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Tumblr now has Dashboard widgets, Quicksilver add-on
Tumblr is a unique new tumblelog service that employs a KISS philosophy: offering a very streamlined, one-column layout and a clever bookmarklet that is smart about what you're trying to share on your Tumblr blog. While the minimalist templates can be edited by hand to include just about anything you want, Tumblr's concept is to be a sort of blogging scrapbook; a place to toss all those unique things you find across the web that might not fit at any of your other blogging venues, or that you simply don't have much to say about. Take a look at the Tumblr Radar to get an idea of how others are using the service. Now that introductions are out of the way, a recent update to Tumblr, as well as a how-to post from our sister Download Squad blog, has highlighted some Mac OS X-specific features that should make it even easier for Mac users to jump into the service.
First, Alex Hung (Windows developer for ecto, by the way) wrote up a great how-to at Download Squad that explores the construction of a Tumblr Dashboard widget with Apple's Dashcode. A DLS reader was even inspired enough to go through with it, creating theTumblr Widget that is hosted on Google Code. This widget also became one of two that Tumblr just highlighted in a recent blog post, with the other being more of a basic test widget that Tumblr cooked up themselves.
The second Mac Tumblr tool is an AppleScript for Quicksilver by Andrew Lilja. Andrew provides the AppleScript code and instructions for some unique syntax you can use to specify things like titles, quotes and links for your Tumblr posts, all from Quicksilver's handy UI.
It's great to see these kinds of tools appear for Tumblr, as it makes an already simple service even easier to use.
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ztiworoh said 10:37AM on 4-01-2007
I've been using tumblr for about a month now and I'm pretty much hooked. I'd tried blogging before, but I never wanted/had the time to sit down and compose long posts, which I felt compelled to do if I was blogging. Tumblr lets me do a sort of stream of consciousness thing that I find totally simple. Anyway, check out my tumblr page -
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ztiworoh said 10:38AM on 4-01-2007
oops the link is http://www.lostvowels.com
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Rubin said 7:55PM on 4-06-2007
I really can't get the Quicksilver script to work. Everything seems to be fine, (Internet password in Keychain and all) but when I hit Enter in QS, nothing happens!
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