If you plug your Kindle into your computer it will go into USB mode. From there you can view the files on your Kindle from the Mac’s Finder. Navigate to /Documents/My Clippings.txt and guess what? It’s a text file with all your highlights.

Fabulous. Just tried it on my Kindle 3 and they’re all there.

Previously, I was copying the books and the .mbp files to the Kindle Mac App documents folder, but irritaitingly the desktop app doesn’t allow you to copy passages either.

There was a hacky workaround using the search functionality, but this is so much better if you’re as prolific a highlighter as I am.

Thanks to Shawn Blanc for helping to preserve my sanity.

In a fit of productive madness over the weekend, I updated my Line In Typography jQuery plugin.

The old version was messy, incomplete and tried to do to much. This version is now just messy and incomplete.

I recently wrote about fixing a large ‘Other’ category in iTunes but in the last week I’ve seen it rise from the dead (not in a scary, blood-sucking vampire way, more in a kind of annoying, zombie hamster way) and get up to 5.2Gb in size again.

Not one to let any sort of electronic device defeat me, I donned a fedora and started doing me some investigatin’.

I’d noticed that my 4th Gen iPod Touch was showing about 6 gigs in the Other category when connected to iTunes. “This isn’t right,” I thought.

The internet agreed.

Reading What Technology Wants and was struck round the head by this: