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Google Subscribed Links

Google Subscribed Links allows users to subscribe to XML documents provided by websites. If a subscriber then searches Google for a keyword that matches an item from the XML document, the item is displayed at the top of the results page, and highlighted.

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I wrote a plugin for WordPress that allows you submit your RSS feed to Google Coop.

Quicksilver Smoke

I wrote this a while back as part of the Quicksilver Internal Commands tutorial. The plugin hooks onto the current Quicksilver interface so you can watch it go up in flames.

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Speed Cache

Another WordPress plugin. I’ve been using this on my own site for a long time and, after people encountered 404s searching for it, have decided to publish it.

Speed Cache basically takes external files such as javascript and CSS and mirrors them on your own server. I’m not going to go into detail about why you’d want to do this - you either do or you don’t. If you do, then feel free to use the plugin.

Here it is.

Support questions in the comments for now, but I’m not providing any guarantees. This post may be replaced by a proper info page about the plugin sometime in the future, but at the moment that’s unlikely.

IconGrabber

IconGrabber I often need to use OS X icons on the web. Unfortunately, it’s not an easy matter to extract icons from Mac files or folders. The solution? IconGrabber.

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Writing internal commands for Quicksilver

Internal commands in Quicksilver are essentially actions that don’t require a subject (direct object) defined by the user. Most tasks, such as “Force Catalog Rescan”, and some commands like “QS Preferences” are internal commands. The Clipboard plugin also adds a large number of internal commands so as you can see, they’re quite useful in some circumstances.

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Secret Quicksilver animation effects

You may have had a shot at creating a Quicksilver interface. (If you haven’t, see the tutorial). While it’s good fun to play with changing the colors and positions of the controls, there is a whole lot of really clever code in Quicksilver that lets you go beyond that and play with some weird and wacky effects on any window.

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