Next time you find yourself staring at an ugly block of HTML-ish text, copied from the source of an email message, full of strange “=3D” and trailing “=” characters, take heart. The nastiness you’re seeing is called quoted-printable format, and it’s how email keeps lines to a short enough length to be widely compatible with all manner of email servers.
Installation
Download this file, double-click it, and TextMate should do the rest. You’ll now have a command in your Text bundle that you can use to undo the quoted-printable encoding.
It changes this:
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.3199" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY style=3D"MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma">
<DIV>Good afternoon,</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Please see the following information from Company. Please =
let me know if you have any questions or concerns.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Bobby=
<BR>12/18/07 10:18 AM >>><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>
To this:
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3199" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma">
<DIV>Good afternoon,</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Please see the following information from Company. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Bobby<BR>12/18/07 10:18 AM >>><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>
Caveat – this command only removes the quoted-printable formatting, don’t expect it to work any magic to make the actual HTML standards compliant.
Enjoy!
Download the quoted-printable decoder TextMate command
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Congratulations to Mitch and Heather Kramer, on the birth of their new baby boy, Ethan. We don’t have a lot of details yet (he’s pretty fresh), but we do have Mitch’s photostream to keep an eye on.
Cute kid.
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Entrepreneur.com has a great interview with Guy K on his motivations behind truemors. No need to retell, but here’s a random excerpt:
There are four tips here: 1) Make friends [with] vendors before you need them, 2) engage a firm that made a similar product, 3) check references after it’s too late, and 4) work with people from the Midwest [Electric Pulp is in South Dakota; PDG is in Oklahoma].
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It’s been a little over a week since we launched makemeamerica.com for Stephen Colbert, and by way of an update, here are a few points of interest:
- You can now see Stephen’s delightful visage on several top CSS Galleries. We thank you for that, CSS Galleries. America thanks you.
- There have been over 4300 Oprah book club petition signatures.
- As of this morning, the World Domination map is open for business outside the confines of the United States border. Time to conquer the world!
Speaking of international support, check out Canada — they sure are organized up there:
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If the Internet feels slower today, it may be due in part to a new site we just launched called MakeMeAmerica.com.
What started out as a humble effort to sell a few books has turned into something more: a humble effort with big pictures, hero profiles, video excerpts, a petition to Oprah, flickr photo integration, and an interactive world domination map. (And lots of easter eggs.)
The book, I Am America (And So Can You), is written by Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central and namesake of a baby bald eagle in Bonita Springs.
The Colbert team quickly determined that, in addition to being able to read books, the show’s audience also seemed to have ready access to the internets. One idea turned into two, and pretty soon, Electric Pulp was in on the plan. The rest, as they say, is history.
All that’s left is for you to check it out.
(These guys have.)
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Just got an IM from Greg about an interesting article in FastCompany. The article, written by Robert Scoble, discusses consumer engagement and social experience with Yahoo’s Brad Garlinghouse and Bradley Horowitz.
“The more you can engage with your consumers and provide tools back to them, the more viral your services will become,” Horowitz says.
Wise words. Wiser still, the example Scoble uses to bring the story to life:
Visit the Web site of iPhone-case manufacturer Incase (goincase.com), and you’ll see embedded Flickr photos along the bottom. The net effect is that Incase showcases its corporate personality and lets you be part of its community. You can put a photo on this page simply by adding the Flickr tag “goincase” to your snapshot.
I wonder who built that site… Oh, that’s right! Electric Pulp did!1!
High 5, Incase. High 5, Hummel. High 5, Scoble. Good game.
ps: Congrats to the Scobles on the new baby. And the new 5D.
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Metal Mulisha recently engaged us to help kick a redesigned site live in time for the X Games. The new site features a podcast-happy blog, video galleries, photo galleries, full cms, standards-compliant everything, etc. We’ll come back to the case study later (no we won’t), but you can check out the site now.
If you get sucked too far into the videos / pics, just make sure you don’t try any of it at home. Two words: Brian Deegan, Viva La Bam. Ouch. Okay, that was more than two, but these guys are crazy insane. Two words isn’t enough.
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I’m pretty sure the GTD experts and lifehacking luminaries would all agree that having a climate-controlled office environment is the first step to finding / maintaining optimal workflow. I don’t think processing quickly in our 89 degree cookbox is possible.
So, if you’re trying to catch us for the next few hours, we’ll be finding our work ch’i in mobile office fashion. And if you’d like to find us, email’s your huckleberry. Unless you’re reading this, right now, in a coffee shop. We might be sitting next to you, stealin’ ur bandwidth.
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Pulp showed up late to the lolcats party, so we thought we’d catch up by posting a few of our own…
thx 4 ur bandwit. kthxbai
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If you found yourself secretly loving (or loving to hate) Truemors, Guy Kawasaki’s crowdsourcing, rumor aggregating experiment, you might be interested to find out there’s now more to love (or love to hate.)
In general, the new site is better.
Need specifics? Okay…
First off, we’ve added accounts to the mix. Their full purpose will remain a mystery for the moment. Stay tuned.
Next, Truemors now has spam filtering kung fu. You’re familiar (and amazed) with [blog] comment spam filtering? Same thing. Kind of.
Moving on, the site has been redesigned. The primary change you’ll notice is the dead simple topic navigation. Odd posts, Tech posts, Food posts, even the Greatest posts (as voted by the Truemors community) can be quickly isolated for your viewing pleasure.What else? How about Ajax? If you’re one of the geeks that spotted the v1 site’s meta refresh, you might appreciate the new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater post refresh voodoo. Oh, the power of voodoo.
Is there more? Sure. But I’d rather take a moment to point out that the site is still going strong. Naysayers, doom & gloomers, and CNet will have to wait to stick a fork in it.
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