Joe Workman's Blog

Share It: All your social circles - connected

Share It is a uber cool share button for you website. When you hover over the customizable button, four share buttons fly onto the webpage. Share It supports all of the most popular social networks: Facebook, Twitter, App.net, Google Plus, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Email. You can even customize the share buttons to use your own favorite site. As most of our stacks, Share It offers a ton of customizations.

I don’t want to put down Like It, but Share It is by far the sexiest way for your users to show their love of your webpages on their favorite social networks.

Check out Share It

Display content to users who disable JavaScript

The NoScript stack allows you to display interact with your website visitors that may have disabled JavaScript in their web browsers. This will give you the chance to inform these visitors that their website viewing experience will be diminished by having disabled JavaScript.

NoScript allows you to display a simple styled text message, display custom stack content or redirect the user to a different webpage.

Check out the NoScript stack

Tabulous 2 is Here

I released a big update to the Tabulous Stack today. This was a complete rewrite of the stack. With over 75+ new features, Tabulous 2 does not disappoint. Everyone that has used it so far has been blown away. They tell me that it is hands down the best tabbed content add-on out there for RapidWeaver.

Here is a small list of just some of the great new features:

• Rebuilt from scratch for Stacks 2.
• Responsive support with revolutionary mobile navigation.
• Separate the tabs away from the slider for a completely new look and feel.
• Named hash-linking to every tab. #about-us
• New Animation Effects Browser to help you find the perfect animation to use.
• Extensive style adjustments for everything: shadows, colors, backgrounds, round corners, padding & more.

If you have purchased Tabulous since January 1, 2013, you will be given a free upgrade to Tabulous 2. If you purchased the stack before then, you will be offered a discounted upgrade price. Emails are getting sent out to all existing customers as I am typing this. If you do not receive an email about the discount, feel free to contact support.

Kiwi Services for App.net

So I use this thing called Kiwi to access this other thing called App.net. So I developed all these other things to integrate those things into every popular automation thing that you could want… Got it? Get it…

In all seriousness, Kiwi is an awesome app developed by the amazing YourHead Software. Its by far the best Mac client for the up and coming social network App.net. It’s quickly became my new hangout instead of Twitter. However, Kiwi has an awesome feature that lets you cross post to Twitter so that my followers over there don’t get too lonely.

You probably know that I love to automate things. Well I spent some time with the Kiwi developer at an App.net hackathon earlier this month and we decided to add a URL scheme into Kiwi. We could then leverage that new URL scheme, we could integrate Kiwi into all your favorite Mac OS X productivity and workflow tools. There are integrations with the following apps…

• Alfred (v1 & v2)
• Dropzone
• Launchbar
• OS X Services
• PopClip
• Quicksilver
• Safari Extension

You can pick up a copy of these Kiwi services for free over on the public Github page.

Developing a Paperless Automation Tool for Mac OS X

I have been trying to hone my paperless workflow over the past couple of months. My ideal workflow for anything involves as little human interaction as possible. This is why I love to automate! In the paperless world, after you scan in your document, you need to file it away. I am currently moving from DevonThink to Evernote. I don’t know about you, but my paperless inbox was starting to look bigger than the pile of paper that I need to scan in. The reason for this is that I would never take the time to file away the document after I scanned it in. This problem is prime for automation…

I searched everywhere for a tool that would analyze the contents of a scanned document and automatically file it into the correct location. I saw a lot of people trying to build hundreds of Hazel rules in an attempt to accomplish this. That just did not seem efficient to me. It would take forever to build those rules in Hazel and maintaining it would be a nightmare. I needed to develop something myself…

I decided to build a command-line tool so that I could still leverage a great tool like Hazel. My scanner would spit documents into a folder and then Hazel would pass those along to my tool to do the rest of the work. This is exactly what I built!

Yesterday I pushed an alpha version of this automation tool that I am simply calling Paperless. I worked really hard to document as much of the tool’s logic as I could. It’s a ruby gem, so you will need to not be shy with using the terminal in order to get this bad boy installed and working. I tried my best to give as simple instructions as possible for users that may be a little scared of the terminal. If you are feeling brave enough, play around with it. I can’t wait to here your feedback!

Paperless on Github