, automation

My New Pencil. The rOtring 600

Being a math major in school, I've always been partial towards pencils. I always loved using the Dixon Ticonderoga pencils, but I'd never have a sharpener nearby and nothing is worse than trying to write a formula than with dull lead. For most of college, I used a Pentel QE517 … [Read More]

2013-10-02

Category: Tech

Tags: misc