QSPress - Quicksilver and WordPress Make Me Twitter

21 Feb 2007 in AppleScripts, Projects, Quicksilver, Twitter, WordPress by Garrick

I’m with Aaron, I don’t quite get Twitter. If you want to know what’s on my mind…read this blog. What I do get about is really, really fast publishing. The faster, the better.

So, I cooked up a little script (11 lines) to post directly to this blog from Quicksilver. If you’ve got a WordPress blog, or blog that understands the MetaWeblogAPI (though, I’ve only tested it on WP).

So, if you want to twitter on your own blog…download QSPress.

The posts look something like this and hey, no character limits. ;)

More on the QSPress page

LATER:
Eric, I say this script is proof XML-RPC isn’t dead.

Last time I checked, Flickr’s ‘blog this’ was XML-RPC. Copy-and-Paste and XML-RPC are two different things. C-and-P exists because video needs at least one ‘embed’ tag and well, that’s hard. Add to that, XML-RPC needs an end-point url and a password, that’s a level of complexity above - ‘here take this code’. They serve two different functions - though the final product looks similar.


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CrisDias weblog added these pithy words on Feb 01 08 at 4:57 pm

Have you seen/used the WordPress Dash Dashboard component? How does it compare? It seems pretty easy and fast for me. I also admit I don’t quite “get” QuickSilver though I have it installed and want to make use of it. I am still new to this Mac world you know.

Ben Edwards added these pithy words on Feb 21 07 at 10:39 am

I played with the WordPress Dash widget a while back - it was pretty unstable then and never worked right for me.

Quicksilver definitely takes a while to ‘get’ - and to make it work really well, I found that I need to keep the computer in my head. Opposite how I normally think (get the computer out of my brain).

It probably took me 2 months to change my workflow - and I’m still primarily using it as a launcher.

Garrick Van Buren added these pithy words on Feb 21 07 at 10:53 am

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