This site has a great comparison of compact flash write speeds - with different cameras but especially the Canon 5D Mark III
It also has some SD cards - which I mostly use for cost.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/camera_wb_multi_page.asp?cid=6007-12452

Kudos!

This post is a bit of a test of using images in Tumblr (I know I am easily excited) - and also a tip on using Gmail with multiple accounts. I have about 7 addresses configured to ‘Send Mail as’.

I just discovered a little option to automatically set the email address to ‘Reply as’ to match the address the mail was sent to. Neat!

I’ve been writing a few bash & perl scripts to use with Textexpander recently - for some of my network admin tasks. Some are pretty complicated so deserve their own post.

Anyhow some neato tips that may be of interest.

• you can use the Textexpander fill-ins to enter in data;

• you can use growlnotify from the script to send goodly info to Growl.

Here is a small perl script example to use in Textexpander - it gets the input from the user and sends it to Growl

#!/usr/bin/perl -w


# get some input from user
my $input = "%fill:name%";

# send something out via growl
`/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -m "Got this input from the user: $input" "Growltest"`;

Markedapp from Devonthink

Normally I use MacVim for anything lengthy markdown wise

But as my Markdown powers are increasing I’ve started looking at just using Devonthink and Marked.app only for some quick entries - I leave Vim for heavier lifting.

• Tip - you can edit a text note in DT inline & have Marked.app open it
  • Assign a keyboard shortcut for Marked.app by adding one in your Keyboard preferences:
• in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts add an application shortcut for Devonthink where the Menu item is named ‘Marked’
• set a keyboard shortcut for this and you are good to go.

Notes:

• my default external text editor is MacVim - which opens up with a Shift-Command O

• I set Control-Option-Command O for starting Marked.

You could do some fancy window placement to keep Marked out of the way using something like Divvy or Flexiglass

Acks

I dips me lid to @jgregjones with his devonthink forum post that got me a bit motivated to write this up.

Linking MacVim and Marked.app

You will need MacVim and Brett Terpstra’s Marked.app

Aim:

• write markdown in macvim and easily invoke marked.app to render

How:

• in your .vimrc file put:

:nnoremap <leader>m :silent !open -a Marked.app '%:p'<cr>

• to use - in MacVim, write markdown happily, hit ‘\’m whenever you want to fire up Marked.app to view

got this hint from @tednaleid

How I use it:

• I use Devonthink a lot.
  • In Devonthink - open up a note in an external editor via Shift-Cmd-O (open with) into MacVim
  • edit in MacVim and then preview in Marked.app
  • dump to pdf or html from Marked.app when I need it

Coming soon, I’ll put up a workflow for using Omnifocus, Devonthink, Vim and Marked.app