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Well it finally happened. Monday, August 1st, I released my application, Keymando. A little over two years in the making, after many long nights, it’s finally for sale in the Mac App store.
Keymando began as a simple global hotkey mapping utility that allow users to use vi-like hjkl navigation instead of arrow keys. Initially called “ViKing” because of its vi user focus, it grew into an entire key mapping and automation tool poised to completely change the way you get things done on the Mac.

I recently decided to get rid of my Fluid instances of websites like Gmail and Remember the Milk. The primary reason I used them like stand alone apps was because I could quickly switch between them using my app launcher of choice, Quicksilver. However, now that I’m using Chrome for these sites there was no way to quickly access them without cycling through a bunch of tabs.

Enter the Chrome Duplicate Tab Detector extension. This extension will open the tab of the site you’re trying to access if it is already present. There was one hitch with the current functionality which was that the url of the existing tab and the one you were opening had to match exactly. This wouldn’t work for sites like Gmail that append parameters to the url when changing folders or composing mail.

So I forked the code, made the small change to fix this, and made it available here:

https://github.com/downloads/kevincolyar/chrome-duplicate-tab-detector/chrome-duplicate-tab-detector.crx

Thanks to mbhutton for creating the original chrome extension.

UPDATE: Now ignores # style parameters like http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2Ffailblog

Derek Wyatt’s Screencasts – By far the best series on learning Vim I’ve seen.  Must see.
http://www.vimeo.com/user1690209/videos

UPDATE – Derek Wyatt has created a new, more organized site for his Vim tutorials
http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/

Vimcasts – This is a good link to add to your rss reader. Updates fairly often with good vim tips.
http://vimcasts.org/

Codeulate Screencasts’ Vim for Rails Developers – I actually haven’t gotten to watch this yet but I will be getting it soon.
http://www.codeulatescreencasts.com/products/vim-for-rails-developers

The following is a list of tools that I use on a daily basis to support my way of Getting Things Done:

• Remember the Milk – My main inbox and list manager.
• Concentrate – My Pomodoro timer for bursts of highly concentrated work.
• Wallet notepad and mini pen – For writing down “stuff” that comes to mind.
• MacVim – Text Editor for editing files of projects, goals, and accomplishments.
• Dropbox – For syncing project files and folders between multiple computers.
• Two Tray Inbox – One tray for incoming and one for ‘to read’.
• Pen and paper – For mind mapping and collecting.
• Books, Blogs, and Audiobooks – For sharpening the axe.

Found a cool little app to help with mouse-less navigation in OSX. It’s call DejaMenu and it can be found here:

http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.html

It’s very simple to use. The default hot-key combination is command-shift-m to bring up DejaMenu which displays a dialog of the current apps menu bar actions. I’ve been looking for a good mouse-less way to access the menu bar. I just wish it had vi-like navigation instead of using the arrow keys.