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Perceptive Automation, the makers of fine mac-friendly home automation devices has announced Python support for Indigo. I think I just found a new winter time hobby. By way of The Loop

Just a friendly reminder that Literature and Latte is offering Scrivener for 20% off for anyone participating in NaNoWriMo and 50% off if you finish. There’s also a Windows version available now that I’ve tried and it is quite good.

I'm giving Fletcher Penny's new application MultiMarkdown Composer a spin. It's great but I like the dark black styling provided by Byword. Luckily, it's dead simple to create a new style sheet for MMD Composer. Just create the following folder if it does not already exits ~/Library/Application Support/MultiMarkdown Composer/Styles/ Now create a new style sheet and set the colors and formatting to something you like better. If you want to start with my template, you can find it here.

Keyboard Maestro macros can be executed several different ways. There’s the common hot-key trigger and text snippet trigger. These are great but sometimes I need to run a macro when I’m not sitting in front of my computer. That’s where the KM Webserver trigger and Keyboard Maestro iOS apps come in handy. Webserver This a somewhat understated feature of Keyboard Maestro. I can configure the application to expose a webserver running on a specific port.

Clever Mac Application to help you properly tie a Tie. $0.99 in the App Store. I love these clever 3rd party applications.

This is on a 2011 iMac 2.93 GHz Intel i7 with 8GB of memory. Encoding one disk. While the MacBook Air is very nice, I think I'll still keep a desktop machine around for times like this.

A significant number of links were just added to the Keyboard Maestro (aka Peter N. Lewis) blog. Good stuff. Although I woke up to a KM flood in Reeder.

Ridiculous Fish has blog that is very good reading for beginners. It might well be good reading for more advanced Cocoa programmers but I’m not one to say since I am a beginner. Make sure to start at the beginning of the posts and work towards the more recent articles.

I'm running Lion Server on a Mac Mini. Recently I was trying to configure an attached drive for Time Machine sharing and realized I could no longer log in. A bit of research revealed what I consider to be a bug in Lion. Visiting the Apple Support pages reveals a quick fix. Apparently in "some situations" servermgrd may not start automatically, which prevents login to the server application. Yeah, just a minor bug.

Brett Terpstra had a post a few days ago about how he uses Evernote even though he is predominately a plain text guy. Brett makes perfect sense. Damn him! I used Evernote like crazy for a long time. I paid for premium service for a long time. But it worried me that it was a hole I was digging that I might not be able to get my carefully curated notes out of.