May 2012
24 posts
1 tag
Pickpocket 2.1.1
Added a context menu item to save the current page to Pocket. You can disable this in the extension’s settings.
May 30th
1 tag
Pickpocket 2.1
This version adds the ability to “pin” links. When a link is pinned, it remains in the unread list even after archiving. Download Pickpocket 2.1 or let Safari update your copy
May 28th
1 tag
Cloudmarks 1.6.20
Tweaked the icon and colors in the popover.
May 27th
1 tag
Pickpocket 2.0.10
New icons, updated popover colors.
May 27th
2 tags
Moofmarks is now Cloudmarks
And has a new icon. Your installed copy of Moofmarks will become Cloudmarks on the next update. All settings will be preserved.
May 26th
1 tag
Pickpocket for Chrome now available
Well, I’ve gone and done it. I’ve released my first extension for Google Chrome. It’s Pickpocket (Safari version here). If anyone wants to see any of my other extensions in a Chrome version, drop me a line. I’ll definitely consider making it.
May 26th
1 tag
Pickpocket 2.0.8
Two new features in this build: A new option to auto-archive each link as soon as its tab is activated. A settings popover. This contains the same options that are in the panel within the extension manager but is slightly more convenient. Access it by clicking the gear icon in the popover or an item in the action menu.
May 26th
1 tag
Pickpocket 2.0.7
Added an “Open all” link to the popover. It only appears when there are more than one unread links.
May 25th
1 tag
Moofmarks 1.6.18
Fixed a couple of really pretty bad bugs. The first one was in the code for submitting a new bookmark to Pinboard or Delicious. Hat tip to Roller for the bug report! The second was an infinite loop that occurred if you had zero bookmarks on your selected service. (Oops!)
May 24th
1 tag
Pickpocket 2.0.6
Fixed a thoroughly boneheaded bug that kept the “Retrieving links…” message from clearing on a successful first-time download of Pocket links. Stupid, stupid.
May 24th
1 tag
LinkThing 2.1.5
In this build, I’ve figured out a way to detect whether a link’s named target is an actually existing frame, and if it’s not, to ignore the target if it conflicts with your settings. For example, say a link has a target value of my_target. Perhaps the link is on a page that is part of a frameset, in which case my_target is probably the name of another frame in the frameset,...
May 23rd
1 tag
Pickpocket 2.0.5
Versions 2.0.2 through this one fix a number of small bugs. The latest was a bug that caused the selected link in the popover to open twice when you pressed Command-Enter to open all unread links.
May 22nd
1 tag
Moofmarks 1.6.16
Various bug fixes.
May 22nd
1 tag
Pickpocket 2.0.1
Added a way to open all unread links at once from the popover: press Command-Enter.
May 22nd
1 tag
Pickpocket 2.0
This release adds a big new feature: a Moofmarks-style popover that lists your Pocket links, with a search bar. When the search bar is empty, it lists only your unread links. If you’re already using Pickpocket, you won’t see the new popover unless you change the extension’s operation mode in Safari’s extension manager. (Look for the setting labeled “When I click the...
May 22nd
1 tag
LinkThing 2.1.4
This release adds a URL filter (a.k.a. blacklist) feature. Now you can define URLs, URL fragments, or regular expressions to specify sites and/or pages where LinkThing will be disabled. Note: Each item in the filter list is actually treated as a regular expression. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry about it—just enter incomplete URLs like “www.example.com”,...
May 22nd
1 tag
LinkThing 2.1.3
This release adds the same fixes as for gDirectLinks 1.0.1, described in the previous post.
May 18th
1 tag
gDirectLinks 1.0.1
This release hopefully fixes an issue where, if you clicked a Google image search thumbnail before it had a chance to expand to the large version, the click would not be handled by the extension. Also, the extension now handles inline image results on ordinary search result pages, as well.
May 18th
1 tag
New extension: NavUpKey
This simple extension lets you navigate up a web site’s hierarchy, step by step, by typing ⌘⌥↑ (that’s Command-Option-Up). For example, if you’re viewing www.apple.com/support/lion, typing the shortcut will take you up to www.apple.com/support. Safari actually has a built-in way to navigate up a site’s hierarchy. It’s accessed by ⌘-clicking the page title in the window’s title bar....
May 17th
1 note
1 tag
PopSearch 1.9.7
Fixes a bug where the extension sometimes failed to hide the search suggestions menu when you opened the popover.
May 16th
1 tag
New extension: gDirectLinks
It prevents the substitution of indirect, click-tracking links for direct ones in Google search results. When you click a search result link, Safari will go straight to the destination instead of first loading a Google page that then redirects to the destination. Not only does this (hopefully) prevent click-tracking of search result links, it makes it easier to copy real URLs from them. This...
May 16th
1 note
1 tag
LinkThing 2.1.2
Bug fix. Right-click for ⌘-click was not working on Safari 5.1.x.
May 15th
1 tag
LinkThing 2.1.1
This has a minor enhancement to the Google image link rewriting feature.
May 14th
1 tag
LinkThing2 is out of beta
And your copy of LinkThing will be automatically upgraded the next time Safari updates it. As noted before, LinkThing2 requires Safari 5.1 or higher. If you’re still running 5.0.x, you’ll see a notification page when upgrading that will advise you to install the legacy version of LinkThing. Download LinkThing2 now or let Safari update your copy of LinkThing Download LinkThing...
May 14th
April 2012
20 posts
1 tag
Quickstyle 1.0.21
Quickstyle now supports two favorite fonts. You specify the second one the same way as the first: in Safari’s extension manager. The shortcut key to apply favorite font 2 is G or 2. The shortcut keys for favorite font 1 are now F and 1. I’ve also relaxed the rules for how to specify favorite fonts. Previously, Quickstyle required that the font size and line height both be specified...
Apr 28th
1 tag
Moofmarks 1.6.15
Corrected a problem with the display of tags in the bookmark list.
Apr 27th
1 tag
Pickpocket 1.0.4
I made a boneheaded mistake. Pickpocket is supposed to archive a page (or prompt you to archive it) when you either close the page or navigate away from it in the same tab. But I made a mistake that caused Pickpocket to archive a page (or prompt you to archive it) even when you ⌘-clicked a link on it, opening the link in a new tab. That shouldn’t have happened, because the original page...
Apr 26th
1 tag
PopSearch 1.9.6
A slight tweak. When you start entering a query, PopSearch will now wait until you’ve typed at least three characters before fetching search suggestions. The purpose of this to prevent the suggestions menu from appearing while you’re only typing a search engine shortcut (such as ‘g’ for Google). Of course, the change won’t prevent the suggestions menu from appearing...
Apr 26th
1 tag
LinkThing2 beta
I’m releasing a beta of the next version of LinkThing, which is renamed LinkThing2. If anyone would like to help out by testing it, that would be cool. LinkThing2 requires Safari 5.1 or higher, so don’t install it if you’re still on Safari 5.0.x. All your settings from LinkThing will be preserved should you install LinkThing2. However, once you install LinkThing2, you can...
Apr 26th
1 tag
Pickpocket 1.0.2
Fixed a bug that caused redundant prompting for archiving links under some circumstances. Also, added code to prevent archiving (or prompting to archive) when loading a download link on the page.
Apr 26th
1 tag
LinkThing 2.0.30
This update adds a new option for the setting called Position of new active tabs from links. The new option is “(Let Safari decide)”. Choosing this option means that LinkThing will let Safari decide where to put the new tab. Unfortunately, the same option is not available for new background tabs. Hopefully, that will be addressed in the next version of LinkThing, which will use a...
Apr 24th
1 tag
Pickpocket 1.0.1
Made a slight change to the algorithm for archiving (or prompting to archive) a link. It will no longer happen when you merely navigate to an anchor (or hash) on the same page.
Apr 24th
1 tag
New extension: Pickpocket
This little pastry of an extension just checks your Pocket account for unread links, and if there are any, opens them in new tabs. It can also tell Pocket to archive each link when you close its tab. Download Pickpocket or read more about it.
Apr 23rd
1 tag
LinkThing 2.0.29
I was sick of the LinkThing’s icon. This one is barely better.
Apr 18th
2 tags
PopSearch 1.9.5 & Tabkeys 2.4.7
Fixed a bug that caused these extensions to use an incorrect tag when backing up items to Delicious.
Apr 17th
1 tag
Quickscript 2.1.5
Again with the rapid-fire updates. This one tweaks the script editor such that when you open it on a page for which no site-specific scripts exist, it will populate with a blank script template instead of potentially with a global script.
Apr 8th
1 tag
Quickscript 2.1.4
A couple of enhancements. The script editor no longer closes itself when you save a script. In the script manager, pressing the Tab key while editing a script inserts a tab. (This already worked in the script editor.) Download Quickscript or let Safari update your copy.
Apr 8th
1 tag
Moofmarks 1.6.14
Oops. Turns out the Google Bookmarks API hadn’t gone away, after all. There was just something screwy with my configuration. I’ve restored Google Bookmarks support. Sorry about that!
Apr 7th
1 tag
Moofmarks 1.6.13
Removed Google Bookmarks support because their unofficial API stopped working. (When did that happen?) I guess noone was using it anyway, since I never got any complaints about it.
Apr 7th
1 tag
Form Autosave 1.1.4
Added an icon.
Apr 7th
1 tag
Form Autosave 1.1.3
Fixed a bug that caused all checkboxes or radio buttons in a group to be selected or unselected when repopulated.
Apr 7th
1 tag
LinkThing 2.0.28
Fixed a couple of bugs related to applying new settings.
Apr 7th
1 tag
Form Autosave 1.1.2
Made some tweaks to enhance saved field recognition.
Apr 7th
1 tag
LinkThing 2.0.27
This version tweaks the link handling code slightly to avoid a problem where, if a link used JavaScript to do something, and LinkThing forced the link to open in the current tab, unexpected things sometimes happened.
Apr 6th
March 2012
17 posts
1 tag
Form Autosave 1.1
I’ve decided to rejigger this extension so that form data are saved in each site’s own local storage instead of the extension’s local storage. I think this makes more sense. One benefit of this approach is that you can easily delete all saved form data for a specific site by deleting its stored data in the Privacy tab of Safari’s preferences window.
Mar 30th
1 tag
New extension: Form Autosave
I’ve released a new Safari extension that automatically saves the contents of web forms as you fill them out. (Most login forms are excluded.) If something bad happens before you submit a form, you can repopulate it with a context menu command. Download Form Autosave or read more about it.
Mar 30th
1 tag
Quickstyle 1.0.20
Bug fixes.
Mar 28th
1 tag
Tabletoy 1.1.2
Bug fixes.
Mar 28th
2 tags
Quicknuke 1.2.10 & Quickstyle 1.0.19
Fixed a bug that caused keystrokes to be ignored if you dragged something off a web page until you clicked the page again. The bug did not surface until Safari 5.2.
Mar 25th
1 tag
Quickstyle 1.0.17
I finally got around to implementing a user’s feature request from almost a year ago. It bothered him that when you changed an element’s font size with Quickstyle, often the element’s position in the browser window would change too, possibly making you lose your place on the page. It bothered me as well. Now, Quickstyle will try its best to keep the specified element in the...
Mar 24th