This here thread's just for macintosh so go start yer own, PC HEDZ.
My TOTALLY FAVORITE THING of the last five minutes is "Clutter"!! It's a program that lets you arrange all your mp3s as images on your screen, and you can just stack them up or throw them wherever you want, and you can click on them to play that album or song. iTunes is the equivalent of only being able to select rekkids or CDs by looking at their spines!!
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 January 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― East Bay Crackhaus (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― East Bay Crackhaus (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Steve Jobs (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― East Bay Crackhaus (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)
Photoshop 7Premiere 6American Heritage DictionaryAOL Instant MessengerDeck 3Internet ExplorerItunesLimewireOutlook ExpressPeak 2.52Quicktime Picture Viewer, PlayerEasy BeatImage Browser (a crappy alternative for Iphoto for someone with OS 9)SimpleTextFetch 3.0Praat 4.0
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)
does anybody know any good shareware games to download?
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)
*You have shot 2000 lbs of food. You were only able to bring 20 lbs back to the wagon*
― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― lyra (lyra), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― lyra (lyra), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― lyra (lyra), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)
iTunes Artwork - This do?
― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Monday, 19 January 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)
WeatherPop - adds current weather info to menubar. I didn't see the point at first but now I'm creepily addicted to it.
Synergy - my favorite of the iTunes remote controllers.
― Hammy (hammy), Monday, 19 January 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 19 January 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 19 January 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 January 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)
MailSafariiChatTransmitThothAlepin (a Stickies/NotePad replacement)SherlockWatsonAddressBookNetNewsWire (RSS feed reader)iCalOracle Calendar (for the shared calendar at work)CD Finder (for CD-R/DVD-R catalogs)iTunesBBEditPreviewFileMakerImageReady (which I use more often for image processing than Photoshop)iPhotoNetwork UtilityX11 (for Soulseek mostly)TerminalMacPAR Deluxe (for processing most lengthy USENET downloads)Stuffit Expandera folder filled with aliases to just about everything else
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)
Konfabulator is cool and actually, pretty easy to program. As is AppleScript.
ShapeShifter is a lot like Kaleidoscope if that's your bag.
GarageBand is pretty awesome, as is iLIFE in general. FUCKING IDVD4 WON'T BURN FOR ME THOUGH.
Bit Torrent kicks ass. So does WeatherPop. MacMAME for-evah!
VLC plays .avi files very well, including divx.
Marine Aquarium is amazing.
Peak is a seriously good tool for music.
I tried to go over to Mail and lasted a few weeks until it started crashing all the time. I'm now back on Entourage.
― don weiner, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)
and Mail is still the best for IMAP email (I use IMAP for everything instead of POP)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)
Never let the flame be extinguished.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― don weiner, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)
Is Safari the best browser to run these days?
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)
See the wikipedia on IMAP and POP.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't know why, but I got very exited about this, despite not knowing "scriptable" from a bite in the leg.
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)
Actually, at least here, most ISPs let you chose which one you want to use. IMAP stores the mail files on the server (can log in from anywhere & have all yr mail available to you) vs. POP downloads it to your computer (if you log in on a different computer, you won't see any of yr mail in the server inbox). My ideal is IMAP with a copy of the mail on my local disk for backup. I check my mail all over on different computers, so I like having all my messages always available.
― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 22 January 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 January 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)
(xp!)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)
Anyway, what is a good homepage that a) is not google and b) is not ilxor?
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)
This is the default for my safari:
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/weather/default.jsp
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)
How do I toggle back and forth between applications? And why does my Acquisition icon keep bouncing up and down when I am not using it?
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)
and I don't know!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 23 January 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)
Actually it's Konqueror.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 23 January 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 23 January 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 23 January 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― don atwater weiner, Monday, 29 March 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)
http://members.cox.net/flixtonsoftware/Steam/
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago)
Will
― willdabeast, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:18 (twenty years ago)
Gmail Status: a menu bar app that tells you if you have any unread Gmail email.
SolarSeek: slsk client that doesn't depend on X11 or any weird ports. Still in early development stage but works pretty well
xAct: converts .flac, .shn, etc. audio files to plain ole .aiff
Wiretap: records streaming audio (or anything coming through the speakers) to .aiff. I use it for recording RealPlayer streams.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 08:01 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:29 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago)
I'm not paying all that money for Panther. I was planning to wait for Sabre-Toothed Tiger or something.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)
no, 10.3 :P
I can copy it for you?
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago)
― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago)
― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Monday, 23 August 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Monday, 23 August 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)
― jones (actual), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago)
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago)
AudioSlicer is a Cocoa GUI application that finds all silences in an audio file and allows you to split it into several smaller audio files and to name/tag them properly. For now only MP3 is supported but other audio formats may be added in the future.While most other tools doing this split automatically according to certain criteria, AudioSlicer shows you all silences within a certain range of duration. You can then listen to the silence - well, to the audio before and after the silence really - and then you decide if you want to split there.The splitting is done without loss, there is no decoding and re-encoding of audio data taking place.
― gainfully employed (ex machina), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago)
― :|, Friday, 3 September 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)
― gainfully employed (ex machina), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)
― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)
use expose with hot corners -- have one display desktop and one display all windows. use the display desktop to find files you need
then drag it into theother corner to find the window to drop it in
MAGNIFIQUE!
― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)
― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)
http://www.icalx.com/
kinda buggy right now :/
― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:01 (twenty years ago)
― Mediawhore, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 06:05 (twenty years ago)
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago)
― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago)
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago)
It's only at version 0.2, but it shits on NetNewsWire and Shrook already. And it's free!
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago)
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 10 September 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago)
I used to think I was a Mac genius. When stuff didn't work I knew what prefs to delete and which extension was conflicting with which extension and how some font was causing a post-script error blah blah blah.
But now with OSX I'm lost.
Lately my computer seems to be running slow, as does my internet connection. The latter I first blamed on the RNC, increased net traffic in the NYC area, FBI monitoring everything or whatever, but now on both parts, I wonder if I didn't mess something up, installed some crappy thing or clogged this or that. Limewire used to be fast and now I'm lucky if it works, for instance.
What are good utilities? Is there a good simple utility that can tell me what speed my cable modem is working at? What about a Norton style thing? I was never a fan of Norton's because I heard it could occasionally do more pain then good, but I need a "spring cleaning" or something, but I'm not about to go into my libraries folder and start deleting things.
I don't mind spending money...
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 11 September 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)
For a speed test, I don't think you need to buy anything - just go to an online speed test like http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp and it will tell you how your connection is going.
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 11 September 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 11 September 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago)
big kudos for the link to "Download Comment" - i've been looking for this for ages as well
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)
track atlantic storms
― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)
tomato torrent: I have no idea how that works : / cd you explain?
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago)
suprnova.org used to be the standard for bittorrent files, but I think it has been down now for a few weeks or so. Tomato torrent is just a program that lets you manage your bittorrent downloads and uploads...sort of like a download manager on your browser.
A google search for "bittorrent os x" can provide you with download links, etc.
― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:55 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 September 2004 12:02 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago)
http://cedmen.chez.tiscali.fr/sofa/images/screen05.jpg
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago)
Quicksilver is OK if you demand a no-cash alternative.
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago)
― Spinning Down Alone You Spin Alive (ex machina), Friday, 12 November 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago)
― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago)
― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago)
― :| (....), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago)
Stickywindows and iTattle are handy too.
― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)
― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago)
― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Friday, 24 December 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)
― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)
http://www.ipodlounge.com/downloads.php
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)
Also, my old standby for editing mp3s and such: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)
― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)
― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)
― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)
― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)
― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)
http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=iPodRip
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 22 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)
I had to use this to fix my parents' iPods - they had their music spread across six computers between them, Mac and PC. Worth paying the shareware price instead of moving a few at a time.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 23 January 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)
goodbye "playlists"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 27 February 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 February 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 27 February 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)
Even the non paid version is handy and fun. The ability to sync addressbook birthdays to calendar rules since one of my social networking site lets me export all my friends.
― green uno skip card (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)
― kansas topography (kansas topography), Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)
― kansas topography (kansas topography), Saturday, 5 March 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)
this is neat!
― green uno skip card (ex machina), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)
this is going to be cool!
― green uno skip card (ex machina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)
need to figure out where my money's going, so i can save some. could do it with a pencil, but it seems like it might be more fun to actually do it on my computer.
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)
I CAN SEE YOU, usr/bin ... IN MY FINDER.
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
1992!!
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)
Photoshop will do it too, just make an action and boom. I often want to sharpen images a bit if they've been shrunk, and it's nice to have the full-on fiddle of Unsharp Mask to add to the batch process.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)
my favorite bittorrent client!
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)
make the itunes music store links more useful
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)
HANDY!
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)
― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)
My favourite at the mo is MenuCalender Clock - gives me date and time, and loads my calender from ical. Brilliant.
― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)
zxsp - a spectrum emulator that will actually load off of old tapes directly!
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)
I'm just fucking with you, shaggy
I'm gonna go to town with the new release of PyMusique tonight, I didn't get to try out the first one
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)
DRM is fundamentally flawed because at some point you have to unlock or decrypt the track to play it. And at some point people are going to want to take a track out of the DRM world to take to a device beyond the vendor lock in.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)
From a risk managment perspective it's bad because there is no 'defense in depth,' you are just relying on a single bit of crypto to be the lynchpin in your entire business process, and there is no recourse if it fails. Absolute assurance = infinite resources applied to the problem of assurance = no profits
From a cryptographic standpoint it's impossible to give out the holy trinity of encipherment: plaintext, ciphertext, and key, and then expect that the process/algorithm remain secret
It amounts to a lot of snake oil that software companies have sold to media owners to allow computers to keep being used for movies and music and such. What's funny about PyMusique is that you still PAY your $.99 or whatever, you just get a regular usable .m4a like we all wanted in the first place instead of some crippled bullshit.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)
http://veta.irowan.com/and
http://www.irowan.com/romeo/
― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Saturday, 26 March 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)
good clearinghouse of crap
― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)
Scale To Mail from http://www.littleapplescripts.com/ is rather nice.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)
Meterologist
Otherwise, you can use the Weather part of X Resource Graph (which I use)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)
― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)
Cocoa Dialog lets you use native dialogs from shell scripts
― absolutego (ex machina), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)
― absolutego (ex machina), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)
xpost
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)
(windows here)
Basically this block know RIAA, MPAA ip addresses from connecting to your computer to limit liability to lawsuits.
― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)
Firefox nightly builds.
The input handling has been rewritten. My middle mouse button works.Fonts are better.the preferences is now a non modal window and set up more like camino and safari
― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)
this is a great alarm clock
― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 17 April 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)
tiger widget that streams selected films from archive.org
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago)
a script that makes itunes remember play positions for all tracks, not just podcasts
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Monday, 4 July 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago)
Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies Widget!!!!
― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago)
― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago)
- identify my mp3s (and regularize them) by digitial footprint
and/or
- get an image of the relevant lp cover for every mp3 i have???
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 04:41 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.indyjt.com/software/?show=ieatbrainz
― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 04:55 (nineteen years ago)
Turns flash into an os x screensaver!
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago)
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago)
Momus showed me a little app to remap keys, buggered if I can remember the name though.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 September 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 September 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago)
I'm also smitten with Mozilla for OS 9, which has made my work life miles better after the horrors of IE 5. If you're stuck on OS 9, go geddit. It's topp. And Grimly will back me up, if he appears.
― stet (stet), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.flip4mac.com/
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 January 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 16 January 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)
― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 16 January 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)
― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 16 January 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)
― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 January 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)
― chris j (chris j), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)
― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)
― Jena (JenaP), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)
― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)
Top 100 Response To Requests While DJing
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 2 February 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)
― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 9 April 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)
― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 10 April 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)
― stet (stet), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)
― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)
― stet (stet), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)
yes, it has a timer option that will probably let you do that.
― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)
http://ldopa.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/01/ldopa-1970.jpg
― schwantz (schwantz), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)
-- stet (vmdnb900...) (webmail), April 14th, 2006 5:12 PM. (stet) (later) (link)
In every way, except for not supporting extensions. :D It has a native GUI and I think there is a greasemonkey for it. People should move all extensions to userscripts (aka greasemonkey) so Opera+all Mozillas+Konqueror+Safari can all use it.
― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)
― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)
This script will add a little red asterisk by threads that you have read and that have since acquired new answers. this would work somewhat better in conjunction with some sort of feature that sez "don't alert me about this thread because i don't care" or even an ignore thread. but this is enough for a bit of dicking around. save the following as a text file named "ilxunread.user.js" or something and import it into greasemonkey:
// ==UserScript==
// @name ILX NewAnswers
// @description Place a red * by thread you have read and now have new answers
// @include http://ilx.wh3rd.net/*// @include http://ilx.ph3r.net/*
// ==/UserScript==
if(window.location.href.match(/thread\.php/)) { var allBQ, lastBQ; allBQ = document.getElementsByTagName('blockquote');
lastBQ=allBQ[allBQ.length-1]; re = /\), .*\d\d\d\d (.+?)\./gmi; txt = lastBQ.lastChild.childNodes[2].nodeValue; lastDate= re.exec(txt); re = /thread\.php\?msgid=(\d+)/gmi; thread=re.exec(window.location.href);// GM_log(lastDate); GM_setValue(thread[1],lastDate[1]);} else if (window.location.href.match(/newanswers\.php/)) { var allA allA = document.evaluate( "//a[@href]", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null); for (var i = 0; i < allA.snapshotLength; i++) { thisItem = allA.snapshotItem(i); if(thisItem.href.match(/thread\.php/gmi)) { reg = /last\W+at\W+(.+m)/i; tm = reg.exec(thisItem.parentNode.lastChild.nodeValue); if(tm) { regg = /msgid=(\d+)/i; id = regg.exec(thisItem.href); foo = GM_getValue(id[1],''); if(foo) { if(foo.toUpperCase() != tm[1].toUpperCase()) {// GM_log(foo.toUpperCase()+", "+tm[1].toUpperCase()); newElement=document.createElement('span'); newElement.innerHTML="<font color='#ff0000'>*</font>"; thisItem.parentNode.insertBefore(newElement,thisItem.nextSibling.nextSibling); } } } } }}}
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)
I've never tried Eudora, but I'm told it's tolerable. Mailsmith and Gyazmail are both useless since they don't support IMAP. If you are l337 then there's always mutt.
― caek (caek), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)
― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)
― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)
it is picky like that
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)
― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)
I must go. My two minutes are up.
― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 8 May 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)
― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)
it doesn't have to be web related i'm not particularly interested in anyone accessing the stats other than me.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 8 May 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)
I have uploaded an SVN build of the stripped-down, iPod/PSP-dedicated version of HandBrake, called “Instant HandBrake”.
At the moment, it lets you create iPod-compatible MPEG-4 or H.264 files, or PSP-compatible MPEG-4 files. The default is to automatically crop the picture to fill the screen (4:3 on the iPod, 16:9 on the PSP), or you can choose to keep the original format.
http://handbrake.m0k.org/
― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:10 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 21 May 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago)
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 21 May 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 21 May 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:10 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago)
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago)
― ferzaffe (flezaffe), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago)
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago)
x-post. CONTROL PANEL? Get with the times, old man.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
but i haven't seen anything like it for os x.
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago)
― ferzaffe (flezaffe), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:44 (eighteen years ago)
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago)
― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago)
Are you sure?
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago)
Hmmm... One thing to do that remedies most ID3 problems is to select the tracks in iTunes and then choose Advanced -> Convert ID3 Tags. Choose v2.4 in the resulting menu. A lot of pesky tagging problems disappear after doing that.
For tag management thereafter, I use a couple of different scripts from http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago)
mail appetizer (kind of like growlmail but more beefed up; at least i think so, cause i never got growl to work with mail)
from the same programmer comes an installer for CD paranoia - the command-line tool that rip AIFs directly from CD with no DA conversion. manual here, but essentially it's just /usr/local/bin/cdparanoia -Bf to extract an entire disc with each track separate
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:34 (eighteen years ago)
new release of Cog (you have to compile it yourself) makes an ELEGANT MOCKERY of itunes' library by letting you slide out a little tray next to your playlist that shows you... the contents of your music folder, including revealable subfolders, etc
DUHHH
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 September 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago)
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 10:04 (eighteen years ago)
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)
― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)
Er? I use BT straight up just fine.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)
Now that we're in the post-Andrew era, would a moderator put "hoonja-doonja" back in this thread title? Easier to search, for one thing.
I KNOW!!!
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)
― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 13 January 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 13 January 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 13 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 13 January 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 13 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)
― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)
― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)
― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)
― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)
― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 13 January 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)
Only problem for me? I can't search in mac mail now, which I used a lot.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 14 January 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)
haha, ctrl-alt-apple-8!!!
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)
my mom uses that all the time, along with alt-apple-8 (which zooms in and out) -- it's designed for people with poor eyesight
― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)
― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 14 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)
yep, not being able to do this = suckage. i'll have to stick with spotlight for now.
― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 14 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 14 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 14 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)
??!
i've got a G4 powerbook with 768MB and stuff zooms. the only thing that occasionally fails to zoom is firefox, which can occasionally get sticky, but i can forgive it.
what does your process viewer thing (can't remember the name of the app, and am at work using OS FUCKING 9 IN AN OLD-SKOOL STYLEE, so can't check) say is causing the problem?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)
but are you using Tiger? even basic desktop stuff gets slow...but that's often when I've had Photoshop and other memory intensive programs active.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)
I set it up so that I can select a file, launch quicksilver, press s (for send) and then type 2 letters of the person's name from my address book and it sends them the file, without even starting mail.app
also, get the web search plugin, i think it's called. It has like 350 built in websites, so you do like quicksilver -> imdb -> "whatever" and it does it.
― five roses (Elliot), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)
― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)
1) Make sure that more than 10% of all hard drive space is free2) Look at Activity Monitor and kill the stuff I installed like three months ago that I forgot about3) Run Disk Utility and repair disk permissions4) Restart
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)
― five roses (Elliot), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:23 (eighteen years ago)
― def zep (calstars), Monday, 15 January 2007 04:19 (eighteen years ago)
― max (maxreax), Monday, 15 January 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)
i guess the other solution is to enable spotlight and restrict it from indexing anything but my email. email searching totally shouldn't have to be this complicated. back in terminal days when i had a whole buncha folders and stuff i could just grep thru it all like presto.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 15 January 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 15 January 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)
http://harnly.net/software/letterbox/
much better way to view messages in mail. You see more emails and more of the selected email.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 15 January 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)
why does Safari take 342 meg of memory and 963 megs of virtual?
what is Kernel Task?
I look at the activity monitor but I don'd know what most of it is/means!
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 15 January 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)
i guess i need to try to get myself to obey tracer's 10% rule - my bittorrent addiction means i tend to have about 300 megs free on a 100 gig drive, and i'm sure that's not doing me any good.
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:58 (eighteen years ago)
Dan, I dunno why Safari takes up so much memory. You'll find that if you quit Safari and restart it, it's much nicer. Over time it develops this gargantuan appetite for RAM. Kernel Task is the central, core OS task, I believe. I read somewhere that if you've got a gig of memory and stuff is eating up a bunch of memory, that's OK, because you want your computer to actually USE all the memory available to it, rather than just letting it go to waste - i.e. if you only have Mail and Safari running, you could expect each of them to be using far more RAM than they would if other programs were open, too. So I don't know - it's hard to assess when it's a moving target.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 15 January 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)
hmmm. X only runs its maintenance scripts if it happens to be switched on at 3am (or whenever), and they're not a patch on some of the deep cleaning onyx can do. sure, you can do all of it from the command line too, but why bother? onyx rocks.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 15 January 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)
!!? What Tracer says is true about RAM usage creeping up with time but no matter how long I've had it running, I've never had it get up to anything like those figures. I use Opera more than Safari, but mostly it only uses about a tenth of what you're reporting (and when it's freshly launched it only grabs 13MB and 132MB virtual.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 15 January 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)
― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 15 January 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)
― def zep (calstars), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)
― five roses (Elliot), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)
― five roses (Elliot), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)
― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)
― five roses (Elliot), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)
― five roses (Elliot), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)
appzapper
http://www.appzapper.com/
pre osX, I always knew where everything was and which extensions and control panels and prefs belonged to what, but OSX befuddles me. This is basically an uninstaller for anything, just drag the app to it's window and it finds all it's related files.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)
It's funny, I also bought DiskWarrior....so the only two things I've ever paid for are programs to fix the problems created by installing tons of illegal software!
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)
Mount arbitrary remote filesystems over SSH. Doesn't work with Finder yet, but fine from the command line.
― caek (caek), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)
― caek (caek), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)
http://wizardishungry.com/blog/archive/why_i_uninstalled_quicksilver_dashboard_and_spotlight
Anyone with a less manly machine than mine who is using Quicksilver for anything successfully must have like 10 files in the catalog and no plugins. I've actually found that Spotlight does a better job than Quicksilver as an app launcher if you trim down what it will search in preferences (mainly, no music files). I *may* try quicksilver again, but it seems kind of pointless to use it if you're limited to using it as a glorified application launcher.
― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)
Especially not all the select-file->select-task shit. I also stripped the catalog down, so it's sitting at 36mb of real memory right now. Still way faster than Spotlight/Launchbar for starting apps.
― stet (stet), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)
Keeping the lid closed is a disastrous and utter waste of potential screenspace. This is how I work the majority of the time: use big external monitor for whatever file I'm working on and then put iTunes, system monitor, email windows over on the lid's LCD.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)
― UART variations (ex machina), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)
oh yeah tabmixplus' session manager for firefix is k-awesome for quitting and restarting to kill memory bloat and keeping yr. ridiculous list of stuff still open -- i have zillions of tabs most of the time as todos or reminders or whatever. probably would be better off stashing the urls with an app or bookmarking or some junk but...
also jon i haven't ever really seen dashboard as a memory hog if yr careful with whats in it?
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)
― UART variations (ex machina), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)
hardly any footprint at all, and rilly useful.
also, yeah, using audioscrobbler with growl = k-essential.
growl is actually way cooler than quicksilver.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)
Then for app launching I invented my own genius thing.
I already had two folders in my dock, Apps and Utilities, filled with aliases to all my most used programs, and usually control/right click on them to bring up a menu and select them. But when I'm in that quicksilver "I don't wanna use a mouse" mood, I came up with my own version. Made a folder who's name is just two spaces. Put it on the desktop. Filled it with aliases to all my major apps and folders. Edited the names of aliases to make sense (so...InDesign instead of Adobe InDesign)
Now when I want to launch something, I just click on the desktop, hit the space bar once, hit control down arrow to open that folder, then type the first letters of the program I want, and control down arrow again.
This is often faster and more comfortable for me then using the trackball. Don't ask me why, but it's not too different from how Quicksilver works as a launger.
(in other news...can anyone help me with a copy of Quark 6.5 or 7?)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 20 January 2007 08:03 (eighteen years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 20 January 2007 08:19 (eighteen years ago)
― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 21 January 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)
― caek (caek), Sunday, 21 January 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.mikeash.com/software/qtamateur/
^ full screen quicktime player!
― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)
How is this any better than going cmd-F in regular QuickTime Player?
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:14 (eighteen years ago)
Quark 6 stopped working. And I had a job to do. I downloaded and borrowed Quark from people, installed again and again and it wouldn't work. Booted under safe mode and it did work. Tried to think what was installed that was making it not work. Couldn't figure it out. Did some more research. Found people moaning, mostly about how terrible Quark 7 is. So I booted in Safe Mood. Opened Quark File. Saved it down to Quark 5. Then I opened Quark 5 in classic to save the file down to Quark 4. Then I opened file in InDesign CS2.
Then I used the Ink Preview feature on InDesign as discussed elsewhere and discovered that elements of the supplied photoshop had too high an ink density. Which was a great catch.
And that, if I can help it, was the last time I'll ever use Quark Xpress.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:21 (eighteen years ago)
-- Elvis Telecom (quartzcit...), January 23rd, 2007 7:14 AM. (Chris Barrus) (later)
only qt pro has full-screen
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:26 (eighteen years ago)
― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:42 (eighteen years ago)
And you can't get a serial number from one of the 10,000 w@r3z sites?
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:50 (eighteen years ago)
people like me have been using it for 1,000 years and are REALLY fast. I can layout a magazine with just using key commands.
it doesn't have a million palettes.
InDesigns method at beating quark was to make every feature available on a palette, so you could just click on everything instead of knowing the key commands to bring up whatever menu item you needed. Also, with the palettes, you can click on options while still basically being in your document, as opposed to Quark's method of making you open a dialogue window, clicking "preview", making changes, clicking apply.
Only problem is InDesign becomes a mess of palettes, and if you just click them all off, it can be easy to not know where to find the functions, especially if you're still accidently using quark key commands (and yes I know indesign can use quark key commands, but I don't want to do that, I want to get used to adobe so I can more seamlessly switch to photoshop/illustrator.)
The cure is to re-arrange your workspace which I just did. Basically, hiding palettes I'm not going to use, changing which palettes are group with which and putting them in good places. I now feel so much better. And you can save and copy the workspace, so like, I can copy my workspace to my iDisk and if I go to a freelance job, upload the workspace and everything is where I want it to be. That's nice. I know quark has this now, but fuck 'em.
Anyway, quark has been buggy as hell for as long as I can remember, and they spent the last several versions adding features so you could make websites with quark (who does that?) while Adobe was clearly adding features that print and design pros want.
it just sucks because like, half of how I'm able to make any money is because I know printing and general production issues, the other half is because I'm fast at Quark. Still, at this point, more and more places are switching to InDesign and there aren't as many freelancers who've made the switch, so that's something.
What would be nice would be to make money selling music and never have to use Quark or InDesign ever again. Wait, what were we talking about?
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:59 (eighteen years ago)
You can (I have), but it's idiotic for Apple not to bundle it with Macs. One of the first things people see when they buy a new Mac is those awful greyed out menu items with "FREE" next to them, which look so cheap and Windows. Such a bad impression. FFS, $30 is a rounding error on the price of a Mac. They include much more valuable software (e.g. iMovie). Just bundle it already.
― caek (caek), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Soundabout/SoundaboutMain.html
― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)
What I want to know is what the hell is up with FileRun, it's like the coolest thing that never actually came out. http://filerun.info
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)
VIDEOABOUT too please
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)
― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)
― dan selzer, Friday, 9 March 2007 06:53 (eighteen years ago)
― JW, Friday, 9 March 2007 06:57 (eighteen years ago)
― dan selzer, Friday, 9 March 2007 07:41 (eighteen years ago)
― naus, Friday, 9 March 2007 07:52 (eighteen years ago)
― JW, Friday, 9 March 2007 07:54 (eighteen years ago)
― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)
― dan selzer, Friday, 16 March 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)
― toby, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 08:26 (eighteen years ago)
― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)
― caek, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)
― caek, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)
― dan selzer, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)
― dan selzer, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)
http://freakshowsoftware.com/
PhotoBooth clone for older macs. Works with other usb/fw cams.
Did you guys know that iChat in the latest 10.4.X supports generic USB cams? I am using an XBOX360 cam.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 21 May 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago)
i can't see you
― s1ocki, Monday, 21 May 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago)
waht
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 21 May 2007 04:39 (seventeen years ago)
ok, torrent client advice updates plz. I have Tomato Torrent, and of course it works, but what I really want is something that feels like uTorrent, with easy tracking of everything being hosted, etc. I have not played with X Torrent.
― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago)
The other option, of course, is to just keep using the PC as a torrent machine, which is probably the better idea. :(
waht is wrong with azureus? (besides the fact that it is ugly)
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago)
Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. Thanks.
― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago)
Thing is, Vista is expiring on me in 12 days, and I have no intention of buying a legit copy of the piece of shit, so I went and bought an iMac this weekend to transfer all my shit on to, and then I'll wipe the drives on my PC, reinstall XP, and use it strictly for storage. But I haven't used a Mac for fun not-work things in a while, so you will see me on this thread again v v soon.
― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago)
Hooray new computer!
Didn't you used to take every opportunity to run Macs down?
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago)
Years ago.
― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago)
It was just foolishness associated with not knowing how to smoothly use one. I outgrew that pretty quick.
That's why I dismiss everybody who says stuff I disagree with. They just haven't outgrown their early wrong opinions.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago)
is soulseex still the best slsk for OS X?
― milo z, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago)
ah, success. I wiped my PC, installed a rather lovely crack of XP, and got my Mac talking to that machine, so I can manage any of the files there from my Mac. So I have one nice machine, and one giant 540 gig storage facility and downloading station.
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago)
yes it is. that said, honestly demands that i note a lot of people use solarseek (it may be a majority now) which has a lot of problems (e.g., certain information - such as bit rate - is only visible when the browser and the browsee are both using solarseek. solarseek is much more likely to crash; the search results window is more difficult to read and not fully manipulatable the way ssX and soulseek are. but apparently some people just want the program to look OSX-y and don't care how well it works.
so, yes, ssX is the best for OS X.
― mitya, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 08:16 (seventeen years ago)
ironically it didn't allow my iSIGHT cam! I use Skype for video chat now.
― nathalie, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 08:19 (seventeen years ago)
My biggest issue with ssX is that it beachballs constantly after a few days. I've reduced most of that by careful tuning of the network parameters, so it's not so big a deal now. I wish the interface were unified in one window, but I'll take ssX's relative stability any day over the disaster that is Solarseek.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago)
i just paid $29 for newsfire.
will this completely change how i use the internet?!?
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 24 June 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago)
siw.exe
― Heave Ho, Sunday, 24 June 2007 02:23 (seventeen years ago)
YMMV, Vahid. I downloaded an RSS reader (NetNewsWire Lite) two years ago and decided that they're not for me. Blogs and news sites being what they are, much of the content consists of links to other sites, which will keep you going back to your browser anyway. I guess the major benefit to reader programs is that for those who are on the internet all day, you'll know when your favorite sites have updated so that you won't have to keep checking back.
(Also, the site for newsfire says $20, so see if you can get your $9 back.)
― naus, Monday, 25 June 2007 08:44 (seventeen years ago)
slightly offtopic but...
dudzors, i have owned my mac for well over a year now and i remain quite convinced that there should be some way to, ahem, "program" it to do things, e.g. automatically launch iTunes at 10pm to play a certain radio show, or wake me up with the radio in the mornings (like an alarm clock). however i have been unable to figure out how. Anybody else do ostuff like this, and if so, how? As I said, it reallly seems like the pieces are there in OS X, but maybe i need some hoonja-doonja?
― mitya, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:38 (seventeen years ago)
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-46603.html
― naus, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago)
http://electronicholas.com/itunesleep
totally worth the reg fee.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago)
I use http://keakaj.com/powercontroller.htm and don't regret the reg fee at all.
― c sharp major, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago)
to "program" your mac to do other things, try automator, which is built in - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/automator/
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago)
It's kinda funny that Cog seems to have had a redesign to make it a lot more like iTunes.
― toby, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago)
QuickTime 7.2 addresses critical security issues and delivers: - Support for full screen viewing in QuickTime Player - Updates to the H.264 codec - Numerous bug fixes
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago)
yeah toby :(
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago)
Delicious Library is godlike-- especially with the iSight. Scan the barcodes on all of your CDs, DVDs, tapes, video games, books, and it finds them on Amazon, downloads the cover, puts up some information, and puts them all on a sexy little shelf. It even modifies the cover so it looks like it's in a shiny DVD or CD case (or flattens it if it's a book). Seriously you need to see this thing. There's a demo that allows you fifty items, IIRC.
Sorry if it already got mentioned, but I love it.
― Will M., Friday, 13 July 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago)
(Also, the site for newsfire says $20, so see if you can get your $9 back.
Also, you can just get Vienna which is free. (though I use NetNewsWire because I sync across several computers
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago)
Just as another alternative you can set up a cron job that invokes AppleScript that starts your alarm clock playlist.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago)
we used delicious library to list a few hundred things for sale on amazon and ebay earlier in the year - definitely an absolute godsend. i think garagesale also has functionality for barcode scanning built in, too, for all your ebay needs.
actually if garagesale hasn't been mentioned already, that's definitely one of my favourite mac apps. i can't imagine using ebay without it.
― toby, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago)
obviously i guess that isn't the main idea of delicious library, but it's a very useful sideline.
what IS the main idea then?? it sounds like a lot of busy-work to me. i already do enough tedious crap at my day job.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 14 July 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago)
i think the main idea is that you might want to have some kind of digital catalogue of all your books etc. doesn't appeal to me at all, but i can imagine there's a market for it. for us it certainly speeded up all the book selling, and also made it more 'fun', too (probably the lack of tedious crap in my day job helped here - realistically waving barcodes in front of your laptop for hours isn't the best leisure activity going).
on the iphone front, i have a feeling that this is going to be great (it's already pretty good):
http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/
― toby, Sunday, 15 July 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago)
GarageSale and iSale are both pretty crap compared to Ebay's free (Windows) software. Too many submenus (as for pre-filled item info), too much cutesy stuff.
Delicious Library sounds awesome for the first day or two, until you've catalogued X number of DVDs and then you realize that you already pretty much knew what you had and what's the point of keeping this up? LibraryThing is similar, but at least there you get to have fun finding out which people across the country are like you book-wise, how you stack up in the groups you've joined, etc..
― milo z, Sunday, 15 July 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago)
witch!
mac's alt.tabbing always bugged me and witch fixes it.
― czn, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago)
Did you guys know that iChat in the latest 10.4.X supports generic USB cams?
all my software is up to date, but mine does not :(
― Jena, Saturday, 4 August 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago)
I just discovered WebDeveloper in Firefox (on mac, but also on Windows?). I fucking love it. Should have installed it much earlier and save some time when changing the HTML in a Wordpress Theme.
― stevienixed, Saturday, 4 August 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago)
I just discovered WebDeveloper in Firefox
Sounds like I should discover it -- um, where is it?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 August 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
― caek, Saturday, 4 August 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago)
Too kind.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 August 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago)
Meanwhile, while I'm sure there's an answer upthread, I'm long overdue for something for identifying/scrubbing spyware and just plain cleaning up the drive and all. Preferences, anyone?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 August 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago)
do you have spyware on your mac??
― s1ocki, Saturday, 4 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)
I sure as fuck hope not! (But stupider has occurred, thus my possibly unjustified concern.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 August 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago)
For the time being, the consensus is that your concern is unjustified. Some people play it super-safe by having an account without administrator privileges for day-to-day use, and if you're really worried you could do that, but frankly I wouldn't bother.
― caek, Saturday, 4 August 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476. This will have to do while I am still working on my maturiyty and self-control.
― caek, Monday, 6 August 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago)
tell application "Safari" set frontmost_window to (window 1) -- Window with index 1 is frontmost repeat with idx from 1 to the count of every tab in frontmost_window do JavaScript "window.location.reload()" in (tab idx of window 1) end repeat end tell
― libcrypt, Monday, 24 September 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago)
tivo for radio
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/radioshift/
― czn, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago)
yeah, now that steam has... run out of it, that looks pretty good
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago)
http://proxi.griffintechnology.com/
― caek, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 10:33 (seventeen years ago)
for those with massive movie collections, i just found a great alternative to delicious library. dvdpedia is less bulky, supports fullscreen and comes with an itunes-like coverflow feature.
― Jena, Monday, 5 November 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago)
I can't believe I never mentioned Textmate here!
http://macromates.com/
I only scratch the surface of its features, but it's easily the best text editor I've ever used.
― toby, Friday, 14 December 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago)
I still haven't moved on from BBEdit although I know I should
Textmate still feels a little sluggish to me
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago)
Did I ever post on this? I'm still all up on NetNewsWire, TextMate, Coda, Transmit, CSSEdit, Twitterific (despite friggin advertisements), iScrobbler, and a half dozen other things.
― mh, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago)
Anything new for the new year? (Finally installed Leopard today.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 January 2008 06:54 (seventeen years ago)
I'm still on tiger. Just got a 1TB drive, can anybody recommend a free or shareware or cheap back-up solution? Carbon-copy cloner or anything like that?
I'm nervous about updating to Leopard because some of my software may not like it and updating from Panther to Tiger slowed my computer down (I have the first silver g5 tower), though I've read reports that Leopard is actually faster than Tiger even on a way older machine. Any truth to that?
― dan selzer, Friday, 4 January 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
dan i don't know, i've been scared too. but i'm tempted based on the spotlight improvements alone (i.e. the thing actually working).
for backups, deja vu has always worked like a dream for me -
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9221
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:53 (seventeen years ago)
If you're prepared to pay a bit, I'm told SuperDuper is better than CCC for backups.
― Alba, Friday, 4 January 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)
Yea carbon copy cloner works well!
I'm nervous about updating to Leopard because some of my software may not like it and updating from Panther to Tiger slowed my computer down (I have the first silver g5 tower),
Backup with Carbon Copy Cloner and test that you can BOOT off your external disk -- I think this only works with firewire disks. Anyway, if you can boot off yr backup volume (hold alt/option at boot), you can install Leopard on the system drive and keep yr old Tiger install on the external. If you don't like Leopard, boot off the external and image Tiger back to the internal.
though I've read reports that Leopard is actually faster than Tiger even on a way older machine. Any truth to that?
My Powebook G4 flies with a fresh install of Leopard.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 4 January 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)
guys this thing is sooo good -
http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/set-up-a-self+cleaning-mac-with-hazel-320951.php
http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 January 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)
this is seriously the best hoonja doonja ever
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:28 (seventeen years ago)
DOES anyone know where I can get a copy of Maniac Mansion for my old OS? is mac yes
― Abbott, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:36 (seventeen years ago)
I have been trying Hazel for the last couple of weeks - it just expired, in fact. Not totally sure it's worth $22 though; I guess I'll wait and see if I miss it moving all my PDFs around etc.
― toby, Thursday, 10 January 2008 22:05 (seventeen years ago)
At first blush, Hazel just looks like a fancified interface to Applescript folder actions.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 10 January 2008 22:37 (seventeen years ago)
I just started playing around with Scrivener - I'm really enjoying it.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)
hurrah for free netnewswire!
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)
I am loving Hazel! It is rocking my Desktop and Downloads folders. I've set it up to sweep torrents, picture clippings, screenshots, MP3s, and JPGs all into their own wee folders and now my Desktop is squeaky clean all the time.
I am also loving Google Reader.
― czn, Thursday, 17 January 2008 11:52 (seventeen years ago)
I am hearting Geektool at the moment.
― The Boyler, Thursday, 17 January 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)
Geektool
http://lifehacker.com/assets/2006/07/geektool-fulldesktop1-thumb.jpg
― The Boyler, Thursday, 17 January 2008 22:06 (seventeen years ago)
xGestures
I got this a while ago because I had got used to being able to go back and forward between with a mouse gesture in Opera, and when switching back to Safari, it was one of the things I really missed.
So, I got it to replicate that, but it's the ability to set global gestures that make it totally awesome. I've set "rocking right" (holding down the left mouse button then pressing the right) to play/pause iTunes, which is so handy.
― Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)
"go back and forward between pages" that should read.
― Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)
http://docs.blacktree.com/nocturne/nocturne
night mode for your computer. Awesome for writing at night. I have mine set to tiny everything a nice orange and drop the brightness down very low. I wish I could screencap this.... but screencapping it makes it normal :D
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 25 February 2008 07:53 (seventeen years ago)
oh sweet
― El Tomboto, Monday, 25 February 2008 09:02 (seventeen years ago)
Why is there even an app for that? Just go into the Universal Access part of System Preferences and switch to grayscale, then hit ctrl+option+command+8 to invert that shit…
― naus, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:34 (seventeen years ago)
Cool. I never knew about ctl+opt+cmd+8. I'm going to start watching all my pr0n this way.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:43 (seventeen years ago)
it just turns a 3-step process into a one-click process
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)
I also love the implication that anybody is supposed to know about "ctrl+opt+cmd+8"
lol n00b
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
Any of you guys played with Piclens? It's pretty cool.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)
Even I know about ctrl+opt+cmd+8. It's like the ABACAB of Mac lore.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)
xyzzy
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:26 (seventeen years ago)
It doesn't just invert the display, you MacAspie choad!
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:26 (seventeen years ago)
and with that, I realized he was my brother
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)
OK, new toy: skitch!
awesome
― czn, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 21:46 (seventeen years ago)
is there anything that can reliably play back music in a wide variety of formats, including CUE files? i know there's nothing like foobar, but i feel like there should be something half decent. oh, and is there anything good for mp3 retagging yet?
― toby, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 12:31 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/04/30/afloat-2-0-returns-window-floating-to-leopard/
this is so awesome for hulu / dvd player
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.usingmac.com/2007/11/18/leopard-tweaking-terminal-codes
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 5 May 2008 17:51 (seventeen years ago)
Devon Office Pro is rocking my organisational world right now.
― Ed, Monday, 5 May 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)
Might as well ask here -- advice re: recording phone calls on the iPhone, as I'll need to arrange for an upcoming interview I'm doing.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 May 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)
what is a good free video encoder/converter? I use ffmpeg x at home but there are too many files to install here at work.
― admrl, Thursday, 22 May 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago)
Visual Hub?
― Dalzinho, Thursday, 22 May 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago)
anyone using growl? good ... this is a public service announcement to save 20 minutes of your valuable time.
see when you install the 1.1.3 upgrade? if, like me, you've got growl installed at ~/Library/PreferencePanes, be warned that the installer -- without asking -- will install the new version at /Library/PreferencePanes.
which means you end up with a) two versions of growl; b) the old one still running, not the new one; c) the old one getting confused and upset and dumping a shitload of .reg files in your trash all the time.
i've seen some imbecilic behaviour from installers before, but this takes the biscuit. developers: if you can't write a fucking installer properly, don't bother: just let us drag and drop the fucking files ourselves, eh?
they're also one of those infuriating setups where you can't e-mail them directly: you have to fanny about on google groups.
shame, because it's a great little program. but this is dickwittery par excellence.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 9 June 2008 09:16 (sixteen years ago)
Omnigraffle Pro 5. This is SOOOOOO much better than Visio it's just not even a thing. The bezier stuffs in 5 totally is rules.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 10 July 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago)
I should get this so I can start making cartoons and graph art again. I can't fuck off quite so blatantly at work anymore :(
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:22 (sixteen years ago)
http://code.google.com/p/precipitate/
― hereinfereindryalin (cozwn), Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:00 (sixteen years ago)
http://ianhenderson.org/delimport.html
― hereinfereindryalin (cozwn), Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:02 (sixteen years ago)
http://code.google.com/p/radio2daap/
― thanksbutnothanksonthatbridgetonowhere (cozwn), Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago)
are people using radio pop?
http://radiopop.co.uk
― thanksbutnothanksonthatbridgetonowhere (cozwn), Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago)
it has the twin virtues of radio 4 & graphs
http://www.radiopop.co.uk/users/cozen
― thanksbutnothanksonthatbridgetonowhere (cozwn), Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago)
http://img.skitch.com/20080911-fg5u9smigsy2wskgj9neyms28i.jpg
― thanksbutnothanksonthatbridgetonowhere (cozwn), Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago)
not mac only, but dropbox just went public and is my favourite thing lately. fantastic for not having to worry about which machine i've been working on.
― toby, Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:42 (sixteen years ago)
it sounds great, but how do i use it? is there something there to download?!
― toby, Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:45 (sixteen years ago)
haha I totally pasted that link after only reading the blog post here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/09/things_to_do_with_programmes_4.shtml
ten fruitless minutes later pissing about with subversion I give up
: /
― thanksbutnothanksonthatbridgetonowhere (cozwn), Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago)
also not mac only but still looks great:http://www.fitbit.com/
― thanksbutnothanksonthatbridgetonowhere (cozwn), Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:48 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive
― the valves of houston (gbx), Saturday, 11 October 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago)
Suggest Ban PermalinkSSHFS for Darwin: http://mac.pqrs.org/sshfs/Mount arbitrary remote filesystems over SSH. Doesn't work with Finder yet, but fine from the command line.― caek (caek), Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:52 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkAlso, http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ does speak Finder, but its installation is a bit more involved.― caek (caek), Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
― caek (caek), Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:52 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkAlso, http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ does speak Finder, but its installation is a bit more involved.
― caek (caek), Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
I now approve of the Google code version. The "*unsupported*" GUI wrapper for sshfs is useless, but otherwise, this shit really works.
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago)
h'mmmm. isn't that the same thing as what i posted last week? sort of?
― the valves of houston (gbx), Monday, 20 October 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago)
From and end-user perspective I guess it is, actually.
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:05 (sixteen years ago)
Actually, expandrive is a macfuse front-end: http://daringfireball.net/2008/03/expandrive
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago)
so performance should be identical
i thought so!
― the valves of houston (gbx), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:26 (sixteen years ago)
FREEDOM
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago)
I used to know of some way to take any arbitrary text and make it BIG, like "large type" in Address Book. What was this?
― The Birdman from the Hilarious Avian/Human Transmogrifier (libcrypt), Friday, 21 November 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago)
Quicksilver.
― stet, Friday, 21 November 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, I thought so. Quicksilver is an unstable piece of trash, tho.
― sheepie (libcrypt), Monday, 24 November 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago)
otm
― caek, Monday, 24 November 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago)
yay! http://mac.utorrent.com/beta/
― caek, Sunday, 30 November 2008 04:48 (sixteen years ago)
been rocking this for 24 hours now without trouble. it's like transmission without the broken protocol and azureus without feeling distressed that something so skeezy is on your computer.
Holy shit! Joy!
― en i see kay, Sunday, 30 November 2008 04:55 (sixteen years ago)
Quicksilver iTunes plugin + Growl
― redmond, Sunday, 30 November 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago)
=?
― s1ocki, Sunday, 30 November 2008 05:08 (sixteen years ago)
oic
What is broken with Transmission?
― ＡＳＣＩＩ ＮＥＤ (libcrypt), Sunday, 30 November 2008 05:57 (sixteen years ago)
It doesn't upload as much as Vuze or uTorrent on the same connection for me, which screws my ratio on private sites.
― caek, Sunday, 30 November 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago)
holy wazongas - ExpanDrive is like magical fairy dust!
how the hell can something like this exist?
who needs a goddamn VPN i ask you
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago)
Edgies.
― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥ ＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Saturday, 13 December 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.sophiestication.com/coversutra/ is great for iTunes. Loving the keyboard shortcut to bring up a floating player HUD. And it scrobbles without that dodgy last.fm scrobbler plugin.
― stet, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 11:02 (sixteen years ago)
Dude, you're only bothering with this because you've now got acres and acres of spare monitor space you want to fill somehow ;)
Nice idea, but really ... I've never thought it a particular hassle to flick in and out of iTunes when I want to change the record. And now that I've started using Spaces not just as a curio but as an essential productivity tool, it's even more straightforward (ie all music apps live in Space 3, meaning I'm a keystroke away from them at any time).
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 11:38 (sixteen years ago)
I know its not mac only but can I rep for how good dropbox.com is?
Also growl is proving surprisingly useful right now.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 11:38 (sixteen years ago)
Also: fuck the dodgy Last.fm client. iScrobbler is the only way to roll.
xpost Dropbox is a FUCKING JOY, yes -- and really, really highlights just how reekingly piss-sodden iDisk is.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 11:39 (sixteen years ago)
iscrobbler
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 11:40 (sixteen years ago)
I meant to type that in the search box.
Best place to get it is via the link from the Last.fm group: here.
It is devoid of all bells and whistles, but works seamlessly, handles iPods perfectly ... and is written by a decent dude who genuinely gives a shit about it.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 11:43 (sixteen years ago)
Does everyone in Academe know about the truly fucking amazing Papers?
http://mekentosj.com/papers/
iTunes for Academic papers, links with the word 2008 bib tool as well. Can't tell you how awesome this is.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:49 (sixteen years ago)
I tried that, but ended up using the similar Sente, which I'm a huge fan of: http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/site/introduction.htmlmade bibliographies almost as easy as using bibtext, with the codez
― stet, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:55 (sixteen years ago)
ever time I try to use any thing *TeX I fight it for a week and then slink sullenly back to work. I tried Sente as well but the search interface is vastly inferior. I am agitating with the papers developers for them to support annotations and then I will be as a happy as a pig without swine flu.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:03 (sixteen years ago)
See, I've wondered about Sente (on Stet's recommendation) and Papers looks interesting too, but a combination of sensible naming convention + Spotlight has never missed a beat for me ... seriously, I think I could put my finger on any downloaded paper you cared to ask for, and I just know I'd spend more time dicking about with Papers, Sente etc than I would actually using them usefully :)
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:17 (sixteen years ago)
As for bibliographies ... I've got the reference section for my last essay to do after lunch, but it really will be as simple as reading, copying and pasting. Fuck an Endnote, etc.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:18 (sixteen years ago)
(I guess what I'm saying is: I'm really, really fucking anal about the way I store PDFs and take notes from them. Heh.)
Papers makes it so easy to manage everything and pull metadata pretty well. My only gripes are lack of annotation support and no interface to SSRN or Science direct's search engines.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:36 (sixteen years ago)
I agree wrt fuck an endnote.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:37 (sixteen years ago)
Yeh, Sente's killer feature for me was binning EndNote.
― stet, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:39 (sixteen years ago)
TBH being able to format a citation properly and the amount of swearing it causes in my girlfriend was reason enough not to bother with endnote.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:41 (sixteen years ago)
not mac but gotta believe google apps will eat http://www.pixlr.com/ any day now
― bnw, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:50 (sixteen years ago)
I've been hearing about Papers, I will give it a try. I use BibDesk to manage my citations (I work almost entirely in *TeX) and I guess it can be used as a paper organizer, but I've not explored that. But what I'd like is a program organizing other author's PDFs in which I could take notes on papers ---and preferably write notes on topics for which there is no corresponding paper; a note organizer in addition to a paper organizer. Right now I have notes scattered all through my folders, because my papers intersect topics somewhat but then I don't know where to put the notes on that topic. There must be something good in all those notes I wrote, say, 5 years ago, that I haven't opened since then!
― Euler, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:57 (sixteen years ago)
I don't know how Papers handles this, but in Sente you can do pretty much this: highlight the text of the PDF you want to note, hit "note" and it'll extract it and leave a space for you to type yr note. You can make yr own notes without a reference as well.
Video: http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/site/videos/notes.html
― stet, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)
See, this kind of thing is why I love and adore Spotlight ... even if I don't know which file or folder I put some random thoughts, I can apple-Space, search for those thoughts and invariably find them.
What I'd really, really like is for Spotlight also to be able to search iPhone notes when it's connected (or even in wifi range) ...
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)
I don't trust spotlight: too often it doesn't bring up results that I *know* are there. It's most obvious with System Preference panes, which should appear but often don't.
― stet, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)
I haven't found Spotlight as useful as I'd hoped it would be for finding information in my notes. That's partly a function of how many notes I have, and how many repeated phrases there are in them. I think no automated solution will help with this, though.
xpost exactly
― Euler, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:12 (sixteen years ago)
DevonThink's intelligent categorisation might be able to help with that. Review here: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html
― stet, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)
I am very big on devonthink. Organises my mind so I don't have to.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)
been debating for a while whether devonthink is something i ought to use....not doing research, tho, so it might be overkill.
also, i work exclusively in *TeX, but i'll look into this papers thing
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:24 (sixteen years ago)
I looked at the DevonThink website, found it kinda bewildering but maybe if I d/l a demo it'll make more sense.
― Euler, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:28 (sixteen years ago)
It's one of those "Everything buckets" like Yojimbo, that you drop PDFs, RTFs, .docs, text, pix etc into, and can categorise them, but it has extra auto categorisation that tries to sort them for you. It's pretty handy.
― stet, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:36 (sixteen years ago)
i'm sure it is, but i just opened it up for a minute (forgot i had a copy) and was bewildered
i guess if you don't have a proj in mind, it's not as useful?
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)
dudes, PAPERS
if it exports into .bib then omg
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:49 (sixteen years ago)
finally got it configured to play nice with my school's EZproxy
yeah!
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)
It is the best, although it doesn't like our schools web vpn. Which is only an issue because I haven't had time to get the proper VPN working.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:08 (sixteen years ago)
Thing I like most about Devon think is the "see also" button.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Thursday, 30 April 2009 11:30 (sixteen years ago)
any good ones tht do useless shit like eg sizeup?
why doesn't osx offer sizeup's functionality as standard wtf
― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 30 April 2009 12:17 (sixteen years ago)
It is the best, although it doesn't like our schools web vpn. Which is only an issue because I haven't had time to get the proper VPN working.― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
fwiw it didn't work with my 'proper' VPN either---i login with the cisco VPN client and papers totally failed to realize this (whereas my browser doesn't, for example). it wasn't until i went into preferences and entered the EZProxy address (which i found on some grad student's blog) that it started playing well with pubmed et al
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:51 (sixteen years ago)
i really loathe that fucking cisco client
― stet, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:00 (sixteen years ago)
do you know a better one? serious!
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:50 (sixteen years ago)
Nah, there's a little app that lets you sign on more quickly, but it's pay-for and ultimately just a wrapper for the cisco one.
I'm hoping there's going to be native support in snow leopard, as the iPhone already has it.
― stet, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:52 (sixteen years ago)
more quickly? mine's like instantaneous, weird
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 30 April 2009 21:39 (sixteen years ago)
Holy shit. VMWare Fusion is kinda awesome, isn't it? I mean, that's some straight-outta-the-box, just-works action. So I'm writing this in Google Chrome on XP in a virtual PC based on my Boot Camp partition on my Mac desktop. Which is going to be *so fucking useful* once I start some serious NVivo action next year.
I love it when Shit Just Works.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Saturday, 2 May 2009 17:02 (sixteen years ago)
good for your circadian rhythm: http://stereopsis.com/flux/
― caek, Saturday, 2 May 2009 22:00 (sixteen years ago)
can someone recommend a to-do widget or something? I need to start setting up reminders now that my brain has turned into a sieve.
― akm, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago)
don't both iCal and google calendar take care of that?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago)
yeah maybe. I found something called "to-do" that gives you a little notepad that puts those into ical for you.
i think I really want a widget to actually do all the tasks I need to do for me, but widgets seem unwilling to drive to another town and collect rent checks from people, take in my dry cleaning, or code bullshit webpages.
― akm, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago)
xcal
― cutty, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago)
oops i mean xpad
― cutty, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago)
http://bpfrommer.com/newest_images_2/ermaBombeck.jpg
"i think I really want a widget to actually do all the tasks I need to do for me, but widgets seem unwilling to drive to another town and collect rent checks from people, take in my dry cleaning, or code bullshit webpages."
― ···◊··· (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 June 2009 18:29 (fifteen years ago)
I use both xPad for lots of note storing and this To Do Dashboard widget that pulls from your iCal To Do list.
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 June 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
i use omnifocus because i am a total aspie, but i have heard good things about http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper
― caek, Thursday, 4 June 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
Use taskpaper here.
― stet, Thursday, 4 June 2009 20:32 (fifteen years ago)
I've started using Remember The Milk (on your recommendation, Stet!): web-based task manager that syncs with iCal. So far I'm impressed (even though the interface is a bit barking) and will probably stump up the cash for a subscription further down the line. Need to play with the iPhone client first.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 4 June 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago)
I think you need to subscribe before you can use the iPhone client. I really like it though.
― Dalzinho, Thursday, 4 June 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago)
I think you can get a free trial for a couple of weeks.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 4 June 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago)
ooh task paper looks neat. right up my alley. any tips?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 5 June 2009 07:58 (fifteen years ago)
Smoking Apples has a pretty thorough review of the four major task management apps at:http://smokingapples.com/software/reviews/gtd-on-your-mac-part-1-things-and-the-hit-list/http://smokingapples.com/software/reviews/gtd-on-your-mac-part-2-midnight-inbox-and-taskpaper/
FWIW I went with Things but for me an iPhone sync/client is mandatory. Task Paper is pretty cool, but I think if I was going to go that route, I'd just install Dokuwiki on my server and access it from anywhere.
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 June 2009 09:22 (fifteen years ago)
Things just seems so pricey ... I'm quite sure it's magnificent, but I can't justify that outlay for functionality I can, ultimately, cobble together in other ways.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Friday, 5 June 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago)
^yeah agreed, honestly it's hard for me to justify paying for these apps for generally a prettier version of this kind of thing
― Nhex, Friday, 5 June 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago)
I wouldn't disagree at all. Ultimately, I was in a hurry and needed something up and running immediately. Plus I realized that the purchase would be eligible for a tax write off and that's what got me to pull the trigger.
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 June 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago)
I bought DevonThink after thinking about a lot. I sprang for the top model which was very pricy but I played with the demo and the integration with OCR was excellent---I have lots and lots of scanned documents from which I spend plenty of time typing long excerpts, and now I won't have to. I still don't know how it's going to fit into my workflow but I'm optimistic.
― Euler, Monday, 8 June 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago)
cool, please post updates. i've tried a couple of times but felt like i was being slowed down.
― caek, Monday, 8 June 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago)
I played with the demo and the integration with OCR was excellent---I have lots and lots of scanned documents from which I spend plenty of time typing long excerpts, and now I won't have to. I still don't know how it's going to fit into my workflow but I'm optimistic.
How does it's OCR compare with the one in Evernote? (assuming that you've used Evernote)
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 8 June 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago)
I've not used Evernote so I can't say. It's just the Abbyy OCR package, and it seems to have done a good job of recognizing the text from a pretty mediocre scan. But what was the real deal for me is how I can add the PDF to DevonThink and then just click a button to make it a text-searchable PDF, and it automagically adds the text to the database for further searches.
I also d/l'ed Scrivener and am using it to put together a talk I have to give in a couple of weeks. Normally I just work in whatever program I'm going to use for the final project (in this case, Keynote) but with Scrivener I can draft the talk informally and keep a bunch of notes for it at hand, and then ripping out the presentation should be straightforward in the end.
― Euler, Monday, 8 June 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago)
writing talks in keynote or powerpoint never works. i just use an outliner or text editor though.
― caek, Monday, 8 June 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago)
I've written a lot of talks in recent years right in Keynote, but this talk is pretty complex and so it's not working. Maybe I just have been giving too easy talks in recent years! Actually, it's just that I'm still formulating what this paper is saying as I'm writing the talk; it's not just rehashing old thoughts.
― Euler, Monday, 8 June 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago)
i tend to structure my papers a little differently to my talks, so it always needs structural work even if i already have one to work from when writing the other.
― caek, Monday, 8 June 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago)
any rec's for a finance/bank app? Just dl'd "PigMoney" which is very clean and simple and free and may be fine. For 50+ bucks though there's iBank which syncs with your bank and has thousands more features but looks like it could be needlessly complicated for my needs.
Any thoughts?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago)
Does mint.com work for you?
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:37 (fifteen years ago)
I'd never heard of it. How do they make money?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:40 (fifteen years ago)
OK, I see how. Y'all use this?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago)
i do
― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago)
I have no idea, possibly by slowly siphoning your account balance 1 cent at a time. My girlfriend loves it though, I haven't linked all my us stuff to my social security number yet, but will probably start using it when I do.
(In their FAQ they say they earn cominssions of some of their "money saving tips", I presume they must get a bung if you use a price comparison sight or sign up for a CD or credit card through them.)
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago)
that's what I read. If they suggest a CD or new account or whatever and you take it, then they take a fee from the bank, not you.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago)
Really the one thing it does right away is the ability to add notes to transactions. I hate going to my bank's website and not being able to remember what a transaction was for.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago)
it is doing some weird renaming of things, like I purchased stuff from "NA Graphics" and in it's effort to "humanize" I think, has just renamed the transaction "Graphics", which obv. is not so useful.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago)
Ok, I bought my first Mac last week and need something for extracting .rar files - any suggestions?
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago)
for a while osx just came with a free program called unarchive utility or archive utility. I used it for a long time but noticed recently it dissapeared!
Anyway, just get free Stuffit Expander....
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/stuffit/index.html
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago)
great, thanks.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 13:47 (fifteen years ago)
stuffit expander stalls out on me sometimes so i use unrarx
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 13:51 (fifteen years ago)
if you're thinking of the same app as me, the built-in unarchive utility has not disappeared. it's always been well hidden in /System and called BOMArchiveHelper.app or something ludicrous. by default it's the app used to open any archive it will read (i.e. not rars).
stuffit expander is super annoying skanky OS 9 software in my experience, but maybe things have improved. apple took it off the default install on new macs because it was getting to be nagware. unrarx is free, very lightweight and simple (if ugly), and handles passwords. http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html is promising, but i can't get it to open do password rars yet.
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago)
I don't love stuffit, but I bought it because I need something robust and have to deal with different situations where zip files or sit or sitx files are requested.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago)
I've been able to deal with any zip files right out of the box, and use unrarx for .rars.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago)
I use the imaginatively named Rar Expander. Does exactly what it says on the tin.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago)
does anyone still ask for stuffit files? even quark users have moved on, surely? i just make zips with control-click.
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago)
i make a lot of stuffit files and put them on my zip drive ;)
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago)
I make .SEAs and put them on my Jaz.
Ah, the 1990s.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago)
binhex on syquest ftw.
― stet, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago)
The Unarchiver is what you need.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago)
Revive for the Snow Leapord world, I guess. Anything newish of interest kicking around?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago)
defcon screen saver no longer works. horse anus.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago)
loving Click2Flash. Makes the internet faster and less annoying, and easy to load flash when you need/want it.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago)
sounds cool
― cutty, Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, flash loads as a blank gray box, and you just click on it to load it...or click the pulldown to select to load all flash videos for the page, or add the page to always load flash.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago)
Just read a recommendation for Song Sergeant when it came to cleaning up music files -- as I'm approaching the end of a massive library project I'm thinking this might be plenty helpful. Anyone used it, or can recommend similar?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago)
have not used it but recently downloaded a similar program called Dupin. It's on that Doug's iTunes Scripts page:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php
but isn't a script but an app. I tried it for a second and gave up. In the end I just can't bring myself to remove dupes half the time because if one song appears on two different releases/compilations, I don't want to mess with the integrity of a particular release. Not because I'm anal but more because sometimes I'd think to look at that artists releases and other times I'm searching by the compilation. For instance, I have all this stuff for when I DJ weddings and I may have a song on the Atlantic R&B box set, but then I also have it on the greatest hits of that particular artist, and I hate the idea of looking at the box set and missing songs because I deleted dupes!
it's so frustrating.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago)
yeah itunes should allow the same file to have multiple sets of metadata for exactly this reason.
― ok star grumbles (lukas), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago)
honestly i think that approach would make things even more confusing, though i get the gist. for albums i can understand wanting them complete, but for comps is it really worth the effort? even so, might as well just leave it be, hard drive space is plentiful nowadays, unless you have like 5 copies of the same song
― Nhex, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:47 (fifteen years ago)
I have probably ten copies of "Soul Finger". But it's not storage that's the problem, that's true; it's my OCD desire for a cleaner library and thus a pretty minor matter for me.
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago)
Soul Finger. Exactly. The wedding DJ library has made this really brutal for me, but everything else. Some comps are really crucial and you think, "I want to listen to No New York" or "Wanna Buy A Bridge".
But practically speaking the comps are worth the effort because that's how you may organize stuff. I may think, I need some soul classics and instead of going to all the different artists, I remember that Atlantic set.
I don't know that it would be so confusing to be able to have one copy of a song, and in the metadata select multiple albums, but I have iTunes organizing the songs into folders based on the metadata, so that would probably make my mac explode.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago)
i want dan to dj my wedding but i'm never getting married :(
― cutty, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago)
but I have iTunes organizing the songs into folders based on the metadata
oh god no
― Nhex, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago)
that works if you do it right
― cutty, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago)
ya why... not
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago)
I just don't give a shit what goes on in the Music folder; it's like caring about what's in Safari's cache folder to me.
― stet, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago)
dan if the song appears twice in itunes with difft metadata in each case i don't thonk dupin will erase anything. it only deletes entries w exactly the same metadata (i think)
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago)
"dupin" reminds me of LL COOL J in the movie TOYS
― cutty, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago)
I spent the whole summer DJing weddings. Now I'm taking a break because of 2 or 3 other jobs. And just as it was winding down I finally finished the "music" part of my personal website (danselzer.com) that was built with the idea of finding cool wedding gigs. I'm not totally against doing more, depends on the client, the money, the time, etc.
But I built this amazing wedding library. Most DJs who do it digital use Serato or Traktor (or something similar). I didn't have a laptop and I bought two CDJ400s, Pioneer's "cheaper" dipping of the toes in digital media. The usb ports only read PC formated USB stick and the files can only be sorted by file name, NOT metadata, and they only read mp3s, not WAVs.
So I use Max:http://sbooth.org/Max/
and I think by getting away from iTunes it helped me make a really concise and tidy library. What'd I do is get music from allover (iTunes, CDs, vinyl, rapidshare, etc) make playlists, then just drag all the songs out of iTunes into a "to file" folder. Then I'd drop all the songs in Max which would convert everything to 192 MP3s and rename every file to Artist-Song.mp3 based on the ID3 tags.
I then organized those songs into various genre folders, with 30 to 80 or so songs in each folder, and dropped everything onto matching high end 8 gig Cruzer thumb drives.
The two CDJs and my mixer (Rane) are in a coffin with a built in power strip so I just plug power into the back, stick in the two thumb drives and have 1400 songs. Every single time I did a wedding I brought back-up CDs and burned new CDs of the specific new requests for each couple, in case something happened with the USB sticks, but I never resorted to that.
This wasn't as much work as it sounds like. Would it have been way easier to put everything on a MacBook and control it with Serato or Traktor? Yeah. hell, the CDJs I have control Traktor natively via USB, you don't even need the audio control CD. But the coffin still weighs a lot. I'd like to bring just a macbook and a simple controller/soundcard. There's a few out now but they're junk. Even the Vestax VCI-300.
A lot of work to play "It Takes Two" to some grandparents.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago)
oh, and it's really cool to just spin this little knob to select songs and not look like you're checking your email.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago)
any good freeware/shareware/cheap disk burning utilities? Had Toast years ago. Cracked then paid for. Fine using the finder but needed to dupe a CD and have to go through this whole Disk Utility Disk Image nonsense. Downloading "Burn" now. Any good? What else?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago)
Burn's good stuff! Does what I need it to.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago)
I used to have an external CD burner, man was that the good life. Still do but it's just too much to leave it plugged in and taking up space for the once every few months I need to dupe a cd.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:58 (fifteen years ago)
Time Machine just saved my life for the first time. I went to look at an older Acute CD's folder and it was gone, all traces of it. So if I ever needed the artwork or needed to repress it or release it on vinyl etc, it was all history. I must've accidently deleted it at some point. I entered Time Machine, went back a few months and there it was, 8 gigs of stuff.
― dan selzer, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
Wow. It took them THIS long but they finally did it - Firefox 3.6 beta has fullscreen mode. ABOUT DAMN TIME. Really sweet that it actually works and pretty well too, hides all the tabs, toolbars, menus and dock.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:26 (fifteen years ago)
i've gone hoonja crazy. Doing a lot of cleanup to make things faster, then ruining it by downloading all kinds of things.
Mailplane is an app that makes gmail an application. It's only real benefit is to have gmail running and not being part of a browser so you don't accidently close the tab.
In that spirit, Fluid is an application that takes ANY website, and turns it into it's own application just like Mailplane. I've used it for my google calender.
Jumpcut is a little app/script that records everything you paste into a clipboard. I know I'll use this because I'm always frustrated by copying a URL or something then copying something else and wanting to go back to the thing I had just copied. This puts a list of all the stuff you've copied in your menu bar.
Hulu desktop, an app for accessing Hulu. Just a clean interface and a nice way to avoid using a browser.
Omni Disk Sweeper, a column style finder browser that lists things by size, a real easy way to see what's taking up tons of space on your harddrive.
And on the hardware side, as I mentioned on one of the other Apple threads, I have one more hard drive then my Mac can handle, but I found the Pro Caddy, which allows me to install a 5th hard drive in place of my second optical bay on my Mac Pro. Pretty hardcore.
Now to actually get some work done.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 28 November 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago)
so you transcode mp3s to 192kbps mp3s?? or do you only convert from lossless? because that would be crazy. also isnt 192 a bit low?
― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Saturday, 28 November 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago)
For an alternative to OmniDiskSweeper, Disk Inventory X is pretty cool.
If you're keeping the originals for home listening, 192 is presumably plenty for a PA.
― caek, Saturday, 28 November 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago)
what are the advantages of using something like this over mail.app?!?!
― la monte jung (cutty), Sunday, 29 November 2009 01:11 (fifteen years ago)
i don't use either very often, but they're quite different. gmail is better at a couple of things (search, keyboard navigation) and some people prefer tagging and starring all the way to muss and fuss with folders.
― caek, Sunday, 29 November 2009 01:17 (fifteen years ago)
and gmail's imap interface is just an interface to a subset of gmail's features. using gmail over imap in any regular client (mail, thunderbird, whatevs) can't reproduce the full gmail functionality.
would love to see mail.app get some real attention (to do lists don't count) and see it rethink email from the ground up like gmail did, rather than just be a better-but-buggier thunderbird.
― caek, Sunday, 29 November 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago)
gmail is better at a couple of things (search, keyboard navigation)
i don't use the latter, but whenever i have to find something i end up going to gmail
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Sunday, 29 November 2009 03:08 (fifteen years ago)
as mentioned, it's not that I love the gmail interface so much, but I'm used to it, and it helps me to keep it separate from mail.app. It's all a bit confused really. My main email is at yahoo but I also have gmail. Then I have info and dan at acuterecords which was set up as POP and is accessed by both mail.app and gmail.
I've been searching for an ideal situation...what I'd like is a desktop app that is sync'd to webmail and an imap account, but with my URL. When I've tried imap between mail.app and gmail, suddenly mail.app is really slow.
The main problem with gmail is that it only accesses my pop addresses once every 40 minutes and you can't change that and you can't even click "get mail" for other accounts without going into the program's settings. A total pain.
Fluid is really amazing though. I've made these basic web applications for google calendar and yahoo mail, so now they exist as applications and I don't have to juggle them with tons of browser windows.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 29 November 2009 03:59 (fifteen years ago)
one thing that i love about mail.app is its search - that you can search by from - to - subject - entire text - whatever. can't do that in gmail and i use it ALLLL the time.
― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Sunday, 29 November 2009 06:25 (fifteen years ago)
searching from:name works for me in gmail
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Sunday, 29 November 2009 06:44 (fifteen years ago)
I just love the speed of mail.app, which is why I'd love to use a desktop app thats perfectly sync'd with webmail. I've tried all kinds of things but I've had trouble setting up an imap account that gmail and mail.app would get quickly and sync perfectly.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 29 November 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago)
I haven't had any trouble with imap gmail and mail.app. For the record.
― Of course I want frosting. I'm a Scorpio. (kenan), Sunday, 29 November 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago)
it basically works, but my problem is in adequately accessing a third account.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 29 November 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago)
dan, cant you get google accounts on acuterecords? thats what i do for my domain name
― max, Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago)
& then it just syncs the same way gmail does
― max, Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, if you like the gmail way of doing email that is probably the way to go
― caek, Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago)
I don't love the gmail way but that makes sense, you mean using the google apps standard or premiere to have @acute replace @gmail, then I can give gmail control over the mail servers or whatever for my domain, thus getting emails right away instead of some bullshit check every 40 minutes pop check thing?
Then have gmail imap sync with my desktop mail.app?
So then I'd tell mail.app to stop downloading those directly to avoid duplicates? I don't know why it's all so complicated.
I prefer mail.app's interface the best, then Yahoo, then gmail.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago)
just used automator for the first time... pretty useful, actually!
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago)
yeah exactly. i use dreamhost so google apps is free but its super easy to set up and run and the imap works as well as regular gmail imap does w/ mail.app. and yeah id stop the pop3 setup so you can just have your imap acct
― max, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago)
i just have so many accounts, I even set up a danselzer @ acute imap account months ago but stopped it right away, turned it on again last night to see how I could sync it and immediately started getting spam to mail.app! I don't think I ever used that address anywhere. My web host has the worst interfaces and online support. I'll have to call them to figure some of this stuff out.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago)
i have faith that itll all work out for you dan
― max, Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago)
im worried tbh!
― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Monday, 30 November 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago)
you should be worried. This is not happening. Firstly, I can't even set up a basic imap address that works right and syncs right, even without gmail. But mostly I'm scared to switch my MX records to point to gmail to access new IMAP mail accounts on google apps because what will happen with the old POP accounts? Should I kill the POP accounts and replace them with IMAP accounts with the same name? Will mail.app then delete all my old emails?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 06:55 (fifteen years ago)
oh god i knew this would happen
― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 07:06 (fifteen years ago)
thanks for the omni disk sweeper suggestion Dan, I'm watching Hoarders right now (omg) and felt the need to get clean the shit out of my laptop.
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 07:07 (fifteen years ago)
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i think mail.app will let you archive all your old mail as a backup
― max, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:49 (fifteen years ago)
your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (max version)
― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago)
whoa: http://www.twilightedge.com/mac/readright/index.html
game-changer for my ability to read serious documents comfortably on this screen. after using it for a few hours, i'm now bothered by the screen's poor resolution more than it's stupid "cinematic" shape and UI cruft, which is progress!
― caek, Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago)
anybody ever use Zimbra? It could be a lot of nonsense, but I'm trying it. It's a desktop mail app that syncs to whatever accounts you want, yahoo, gmail, imap and pop etc, and downloads everything from those services, so you have access to all your mail online or off.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 December 2009 08:51 (fifteen years ago)
i don't get it. you have access to your mail offline with mail.app or thunderbird too?
p.s. i use http://software.complete.org/software/projects/show/offlineimap /hardman
― caek, Sunday, 6 December 2009 10:34 (fifteen years ago)
not my old yahoo emails. It doesn't look like it's quite as slick as I'd like.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 December 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago)
i just killed it, it already didn't work exactly as advertised.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 December 2009 13:24 (fifteen years ago)
are your old yahoo emails on a server somewhere?
― caek, Sunday, 6 December 2009 13:25 (fifteen years ago)
are your old yahoo emails on a server somewhere? --caek
They're on yahoo of course
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 December 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago)
so why can't you jut add it as imap account? i think i'm missing something.
― caek, Sunday, 6 December 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago)
yahoo doesn't support imap.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago)
hmmm. didn't know that. i would consider paying for the premium service just so you can export the old mail to someone that does then, e.g. gmail. (tbh, i wouldn't trust yahoo to be the sole keeper of some of my email archive. i'd be surprised if they were still around in 5-10 years.)
the import process is all built into gmail, and once you've moved the archive over you can delete the yahoo account (or set it to forward new mail), and then use whatever imap client you like, or the gmail or whatevs.
― caek, Sunday, 6 December 2009 16:33 (fifteen years ago)
it is 2009 why can I still not move more than one playlist at a time in itunes?!!?!??!?!
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (webinar), Monday, 7 December 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago)
seriously.
http://www.asktog.com/columns/075AppleFlatlandPart1.html
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 11:28 (fifteen years ago)
it's the only feature I want for itunes. do you still have to do a workaround in itunes to make cmd+F the shortcut for the search box o_O
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (webinar), Monday, 7 December 2009 11:30 (fifteen years ago)
cmd-opt-f is the shortcut for searchboxes to filter in pretty much every os x application.
cmd-f to cycle through the occurrences of text in a document.
not that it makes sense, but it is consistent.
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 12:21 (fifteen years ago)
That asktog article is kind of weird... It's obvious the guy is someone important in UI design, but is he seriously holding up Photoshop as the ideal for Apple to emulate? No wonder he doesn't work for them anymore. I was under the impression that Photoshop is most designers' prime example of a mess of a UI.
Furthermore, his examples all seem more clearly related to being a fossil of a computer user that actual interface shortcomings on Apple's part. I can open applications and find documents in an instant using dead simple key commands, without add-ons like quicksliver or dragthings. The combination of OSX's search features and key commands are much faster for me than some 3rd-party add on.
The Safari criticism is a valid one, but not really a "flatland" problem as he defines it. I use the Saft add-on for Safari which makes the bookmark function work exactly as he suggests.
The iPhoto "clicking" issue is a non-issue considering the advanced scrolling and multi-touch gestures that work in iPhoto, but maybe he can't figure that out if he's still inanely clicking on the scrollbar to move up a down in a window. If you're fast scrolling through events in iPhoto, you get a nice date display super-imposed over the photos, which works great unless you are the type who doesn't set the date on yr digital camera.
I don't use keywords in iPhoto, so I'm not going to comment on that. I think things like facial recognition in the newer versions of iPhoto are probably going to reduce the need for keywords in the near future.
His comments on the iPhone I don't completely disagree with, but they also don't resonate with my usage patterns. Wanting to use folders for applications seems sort of counter to the need to quickly access apps while half-looking at the phone in a normal mobile setting. I guess Apple could implement something like this easily, but I don't think it's that useful. Why have a bunch of apps on your iphone that you never use?
Finally, Apple has pro-apps which also maintain a consistent UI and look pretty simple on the surface while packing in some pretty powerful features. There doesn't seem to be a lot of complaints from pro-users about the layout of Logic or (less familiar to me) Final Cut.
Of course there are always some problems with the way certain things work (I just deleted a few playlists by accident in iTunes the other day and was like "no undo?" when I realized they were lost for good). Still, most of these seem more like small oversights that some grand flaw in Apple's design philsophy
― Mr. Shirts, Monday, 7 December 2009 12:40 (fifteen years ago)
that dude needs to have fewer bookmarks, applications, fewer everything,
― max, Monday, 7 December 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago)
i bet his texts are too long too
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 12:54 (fifteen years ago)
seems likely
― max, Monday, 7 December 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago)
he should be friends with tracer
― max, Monday, 7 December 2009 12:57 (fifteen years ago)
I basically agree with this, bar a couple of points. iPhoto was of absolutely no use to me when it was first released on OS X (because i took more than two photos per year) and I filed things manually with Finder until Lightroom came out, which has been a smash hit among UI nerds and is not just iPhoto + Unix/Windows-like folders, which is the straw man I think a lot of people imagine when they read people like Tog.
I will say that playlist organization on iTunes has not changed in four years, and it's beginning to look less and less like an oversight.
The lack of UI complaints about the pro apps is unrelated to this issue, imo. The UI of Logic was established before it was bought by Apple and is nothing like iPhoto or Safari. I'm not holding it up as an example of good UI design, but it clearly doesn't suffer from oversimplification. The same goes for FCP.
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 13:05 (fifteen years ago)
This was an interesting response to the Tog article: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/10/11/flatland/
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 13:08 (fifteen years ago)
is tog really using Adobe stuff? It's a total nightmare. I recently upgraded to CS4 and it's taken me an hour in each app to customize the workspaces to my liking, and even then it's still a mess, not to mention that there isn't even design consistency between CS4 apps.
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 December 2009 13:59 (fifteen years ago)
i think he's restricting his comments to photoshop (and yeah, he probably hasn't upgraded since PS 7)
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 14:01 (fifteen years ago)
cmd+f for searching itunes is classic. cmd+opt+f shrinks ur balls/ovaries
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (webinar), Monday, 7 December 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago)
gutted
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago)
I hate that VLC can't make macbook's region free too ;_;
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (webinar), Monday, 7 December 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago)
which macbook do you have?
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 16:20 (fifteen years ago)
2GHz core 2 duo
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (webinar), Monday, 7 December 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago)
same as me. i unlocked mine. i have to give a talk tomorrow, but bump this thread later in the week and i'll go through my notes and email you the files i used to do it. it's not hard, but i think the info has disappeared from the public internet.
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago)
p.s. under About This Mac > More Info > Disc Burning, do you have a "MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857D"
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago)
no :( I have HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Monday, 7 December 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago)
nerds
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago)
no u
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (webinar), Monday, 7 December 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago)
(wd appreciate a look at those notes when u have a chance tho :)
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (webinar), Monday, 7 December 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago)
upholding adobe UI as a positive example of ANYTHING is pure insanity
― mod only knows who i'd ban without u (s1ocki), Monday, 7 December 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago)
http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/
― mod only knows who i'd ban without u (s1ocki), Monday, 7 December 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago)
xxp, it looks like there is a firmware hack for this (e.g. googling "GWA4080MA region"), but (i) you need to boot into windows to apply it and (ii) the site you get them from (rpc1.org) seems to have disappeared off the internet.
i have everything you need for the UJ-857D if that's any use to anyone (i think that drive went into some 2006/7 MacBooks and iMacs)
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago)
xxp, i agree, but that tog post refers specifically to photoshop (the least bad of the CS applications), and not any of the mess they bought from macromedia.
that post should have referred to lightroom, by the way, which is a sui generis amazing ui for power users. not without problems, but just light years ahead of any app of comparable complexity.
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago)
Otm. I'm not big on modality, but it works incredibly well there.
― stet, Monday, 7 December 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago)
i am a vi user, so modality is my jam : )
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago)
oh wait lightroom has modality like vi??? that is dope, vi is def the jam
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago)
lolz
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago)
finally have a vimrc i'm happy with now
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago)
you are a vim dude?
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago)
y
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago)
do you use caek.vim colorscheme y/n?
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago)
no iirc
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/200407/vim.jpg
i use this too, wasnt aware it had modality
― mod only knows who i'd ban without u (s1ocki), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:19 (fifteen years ago)
I found one solution to my above email problems, btw, but it's at least 10 dollars a month and without being sure it's really ideal I don't know about even trying it out. It's the host Rackspace which has been doing lots of "cloud" solutions including an email one. They have a webmail app that works like gmail apps, uses your url, has imap etc, but has a more traditional "folder" style interface. Hook that up to thunderbird or mail.app and I'd be pretty good to go.
― dan selzer, Monday, 21 December 2009 01:59 (fifteen years ago)
Launchbar is stamping all over Spotlight and Quicksilver for me. instant send of any selected text, quick google searching etc.
― stet, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:39 (fifteen years ago)
launchbar is still around? wow! I think I stopped using it like six years ago
― dome plow (gbx), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:43 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, it's way better than it used to be. Does pretty much everything quicksilver does as well
― stet, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:44 (fifteen years ago)
10000x faster than QS and much stabler too, ime. i actually run both. use lb for the launcher type stuff, and qs for a few weird things (clipboard history, triggers for script launching, etc.)
― caek, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:29 (fifteen years ago)
LB has clipboard and script triggers now too, btw.
I gave up on quicksilver because it kept crashing silently, and it needs to be there when you hit the keys or what's the point?
― stet, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:38 (fifteen years ago)
They've put up a FAQ for Quicksilver users: http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/switch.html
― stet, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)
thanks
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)
I tried both but decided I didn't like it.
And for those following my email troubles....
I set up a Google Apps account for the acuterecords domain. Then I started the fun process of consolidating 10 years of emails from yahoo, a prior gmail account and the acuterecords stuff that had been sent directly to mail.app before I had gmail picking it up. It took days and due to some stupid changes of methods in the middle I have a lot of duplicate emails, but gmail basically hides those anyway.
Here's the thing...you can migrate from yahoo to gmail and gmail will see each folder as a label, but it doesn't work perfectly. However, with the google apps account, you can use a different version of google's fetch that basically grabs anything out of the yahoo inbox. So what I'd do is empty the inbox, then take an entire yahoo folder, anywhere from 200 to 1500 emails, and move it into the inbox. I'd then set my google apps account to label all mail picked up from yahoo with a label appropriate to that particular folder. If I got any email in the meantime, it would get caught up but it would be the most recent.
Anyway, there were a few more issues, but I'm good now. All my email accounts consolidated to one email address on my own URL which is IMAP'd to mail.app and my ipod touch and I created an alias to access my google apps webmail by typing my own domain name.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)
I went back and forth but have now decided I love Size Up:
http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/
simple window tiling management. I'm working on a poster now on my primary monitor and wanted to access artwork from 4 different folders, so I put them on the secondary monitor and with some quick key commands, have tiled the 4 windows.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 16:02 (fifteen years ago)
Snippets for code fragment management is ROXOR - http://www.snippetsapp.com/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:59 (fifteen years ago)
Is there a good archive program with a GUI like WinRAR/WinZip/7-Zip for Mac? I use Unarchiver and Ez7z which are fine but there are times when I need to go through a bunch of zips and need to see what's in them or just cherry pick files.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:46 (fifteen years ago)
You can't cherry-pick files, but you can quicklook your way inside .zips:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/t_trace/20071125/p2
― stet, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)
Does anyone have the name of the utility (mac only I think) for viewing ILX that was posted months back? Thought I'd still got it but looks like it got deleted.
― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:35 (fifteen years ago)
oldie but a goodie; everything I need from a to-do apphttp://www.anxietyapp.com/
― cozen, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:42 (fifteen years ago)
ILX app is Zing
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:52 (fifteen years ago)
fuzzy clock!
http://www.objectpark.org/FuzzyClock.html
changes/replaces yr system clock from digits into words. i don't know why i like this so much but it might be my fav. little (free) program ever!
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5719/picture2it.png
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:35 (fifteen years ago)
cheers dan!
― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 07:36 (fifteen years ago)
sleepingbag that is the very essence of a hoonjadoonja
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 10:08 (fifteen years ago)
thanks, love the fuzzy clock, it's ten past six now.
btw sleeping bag what's the tab-like menu icon to the left of the time?
― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:11 (fifteen years ago)
anyone ever found an alarm clock that works with itunes? sleep mode kills all the ones I've tried
― bnw, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:17 (fifteen years ago)
this is the one i use and it claims to wake from sleep, but my computer does not sleep overnight so i can't say: http://www.johnnarun.com/itunes_alarm/
― caek, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:19 (fifteen years ago)
i lost powercontroller when my hd died but i don't remember that having any problems w/ sleep mode.
― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:36 (fifteen years ago)
in fact i think i switched to that cos whatever i had before had sleep mode problems.
― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:38 (fifteen years ago)
― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 6:11 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
https://wincent.com/products/synergy it's a thing for itunes
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 14 February 2010 14:38 (fifteen years ago)
I use iTunes menu:
http://mrgeckosmedia.com/applications/info/iTunesMenu
it's a more basic program than synergy but with a crucial feature that I think synergy lacks. It puts the name of the song that's playing in the menu bar. You can then pause or go fw or back from a pulldown. Also rate and select playlists.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 February 2010 16:55 (fifteen years ago)
I use QS for that - got Cmd-F8 bound to "show playing track" and the name hovers in a Growl notification for a couple of seconds. Sure there's an easier way to do it, but it works for me.
― caek, Sunday, 14 February 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)
Also have Cmd-F... bound to pause, forward, back, etc.
all my command keys are taken by whatever adobe application I happen to be using. Itunes Menu is nice because it just sits up there and when I'm listening to some new music I don't know I can just look up and see what track is playing.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 February 2010 17:46 (fifteen years ago)
I use coversutra because it has a nice floating control window that I can set to f16
― stet, Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
Can anyone recommend some kind of a program that will quickly compare folders (items) on my HD and let me know if they're identical? I was doing some consolidating and backing up of my ITunes libraries and somehow at some point managed to create duplicates of LOTS of stuff (this is the underlying actual files, not songs in the library). I'm being forced to open multiple finder windows and compare folder sizes, dates, etc. and it's super annoying. Cheers
― mitya, Sunday, 28 February 2010 06:26 (fifteen years ago)
never used it but ... http://www.araxis.com/find-duplicate-files/index-eur.html
― caek, Sunday, 28 February 2010 09:40 (fifteen years ago)
Haven't tried any of these, but might as well give the open source ones a try:http://alternativeto.net/desktop/winmerge/?platform=mac&sort=likes
― Nhex, Sunday, 28 February 2010 17:27 (fifteen years ago)
ok hey, anyone want to recommend an itunes automatic duplicate deleter before i get unruly re: my 42000 duplicate songs?
― i'm #FFFFFF btw (bnw), Sunday, 28 February 2010 17:47 (fifteen years ago)
Most of the stuff listed in that thread seems to be based on having the duplicates entered into your iTunes library - a straight ahead general purpose file comparison utility seems more appropriate.
― Nhex, Sunday, 28 February 2010 17:55 (fifteen years ago)
yes exactly - not everything is imported into iTunes, bnw, but thanks for the thread anyway
will try the araxis thing
― mitya, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 13:00 (fifteen years ago)
do i pay for launchbar y/n
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:31 (fifteen years ago)
Y
― stet, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:39 (fifteen years ago)
ok
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:45 (fifteen years ago)
― caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)
possibly it has been covered elsewhere in the thread but....
can anyone recommend me a photo organiser/interface for mac where i can tag the various images i save and view them easily? i know i can do something like this on iphoto but i want to keep iphoto for my own pics.
i have thousands of design pics i've grabbed off the web and i want to be able to tag them e.g. "cabinetry" or "industrial" and be able to view only those pics rather than wasting the time i already do searching through stuff titled "pullpic241-8.jpg" or whatever.
something free would be good but i'm willing to pay for something decent. it has to be good looking and user friendly too. i was trying little snapper but it's buggy and it seems to be focussed on doing stuff i'm not really interested in, like taking screencaps of websites, which is useful but not really something i want to do very often
cheers.
― jed_, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)
maybe open a new flickr account and use one of the flickr uploaders? you can tag, organize in sets etc using a desktop app then upload them overnight and they'll be available to you whenever
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)
lightroom. (if you like it you can start a new catalog and use it for your own photos too.)
― caek, Friday, 19 March 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)
aperture too
― 丫 power (dyao), Friday, 19 March 2010 00:11 (fifteen years ago)
i tried to use picasa desktop for this. I liked that it didn't copy the photos to specific directories or whatnot, but I never really kept up with it.
I think what I'd like is more of a finder tool, something that sees all the files on my harddrive and lets me preview them but also add metadata.
― dan selzer, Friday, 19 March 2010 00:39 (fifteen years ago)
Lightroom's definitely good for power-tagging and searching (it runs a big internal database), but costs a fair bit. I never managed to click with Picasa, but it does do what you want.
You could also think about <A HREF="http://reinventedsoftware.com/together/";>Together</a>. It's not dedicated to images; it holds anything, but has good tagging and comments fields, a fast search, and a nice drawer that floats on the side of your screen and will accept images dragged straight from Safari. It's like Yojimbo done right.
― stet, Friday, 19 March 2010 01:58 (fifteen years ago)
fukn bbcoed
― stet, Friday, 19 March 2010 01:59 (fifteen years ago)
parallels bundled with 9 other apps for $50 (parallels usually retails for $80) at mac bundle - will macdvdripperpro finally replace mactheripper??
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 13:59 (fifteen years ago)
― stet, 19 March 2010 01:59 (1 week ago)
imo it's time we as a community started asking serious questions
― Jermaine Jenason (darraghmac), Monday, 29 March 2010 15:54 (fifteen years ago)
Like that there a bunch of these "drag and drop to icon, uploads to web and copies URL into your clipboard" apps out, but most of them are targeted towards Twitter, giving you a short url for link. Is there a good one that works similarly for embeddable images (for say this forum) and automatically uploads to a free image host and spits out a URL?
― Nhex, Saturday, 10 April 2010 04:31 (fifteen years ago)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10035
not exactly what you're looking for but i use this, works ok
― r|t|c, Saturday, 10 April 2010 09:26 (fifteen years ago)
i'll try it out, thanks!
― Nhex, Saturday, 10 April 2010 16:35 (fifteen years ago)
Dear user, Since today the 23.04.10 all BBC channels have been eliminated from Zattoo due to a legal litigation. Unfortunately the BBC has forced us to do so. Complain to the BBC if you want to continue enjoying the BBC on Zattoo. We apologize for all the inconveniences this may have caused you.
Best regards, Zattoo
― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 11:18 (fifteen years ago)
Any recs for a free DVD-Divx converter?
― Salted gnocchimole (admrl), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago)
Handbrake
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago)
2nd handbrake
btw, if anyone's looking for a flashcard studying program, Anki's quite nice. downloadable decks on a huge number of subjects, very neat.
― angry virgins seeking validation (sciolism), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago)
I tried Anki once but it was really slow - did I just have a bad configuration?
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago)
it can be a bit slow starting up, but it's otherwise fine for me. ymmv.
― angry virgins seeking validation (sciolism), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago)
okay trying anki again and it's pretty fantastic.
― dyao, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 12:57 (fourteen years ago)
gonna give this a try:
http://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/
to be more productive.
― ? (dyao), Saturday, 21 August 2010 08:44 (fourteen years ago)
based on the following principle
http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
― ? (dyao), Saturday, 21 August 2010 08:45 (fourteen years ago)
i use it. it works.
― SYNTAX ERROR (remy bean), Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:59 (fourteen years ago)
networking edition
shimo: VNC managermarcopolo: detect location changes (i use this to automatically launch an applescript to change my time machine disk from the disk i keep at home to the one i keep at work when i arrive at either location)
unix edition
http://www.decimus.net/dterm.php -- quick terminal in the working directory of any file/folder open in a gui apphomebrew -- nice macports/fink alternative that doesn't want to install its own versions of perl, python, tex, x11, etc., etc. when you want to install some shitty little command line utility or library
― caek, Saturday, 21 August 2010 12:48 (fourteen years ago)
trial copy of iSleep expired and i didn't feel like paying for it, so::
start playing music in itunes
run this in script editor
--
property outMinutes : 15
set outTime to outMinutes * 60 * 0.5
delay outTime
tell application "System Events" sleepend tell
― LA river flood (lukas), Saturday, 21 August 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago)
dropbox is so useful it's painful, because I am waiting for the other shoe to drop and them to charge me $10 a month to use this shit or w/e
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 02:16 (fourteen years ago)
Would pay anyway, it's too damn good to do without.
― stet, Friday, 27 August 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago)
in 2010: macvim + texshop + macvim + texshop + omnifocus + macvim + texshop + mercurial + bibdesk
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago)
vim hoonja doonjas: snipmate + supertab together
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago)
love texshop
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Sunday, 21 November 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago)
feel like if I ever used caeks computer it would feel like driving the batmobile
― ＿|￣|○|￣|○|￣|○ (dayo), Sunday, 21 November 2010 03:03 (fourteen years ago)
texshop + bibdesk is pretty much my life, or at least 2/3 of it (gotta sleep sometimes)
kinda :/ about that but it pays the bills
― Euler, Sunday, 21 November 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago)
i use vim to edit and just use texshop to compile/preview.
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 09:55 (fourteen years ago)
What're the advantages of vim? I use vi for quick unix hackery for our departmental web page etc, but o/w I just want to be able to type and require very little from a text editor than that. I can't think of when I'd need to do regex find/replace, for instance, although I think I could do that in texshop if I cared enough. But I'm open to being sold on an improved workflow, so what're the advantages of vim?
― Euler, Sunday, 21 November 2010 12:44 (fourteen years ago)
I've never branched out beyond emacs + latex for this stuff. I see the attraction of graphical frontends but I guess I'm happy enough with my workflow.
― seandalai, Sunday, 21 November 2010 12:59 (fourteen years ago)
you are probably using vim in vi mode, euler. the original vi binary is not distributed on any modern unix that i know, although i remeber you are a solaris dude, so maybe you really are.
anyway, once you're running vim, remember it is crippled to emulate vi by default, i think (depends on your system vimrc). so the first thing you should do is add "set nocompatible" to your .vimrc to make it into vim.
here's some links for taking advantage of vim
http://vim.runpaint.org/http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/
you probably want to install at least
http://code.google.com/p/snipmate/ and https://github.com/ervandew/supertab
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago)
if you use vim and texshop then you might find this useful in your .vimrc
nnoremap <leader>tx :!open -a TeXShop %<cr><cr>
that makes "\tx" open and compile the current file in texshop (\ might be something else if you have reconfigured leader)
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago)
Sticking w/BBEdit, me.
― stet, Sunday, 21 November 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago)
TextMate and/or Coda here
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:48 (fourteen years ago)
is there a reason i shouldn't use CloudApp for quick n dirty image sharing? it works beautifully
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:23 (fourteen years ago)
Yes, but I can't remember what it is. Something about security, I'm sure.
― stet, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:42 (fourteen years ago)
hmm there's also this Droplr thing..
basically i am tired of photobucket loading Flash video and making me click like five times just to upload a photo
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago)
or this, if i want to use my own hosting.. http://getfileshuttle.com/
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago)
i use this thing http://min.us/
― caek, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago)
or http://www.dropmocks.com/ is the same thing i think
anyway, it's good
― caek, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago)
How do that workie?? You have that page bookmarked, open it, then drag a file to it? Seems more of a hassle than dragging to the menubar
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:57 (fourteen years ago)
yeah i guess. it's less hassle than photobucket though.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:58 (fourteen years ago)
Not saying much..
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 11:07 (fourteen years ago)
Tracer do you not use dropbox? Just drag the pic into your "Public" folder, then right click and choose "copy public URL". You get a link you can paste in. Is seamless.
― stet, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 13:01 (fourteen years ago)
i use this oftenhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9221/
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago)
If you're on a Mac and use Gmail as your mail service and you currently use Mac Mail to gather said email... this works better.
http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:03 (fourteen years ago)
tried mailplane? (i haven't, but i'm going to need one of these things soon)
― just woke up (lukas), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:07 (fourteen years ago)
No, this is better.
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:10 (fourteen years ago)
for some reason sparrow's site doesn't work unless you take out the www
― Nhex, Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:16 (fourteen years ago)
What platform and browser are you on? I just loaded the link I posted just fine in Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome.
OMG, don't tell me you're using Explorer.
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:25 (fourteen years ago)
I've been using Mailplane for months and months (a year or two?)
It's great. It's basically gmail as an app. A step beyond using Fluid to create an app. But it has more features. Even if it didn't, I still like it.
Sparrow is more of it's own app with a fancier UI. I tried it once but didn't take to it over mailplane. I see it was just updated, I'll give it another shot. It's got a long way to go. It's just not mature yet. It's way of dealing with labels is a total mess.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago)
It didn't even recognize my labels until I went into the label. And it doesn't recognize nested labels, which is totally crucial. I used a google lab for that for months before google finally made it an official thing.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago)
But Sparrow is still Beta. I'll check back periodically. I'd like to get away from the google interface any way I can, but Sparrow just doesn't have enough features yet to replace Mailplane.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago)
There's all kinds of stuff that I still depend on the gmail web interface for, that no mail app does. So I guess my expectations are low. Sparrow is WAY better than apple mail, though.
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:52 (fourteen years ago)
I see Sparrow is backed up on downloading my mail, so we'll see what happens. But here's a simple thing...I have some mailing lists where messages skip the inbox and go right to archive with a certain label on it. With Mailplane or gmail on a browser, I can see the label folder is highlighted.
Anyway, it's pretty sharp and I'm sure they'll work all this stuff out soon enough.
Kenan. Mailplane IS gmail. Everything you can do in gmail, you can do in Mailplane. But more.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:53 (fourteen years ago)
I guess nothing can solve the problem of it being an app you have to install instead of a web app that you can use anywhere you have a browser.
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago)
Sparrow is nice, though. Just sayin. :)
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago)
I really don't understand you. I use gmail when I'm on somebody else's computer. Then I come home and Mailplane is running, which looks just like gmail and does all the same things as gmail and is completely in sync with gmail, but it also has more features making it easy to use, including downloading and archiving recent messages in case you're offline. How is that not exactly what you're asking for? The only reason to NOT use Mailplane is if you really have issues with the UI and you want to make sure all you mail is being downloaded and archived on your computer.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:03 (fourteen years ago)
But you're just talking about the difference between POP and IMAP. "Including downloading and archiving recent messages in case you're offline." This is not exactly mind-blowing tech.
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:07 (fourteen years ago)
Mailplane isn't POP or IMAP. It's GMAIL. Loaded as an app. It's the same thing. Sparrow is as well, just with a more fancy UI and less features. Technically I suppose Sparrow may be IMAP, but it doesn't really matter. I'm not trying to blow minds. I'm trying to find out why you think Sparrow would be better than Mailplane, and why Mailplane isn't good enough for you!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago)
Technically, Mailplane is a fancied up SSB. I don't know if Sparrow is an SSB with the UI tacked on top, or an IMAP mail client. For instance, it also doesn't have access to gmail's filters. Obviously since the mail is going to gmail first, it'll get filtered, but you'll have to open gmail (or mailplane) to change that. I assume Sparrow will eventually add all that.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:15 (fourteen years ago)
I am disappointed to find out Mailplane doesn't archive all mail locally.
― just woke up (lukas), Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:15 (fourteen years ago)
xxp Because I am angry about mail. GRRRR!
Look, I said that Sparrow is nice, and I'll stand by that.
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:15 (fourteen years ago)
I don't know enough about the technology behind it, but the way Mailplane archives recent mail has nothing to do with IMAP or POP. It's a browser window that stays open as an app that downloads your mail so you can work offline.
Looks like Sparrow is IMAP. It's currently syncing and downloading several thousand gmail emails.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:19 (fourteen years ago)
Surely just the headers.
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:21 (fourteen years ago)
it says "fetch content of message 945/2984"
and so on...
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:35 (fourteen years ago)
the reason i use mail.app, even with my gmail account, is the searching is so good. better than gmail searching. BETTER THAN GOOGLE SEARCHING
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:40 (fourteen years ago)
that is true. But it sucks in so many other ways!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:42 (fourteen years ago)
I'm going to bed.
Can anyone point me to a utility that will let me adjust the volume level of applications individually? I need my browser volume a lot lower than system and other applications.
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:30 (fourteen years ago)
audiohijack will do this, but it's a bit of a sledgehammer/nut thing for what you want
― caek, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:31 (fourteen years ago)
2 new things I'm trying out.
TeuxDeux. a To Do list created by the designer behind the Swiss Mix blog. It's a website that syncs with an iphone app and I've used Fluid to turn it into a browser based application. It's very simple, functional, looks nice. The one function I wish it had would be to have sub-tasks, but otherwise it's really sensible and much better than fancier apps. I mean, the point is getting work done, not spending a lot of time playing with a to do app.
Flux. Knows when the sun goes down and automatically changes your monitor's color temperature. Supposedly helps prevent insomnia? I'm a firm believer that staring at a computer screen late at night keeps me awake. I suppose it's more the actual processing of content and less the bright lights, but who knows. I'll have to turn it off to do design work, but otherwise, I'm liking it so far.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:03 (fourteen years ago)
yah, i use flux. turning it off when your typing in a dark room at night, it's kind of horrifying how cool bright white the light is otherwise.
― caek, Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:06 (fourteen years ago)
I also just bought transmit after 100 years of using Fetch.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:29 (fourteen years ago)
There's some thing about blue monitor light being perceived to be like the sun or something. If I'm on the mac late at night I'll change the colour profile to sunset (?) and I swear it makes a difference.
― egregious fannydangling (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:29 (fourteen years ago)
I used to use Flux but I do a lot of photo-viewing at night so I stopped
― dayo, Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:30 (fourteen years ago)
xxp, yes, most people have their monitors set up to match the color temp of a G2 dwarf star, e.g. the sun. the basic problem then is, this means you are looking at something not as bright as the sun (whatever brightness setting you have it on), but with a similar spectrum (whatever brightness setting). there are claims this confuses your circadian rhythym, etc. it's not as simple as that since monitors are orders of magnitude fainter than SAD lamps or the sun or whatever. all i know is that for just web and typing and stuff, it looks harsh at night.
flux automatically changes the colour profile to match artificial lighting (much cooler, i.e. redder) at sunset, and it knows when sunset is based on where you live.
you can get it for windows too i think.
― caek, Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:03 (fourteen years ago)
q is: what kind if bulbs are my ~energy savers~
― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:16 (fourteen years ago)
i have it on fluorescent. tungsten and halogen are too orange for me. when i was writing my thesis (i.e. black background most of the time) i had it on halogen.
― caek, Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:18 (fourteen years ago)
I have it on fluo as well. I have CFL in my studio/office, I don't know if that's supposed to emit like an incandescent or like a fluorescent, but this seemed the most sensible.
I'll see how things are tomorrow as well...I haven't calibrated my monitor in a year it seems.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:28 (fourteen years ago)
when I switch to preview daylight in Flux, it seems super blue. I don't know if that's just in comparison to the warmer temp Flux has it at, or if it's messing with my calibration.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:30 (fourteen years ago)
no, daylight/"disable for an hour" is the same as if you quit flux, i.e. your default calibration.
it looks so blue because you've been looking at orange. lol human brain.
― caek, Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:32 (fourteen years ago)
i think, anyway.
flux just decided it was past sunset. i expected something a little more ... gradual.
― just woke up (lukas), Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:48 (fourteen years ago)
check the transition preference, you can choose 20s or 1hour
― caek, Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:51 (fourteen years ago)
teal & orange teal & orange
― dayo, Thursday, 17 February 2011 02:10 (fourteen years ago)
is there no refuge
― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, 17 February 2011 02:11 (fourteen years ago)
This is cool, but I can't read any red text.
― http://tinyurl.com/lil-shits (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:52 (fourteen years ago)
been using flux for a while and <3 itrecently i found camouflage which hides/shows your desktop icons
anyone know of any hacks that would let me have 512px icons on my desktop and/or tiled backgrounds on finder windows??
― an0n (diamonddave85), Thursday, 17 February 2011 04:22 (fourteen years ago)
flux is some good stuff! i always thought this iMac screen was too bright even on the lowest setting at night
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 February 2011 04:57 (fourteen years ago)
I love Flux, thanks! It would be great if it worked with the MBP's built in light level sensor.
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Sunday, 20 February 2011 17:38 (fourteen years ago)
totes
― ullr saves (gbx), Sunday, 20 February 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)
is there any way to handle single track mixes showing individual track names? Figure if you could tell a program what is playing at what time during a track, it'd be possible.
― bnw, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 16:15 (fourteen years ago)
You can do this with podcasts, and there's some utility where you can get add it to the ID3v2 tag, but I don't know what players actually support that...
― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 00:00 (fourteen years ago)
guys: is there an online/mac app for FAXING?
i do not have a land line, btw.
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 21:36 (fourteen years ago)
efax.com
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 21:46 (fourteen years ago)
i just need to send, not receive. worth signing up?
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)
you used to be able to send faxes free for a trial period but that seems not to be the case any more.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)
aha, very cleverly disguised free trial offer
http://www.efax.com/Free-Trial
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)
didn't old osx have a print-to-fax option? (you had to have one of those modem cards)
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)
it does, and i don't
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)
(thx ed, i'm doing the trial)
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 22:07 (fourteen years ago)
don't forget to swallow sadness
― Nhex, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 22:26 (fourteen years ago)
anyone know a program which can automate the slicing up of pdfs for kindle consumption? Ie. to turn double page scans into single page. It seems like such a thing should exist... but does it?
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 16:46 (fourteen years ago)
oops found one already, for anyone else's reference there's Briss which seems to work a treat
http://briss.en.softonic.com/mac
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 16:57 (fourteen years ago)
How is that different than Acrobat?
And why did they have to call it that?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 17:02 (fourteen years ago)
yeah gross eh
it's free, I only need to do this one task with pdfs ever, and it seems to have a good system - it superimposes all the pages in the doc, so you can draw crop boxes that include everything.
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 17:05 (fourteen years ago)
testing out Total Finder right now:
http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/
Adds tabs to your finder windows. I'm already addicted to SizeUp for window management. This may be the next step. I mostly hate spaces, only use it occasionally. This seems like a better way to keep many different things open and organized without using Spaces. It also has Dual Mode, a single window with two finder browsers in it, and a bunch of other hoonja-doonjas. I think most people think this is inferior to Pathfinder, but I found Pathfinder annoying. This is such a minor tweak, aesthetically and workflow wise, that can make a big difference, instead of Pathfinders whole application based method of browsing with sidebars and all kinds of nonsense.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago)
what is best rss reader these days
― g++ (gbx), Sunday, 7 August 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago)
Reeder
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 7 August 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago)
(it costs money)
hmmm
also finally just looked at evernote. whoah.
― g++ (gbx), Sunday, 7 August 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago)
reeder looks like a windows refugee's idea of an ipad app, but it is fast.
― caek, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago)
I like Reeder on my iphone, but always just go back to Google Reader on the mac. There's some new extension that makes it look pretty but I kept forgetting which icon meant "mark all as read" so I went back to google.
― dan selzer, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:34 (thirteen years ago)
Still rockin' my old version of NetNewsWire from before they stuck in the ads
― Nhex, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago)
There's also Gruml (free). I used it a lot last year – there were some trivial bugs and it lacked a couple of features but it's had a few updates since then. As with Reeder you need a Google Reader account.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:05 (thirteen years ago)
reeder on iphone, reeder on ipad, reeder on mac
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:39 (thirteen years ago)
awww yeah
https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
― caek, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 07:31 (thirteen years ago)
ok that's great; I often want to write just little tiny programs & haven't ever bothered to figure out Xcode (I learned to program before GUIs were common).
― Euler, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:26 (thirteen years ago)
Anki---this is pretty awesome. seemed a little cumbersome at first, but once you nail down how models/templates work, it's totally boss
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago)
― czn, Monday, July 23, 2007 4:04 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark
really liking this. also figured out how to configure Spaces in a way that actually keeps things where they're supposed to be
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago)
anki is my religion
― dayo, Thursday, 18 August 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago)
it's pretty great! wish i'd discovered it in the first two years of med school
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago)
I don't have a need for Anki (Pleco does the job on my iphone and ipad) but it really is great. Best thing is the huge variety of free flashcard packs all over the web.
Spaces is too stupid now, I gave up on it. Most of my apps are just in full screen mode now.
― ceci n'est pas une witty dn (Schlafsack), Friday, 19 August 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago)
spaces works fine for me?
― caek, Friday, 19 August 2011 09:34 (thirteen years ago)
Best thing is the huge variety of free flashcard packs all over the web.
I'd love to use flashcards for French but haven't found anything. So I call bullshit on this.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 August 2011 09:46 (thirteen years ago)
call bullshit on u
do you use anki, TH? i spent <15 sec (i managed to type 'fre') and found a deck with 3500 cards in it. i just learned what "agacer" means!
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Friday, 19 August 2011 12:26 (thirteen years ago)
nb that was searching from within the application
bullshit!
― caek, Friday, 19 August 2011 12:29 (thirteen years ago)
I've really benefitted from doing the 4500 card 'german vocab' deck. One problem is that you have to generate 'reverse' cards to properly learn spelling, genders etc. but the english sides of the cards aren't always properly differentiated enough from each other to serve this purpose. There are also mistakes, and an weirdly high number of christian theology words. Still amazing, though. I've learnt thousands of words.
― Vasco da Gama, Friday, 19 August 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago)
cant remember which apple thread it was but i seem to remember someone (Ed?) having a two computer system (desk/lap) that involved checking out an svn repository of his User folder or something? to keep the two in sync?
how does anyone else do this?
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Friday, 19 August 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago)
Oh I didn't know you could search from within the app. I was looking on Google and found a bunch of forum posts from like 2008 where people were complaining that they couldn't find French vocab words. Plus an insane site from some guy who recommended literally typing phrases in by hand.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 August 2011 13:27 (thirteen years ago)
probably not svn: a centralised repo like svn seems particularly badly suited to synching, and svn doesn't do anything special with binary files, which is what most of your home directory is.
i do keep bits in version control, and check them out when i get/sit at a new computer, but not my whole home directory.
― caek, Friday, 19 August 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago)
i use this thing for my dotfiles (vim, bash, etc.), which uses git: https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick (the repos are on github if anyone is interested).
i use mercurial for my code because that was the thing when i migrated from SVN (linux hadn't moved to git yet, and i liked the fact that mercurial was written in python).
with both of these it is a manual process to "sync" two machines though, so maybe it's not what you're talking about.
― caek, Friday, 19 August 2011 13:35 (thirteen years ago)
asked in the other apple thread
is there a way to control itunes one on computer from another? found a barebones remote app called iTRC but it was ~butts~
― neuchâtel xanax (cozen), Friday, 19 August 2011 13:45 (thirteen years ago)
making yr own is good for stuff like medicine, where the process of making them itself is useful for memorization. also, i haven't seen many decks (ie i haven't looked) with the kind of complexity i need. my, eg, pharm cards have a model where each drug has six fields, and each field has a template, so Anki can generate six cards for me for each drug i enter.
cf language drills, where there's a pretty simple binary. this is this.
xp caek i guess the only reason i would want any kind of 'syncing' would be for, as you say, dotfiles and "documents in progress." your solution for the former seems good, and i suppose dropbox would work for stuff like writing or w/e. another, possibly thornier issue, would be dealing with apps like LR. say i bring my laptop on vacation, take some pics, edit them, whatever. i suppose there's a 'merge' function in LR3, but i've never gotten in too deep with the file management end of things over there.
isn't this why we have the cloud
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Friday, 19 August 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago)
all my serious writing i keep in version control (along with source code) so synching is just checking out.
all the casual stuff i put in http://notational.net/ and store the NV file on dropbox. occasionally i use google docs. i would probably do something different here if i had an iphone.
― caek, Friday, 19 August 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago)
all my super serious writing i put on ilx
― caek, Friday, 19 August 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago)
yeah i'm using notational velocity and syncing with simplenote (on iphone), i like it
and, really, i'm not doing any "serious writing" right now, and certainly nothing long enough to merit needing version control. figure the "version control" afforded by dropbox is probably good enough
(the main difference as i understand it being that true version control tracks changes)
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago)
as an aside, i always thought it was weird that my old job didn't use some kind of version control for all the copy we wrote. not even 'track changes' in word (yuck).
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago)
in addition to tracking versions, which is surprisingly useful...
if you're comfortable on the command line a modern distributed VC (like git or mercurial) provide a good way of keeping things in synch, and if you're ever in a situation when you're working with other writers then it would be handy, since it manages merges (although whether the way it does that is suitable for prose is another thing).
but it sounds like it would probably be overkill 4 u.
― caek, Friday, 19 August 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago)
haha, totally. i fuck with this stuff out of sheer nerdiness, not because of any actual need
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago)
haha otm me too a lot of the time
― caek, Friday, 19 August 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago)
I'll say one hoonja doonja I've never figured out is Path Finder.
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago)
not sure where to ask this - when using Reeder fro Mac, I've been having two problems: (a) I cannot get to download links included in posts (whether in text or in HTML formats) (b) whenever I click to open a post in my web browser, it will launch a new window rather than a new tab in the one that's already opened.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 22 August 2011 09:05 (thirteen years ago)
(a) could be to do with what the originating site chooses to include in its rss text (hard to know without being able to see yr screen) and (b) could be your browser's setting for handling new page requests from external apps (I recall changing a parameter manually in firefox), i.e. neither of those things happen to me.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 22 August 2011 10:53 (thirteen years ago)
thx! (a) I typically notice when trying to download an mp3 from pitchfork - Reeder will give me the option to "download to disk" but then nothing occurs(b) you're right - i think this started when I switched to the new Safari - I might need to play around in the settings.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 22 August 2011 11:04 (thirteen years ago)
in addition to tracking versions, which is surprisingly useful...if you're comfortable on the command line a modern distributed VC (like git or mercurial) provide a good way of keeping things in synch, and if you're ever in a situation when you're working with other writers then it would be handy, since it manages merges (although whether the way it does that is suitable for prose is another thing).but it sounds like it would probably be overkill 4 u.― caek, Friday, August 19, 2011 11:15 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark
― caek, Friday, August 19, 2011 11:15 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark
so things i have done to procrastinate, largely because some other nerd told me it would be "useful":--actually figured out the difference between bash_profile and bashrc and all that. i think.--set up a "dotfiles" folder that has all my bash stuff and vim whatevers--established symlinks in ~/ that point to that garbage--deleted macports--installed python 2.7--installed dev tools--acquired hg in the form of machg--installed homebrew
now, for no good reason, i'm going to set up a repository on bitbucket with my dotfile stuff, clone it, and then run this .py script $nerd gave me to automatically generate new symlinks in ~/ that point to the ones in the dotfile repository (as well as making backups of those replaced).
now i'm just trying to think what should go in dotfiles or why any of this matters, at all
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago)
--deleted macports
--installed dev tools
unless you're doing mac gui dev, i prefer https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
--acquired hg in the form of machg
--installed homebrew
booming post.
for the dotfile symlink stuff, that's what https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick does. might work for you.
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 10:24 (thirteen years ago)
aw man wish i'd known about this :(
well i'll be
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago)
what the fuck are you guys talking about
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago)
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134336/focus=134979
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago)
lol!
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:07 (thirteen years ago)
we are talking about hoonja doonjas, tracer, our favorite little ones
what happened to the good ol' hoonja doonjas?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:27 (thirteen years ago)
What's homebrew about?
― Euler, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago)
like macports but made some better philosophical decisions early on
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago)
e.g. doesn't try to install it's own gcc, python, tex, perl, etc. when you install some little utility
development of new recipes is a bit more straightforward too, which may not bother you directly, but it means that the community is much more active, there are more packages, and the system is generally more robust
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago)
huh, cool
― Euler, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago)
quickcursor: oh neat
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago)
Only 5 years late, but http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ is so awesome. Any other neat/fun video software?
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago)
god i love Hazel!!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 October 2011 11:07 (thirteen years ago)
yesterday it occurred to me that I could combine Hazel with Dropbox..
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 October 2011 11:08 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.cdfinder.de/en/en/screenshots.html <3 Elvis Telecom for pointing this gem out (here: Maintaining a Digital Music Collection )
― stet, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 00:21 (thirteen years ago)
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120326061614691
simple terminal command to make the dock pop up instantly!
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:06 (thirteen years ago)
superb, thanks for the link.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 08:44 (thirteen years ago)
don't know where else to post this. The cloud wars are really heating up. First google docs becomes google drive and I suddenly have a google sync'd folder on my computer a-la dropbox. Now dropbox suddenly asks me if I want to upload all the pictures from my camera. Maybe I will let dropbox manage my photos. Probably quickest way to get my instagram and regular photos onto my computer and online for viewing and sharing outside of instagram or facebook. This should really heat up once ios 6 comes out with Facebook integration. I'm content to use a few different sources for different things. Dropbox still wins for easy folder sharing with other people, quick photo galleries etc. But this new google drive is a great way to get my google docs on my desktop and backed up.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 3 June 2012 06:24 (twelve years ago)
hmm very tempted to use it for some document backups... why not
― Nhex, Sunday, 3 June 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago)
ilx consumer advice thread for THE CLOUD & music & storage riyl icloud google music dropbox netflix spotify
― max, Sunday, 3 June 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago)
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20082711-285/how-to-use-preview-in-os-x-lion-to-digitally-sign-documents/
― caek, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 11:38 (twelve years ago)
have used that SO much lately tbh
― Euler, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 11:52 (twelve years ago)
http://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/
― caek, Friday, 29 June 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago)
as one thing well says, i recommend the "watercolor" map (aerial is fun, but you can't see your desktop icons v well if you are in a city)
― caek, Friday, 29 June 2012 07:24 (twelve years ago)
Anyone using Fever around here? I feel like I'm spending most of my days trying to keep up with my RSS feed so this looks like something for me. But 30 bucks is pretty steep for an RSS reader...
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 09:59 (twelve years ago)
Anybody else using Soulver? I think it's changing my life. Spending a lot of time figuring out and comparing costs for paper while printing, this lets me type things up in english and see totals, and the totals update when I change quantities.
― dan selzer, Monday, 23 July 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago)
wtf: http://www.acqualia.com/media/images/soulver/introduction/myYear.jpg
― s.clover, Monday, 23 July 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago)
lol, women.
$200 a week? i've been lookin' in the wrong places
― Nhex, Monday, 23 July 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago)
Never heard of this app before now but I am absolutely sold after playing around with it to figure out some budget probs
― Brakhage, Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago)
Is there a good (non-java) osx download manager? I've used speed download for years but apparently it's broken on 10.8, and it doesn't look like the devs have any further interest in it..
― sktsh, Friday, 3 August 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago)
soulver is great
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Friday, 3 August 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago)
What would be the best/most easily searchable place to store a lot of pdfs: iCloud, Dropbox or Evernote? Wondering if Euler has thoughts on this one.
― ljubljana, Monday, 1 October 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago)
I take it you don't have so many pdfs that you'd exceed the free allotment of Dropbox? I do alas; might just pony up the cash but I dunno, I recently used GoodReader to upload them all onto my ipad (all 20 gb of them, yikes) but I can't search them that way. right now I have the collection of them (with metadata assiduously added by hand, uggh) copied onto both machines, & then I can search with spotlight. but this suxxx to keep them updated. I use BibDesk as my main receptacle though.
I bought DevonThink Professional a few years ago in order to make this work better but I never really got into it. maybe I should try it again! just...need.......time......
― Euler, Monday, 1 October 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago)
I don't have that many yet; maybe one day! Just want to get started right early on. Good point re searchability in bibliographic software; maybe I should be deciding on that before I do anything else... I'd been thinking of RefWorks (free at my school but apparently not exactly intuitive to use), Zotero and Mendeley; whatever I use has to work across PC and Mac.
― ljubljana, Monday, 1 October 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago)
mendeley imo
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 1 October 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago)
Vote noted, thank you
― ljubljana, Monday, 1 October 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago)
Papers (http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/) is excellent.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 1 October 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago)
oh man i had no idea it was cross-platform now -- second that, papers is great
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago)
Thanks! - will give it a go.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago)
Trial is constantly crashing on me in OS X. Will have to contact them I guess.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 13 October 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago)
It was a corrupt pdf. Anyway, think I may end up using this for storage but it doesn't seem as good as Zotero or Mendeley for reference management?
― ljubljana, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago)
I liked Sente a lot for that.
― stet, Monday, 15 October 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago)
Hmm no tabs though... I can see this is not going to be a one-piece-of-software deal...
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago)
Anything in the new MacHeist worth bothering with? Strongbad just isn't enough to justify the price tag for me...http://macheist.com
― Nhex, Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago)
Notational Velocity syncing with Simplenote is pretty busted :(
― hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago)
I sync via dropbox.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago)
I haven't had any issues but I use it sparingly so
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago)
or do you mean across multiple machines? cuz I've just got iMac + phone + pad
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago)
Two Macs, iPhone, iPad. I've had some notes not updating. I've had some notes created in Simplenote that just don't make it to NV, ever. I can edit them in Simplenote on phone/pad/webapp but that's it.
― hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 25 October 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago)
I've had great luck with the alternative fork of NV. Support for tags, etc. The original NV/SN combo was breaking down, so I tried this one out and have had good results
― Brakhage, Friday, 2 November 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago)
so i found out about sublime text the other day---anyone using it?
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 2 November 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago)
yes, love it.
― stet, Friday, 2 November 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago)
i like it so far, but it's hard to break out of vim thinking
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 2 November 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago)
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net
This little tool allows you to visualise what files are on your disk and I've just managed to exorcize 80GB of duplication and guff using it.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago)
windirstat, which is basically the windows version of the same, is also pretty awesome
I shelled out a few bucks for a mac program that is a little prettier and has some more functionality to burrow in. Can't remember what it is at the minute.
― mh, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago)
disk inventory x does the same thing and is free also
― max, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago)
less flashy, but my fave http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/
― caek, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago)
Yeah, stick with one of those. I think I got some sort of incentive deal on DaisyDisk but its regular price is... $10? yeah, don't pay that much.
― mh, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago)
I use Disk Inventory X as mentioned above: http://www.derlien.com/
Definitely worth to use one of these programs so you can easily figure out what's taking up all your space obviously porn
― Nhex, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago)
i just ran GrandPerspective on my work laptop and found a file in .vim/tmp that was 1.45 GB wtf??
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (diamonddave85), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago)
I've used both Omnidisksweeper and DaisyDisk.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago)
i like daisydisk
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago)
Top tip I used after discovering Chrome.app was taking 1.5GB was to go into the Package contents and delete deprecated versions which Chromes seems to keep but not need.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago)
If i used Terminal more i would definitely try out Cathode
http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago)
a file in .vim/tmp that was 1.45 GB
I laughed
― mh, Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago)
if i used terminal less i would try cathode
― caek, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago)
I figured you were down with iTerm2 or something
― mh, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago)
terminal.app all the way. iterm is too rough around the edges for an app i'm in all the time.
― caek, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago)
bbedit worksheets ftw
― stet, Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago)
What my hard drive looks like right now (notes on the Flickr page)
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8364/8270245119_8b62be4a2e.jpg
There's a Flickr group for hard drive visualizations: http://www.flickr.com/groups/28207780@N00/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago)
omg at your notes
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, 14 December 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago)
what do ppl recommend for managing a large library of pdf articles/papers/books/etc?
― s.clover, Monday, 31 December 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago)
oh wait that was answered upthread already.
― s.clover, Monday, 31 December 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago)
just started with mendeley. pretty impressed.
― s.clover, Monday, 31 December 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago)
Doing fine with Zotero here. Maybe download both and try them each for a week before committing.
― ljubljana, Monday, 31 December 2012 09:23 (twelve years ago)
last night i dreamt i downloaded mendeley again
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago)
just got Plex and it is seriously great if you want to beam movie files to a roku or ipad.
― dsb, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago)
elsevier is in talks to acquire mendeley. if they do, lots of people, myself included, will probably ditch it out of general principle. zotero's been recommended here, but someone also suggested docear, which i've downloaded but haven't tried yet.
― s.clover, Friday, 18 January 2013 19:20 (twelve years ago)
i have no idea what you just said
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 18 January 2013 20:29 (twelve years ago)
^^^
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:30 (twelve years ago)
I like to play flow because it's fun to connect the dots.
― pplains, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:33 (twelve years ago)
all the above are programs for managing libraries of pdfs, annotations, citations, etc. elsevier is a big academic publisher that lots of people are boycotting for being expensive, dishonest, and generally horrible.
― s.clover, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:46 (twelve years ago)
it's like evernote for bibiography types
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:51 (twelve years ago)
Anyone have any good tips on using Emacs on a powerbook, particularly as regards the metakey?I'm not entirely sure if my problems are specific to Norwegian keyboard layouts.
I installed GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (and run it from the terminal) and there the emacs metakey (I'll call it emeta) isn't bound (unless I go explicitly to the terminal settings and remap it ) so I can't perform any Emacs commands that require the emeta, such as entering M-x.
If I -do- remap that, or if I use the some other Emacs version that was compiled specifically for OSX (I don't recall where I got it, unfortunately) then those commands are OK. BUT then I end up, naturally, unable to do keycombos that require the "standard/apple metakey", that is the alt-key, I guess. Eg. if I want to type the '-character, on my keyboard that is meta-¨ (the key directly to the left of the enter-key).What do Apple users do to fix this problem? My google-skills have failed me so far. I suppose the trick is to use some other key for Emacs metajoys? What's the trick, in that case? (I figure "fn" would be a good key for this, since I don't think I ever use that for entering text)
Sorry for this dumb question -- I'm new to Apple-land and I'm basically trying to use the machine like a Linux box as much as I can.
― Øystein, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:55 (twelve years ago)
wow, i thought i didn't understand s. clover's post...
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 18 January 2013 20:58 (twelve years ago)
;_;
― Øystein, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:59 (twelve years ago)
I've got this handy control panel called KeyRemap4MacBook. You can even use it to remap the left alt/option to one key while leaving the other alone, or vice versa. But I use aquamacs and run it as a normal app (even though other people tell me that this is an abomination). for quick terminal editing i just use vim, or more often nano.
― s.clover, Friday, 18 January 2013 21:05 (twelve years ago)
Thanks, will give KeyRemap a shot. For quick editing this isn't really a problem at all, generally, but I'd like to use it for programming, and then a lot of those meta-commands come in handy.Guess it was time I learned that it's called the option-key.
― Øystein, Friday, 18 January 2013 21:16 (twelve years ago)
KR4MB looks really good, thanks -- in the process of figuring this out, I found that the key IS in fact available already. It's just that meta was mapped to, uh, the esc-key for some reason, so remapping's certainly necessary.
― Øystein, Friday, 18 January 2013 21:22 (twelve years ago)
I didn't get s.clover's at all but totally got Øystein's, though my only thought is "emacs sucks use vim"
― joygoat, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:58 (twelve years ago)
I pounded enough emacs into my brain years ago to understand it, but I just gave in and went to Coda and/or Sublime Text for text wrangling.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)
lol emacs
― caek, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:13 (twelve years ago)
I like Evernote, but the formatting is a pain.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 31 January 2013 17:12 (twelve years ago)
still havering around on note stuff - notational velocity + simplenote is great, but the tagging doesn't quite sync up, which is where evernote wins, but otherwise it feels a bit heavy duty for what I need (and yes, formatting is a bit of a pain).
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Friday, 1 February 2013 09:49 (twelve years ago)
do you need to tag? is search not enough?
― caek, Friday, 1 February 2013 11:21 (twelve years ago)
simplenote's sync has become a shitshow for me, unfortunately. Agree there's a sweet spot being missed somewhere between the barebones of NV/Simplenote and the dreadnought of evernote
― stet, Friday, 1 February 2013 11:25 (twelve years ago)
NV on mac + notesy on IPHONE fine for me
― caek, Friday, 1 February 2013 11:31 (twelve years ago)
caek otm
― Euler, Friday, 1 February 2013 13:11 (twelve years ago)
Yeah, this guy's losing data thanks to the new simplenote sync http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/01/simplenote-lifeline.html
― stet, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:03 (twelve years ago)
omnifocus 1 is free while they are trialling 2
http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/anticipating-omnifocus-2
― caek, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:08 (twelve years ago)
New one looks really nice; the old one was a bit of a mess tbh
― stet, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:11 (twelve years ago)
OmniOutliner 4 looks even better. OO3 is fantastic but butt-uglyhttp://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OmniOutliner-640x539.png
― stet, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:14 (twelve years ago)
nice.
solveur is cool now that i found a use for it.
― caek, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:28 (twelve years ago)
wow NV is great
(both versions)
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:24 (twelve years ago)
switched to using Scratch for quick notes over SimpleNote a while ago, works pretty well
Feel a little guilty that I never really use the Omni apps as deeply as I could because they are great
― mh, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:36 (twelve years ago)
omnifocus one of four apps i have permanently open (chrome, terminal, mail)
― caek, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)
Is there any overview of what these note apps can/can't do? Are any of them usable for writing down maths?
― questino (seandalai), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:13 (twelve years ago)
obv they can take in latex, the only reasonable way to write math(s)
― Euler, Friday, 1 February 2013 16:19 (twelve years ago)
can't make the code but that's just window dressing
there's one that renders the latex math, I'm almost certain
― stet, Friday, 1 February 2013 16:22 (twelve years ago)
Sure I can just type in latex as text, it can get a bit unreadable though.
xp that sounds good, I guess I can search around
― questino (seandalai), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:22 (twelve years ago)
So you can get Latex rendering in Evernote by using (initially wrote "yousing" wth!) eat.ags. Not committed yet to using fancy hoonja-doonjas but I'll give it a go.
― questino (seandalai), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:20 (twelve years ago)
Got sick of sync issues with Simplenote, finally extracted myself from it (which was not trivial, btw - contact me if you want to do this and are having problems. One of the reasons I left was that some of my notes created in Simplenote simply never made it to NV, so I had to export all my notes as JSON, then parse them, then etc etc.)
Now on NV+Dropbox+Notesy and having ... sync issues. Can easily work around so far but FFFF.
― hot slag (lukas), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:50 (twelve years ago)
i think u guys should just get a notepad and a pencil
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:51 (twelve years ago)
but I have an iphone
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:52 (twelve years ago)
i use wunderlist as a todolist / note app (just stick 'em in todos). syncs between phone/computer/web.
i also have anywhere from 3 to 8 random textedit windows open at any given time, for stuff i'm not worried about syncing.
not a brilliant system, but i used to write notes in like halves of the cardboard wraps for bubble-packed gum and stuff, so this is an advance for me.
― s.clover, Friday, 1 February 2013 20:39 (twelve years ago)
omnifocus "free" license apparently expires in like seven more days. feh. can't imagine actually spending ~100$ on any sort of planner app.
― s.clover, Friday, 1 February 2013 20:43 (twelve years ago)
Asana is fantastic for todolist type stuff. Web based
http://app.asana.com
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 1 February 2013 22:08 (twelve years ago)
― caek, Friday, February 1, 2013 11:21 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark
Not quite - i try to include keywords, but because of my addled brain end up using things like 'poetry'/'poems', 'books'/'lit' - it's handy to have the list tbh.
but i have just found you can tag in NV (ctrl+shift+t), so that's cool.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Sunday, 3 February 2013 09:35 (twelve years ago)
anyone use a finance app? don't really want to drop any coin on it : /
seems like options are ynab, moneywiz, money, ibank?
― слабоумие и отвага (cozen), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 21:40 (twelve years ago)
I've tried a few apps (because i am SHITE with money and need to be less shite) and just found the whole chore of keeping them updated stopped them being effective.
ended up constructing an incredibly complicated (for me) spreadsheet in google docs/drive, which I can just copy and paste my Internet statement into, and it does a load of calculations that tell me how much money I've got left to spend/save that month and it has completely changed my life. I've got money left over at the end of the month etc, can see clearly what I can and can't spend and what categories I'm spending on etc.
Sorry, that probably isn't much help, but I wanted to eulogise the power of financial planning (this may not be news to more prudent types I realise).
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:16 (twelve years ago)
we use mint, which is free - my wife is the financial person so i can't say too much about how good it is but she seems happy with it
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:41 (twelve years ago)
anyone use a finance app?
I'm on iBank, with the iPhone version as well, which is pretty nice. While I'm out I enter everything in the phone and sync it up later on, downloading transactions from the bank to see what I've missed. It's not pretty like Mint or whatever, it's more like OS9 Quicken. I like it, because I want more of an accounting ledger than a budget pie chart. But I wish it was prettier. Simple looks reeaaaaaallly nice.
ended up constructing an incredibly complicated (for me) spreadsheet in google docs/drive
I ended up doing this with two accounts - one is the discretionary 'allowance' account, the other is the expenses one that the automated bill payouts are drawn on (which is everything except rent for me). The expenses acct gets the direct salary deposit, and I just move X amount from that account to the allowance account, and that's the debit card that I carry around to pay for lunches, etc with. The amounts that are allowed to exist in either account are set by a fairly simple spreadsheet that lists monthly liabilities that I revise a couple times a year. This way I never overdraft, never overspend, it's nice.
― Brakhage, Thursday, 28 February 2013 06:36 (twelve years ago)
But going back to apps, iBank is your thing if you were into Quicken before they completely lost it. I would be into Mint if I wasn't creeped out by shoveling all my transactions at some third party online. I have reservations about Simple too since they're effectively an inserted middleman between you and your bank, they're not the bank themselves.
― Brakhage, Thursday, 28 February 2013 06:40 (twelve years ago)
don't use one but some friends say v. good things about mint.
― s.clover, Thursday, 28 February 2013 07:19 (twelve years ago)
I just signed up with mint and added my student loans and holy shit I'm depressed now
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:06 (twelve years ago)
mint not available for britishers : /
― слабоумие и отвага (cozen), Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:23 (twelve years ago)
afaict this sort of software never really got going in UK/europe because we don't use cheques any more, so reckoning/balancing consists of looking at yr bank statement
― caek, Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:25 (twelve years ago)
i wrote a cheque once. never forget.
― caek, Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:26 (twelve years ago)
lol checks
― stet, Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:42 (twelve years ago)
are credit cards a big thing in the UK?
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:48 (twelve years ago)
more debit cards. also for bills direct debits (don't know what the US equivalent is -- basically you agree that eg the electricity company can ask for as much as they want from your account on a certain day each month)
― stet, Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:58 (twelve years ago)
finding mint pretty useful since it categorizes all the transactions I make with my credit card; nice breakdown. otoh won't let me add a category for 'coke habit.'
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 February 2013 14:07 (twelve years ago)
def dealt with checks in France alas
― Euler, Thursday, 28 February 2013 14:41 (twelve years ago)
debit cards are bigger in canada than the us, even! they all have those neat chips in them and a lot of restaurants have little remote swipe pads they bring to your table.
I have reservations about Simple too since they're effectively an inserted middleman between you and your bank
I feel more like Simple is a good business model because they're effectively a company that is completely focused on making your transactions as easy as possible and they're unconcerned with the backend money storage. A lot of the pain of traditional banks is their constant efforts to figure out how to deal with cash flow while making money off of stored cash. This way, you have one entity concentrated on the money, and one on the transactions.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:24 (twelve years ago)
I am always amazed of how antiquated North America is on a few certain things compared to Europe
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:37 (twelve years ago)
Think a lot of that is the inability to create/implement a revised protocol for cards in the US
― Brakhage, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:44 (twelve years ago)
yeah there's something called 'paywave' now but it doesn't even work half the time
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:00 (twelve years ago)
I have several accounts for all my millions, I'd like to just see them all in one place & have some light budgeting
spreadsheet probably best option but it is not teh shiny
― слабоумие и отвага (cozen), Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:49 (twelve years ago)
this is definitely teh shiny - wish leather stitching would die tho
― Brakhage, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:18 (twelve years ago)
heh, I'm spoiled now and can't bother with anything unless it has real-time account data that I don't have to export
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:24 (twelve years ago)
oh you mean it doesn't hook up your real bank account yet? dang yeah that's a dealbreaker
― Brakhage, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:44 (twelve years ago)
Most apps never will. There isn't a real standard in the banking industry, just software packages configured differently and one-offs, as far as bank web sites go. The only companies with the resources to hook up to a myriad of accounts have been Mint, and uh, companies bought by Mint.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:12 (twelve years ago)
Wesabe was an awesome service with better category detection and data viewing, but mint buried them.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:13 (twelve years ago)
Fresh books is pulling from my bank, but its more so you can grab expenses for invoicing.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:26 (twelve years ago)
Following the soon-to-be-demise of Google Reader, should I go with Feedly or Taptu? Or something else?
― ljubljana, Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:21 (twelve years ago)
(want a web version or Mac app to be available, not mobile-only).
do you care about syncing with iDevices? y/n?
― caek, Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:24 (twelve years ago)
just signed up to feedly. Looks nice but really slow and weird. Also signed up with Jolicloud, which aggregates dropbox, facebook, tumblr, instagram, soundcloud, instapaper but not RSS. I sent in a feature request though. It's really slick looking and if it could interface with an RSS feed app, or be one, I'd be happy.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 March 2013 19:23 (twelve years ago)
Reeder is a great feed reader for mac, but not free
― none other than the shadeball Tuommy Loftus (diamonddave85), Thursday, 14 March 2013 19:37 (twelve years ago)
i love reeder
― Mordy, Thursday, 14 March 2013 19:39 (twelve years ago)
I have reeder but it's totally sync'd to Google. I couldn't remember if it worked without it. Will have to figure out if it's easy to transfer the feeds, or will just have to do it manually. Google let me download all my feeds, but I don't see how to upload that to Reeder.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 March 2013 19:39 (twelve years ago)
reeder requires a server-side source. Currently, it supports Google Reader, Fever (a self-hosted one that is decent, but not so great that I ever switched), and Readability, which isn't really an aggregator. Presumably their statement means they're looking at putting in support for other Google Reader replacement sites ASAP
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 14 March 2013 20:05 (twelve years ago)
Vienna is a great reader if you don't need to bother with syncing (though it's built in, if you wish to use it) http://www.vienna-rss.org
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 14 March 2013 22:14 (twelve years ago)
Version 2.0 of Alfred is out.
Easily one of the greatest tools on OSX ever. And the new version is awesome.
― I am only able to build things if Obama helps me (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 14 March 2013 22:21 (twelve years ago)
I have Reeder now and had thought it was totally Google-dependent; if isn't, I'll hold on for a while and see what sites they start to support. Will check out your mentions, though, thanks. Caek - I'm not bothered about iDevices sync.
― ljubljana, Friday, 15 March 2013 00:51 (twelve years ago)
it's totally google-dependent, but it will work without changes until july 1, and the developer is apparently working on replacing the google reeder backend (according to a single tweet)
― caek, Friday, 15 March 2013 01:00 (twelve years ago)
Replacing the backend not trivial if you intend to duplicate everything google did, don't envy them
― eris bueller (lukas), Friday, 15 March 2013 01:20 (twelve years ago)
iphone reeder already allows readability and fever sync fwiw
― badg horror stories (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 15 March 2013 06:25 (twelve years ago)
Reeder app is the only indispensable thing on my iPhone
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 15 March 2013 07:29 (twelve years ago)
what about 911
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 15 March 2013 12:43 (twelve years ago)
I'm not in the US, sorry
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:18 (twelve years ago)
i'm still using my pre-adware version of NetNewsWire
― Nhex, Friday, 15 March 2013 17:58 (twelve years ago)
braggin
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 15 March 2013 21:29 (twelve years ago)
does the registered version still exist? I bought that years ago, idk
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 15 March 2013 21:30 (twelve years ago)
yeah i think i have a license for it
― caek, Friday, 15 March 2013 21:31 (twelve years ago)
i may be ready to take my first step towards a password manager. any recs?
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:19 (twelve years ago)
i would like to a testimonial from someone who uses password management software. what is your life like now? tia
― eris bueller (lukas), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:23 (twelve years ago)
did your retirement account increase in value? did your cholesterol go down?
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:29 (twelve years ago)
I just use "hacktheplanet" for all my passwords, easy to remember
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:32 (twelve years ago)
ive been using lastpass, the jury is still kind of out
― max, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:42 (twelve years ago)
its i guess slightly less work than it was when i had several different 'memorable' alphanumeric passwords that could never really remember so i guess its better
― max, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:44 (twelve years ago)
I use 1password. It can be a little buggy at times, but is mostly rock solid. I use it for everything. Saving credit card info as well as passwords. The iPhone app is great, the application is great, sometimes it's autofill doesn't quite work right, if the webpage is weird, but tha happens with all autofill. Even then you can just login and copy and paste the password.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 21:03 (twelve years ago)
i use 1p
― caek, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:10 (twelve years ago)
cosine
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 01:40 (twelve years ago)
keep hearing incredible praise for 1P but still fail to get how it works - esp on iOS - is it just a secure listing of all your passwords? Why the steep price then?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 12:58 (twelve years ago)
Is the iOS app expensive? The whole point is the browser plugins. Any website I go to, I just right click and it gives me the options to enter passwords from 1password, or enter credit card info. You just need to know the 1 1password password. It's great, I have two paypal accounts, two discogs accounts etc. If you want it can generate super obscure passwords for you and remember them, or just remember your passwords. You can open the application and view everything, copy and paste, store credit card info, serial numbers etc.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)
what if someone guesses your 1password password, isn't this basically like just having one password for everything? makes u think.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:42 (twelve years ago)
i have one 'password' for everything and i don't think you'll be able to guess what my one 'password' is even though it's so obvious... ;) ;) ;)
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:45 (twelve years ago)
Well it depends on how likely you think it is that someone will steal your computer and guess your password.
― aztec table rapper (seandalai), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:13 (twelve years ago)
well, the idea is that first the attacker will have to have physical access to one of your devices (at which point the gig is probably already up) and THEN they'll have to figure out the master password (which should probably be strong enough to not guess)
w/r/t remote access, my 1p database is stored on dropbox which itself has a secure password. so, if the attacker somehow figures out my dropbox password, they'll be able to get my 1p database but then they'll have to figure out the master password. it's not perfect security, but it's enough security for me imo
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:13 (twelve years ago)
reminds me, I was going to look into enabling two-factor auth on dropbox
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:36 (twelve years ago)
I use 1pass, it's fairly awesome. I also use two-factor auth everywhere possible.
BECUZ I IS AFEARED OF DA GUVMIT
― I am only able to build things if Obama helps me (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)
they've wiretapped your SMS messages fyi
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:45 (twelve years ago)
the ios app is like 15 bucks, but you can buy a package with the os x app for a deal. sooooo worth it ime. even setting the security aspect aside, it's just v v nice to not have to remember ANY passwords. especially for my job, which requires me to know like 20 different logins/passwords which change on a regular basis.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:49 (twelve years ago)
Any other suggestions in the MoneyWiz space or is that the best? Mint is driving me nuts.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:51 (twelve years ago)
Re 1pass, does it do anything that lastpass doesn't, besides being prettier...?
― sktsh, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:03 (twelve years ago)
What Tracer said.
Hi Tracer!
― I am only able to build things if Obama helps me (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:16 (twelve years ago)
hi don!
sktsh i don't know, i've never used lastpass.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:20 (twelve years ago)
I looked at lastpass at one point, discovered the switching cost (time) would be a nightmare
― I am only able to build things if Obama helps me (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:24 (twelve years ago)
yeah 1password was a bit of a bitch to set up at first, at least the way i did it, which was to generate new strong passwords for literally everything. but after that it has been very low-maintenance.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:30 (twelve years ago)
i think it was the great gawker hack of 2012 that finally spurred me to action. either that or last.fm. or the playstation network.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:31 (twelve years ago)
the #1 annoying thing about lastpass is that its really just a browser plugin/ios app, so you still need to copy-paste its passwords (and usually enter your master pass) into non-browser apps
― max, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:44 (twelve years ago)
i signed up for lastpass b/c its the one the lifehacker guys all use. the big diff i think is that 1pass is all locally-stored (so if you want to use it on multiple computers you need to put the database in dropbox) whereas lastpass is all in the cloud
― max, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:46 (twelve years ago)
I use keepass.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:00 (twelve years ago)
Yeah I use KeePassX, it's free and I when used Windows at work I needed something that worked there and on my Mac at home. I don't think it does anything fancy but it's good enough.
Also I've recently discovered Spectacle and it's like one of my favorite things ever now.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:26 (twelve years ago)
i use SizeUp and it's useful and i feel like a wizard
but Spectacle looks like it does the same stuff, and is free
― eris bueller (lukas), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:34 (twelve years ago)
1password stores passwords in dropbox. if you're at a computer without the app, you just login to dropbox via yr web browser and it provides an html interface to all yr passwords which looks basically like the normal app.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:36 (twelve years ago)
$60 for 1password? No thank you, I will use an obscure text file called "drowssap.txt" in my Documents folder.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:00 (twelve years ago)
I've been using Wallet for years: http://www.acrylicapps.com/wallet/mac/
Not quite as well-integrated as 1password is, but I'm OK with having a vague barrier between my browser and password manager. There's also an iOS version.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:44 (twelve years ago)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what if someone hacks your dropbox?? doesnt all this double-triple-secret-put-all-my-passwords-in-a-special-box-on-the-internet thing end up completely backfiring at some point?
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:56 (twelve years ago)
the idea is you have a passphrase that is super long, and you use that to encrypt your password manager's database. that database file only exists on your computer and on dropbox. so you'd need the super long password and access to dropbox. seems really unlikely?
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:01 (twelve years ago)
yeah the thing is, i've encrypted my 1password file with a one time pad
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:16 (twelve years ago)
*produces 100 scribbled on legal pads* heres the 128 bit key
at least i think thats how it worked in cryptonomicon
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:17 (twelve years ago)
thanks for the reminders, just did this:https://www.dropbox.com/help/363/en
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:21 (twelve years ago)
now you need my dropbox email, password, and my mobile phone to get into dropbox
you can two-factor dropbox (and lastpass).
so even if you bruteforced a password (unlikely if its 20+ characters) youd need a persons phone or ubikey or whatever
― max, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 21:28 (twelve years ago)
everyone should two-factor their gmail also
― слабоумие и отвага (cozen), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:02 (twelve years ago)
ah, that makes sense. So it works with eg your mail.app passwords etc? I haven't found lack of this to be a limitation for what I do, but I can see how it would be.
I stuck my toe in the water with lastpass despite reading lots of people saying 1password is the way to go because I wanted to try out a password manager before paying, but I'm happy enough/cheap enough that I think I'm going to stick with it. I use safari/osx at home, chrome/win7 at work and safari on the iphone in between, and it seems like it would cost me GBPtonnes to install 1password across all three. My biggest worry was how it would work with ios- I don't like the idea of having to rely on a different browser, but in the end I haven't even paid for lastpass on iphone. Bookmarklets mean it actually works really well in safari. Overall would recommend.
― sktsh, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:17 (twelve years ago)
well it doesnt really *need* to work w/ mail.app since theoretically you're just entering a password once?
im thinking more of situations like e.g. the app store, where i need my apple ID password handy to download stuff and need to run back to chrome, open my lastpass vault, enter my master pass, copy the apple ID password, tab back to the app store, paste it in. <em>every time</em>
― max, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:21 (twelve years ago)
that is the one situation - the app store - where these password keepers are v annoying but i've gotten used to it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:23 (twelve years ago)
for the one situation, i just come up with a new password and remember it. three or four longish real words. no punctuation except the spaces. quick to type.
― caek, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:25 (twelve years ago)
what if someone waterboards me for my 1password password
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 March 2013 16:31 (twelve years ago)
hey bro what's your password
― caek, Thursday, 21 March 2013 16:33 (twelve years ago)
ban noiseboarding
― aztec table rapper (seandalai), Thursday, 21 March 2013 16:46 (twelve years ago)
my password is lunawasme2005
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 March 2013 16:48 (twelve years ago)
that was encrypted right? only i can see that?
your password was *************?
― 乒乓, Thursday, 21 March 2013 16:50 (twelve years ago)
*breathes deep sigh of relief*
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 March 2013 17:05 (twelve years ago)
1password is 50% off rite nao https://agilebits.com/store
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago)
tell me about your textexpander snippets
― caek, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago)
i have several gif based snippets
― max, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9287652/images/gifs/getout.gif
what it your shortcut for that?
― caek, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago)
getoutgif
― max, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago)
cool
― caek, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago)
this is neathttp://www.tomahawk-player.org/
― cozen, Sunday, 9 June 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago)
Yeah that's ^ been available for awhile on the web and as a set of APIs. There was some big-time service that was using it for their underlying tech, can't remember what it was now. A bit hit and miss but yeah very cool.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 June 2013 11:18 (eleven years ago)
in the same vein as tomahawk, this is the best app ive spent money on all year:
http://cloudplay.fm/
used to be cheaper, not sure when the guy raised the price.
― max, Monday, 17 June 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago)
whats the killer thing it does for you
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 17 June 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago)
being able to put soundclound + youtube + mp3s in my itunes library in one playlist
― max, Monday, 17 June 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago)
that i can listen to without having to keep a browser window open
― max, Monday, 17 June 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago)
what happens if a youtube or soundcloud goes down?
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 11:44 (eleven years ago)
hottness
― Euler, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago)
it skips itxp
― max, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago)
i tend to just download the soundclouds if i like them that much... youtube audios too on the v rare occasion they're otherwise unattainable
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:44 (eleven years ago)
128kbps webrips feel like such a defeat to add to my library, i like the idea of keeping it pure and streaming webstreams directly via an applayer
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago)
yeah exactly, prefer to just keep that shit in a casual menubar playlist till i can get my hands on a proper copy
― max, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago)
well yeah it's only a temporary measure. i'm no audiophile though granted
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago)
actually i don't really do libraries either so idk why i let my weird self stray into these discushes
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 13:02 (eleven years ago)
new iTunes update had me frustrated that you still can't open playlists up as windows, which I used to do all the time to move things around.
Discovered Swinsian, a lightweight iTunes replacement, that's pretty amazing. Using the trick of not just reading the iTunes library, but making my iTunes folder a watched folder, so anything I add to iTunes or buy shows up. It's quick and works pretty great.
― dan selzer, Friday, 20 September 2013 12:40 (eleven years ago)
Storyboarding software that lets me select tons of clipart - the more options the better? Storyboard That looks ok.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 5 October 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago)
hey bibliographic software users: is there any reason I shouldn't change the directory where Zotero keeps my pdfs to somewhere in the cloud? They're taking up too much space on my hard drive.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 23 January 2014 15:01 (eleven years ago)
The battery on my old laptop konked out and in the ensuing hand-wringing I fell into a couple Apple discussion board threads about MacBook Pro hyper-miling. School of thought says that keeping your laptop plugged in often could have negative effects on battery life, yadda, yadda. Anyway, folks recommended the silly-named http://fruitjuiceapp.com if you need something that tells you want to do about your battery.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 31 January 2014 10:39 (eleven years ago)
Ooh – I like the sound of that, given that my last battery needed servicing after about 300 cycles.
― Alba, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:57 (eleven years ago)
so guys, I'm looking for an app to clean up my iTunes music collection, maybe correcting tags and titles, with a special focus on getting missing album artwork. I've seen a few apps here and there but reviews are always quite negative and prices steep. Can anyone recommend something? CoverScout looks cool (fetches missing album artwork from a numebr of websites) but at 20 bucks, I'd like to make sure that ita ctually works as adverstised.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 11:17 (eleven years ago)
doesnt itunes do that automagically?
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:37 (eleven years ago)
it's supposed to - but it fails quite often.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:12 (eleven years ago)
I've never used it but know folk who swear by Jaikoz.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:23 (eleven years ago)
J'accuse
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:34 (eleven years ago)
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard
― caek, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:46 (eleven years ago)
i tried it. bit linuxy (i.e. awful UI), but pretty good at matching stuff. overview in podcast form at http://5by5.tv/b2w/104.
― caek, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:47 (eleven years ago)
Is there a program out there that isolates duplicate audio files but by their waveforms (or by some other clever device) and not metadata?
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 23:36 (eleven years ago)
Not that I'm aware of. I doubt that anything can match identical songs at different bit rates, etc.
http://www.lairware.com/songsergeant/ is a good one for library analysis
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 February 2014 03:02 (eleven years ago)
Thanks for the suggestion - I bought Jaikoz but so far I'm completely lost. Seems this is really way beyond my needs but I'll try to skim through the user manual.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 6 February 2014 08:19 (eleven years ago)
― MaresNest, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 6:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i bet this is possible but would take forever to analyze a 1000+ library
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 6 February 2014 15:30 (eleven years ago)
I guess Shazaam does this pretty quickly.
― Alba, Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:41 (eleven years ago)
Right now I'm loving Skip Tunes, a little hoonja doonja to control itunes, Spotify and Rdio from the menu bar.
― Taking Devil's Tower (by mashed potatoes) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 17:12 (eleven years ago)
Looking for a hoonja doonja that would automatically monitor my entire iPhoto library and sync it with Flickr (so far I've only found automatic uploaders of new photo files, which is not exactly the same thing).
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 7 March 2014 16:43 (eleven years ago)
I think there are plug-ins for Lightroom if you wanted to switch to Adobe. It's a far better program in many other ways.
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 March 2014 16:54 (eleven years ago)
Lightroom 4 has Flickr integration built in
― ugh (lukas), Friday, 7 March 2014 18:14 (eleven years ago)
OneNote for Mac is out. I know PC people that rave about this. http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/17/introducing-onenote-for-mac/
― stet, Monday, 17 March 2014 17:43 (eleven years ago)
plain text for my notesURLs to link to everything elsethat is all i want
almost there, just wish dropbox was smarter - if I click a URL and I'm on a machine with my files synced locally, just (somehow) open the file please
― ugh (lukas), Monday, 17 March 2014 18:12 (eleven years ago)
can't remember if I plugged it, but I've been using Wunderlist as my to-do program. It's the to-do program I've always wanted. And doing my taxes I realize I actually spent money on the Things app and desktop app, when it is totally useless compared to Wunderlist.
Nice simple layout, sub-tasks, sharing etc. Everything I need.
― dan selzer, Monday, 17 March 2014 18:39 (eleven years ago)
There are too many list apps!
― Nhex, Monday, 17 March 2014 18:41 (eleven years ago)
if only there was some way to keep track of them all
― eric banana (s.clover), Monday, 17 March 2014 18:47 (eleven years ago)
Just gonna throw my hands in the air, and use the free copy of Clear I downloaded at some point
― Nhex, Monday, 17 March 2014 18:51 (eleven years ago)
I just use apple reminders for lists.
― Jeff, Monday, 17 March 2014 19:02 (eleven years ago)
1. Wunderlist is better than all of those.2. That's all you need to know.
― dan selzer, Monday, 17 March 2014 19:30 (eleven years ago)
and maybe not so little, but after spending a good deal of time trying to figure out how to build my own database application for as little money and technical knowledge as possible, I found Zoho Creator. Within minutes I had built an online client and job tracking system. Not free, but cheaper than buying Filemaker and easier to use than anything else I tried.
― dan selzer, Monday, 17 March 2014 19:31 (eleven years ago)
FWIW, I'm using Apple reminders too. Don't need anything more than that.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 17 March 2014 19:54 (eleven years ago)
No sub-tasks though, right?
― dan selzer, Monday, 17 March 2014 20:10 (eleven years ago)
i use list apps and then i get too many to dos and then i abandon the app out of fear. this has happened more than once.
also i like trello a lot.
― eric banana (s.clover), Monday, 17 March 2014 20:15 (eleven years ago)
Trello is really great, yep.
This oneNote is quite nice, too. I hope the new outlook's like this.
― stet, Monday, 17 March 2014 21:44 (eleven years ago)
No. I don't have a need for that myself as I break everything out into separate task lists.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 17 March 2014 22:49 (eleven years ago)
https://usetorpedo.com/
― caek, Friday, 4 April 2014 16:23 (eleven years ago)
BetterTouchTool has been lifechanging.
― Jeff, Thursday, 26 June 2014 11:27 (ten years ago)
A few hours left for this. I got it for Fantastical (which is really nice so far) and Tangerine (which I'm hoping will help me make good BPM playlists for running. There are a few other decent-looking apps in there too. https://exclusives.macappdeals.com/sales/the-name-your-own-price-summer-productivity-bundle-ft-path-finder-fantastical
― Nhex, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 05:03 (ten years ago)
Sunrise Calendar. Syncs with Facebook events...but only imports events you've rsvpd yes or maybe to! I've wanted this for a LONG time.
― dan selzer, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:35 (ten years ago)
Vienna 3 finally out of beta. http://www.vienna-rss.org/?p=428
Highly recommend it for RSS reading.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 05:11 (ten years ago)
any thoughts on a good Mac or iOS way to turn voice recordings into text? Siri is pretty good at it in real time, but I want to be able to record myself talking for a while and then have software turn what I've said into text. this must be like the most obvious thing ever but I don't know what to look for! ideally I could do it on my iphone but talking to the laptop (or transferring a voice memo from my phone to my mac) is ok too.
basically sometimes I find myself teeming with well-organized thoughts but when I sit down to type them I get too psyched out by having to get those thoughts "just right" and I just want to let my thoughts ~flow~
(interviewers must have software like this, no?)
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 8 December 2014 17:29 (ten years ago)
Dragon is the standard in healthcare (for dictating clinical notes)
― gbx, Monday, 8 December 2014 18:01 (ten years ago)
Dragon seems to be the most popular name in the business, since they've been doing the speech-command thing for years, makes sense they got a handle on the reverse
― Nhex, Monday, 8 December 2014 20:36 (ten years ago)
Could just use the speech-to-text that's built into Yosemite: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18731
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 05:52 (ten years ago)
Oooh, didn't know about that
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 05:59 (ten years ago)
yeah maybe I could just play voice memos from my phone into yosemite that seems kinda 80s but maybe it'll do the trick
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 08:51 (ten years ago)
Be sure to post the results here: Read where you make your posts by using the microphone don't correct anything
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:51 (ten years ago)
i used to have a little app that lived in my menu bar and with which i could set a custom hourly (or other time period) reminder. it was clean and lightweight and for the life of my i cant find it again. anyone have anyidea???
― max, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:15 (ten years ago)
I used to use pomodoro timers which might be similar?
― 龜, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:26 (ten years ago)
nah, it wasnt a pomodoro branded thing at all, just something you'd set up to ping you once an hour or once every 45 minutes
― max, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:45 (ten years ago)
tinyalarm?
― woof, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:49 (ten years ago)
that's not it, but looks like it will work for my purposes. thanks.
― max, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:52 (ten years ago)
this was it http://lifehacker.com/5987547/remindmeagain-is-a-simple-reminder-app-that-lives-in-your-menubar
― max, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 13:15 (ten years ago)
no longer available!
― max, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 13:16 (ten years ago)
RIP remind me megan
― 龜, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 14:14 (ten years ago)
remind me (to drink) a gin
― Vote in the ILM EOY Poll! (seandalai), Thursday, 15 January 2015 00:20 (ten years ago)
http://flashlight.nateparrott.com/
― max, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 14:49 (ten years ago)
I think Vienna is just what I've been looking for.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:36 (ten years ago)
this means nothing to me
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:38 (ten years ago)
really means nothing to me with the App Store and itunes down right now ... friggin' stupid watch
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:39 (ten years ago)
It's an RSS reader. I've been having so much trouble with Chrome the last few days I want to ditch it, but there's an RSS extension for it that works exactly the way I like (RSS Live Links). But it's not supported anymore and is starting to act a little froggy, so I'm checking alternates. Elvis Telecom has plugged Vienna a couple of times upthread.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:49 (ten years ago)
bazqux is still the rss reader to rule them all imho (browser based, but whatever)
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:55 (ten years ago)
Feedbin ftw
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 20:16 (ten years ago)
oh man max thank you for flashlight
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:16 (ten years ago)
http://f.cl.ly/items/0u1r272u3s3o1Z062e3W/Screen%20Shot%202015-03-11%20at%2021.15.20.png
the very definition of hoonja doonja
flashlight totally didn't work for me. I uninstalled it right away.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:47 (ten years ago)
skim is the pdf reader for mac i have been looking for http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:51 (ten years ago)
what flashlight plugins do people suggest
if you don't already use spotlight on the reg it's maybe not handy but wtf you should be using spotlight on the reg
shutdowninstranslatorweather's not granular enough for the UKemojiremind me
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:16 (ten years ago)
yes or no is p sweet too
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:21 (ten years ago)
its really buggy and clearly cobbled together and not at all what spotlight is made for but i still prefer it to any of the app launchers and it just shows a bunch of ways apple should rethink spotlight, as a natural language
i use it for messaging, weather, translations, lorem ipsum, emoji... i would like to get it set up on slack for work, better calendar implementation, dictionary/thesaurus
― max, Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:07 (ten years ago)
oops didnt finish that sentence... as a natural language command line prompt
― max, Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:08 (ten years ago)
given what they're doing with search on iOS I'm pretty sure they'll get there
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:16 (ten years ago)
pfff natural language command prompt, learn zsh
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 20 March 2015 15:16 (ten years ago)
dan selzer are you still using swinsian?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 14 June 2015 21:38 (nine years ago)
No. I never fully switched over to it. It was something I was using now and again when I wanted to open multiple playlist windows like you used to be able to do in iTunes, back when I was partially making a living making playlists. Now I just suffer through iTunes. I'd switch over fully but i'm too entrenched in itunes.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 June 2015 23:08 (nine years ago)
Fluid (as someone who had 345 tabs open earlier this year, this is exactly what i need)Alfred (just starting with this, and linking it to trello, very good)HazelRubymineSublime (but am currently giving Atom a try)TrelloPostmanHyperdock
things i am currently trying
CodekitWunderlistAtom
― saer, Saturday, 19 September 2015 18:35 (nine years ago)
iStatistica has become my system monitor infographic display of choice: http://www.imagetasks.com/system-battery-network-monitor-widget/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 September 2015 20:56 (nine years ago)
Realizing i dont need codekit if im using gulp
― saer, Saturday, 19 September 2015 23:28 (nine years ago)
Fluid seems cool, but is there a way to keep it from using Safari as its default browser?
Tried to make a Gmail app, but it's using the Safari version instead of Chrome.
― pplains, Monday, 21 September 2015 14:48 (nine years ago)
I use mailplane instead of fluid or a browser:
http://mailplaneapp.com/
― dan selzer, Monday, 21 September 2015 15:01 (nine years ago)
...they charge $25 for that?
― Nhex, Monday, 21 September 2015 15:22 (nine years ago)
I'm not going to pay $25 to see alerts from my work email on my work computer.
They switched us all over to gmail for work, which is fine, but you have to be in Chrome to see the alerts. If you're in, say Photoshop or InDesign, you're not going to notice any incoming mail.
I wasn't crazy about Thunderbird, but at least it had that.
― pplains, Monday, 21 September 2015 15:30 (nine years ago)
25 bucks, sure. It's made my life a whole lot easier. Fluid SSBs can be buggy and frustrating. I was tired of losing my mail to various browser windows and just wanted gmail and not have to deal with imap and a different interface. Including alerts.
― dan selzer, Monday, 21 September 2015 16:42 (nine years ago)
Is that something your work has done....I get the alerts ok (after turning on desktop notifications)
― saer, Monday, 21 September 2015 16:50 (nine years ago)
If I'm missing something, do let me know, but it seems like it's more of a "browser notification" than a "desktop notification" system.
http://i.imgur.com/DcjEgc8.png
― pplains, Monday, 21 September 2015 16:59 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/Sytd2qp.jpg
I dont know, this was the only thing i changed!
― saer, Monday, 21 September 2015 17:36 (nine years ago)
What's it say when you click that "Learn more" link? That's where I got my available notifications.
I also use Spaces, so I don't know if that affects it or not.
― pplains, Monday, 21 September 2015 18:23 (nine years ago)
$25 for a webview seems a bit rich
couple of gmail-friendly recommendations here http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/favorite-email-client-os-x/
or https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/checker-plus-for-gmail/oeopbcgkkoapgobdbedcemjljbihmemj
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 21 September 2015 19:19 (nine years ago)
airmail is pretty good
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 21 September 2015 19:21 (nine years ago)
Well, I hat to skip lunch for a week to afford this useful app that I use every day all day long but in the end I don't regret a thing.
― dan selzer, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:30 (nine years ago)
f.lux
reduces blue light from your display during evening hours to lower eye strain and facilitate sleep
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 03:10 (nine years ago)
Two recent discoveries.
RightFont is a new font management program that is cheap and pretty lightweight compared to the big competitors (Suitcase, FontExplorerPro) but with that ease may be just simpler to use and has one key feature the other programs lack which is the ability to sync font libraries over dropbox or other cloud service. This is a big deal for me, but not sure if I'm ready to jump ship from the bigger/more pro FontExplorerPro.
Glyphs Mini is a cheap and super-easy typeface editor/creator program with a much easier learning curve than the big boys.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 05:42 (nine years ago)
apple building flux-like behaviour into the next ios http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/01/12/night-shift-in-ios-9-3/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 18:13 (nine years ago)
it's like my most used hoonja doonja so i don't know why i haven't posted it here before: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 18:14 (nine years ago)
didn't know notational velocity still had an updated fork. thanks!
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 18:46 (nine years ago)
well, updated in the last few years, that is
there are forks of that that are more active too
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 18:46 (nine years ago)
i want to be the kind of person who uses nvalt
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:02 (nine years ago)
very guilty of getting into one of these programs for a week, only to go back a year later and find two or three programs with a half-dozen scrawled notes each
workplace uses onenote and that is not bad, but again, organization is lacking in myself
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:03 (nine years ago)
the thing i like about nvalt is you don't have to be organized. it's just a shoe box full of notes on scrap paper, with a search function.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:31 (nine years ago)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, January 12, 2016 4:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha yes, i have a copy of it that is full of just the weirdest garbage --- i never really used it "properly" i don't think
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 23:07 (nine years ago)
yeah, f.lux is a good'un.still use xPad, holdover from the blue candy cane days. and probably will until an OS X update breaks it, but still kinda hoping something both better and simple comes out
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 01:35 (nine years ago)
Every once in awhile, I'll do something that resets f.lux for a sec and it's like my eyeballs are exposed to plasma.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 01:37 (nine years ago)
Yeah, my brain is telling me it's working...
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 03:19 (nine years ago)
https://github.com/Thomas101/wmail
"A Mac app wrapper around Google Inbox and GMail. Multiple account support, unread notifications and more. Makes using Google Mailboxes feel that little more native on osx."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 January 2016 13:31 (nine years ago)
why not just use a full-featured native mail app?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 January 2016 13:32 (nine years ago)
they don't exist any more?
(i just use gmail.com fwiw)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 January 2016 13:37 (nine years ago)
Pocket, for saving pages and reading later
Droplr/Lightshot for screenshot/screencasts
Jottacloud for cloud
only recently switched to Iterm (oh my zsh, but not tmux)
― saer, Thursday, 14 January 2016 13:39 (nine years ago)
second better touch tool from upthread. make up your own trackpad gestures, global or by program.
like for browser i do three finger swipe up to create tab, three down to close tab, three right or left to move between tabs, two left or right for back and forwards, etc.
facilitates sitting on one hand if it's cold where you compute.
― home organ, Thursday, 14 January 2016 14:05 (nine years ago)
Was that my recommendation? Yes, BTT is awesome. Anytime I'm on a mac without it, I basically can't function.
― Jeff, Thursday, 14 January 2016 14:28 (nine years ago)
yeah, if i'm on someone else's computer i feel like a dunce sitting there trying to tap one finger next to the other or whatever. i've lost track of what's native and what's BTT...
― home organ, Thursday, 14 January 2016 14:45 (nine years ago)
I've been a big fan of all2mp3 for some time, quick and easy way to convert downloaded WAVs to mp3s, but the new version is super shady. They say to upload you download an installer. That first installer has multiple invites to get you to load yahoo and some other nonsense. Skip all of that and it loads the regular installer. OK that doesn't seem too bad. Then when installing the update a page comes up that looks like your basic license page and "I agree" on the bottom, but if you look closer it's actually you agreeing to install some kind of monitoring software. I said "disagree" and it went to the next page to just install the basic software. Really questionable tactics.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 6 August 2016 16:56 (eight years ago)
you can use itunes to convert to mp3 fwiw (without using itunes for your library)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:30 (eight years ago)
I use itunes for my library. itunes is set to copy everything to the library, so I like to be able to make mp3s of wav files quickly before copying them into itunes. I have other tools that do this, this one is just the best.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:32 (eight years ago)
makes sense. my workflow is to import the wav into itunes, convert to mp3 (or whatever), and then option-delete the wav file's entry in itunes (which deletes the referenced wav file too). but fission is a non-sketchy tool if you want something separate.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:35 (eight years ago)
Max is great for mac
― 龜, Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:38 (eight years ago)
X Lossless Decoder will do this too: http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 6 August 2016 20:16 (eight years ago)
I know all the tools! I have fission and max. All2mp3 is the easiest and fastest.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 6 August 2016 21:31 (eight years ago)
no tool is worth all those hoops; stick with Max or XLD
― Nhex, Saturday, 6 August 2016 23:17 (eight years ago)
yeah fuck them for going that route
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/cert/2014/07/-bundled-software-and-attack-surface.html
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 August 2016 23:24 (eight years ago)
XLD is easy as hell, the only bad side being if you open a file for encoding it just uses your last setting, iirc
― mh, Sunday, 7 August 2016 03:12 (eight years ago)
I can see how it can do a lot of things, but if you haven't used all2mp3, it's totally different. It's drag and drop. Set it once. Drag a FLAC/WAV/AIFF etc onto the window, it makes the mp3 and deletes the WAV. Done. you can have it not delete the original as well but I like killing the original. XLD looks like Max and lacks the simplicity and speed of all2mp3
― dan selzer, Sunday, 7 August 2016 03:44 (eight years ago)
$ lame *.wav *.mp3
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 7 August 2016 04:28 (eight years ago)
yeah if you could make an applescript that basically does that plus deletes the wav then you'd have it right?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 7 August 2016 09:17 (eight years ago)
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=convertandreplace
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:27 (eight years ago)
thats neat but I'd rather have a freestanding app to be able to do it before iTunes.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 7 August 2016 19:28 (eight years ago)
if you're willing to install lame you can set up an action with automator, e.g. start from this and add a delete file step http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867/easily-convert-audio-files-to-mp3-on-mac-osx
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 7 August 2016 19:49 (eight years ago)
Not so little a hoonja-doonja, but: best free or cheap photo-organizing apps that outperform Photo (not hard, I guess)?
― ljubljana, Monday, 15 August 2016 16:24 (eight years ago)
http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-photo-management-solution/ has some ideas
but i use a mixture of lightroom and just the finder, which is fine for certain defns of "organizing"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 15 August 2016 16:38 (eight years ago)
Interested in how you mix using Lightroom and the Finder: I find that once you use LR you really need to avoid doing anything to do with photo management in Finder.
― Alba, Monday, 15 August 2016 17:28 (eight years ago)
yeah, they are independent "libraries". family photos goes in LR, specific projects go in directories (but that's only because i do more post stuff on family photos etc. than on work projects). i should probably just use LR for everything.
but don't underestimate the finder. for smallish libraries and with big preview icons it can do the job.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 15 August 2016 18:28 (eight years ago)
caek... praising finder... ?
― 龜, Monday, 15 August 2016 19:35 (eight years ago)
I like Lyn a lot for picture organizing - http://www.lynapp.com
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 20:20 (eight years ago)
ban the finder
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 20:22 (eight years ago)
thanks Elvis!
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 02:46 (eight years ago)
I am looking for some kind of collaborative mind-mapping / information-sharing / learning type tool, not quite sure what I would like it to do but I like Mindlyapp for Ios a lot, and imagine something like that but web based and more for collaborations or a small group of people to share. Any particular recommendations for something like this?
― saer, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 14:51 (eight years ago)
Mindlyapp is out for Mac now, I hadn't realised that. No collaboration stuff that I can see, unfortunately
― stet, Thursday, 8 December 2016 12:06 (eight years ago)
What are people doing for to-do lists/task managers etc? Once Wunderlist added sub-tasks I was really happy with it and it was the only one I liked. Now it's being killed so I'm looking at alternatives. Test-driving Todoist, Things 3 and Any.do and pretty much hate them all.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 August 2017 16:37 (seven years ago)
I used Trello for a short while. It's good, but I found that I generally don't have big TODO-lists (except at work, where we use Jira and Youtrack. I greatly prefer the latter) so now I simply use a piece of paper...
― Rimsky-Koskenkorva (Øystein), Sunday, 6 August 2017 17:40 (seven years ago)
what's happening to wunderlist?
― The XX pants (ledge), Sunday, 6 August 2017 17:45 (seven years ago)
nm found ithttps://www.wunderlist.com/blog/your-preview-of-microsoft-to-do/
― The XX pants (ledge), Sunday, 6 August 2017 18:17 (seven years ago)
I got into OmniFocus for some time, but now I just use macOS' own Reminders app and a sheet of paper.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 August 2017 18:42 (seven years ago)
Stuff like trello is too project management task oriented
I may try building my own in Airtable. If you haves used Airtable it's the diy database spreadsheet we've been waiting for.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 August 2017 19:15 (seven years ago)
i use omnifocus. i love it
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 August 2017 19:17 (seven years ago)
I'll check that out again. I remember thinking it was more than I needed.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 August 2017 19:53 (seven years ago)
it's carefully put together as a product, not bloatware like evernote or something, but it is "professional" software so it may be. it also forces you to manage your todo lists in a certain way, which may not be your cup of tea. also it's $$$. it's the best though imo.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:26 (seven years ago)
i use things 3 for basic daily to-dos like chores and stuff
i use omnifocus for tracking complicated work projects
the one task manager i tried but didn't like was todo
― the late great, Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:49 (seven years ago)
i wonder what you don't like about things 3, dan.
i will say that omnifocus is definitely the most intuitive in terms of just entering things and moving them around, but it has a lot of options. too many options.
― the late great, Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:51 (seven years ago)
I use a notebook and the "bullet journal" method and it definitely works for me
― gbx, Sunday, 6 August 2017 21:17 (seven years ago)
something about the way Things 3 depends on "lists" and tags bugs me, kind of similar complaint re todoist. looking again, I can get Things to work pretty much like Wunderlist but not completely. It was really perfect. Each list in wunderlist has multiple To-Dos. Each To-Do has subtasks, notes, files, comments due date etc.
So for me lists were things like Work, and the to-dos were specific projects, and the subtasks were the details and also a place to keep notes and attachments.
In things The todos can have notes and checklists, which is kind of like a subtask I guess.
I just downloaded omnifocus and I think it's probably way more than I need but I'm curious so I'll check it out.
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 August 2017 00:10 (seven years ago)
just when I get excited to give Things another go it keeps crashing.
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 August 2017 00:28 (seven years ago)
I replaced Wunderlist with Remember The Milk, after a while with Todoist. They're pretty close, but if I wasn't also using Windows suspect I'd be with Things
― stet, Monday, 7 August 2017 01:07 (seven years ago)
I use 5iler. It's basically just a text editor, in your browser, or as a Mac app. It's customisable and syncs cross-platform through Dropbox. It's not snazzy in the least but that's why I like it.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 7 August 2017 15:01 (seven years ago)
my work group was doing well with project tracking until we all nearly completely stopped using it after our last project cycle ended. I've created maybe a couple work items, but that's about it
this isn't a mac question but while we're on the tracking topic, does anything really integrate with Jira or should I just get better at creating my own views?
― mh, Monday, 7 August 2017 15:04 (seven years ago)
5Iler looks cool, not what I need though. Similarly, used to have Notational Velocity which is great, but got confusing when an alt version was made.
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 August 2017 15:33 (seven years ago)
nv hasn't been updated for like 6 years, so it's no longer confusing.
(although i am a bit nervous at the slow pace of updates on nvalt. i think they had trouble making it work for the last macos release.)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 August 2017 15:44 (seven years ago)
i'm glad I didn't stick with it then!
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 August 2017 16:01 (seven years ago)
wasn't omnifocus bundled with OSX back in the powerPC days?
― 龜, Monday, 7 August 2017 16:12 (seven years ago)
apple bundled a bunch of omni apps with the more pro models (powerbook, not ibook) but I think it would have been omnioutliner because omnifocus maybe came later
― mh, Monday, 7 August 2017 16:32 (seven years ago)
the omni guys had some of the better os x apps in the early days because they had written software for nextstep
I still use omnigraffle as my main drawing program---it's good for the kind of math figures I need
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 7 August 2017 16:40 (seven years ago)
Not Mac specific, but if we're talking about to-do lists and gtd (ugh) apps, I like https://ticktick.com enough to pay for it.
― Dan I., Monday, 7 August 2017 16:58 (seven years ago)
In conjunction with a todo.txt
― Dan I., Monday, 7 August 2017 16:59 (seven years ago)
sorry, used 'conjunction' incorrectly. You know what I mean, though
― Dan I., Monday, 7 August 2017 17:00 (seven years ago)
wasn't omnifocus bundled with OSX back in the powerPC days?― 龜, Monday, August 7, 2017 12:12 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 龜, Monday, August 7, 2017 12:12 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no iirc a demo of omnioutliner was.
omnifocus came out of someone writing an insane amount of applescript to turn OO into a task manager. that package of scripts was called kinklessGTD (lol).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:05 (seven years ago)
sold
― 龜, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:07 (seven years ago)
TickTick looks p neat. Though I always have to laugh at the "it only costs a cup of coffee per month" advertising. It always makes me think: "Well, if you put it that way, I'll take the coffee."
Will try the free version.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:13 (seven years ago)
https://shawnblanc.net/2014/03/history-of-omnifocus-for-mac/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:14 (seven years ago)
Just switched from ticktick to Trello--WAY better, but I'm afraid of Atlassian shutting it down some day!
Trello's so much better I feel like I just rebooted my entire life
― Dan I., Wednesday, 27 September 2017 16:52 (seven years ago)
> anybody run xscreensaver on their mac? if so, how does the gleidescope module look?> Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 10:04 (eleven years ago)
I now have a Mac at work and can answer my own question. It looks OK. The way he's implemented the image picker means you can't use the hidden option to get it to generate geometric shapes for you (and i can't find a file that would let you specify options manually). But pointed at a folder full of nice Bosch images it's fine.
― koogs, Thursday, 28 September 2017 04:50 (seven years ago)
(btw, I get a script busy warning when opening the fold in this thread, something about link skimmer. Sounds a bit suspect)
― koogs, Thursday, 28 September 2017 04:52 (seven years ago)
I've been using Thunderbird for years to manage work and personal email accounts (both gmail), but it's getting really slow. What is everyone's preferred email client for Mac? Should I go with Inbox?
― WilliamC, Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:30 (seven years ago)
Airmail is pretty decent
Probably challops but if I had to make a decision today I'd start with the built-in mail client for a while and then ditch it if it's not a good fit
― mh, Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:35 (seven years ago)
Yeah Mail works fine.
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:37 (seven years ago)
As a gmail user I still just use mailplane.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:03 (seven years ago)
I haven't uninstalled Go for Gmail yet. Doesn't mean there's not something better out there.
Looking for something that only shows desktop notifications for mail in my primary gmail folder. And oh, those notifications must be able to span my half-dozen spaces, not just the one the app is running in.
― pplains, Thursday, 26 October 2017 18:01 (seven years ago)
Being using Spark, I like it for managing personal accounts
― Nhex, Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:16 (seven years ago)
i've finally gotten off my lazy ass and installed a password manager (dashlane, in my case). it is a pain in the ass to go through all of my passwords and change them and synch them up, but so far i feel like dashlane is making it about as easy as it can be.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 9 December 2017 22:18 (seven years ago)
anyone else use it? if so, i'm wondering what happens when the 30-day free trial ends (i know i'll be able to keep using the desktop/chrome extension as normal, but it'll stop syncing with my iphone? but if does that, won't that mean that i'll be totally screwed whenever trying to enter any password on my phone?)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 9 December 2017 22:20 (seven years ago)
Why did you choose Dashlane instead of more well-known ones like LastPass, KeePass, AssPass etc? What made you settle on this one? Asking for "a friend".
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 9 December 2017 22:27 (seven years ago)
honestly i just read read a little bit of the recently published WIRED set of articles on security (https://www.wired.com/2017/12/digital-security-guide/), and in the password manager article they hyped dashlane, 1password, and lastpass. of the three, dashlane seemed to have the best "free" plan, and was the only one of the three that seemed practical to use for free in perpetuity. i might be wrong about that, though - that's why i was unsure about how it syncs up with my iphone after the 30-day period passes. if it turns out that i do have to pay, though, it's only a few dollars a month. i'm happy to add that small amount to my VPN monthly payment to give me a little peace of mind.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 9 December 2017 22:33 (seven years ago)
btw is AssPass real? looooool
for some reason i always quote "the password is assward" like it's from some famous movie or something, but now it's happening in real life!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 9 December 2017 22:34 (seven years ago)
I don’t feel like mingling my work and home ones so I use Apple’s stuff at home and my group has a shared keepass one at work pro tip: apple doesn’t have a standalone password lookup app on iOS but it’s in the settings app
― mh, Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:14 (seven years ago)
With great regret I have to inform you AssPass is not real (yet!), rather a figment of my questionable imagination. But if you want to B in BzNzz, I'm positive that as partners we can get billions of $$ in S1l1c0n V4ll3Y for our amazing start up.
"At AssPass, we care about security. That's why we don't store all your passwords in some silly crypto-code thingy (lol nerds), but in a place where no-one will ever find them, let alone hack it: in our asses. Your passwords will be drinking tequila's by the pool and having a blast playing Marco Polo with other safe passwords, all secure and tranquil, in the one place where the sun never shines. AssPass: We really take security seriously. We take your passwords in the ass."
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:25 (seven years ago)
"We put the ASS in password" probably a better tag line
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:27 (seven years ago)
(ty for the wired link for real btw :)
loooool
you'd think i'd raise an eyebrow at AssPass, but no, seemed legit to me!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:54 (seven years ago)
I use 1Password and more or less endorse it. I don’t have a subscription though; I bought full versions of Mac and iOS apps before that was a thing.
― .oO (silby), Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:23 (seven years ago)
i have 1passwd too and it is great, or at least it was until a recent version wanted me to sign up for some cloud thing that i totally didn't want but seemingly had to use in order to get it working on my work computer, but i managed to install an older version (6 i think) and now it works just fine w/my dropbox like it always did and yeah, no subscription. i got kinda shook by the weirdo cloud rigamarole thing though
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:56 (seven years ago)
Hey, I have a somewhat basic Mac IT question, but does anyone know if the new OS is okay for a 2012 Macbook?
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 10 December 2017 19:37 (seven years ago)
I'm using it on a 2011 mini so I'd expect so
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 December 2017 20:55 (seven years ago)
i like dashlane - as you say, Karl, it seems about as easy as these things get to be... HOWEVER am examining my options now that the free has expired
what turns off is the "sync" which synchronizes your devices' password lists. so each device still has the same password list as when the "free 30 days" expired - but if you change/add a password on one device, you have to manually add/edit it on your other devices. it's a clever thing to force you to pay for - didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but i now recognize how annoying it is to go without it.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 11 December 2017 02:26 (seven years ago)
:-/ that's what i was afraid of! so basically, after 30 days, if you added/changed a password on your laptop and had dashlane generated a strong unique one like v#m.g)nm29]|, then then you'd have to either manually enter than in on your iphone or copy and paste it from your laptop to your phone (which seems less than completely secure)?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 11 December 2017 03:45 (seven years ago)
yes :(
― sean gramophone, Monday, 11 December 2017 16:59 (seven years ago)
good lord, how many typos can a post have? sorry about that, i was apparently typing in a hurricane!
thanks for confirming, sean! in my quest to never pay for anything, i think my plan is to update all of my passwords on mobile/laptop during this 30-day time of plenty, and then just deal with the occasional headache of adding or changing a new password afterward.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:14 (seven years ago)
Another vote for 1password - paid version, using iCloud to sync.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 15 December 2017 01:37 (seven years ago)
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:17 (seven years ago)
is there a hoonja doonja for connecting or choosing between which of the various bluetooth enabled appliances around the flat? there must be an easier way than going into settings all the time.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 18:07 (seven years ago)
the bluetooth icon in your top menubarif not there you can enable it in settings
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 18:10 (seven years ago)
sorry, i meant on a phone.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 20:42 (seven years ago)
if it’s for audio the audio player should have the little icon to pick where to send it. other devices, good luck :/
― mh, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 20:47 (seven years ago)
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 20:51 (seven years ago)
urp, apparently i was running ssX in emulation on 10.6.8, because upgrading to high sierra has ruined it. is there any good slsk client for an intel-based os x besides soulseekQT?
― j., Saturday, 28 July 2018 03:49 (six years ago)
What’s wrong with qt?
― calstars, Saturday, 28 July 2018 08:43 (six years ago)
dunno i haven't gotten it yet i guess the idea of being forced into the only possible alternative seemed grim, i remember the clients that were not ssX being pretty bad
― j., Saturday, 28 July 2018 17:19 (six years ago)
QT works better than any other client I've had
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 28 July 2018 17:35 (six years ago)
i just don't like change ok
― j., Saturday, 28 July 2018 18:14 (six years ago)
it's clunky looking but works like greased lightning
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 July 2018 09:22 (six years ago)
it's the Millennium Falcon of OS X Soulseek clients.
― Alba, Sunday, 29 July 2018 09:24 (six years ago)
it is!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 July 2018 10:04 (six years ago)
I use backblaze and pretty happy with it though wish it could just accept that I don't plug in my external hard drive for months at a time
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 29 July 2018 13:29 (six years ago)
While we're griping, I really wish I could have my external HD eject as soon as Time Machine does its thing. For now it's plug into external monitor/hub, then hope I remember to eject the drive once backup is finished but before I unplug from the monitor.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:19 (six years ago)
gonna try to master this multi-touch gesture:
Show desktopSpread your thumb and three fingers apart to show your desktop.
― j., Friday, 16 November 2018 05:29 (six years ago)
i always forget about that one
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 November 2018 05:33 (six years ago)
will try the spaces-revealer (four fingers up) too, but that means i will have to make a habit of using extra desktop spaces. i started by setting one to have its own background picture!
still enjoying having a new mac, feeling ~blessed~
― j., Friday, 16 November 2018 05:49 (six years ago)
- which, once you are using, also makes four fingers right / left useful too, for swiping between spaces (and the dashboard lol)
― j., Friday, 16 November 2018 05:51 (six years ago)
had to go back to gesture school after one too many accidental pinch-zooms in safari (which gives preview-overviews of all open tabs)
to think, the first computer my family owned had a special key just to get keystrokes to repeat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_Plus#Repeat_key
― j., Friday, 16 November 2018 05:57 (six years ago)
i mean it's kind of useless to me to be able to reveal the desktop now since i have gone from having 4000 files on my desktop to having zero, but still, good to know it's there, so empty and clean
― j., Friday, 16 November 2018 06:03 (six years ago)
i use the launcher gesture all the time. it still gives me a little minority report thrill.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 November 2018 08:34 (six years ago)
i have the bottom right corner set up as show desktop. the corner hotspots are great because they work while you're dragging a file (unlike gestures). i use it a lot to drag files from browsers, etc. to the desktop without needing to hide windows.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:49 (six years ago)
You mean you don't always have a .5cm square of desktop on, err, which corner is it today, that you drag things to??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 November 2018 16:26 (six years ago)
ha!
you have to sort by date modified on desktop imo. then the most recent nonsense is always top right. and with that hot corner, bottom right shows the whole shitshow.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 November 2018 17:28 (six years ago)
http://proofficecalculator.com
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 23:52 (six years ago)
hmm…don't trust it
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 6 December 2018 06:02 (six years ago)
that was my reaction - bitcoin miner, bot need, what is it?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 6 December 2018 06:04 (six years ago)
PCalc 4 life
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 December 2018 06:17 (six years ago)
― gbx, Thursday, 6 December 2018 06:31 (six years ago)
what's wrong with the default one
― j., Thursday, 6 December 2018 07:08 (six years ago)
no RPN no credibility
― gbx, Thursday, 6 December 2018 08:19 (six years ago)
RPN all the way. Using the HP theme for full effect.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 December 2018 10:24 (six years ago)
i was a math major but i could just never get with rpn
― j., Thursday, 6 December 2018 10:52 (six years ago)
huh, interesting. i was viewing a pdf in preview, and outside of that i updated the underlying file and generated a new pdf for it, and preview automatically redrew the newest version. wouldn't have thought it would do that.
― j., Monday, 10 December 2018 23:40 (six years ago)
it does do that, very useful for TeX things.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 10 December 2018 23:44 (six years ago)
Search box is my calculator
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 10 December 2018 23:44 (six years ago)
lol yes it me
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:08 (six years ago)
someone described Pro Office Calculator as the Frog Fractions of calculators. if that sentence is not gibberish to you, it may be worth playing around with
― orifex, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:28 (six years ago)
hmmm. so it's NOT really a calculator, you're saying
― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 01:52 (six years ago)
i mean, it DOES work as a calculator, for a while
― orifex, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:22 (six years ago)
the finder sorts numbers in filenames in a natural-language order now!
e.g.
123456707891011
― j., Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:12 (six years ago)
Didn’t it always?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:38 (six years ago)
huh i guess the internet says it's been there since 10.0, which would mean i should have noticed it before 10.14. but i came up on system 7 and unix and got used a long time ago to prefixing the filenames i wanted to sort right with 0s
― j., Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:43 (six years ago)
i'm still getting so much delight out of my time-warp OS upgrade, what a wonderful life
apple does this according to a sanctioned alternative of the UNICODE COLLATION ALGORITHM
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/123174
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemDetails/FileSystemDetails.html
― j., Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:47 (six years ago)
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― Karl Malone, Thursday, November 15, 2018 11:33 PM (one month ago)
i already forgot it
― j., Friday, 4 January 2019 03:39 (six years ago)
same
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 January 2019 04:34 (six years ago)
yet here i am doing it now, thinking about useful it would be
i still use fingers-together for launcher and feel like a boss every time
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 January 2019 08:40 (six years ago)
best reminder app for macos? like something that can just flash up the word "posture" every 30 minutes
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 09:23 (six years ago)
i have settled on Time Out - it's v good
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:51 (six years ago)
DENTAL PLAN
― j., Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:44 (six years ago)
i just excitedly searched the app store for "dental plan"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:36 (six years ago)
saxamaphone, $3.99, reminder app but only for telling to get the reeds for the thingy that your daughter plays
― j., Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:08 (six years ago)
my new coworker uses Time Out to trigger breaks, seems like there's a lot of configuration you can twiddle depending on your behavior-modification needs
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:16 (six years ago)
bah Time Out wants me to pay a subscription SORRY MY DUDE THAT IS NOT THE WAY OF THE HOONJA DOONJA
playing around with these pomodoro things to see if i can make one work for what i want
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 January 2019 10:06 (six years ago)
If you spend most of your time in a browser there’s probably an extension that does this
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 25 January 2019 15:46 (six years ago)
Stand up! https://getstandapp.com
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 January 2019 21:55 (six years ago)
Maybe this is the hoonja-doonja Tracer Hans is looking for.
https://www.uprightpose.com/en-au/
Of course it’s probably going to tell Facebook you are slouching.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 25 February 2019 09:10 (six years ago)
hoonja doonjas must be software only!!
Chris i think yours is exactly what i'm looking for
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 February 2019 10:24 (six years ago)
xp what kinda dark angel fuckin shit is that?!?
― j., Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:35 (six years ago)
Beta of Reeder 4 is out https://beta.reeder.ch
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 22:43 (six years ago)
I love Reeder; fantastic app
― stet, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 22:44 (six years ago)
is it better than instapaper?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:43 (six years ago)
Free trial of Rhino 3D
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:49 (six years ago)
reeder is a feed reader, whereas instapeper aiui is still a bookmark/offline reader for articles you have already found and want to bookmark or read.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 14 March 2019 08:50 (six years ago)
Although the latest version seems to have some Instapaper-like functionality too
― stet, Thursday, 14 March 2019 10:12 (six years ago)
got it
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2019 11:33 (six years ago)
I stopped using instapaper for Pocket after instapaper stopped working well. Pocket is way better.
I use reeder on my phone but find Feedbin so good that I just do all my feed reading via browser.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 March 2019 11:34 (six years ago)
instapaper works now, fwiwi tried pocket for a few months during the great data protection fail that felled instapaper but several times it grabbed just the first few grafs of a story, which was just enraging
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2019 11:41 (six years ago)
I didn't like it as much but w/ both apps I usually just link to the original anyway. Pockets saving and integration with other things and everything is good. At first I hated it, but now I don't regret dropping instapaper.
But if people haven't tried Feedbin, it's killer. It syncs with Reeder so I use Reeder on the iphone. If Feedbin made a native app it'd own.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:23 (six years ago)
Pretty happy with Inoreader. Their native app is pretty good but I’ll always stick with Reeder. The only feature I’ve ever missed is the ability to sync unread items beyond one month (but I guess the problem is with the aggregator not the reader)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 14 March 2019 16:06 (six years ago)
Just as another data point (I may have mentioned this elsewhere), but when Reeder was languishing I switched to News Explorer and haven't switched back.https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 16 March 2019 23:17 (six years ago)
Does that have a central backend or does it poll each RSS feed individually and locally? Because that's the old NNW model and I never want to return to that
― stet, Monday, 18 March 2019 13:41 (six years ago)
still v happy with bazqux for all my feed management (with reeder for phone) tho i like the reeder 4 beta.
― Fizzles, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:10 (six years ago)
I'm still on the hunt for the perfect solution for news/feed-reading. Fear my preferred method isn't available yet. I had to google "bazqux" after you namedropped it just now, Fizzles. It did not disappoint tbh:
Not free, not freemiumBeing paid service reader updates feeds of paying and trial users only. It doesn’t get rate limited by site owners for fetching millions of free users feeds and updates your feeds in time. It designed for the needs of paying clients not for the nice screenshots and reviews. And you get real customer support here.And we all know—free readers close.
Being paid service reader updates feeds of paying and trial users only. It doesn’t get rate limited by site owners for fetching millions of free users feeds and updates your feeds in time. It designed for the needs of paying clients not for the nice screenshots and reviews. And you get real customer support here.
And we all know—free readers close.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 March 2019 22:18 (six years ago)
I was gonna say that newsreader app reminds me of NetNewsWire... which apparently went back to the original developer last year and will be open source and free again?? What a world.
― Nhex, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:40 (six years ago)
Baxqux is the business. And is like Pinboard in being happy with what it is, too
― stet, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:49 (six years ago)
It's using iCloud for syncing and polling individually. Bazqux was never able to process a password-protected feed for me, which meant that I had to put those in Vienna - anyway, once News Explorer settled down it works great and syncs with my phone. Few apps support password-protected feeds, but it's a 100% must need for me.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 March 2019 08:43 (six years ago)
are there any websites that observe dark mode settings in line with the 10.14.4 update?
― j., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:22 (six years ago)
oh i guess this guy's does it, not that you're gonna wanna be looking at his website a lot
https://kevinchen.co/blog/support-macos-mojave-dark-mode-on-websites/
― j., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:24 (six years ago)
Guys help me!
I used to have a hj that added the URL of a downloaded file (usually an image) automatically to its COMMENTS - visible when you "get info" and turns up in Spotlight search obv
does this ring a bell for you guys? does this still exist??
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:03 (six years ago)
This works by default in Chrome and Safari, you get a "Where From" in the Info window. But testing now it only seems to be certain file types, like DMGs, and not images etc. I wonder if they've changed that, istr it worked in the past.
― stet, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 22:09 (six years ago)
tracer you're not seriously trying to pass hj off as the abbreviation for hoonja-doonja
what would your mother think
the 'where from' url is part of the file's metadata, so anything that chooses to write that to that will do the same. i looked at my downloads and found that firefox also will, even for videos yoinked with a downloader extension, which is kind of lol because the url it records is from the underlying cdn rather than the meaningful-to-me page source, and does not seem like all that stable a thing
far as i can see images get tagged too
funny that when you print a web page to pdf it doesn't record the url since the file is not 'downloaded', but since the content is 'printed' it gets a copy of the url at the bottom of every page (if your print settings are still set that way)
― j., Wednesday, 17 April 2019 23:27 (six years ago)
lol i had a feeling i might get called out for "hj"
bah i use opera
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 April 2019 13:59 (six years ago)
i noticed the hj, and i have to say...i liked it
:-o
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 18 April 2019 15:47 (six years ago)
Who doesn’t like a good hj I ask you
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 April 2019 00:32 (six years ago)
you people are sickening
― j., Friday, 19 April 2019 01:39 (six years ago)
hj? fp
― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Friday, 19 April 2019 07:15 (six years ago)
I have a large list of people and their various availabilities. I want some software to reconcile this list into 3/4 dates where various meetings can be held. I’d need to tell it what people are needed at which meeting because there will be some crossover
are there any hoonja doonjas for this
― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 08:37 (six years ago)
i wish there were trackpad gestures for a) hiding an app (not minimizing, command-H hiding) and b) opening a new finder window upon switching to the desktop
― j., Wednesday, 8 May 2019 01:52 (six years ago)
I really want to meet someone who's a true trackpad gesture wizard - five-finger expand, the works - and find out what exactly what they're using Mission Control for.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:54 (six years ago)
xp bettertouchtool is worth every penny
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:56 (six years ago)
oh, what you'd expect. seeing all the windows when there are lots of them. and occasionally i guess it technically shows up when i'm dragging a window up to the spaces bar, although i mostly just leave two spaces open, plus the dashboard space, and side-swipe between them, without ever needing to move the windows that i permanently keep in them.
now expose, the three-finger downward swipe, for only the front app's open windows, is the one i never use. i guess for some things it might be marginally more useful - some apps like vlc show open windows and also a row of recent files opened, which would be there even without open windows.
― j., Wednesday, 8 May 2019 03:03 (six years ago)
xp hm that's pretty good. once annoyance of setting up a 'hide' gesture is that you then prevent the mission control gesture from helping you get back from it, since mission control shows visible, not hidden, windows. i made a different gesture to bring up the command-tab application switcher, but that's not quite the same. not as fluid.
― j., Wednesday, 8 May 2019 04:09 (six years ago)
i find keyboard shortcuts faster because you don't have to move as far. the two gestures i use are exceptions where that's not true. one hot corner is lock screen which i most often want to do when i'm already standing/walking away from my desk, so just throwing the pointer to the corner is easier than a kb shortcut. another hot corner is show desktop which i most often do when i'm already dragging a file.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 04:47 (six years ago)
so you can already see some files but not others and you pop over to a corner onto the way to wherever the destination has been hiding?
i have always been a big application hider, with the keyboard or by option-clicking, but when i'm not actively using the keyboard for much, the surplus of ways to navigate in and between my usual applications with gestures, and less clicking than there used to be, makes the need to use a keyboard shortcut to hide stick out. really even having to mouse over to the dock to bring a hidden app back to the front demands excessive precision, by comparison (maybe a sign that i should dial up the magnification or something).
maybe i can rig up a bring-last-front-app-to-front gesture, i haven't played much with the BTT settings yet
― j., Wednesday, 8 May 2019 05:02 (six years ago)
cmd-tab brings a hidden application back fwiw.
the show desktop hot corner is useful when i'm dragging a file from somewhere and i want to dump it on the desktop (or i want to drag a file from the desktop), but the desktop is covered with other apps and obscured. that's pretty much the only use case for me.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 05:15 (six years ago)
haha oh dur right so i can use BTT to send a keyboard command
ah, i used to have files all over and care about actual drop locations on the desktop, but now i barely keep anything there and use stacks anyway
― j., Wednesday, 8 May 2019 05:26 (six years ago)
btw IINA is the best general purpose media player on the Mac currently, suitable replacement for NicePlayer
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:22 (five years ago)
https://iina.io
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:23 (five years ago)
what's the catch
― j., Monday, 24 June 2019 17:27 (five years ago)
it crashes sometimes if you click too much but it's getting better I think
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:28 (five years ago)
also the default setting when you open a file from the filesystem is to add all the other media from that folder to the playlist, but you can turn that off
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:29 (five years ago)
i dunno man doesn't sound like a sweet deal, might stick with my combo of vlc and quicktime player
― j., Monday, 24 June 2019 17:37 (five years ago)
RIP
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:44 (five years ago)
what can i say i love 2 click
― j., Monday, 24 June 2019 18:57 (five years ago)
I was being a bit glib, I think the crashes I occasionally get are more likely from trying to open streams and something being buggy. Anyway it's good
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 24 June 2019 19:15 (five years ago)
looks like a cool vlc alternative
I think I'm nearly sold on plex as my "media I own" manager :/
― mh, Monday, 24 June 2019 19:22 (five years ago)
Don’t have a reason to switch from vlc, not sure what more I need in a media player than to just play everything that I throw at it, which it does.
― calstars, Monday, 24 June 2019 19:22 (five years ago)
Thinking about plex and a new Mac mini
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 24 June 2019 19:54 (five years ago)
Whenever the urge for new hardware comes along, my motto is “do it”
― calstars, Monday, 24 June 2019 19:57 (five years ago)
I have a few hard drives of accumulated music going back a few years. Any tips for a mac application that will delve into the folders and subfolders and just list out all the files?
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:55 (five years ago)
you should be able to just do that with finder, searching ".mp3" (or whatever else), right?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:59 (five years ago)
in the terminal:
find path/to/music/folder -type f
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:03 (five years ago)
Yeah zs that was what I thought at first! Then just export the filenames from finder to text/csv?
I tried your route silby but I'm not very literate with terminal so i don't know how to find 'my big fat drive' but thank you.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:06 (five years ago)
yeah, it's even easier than that! you can just command+A to select all the search results, than paste it into textedit, excel, whatever
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:09 (five years ago)
before the command silby gave you do
cd /Volumes/my\ big\ fat\ drive
and then just give the path in silby's command relative to the folder structure of the drive (say, if there were a folder called 'music' containing everything you wanted to search, you'd just type 'music' at the place where silby specified a path). you can actually do it all at once in one big path once you know the path.
― j., Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:14 (five years ago)
in a terminal
type "find " (i.e. find with a space)*drag* the big fat drive to the terminaltype " -type f"hit return
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:20 (five years ago)
magic!
― j., Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:24 (five years ago)
Thank you j. and silby and KM, it worked!
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:25 (five years ago)
Now I'm going to try caek's trick...
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:26 (five years ago)
Dr Caek the potion is working...
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:29 (five years ago)
oh yeah dragging from Finder to Terminal in macOS is great
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:39 (five years ago)
thanks to the kind souls who patched over my grognard suggestions
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:40 (five years ago)
32-bit apocalypse is finally upon us
still hoping someone remakes Tangerine and xPad
― Nhex, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 22:38 (five years ago)
I’m guessing I have a bunch of VSTs that are 32-bit so no upgrade for me.
― DJI, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 22:57 (five years ago)
I need SwiftUI for my current work so I went all in on Catalina on day one. So far so good - I’d planned well in advance for the switchover. All of my audio software survived and, as expected, my SDR stuff on macports is completely borked. I unsubscribed from Adobe a couple months ago and switched to Affinity. Good riddance.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 23:09 (five years ago)
the new security standards are messing with an un-notarized (?) math app dependent upon calls to other apps like python which themselves expect security authorization, which i am too distracted to fix but i don't need the app for anything anyway.
other than that, fine i guess. the music UI is juuuuust a touch disconcertingly different—can't remember quite how i had things arranged in song browsing before but a bunch of it was not migrated with the rest of my settings, and the new defaults leave a lot of info turned off—and the in-finder ipod syncing seems cruftier though nearly the same operation. migration was mostly frictionless although with the silent switch away from xml library format it seems the thing has become determined to re-download all artwork, and it elected to re-sync devices from scratch, presumably to match something about the change in library format. itunes scripts were not migrated—haven't checked yet to see if maybe they would still operate if moved appropriately, though i suppose their code probably targets itunes by name.
i think something undid my tweaked display color profile, but i'm not messing with it to be sure.
the boot drive has silently been separated from the rest and made read-only, i had some app making a reference to the usually-concealed data partition the other day, but it operated ok. i read that firefox might require full disk authorization for similar reasons, though it hasn't complained to me.
i had a few files separated out as 'relocated items' on my desktop after installation, but the readme the installer dropped in with them did not really do much to explain why they violated security settings—an automator workflow and launch agent among them, which makes sense, but also some sort of font-related junk, who knows what it used to even be for.
― j., Wednesday, 9 October 2019 23:53 (five years ago)
I am updating now and expecting everything MacPorts related to be borked. QGIS I am hoping will be ok but that seems to be a pretty vain hope.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 10 October 2019 01:48 (five years ago)
Everything went swimmingly, nothing broke managed to recompile Mac ports and then ......
rsync is borked. Bad CPU type in executable which I presume means that I have a 32bit version lurking somewhere
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:37 (five years ago)
just out of interest, why are you using macports rather than homebrew?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:11 (five years ago)
Historical reasons, it does what I need. Also what is Homebrew?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 10 October 2019 04:51 (five years ago)
It’s what everyone uses instead of macports and has been for 5 years at least. https://brew.sh/ It’s good! It has a big community, it keeps up with upstream, fixes things quickly etc. If macports works for you maybe don’t worry about.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 05:14 (five years ago)
When I last tried Homebrew I hit a brick wall trying to build some GNUradio plug-ins. Might be fine now, but my head is standardized on a macports.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:52 (five years ago)
FWIW, I think the criticisms of Homebrew here are valid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19783624
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:56 (five years ago)
homebrew is slow as hell and has some surprising dependency chains, it's now my third choice after appified distributions and native installers
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:32 (five years ago)
like my new work computer setup I installed Vim with MacVim and Python with their installer
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:34 (five years ago)
yeah i don't use homebrew python
one of the reasons it's slow is this *insane* default setting:
HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS If set, Homebrew will only check for autoupdates once per this seconds interval. Default: 60.
Default: 60.
i.e. by default, it does something that takes as long as a few minutes, every time you use it, unless you've used it in the last 60 seconds!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:58 (five years ago)
the hell
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:06 (five years ago)
it's insane that the unit of that setting is even seconds!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:57 (five years ago)
typical unix innit?
― j., Thursday, 10 October 2019 20:00 (five years ago)
man, the syncing interface is DUMB. if the music app—which you probably have to open separately if you ever do any tweaking of playlist contents to get them to fit as you change their contents—is open then it gets an item for an attached ipod, and it has an 'eject' menu item that doesn't eject, and in the finder if you try to eject after syncing while the music app is open it won't eject because some of its resources are open for the music app!
― j., Friday, 11 October 2019 23:02 (five years ago)
are there any hoonja-doonjas that enable a focused-writing-style interface in any text field that gets handled by the os, like textedit windows? i mean the kind of thing that fills the screen, darkens other text but highlights the current line, etc., that are popular now.
i can do this with other apps but i like to do it and it'd be nicer if i could do it when i wanted within normal apps.
― j., Friday, 10 January 2020 05:52 (five years ago)
TextMate used to have an edit in textmate thing, but I don't know if that still works.
― stet, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:17 (five years ago)
https://samperson.itch.io/desktop-goose
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 June 2020 09:50 (four years ago)
i am shook
https://www.caseyliss.com/2019/10/8/brew-bundlehttps://github.com/mas-cli/mas
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 19 July 2020 03:57 (four years ago)
understanding the dependencies here gave me a headache
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 July 2020 04:06 (four years ago)
hmmm I guess that would have been useful back when I was breaking work machines every six months
― lukas, Sunday, 19 July 2020 04:18 (four years ago)
there's a cool-looking native Gmail client called Mimestream
but it requires Catalina so I guess I'll never get to try it
― lukas, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:37 (four years ago)
anybody using Brave?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:44 (four years ago)
i tried it ON IPHONE for a while but it feels like multilevel marketing tbh
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 21:22 (four years ago)
'volunteer to watch ads in exchange for bitcoin' is certainly a weird USP
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:24 (four years ago)
Firefox with sync is great these days imo
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:39 (four years ago)
i like Opera for some reason. i’ve forgotten why.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:52 (four years ago)
you like the arts
― mh, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:11 (four years ago)
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
alt-tab between *windows* (not applications) and it knows about full screen and spaces.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:36 (four years ago)
Oh, will try this. Will this replace my beloved and abandoned Spectacle?
― beard papa, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:31 (four years ago)
i would never and i will never abandon spectacle, and how dare you for even raising that possibility
*holds spectacle so close*
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:43 (four years ago)
I switched from spectacle to rectangular and for my uses it’s exactly the same
― joygoat, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:00 (four years ago)
you know spectacle, it might be time for you die. goodbye old friend
hey what's up rectangleeeee
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:03 (four years ago)
I prefer to use option tilde control, what is wrong with you guys?
― calstars, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:13 (four years ago)
i just attempted to do that with my left hand and now i'm in the er
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:18 (four years ago)
no joke though, i did just install rectangle, and i do appreciate it's added options (especially being able to use + and - to make windows just a tad larger or smaller, which feels intuitive because it's similar to the feeling of using the same keys to zoom in/out in other apps)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:20 (four years ago)
its
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:21 (four years ago)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:21 (four years ago)
Alt-tab app not great for me. It'll bring up the window previews and tick through them but doesn't focus when I let go.
― koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:13 (four years ago)
I am a savage and use the trackpad gesture to reveal all windows
― mh, Sunday, 27 September 2020 13:54 (four years ago)
― beard papa, Thursday, 1 October 2020 22:19 (four years ago)
Audion is back (ish) https://panic.com/blog/facing-forward/
― stet, Monday, 18 January 2021 14:14 (four years ago)
so this was like the Mac analogue to Winamp?
― Nhex, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:03 (four years ago)
Yeah - it had a bewildering amount of skins, and until iTunes came along (it nearly became iTunes) it was probably the best MP3 playing app.
― stet, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:16 (four years ago)
I’m an idiot, how do I install skins (faces?) Link in app gives a 404I downloaded the pack but can’t drag and drop and no installer
― calstars, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:28 (four years ago)
File menu -> Open Faces Folderthen copy whatever faces you want, or all of them, into that directory. each face is a directory within their archive zip
then if you go into preferences, they show up in the list
― mh, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:35 (four years ago)
of course they'd already written those directions: they're at the bottom of the README.md on this page:https://dev.panic.com/panic/audion
― mh, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:37 (four years ago)
https://xbarapp.com/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 23:52 (four years ago)
and https://hmarr.com/blog/vitals/
that looks fun, thanks
will hopefully replace "cmd-tab to terminal, ctl-r pi enter" to ping and "new chrome tab, type weather, erase .com, hit enter" for weather
― lukas, Thursday, 25 March 2021 01:47 (four years ago)
every few months/years I look into finding a good solution to sync and/or transfer my bookmarks from chrome to safari so I can quit chrome, for a bit, or forever and usually find nothing good. Thought I finally found something with this:
http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/bookmacster.html
downloaded it and it's literally the most confusing thing I've ever seen. I mean I've barely started using it so maybe it'll be obvious once I do, but this thing is not gonna win any UI/UX contests.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 March 2021 02:32 (four years ago)
xbar doesn't like me. well, it doesn't like the fact that I'm still on Mojave.
― lukas, Thursday, 25 March 2021 02:55 (four years ago)
me too
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 March 2021 03:32 (four years ago)
oh not xbar, that other one, vitals.
I guess I'm finally comfortable upgrading to Catalina. Big Sur will have to wait until I get my hands on a 16" M1 MBP.
― lukas, Thursday, 25 March 2021 03:35 (four years ago)
how many gams?
4 gams
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 25 March 2021 03:52 (four years ago)
I’m on big sir and honestly it’s very good
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 25 March 2021 04:56 (four years ago)
dan maybe too easy but worth a shot. the File menu of Safari has this option?
https://i.imgur.com/3PofkiL.png
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 March 2021 10:46 (four years ago)
Yeah but it’s a one time thing that only goes one way.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:00 (four years ago)
ah i see. well, quit chrome forever, problem solved :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:12 (four years ago)
if you use pinboard the Pins app for ios and macos is really great.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 28 March 2021 14:04 (four years ago)
I installed Catalina yesterday without doing my homework -- didn't realize Dashboard would be going away. I used it regularly, and not just the calendar and CPU/network usage widgets I had as permanent overlays. Are there any good replacements for Dashboard? I know about Spotlight for unit conversions, but a small calendar app that I can make an always-there overlay would be great.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Sunday, 28 March 2021 15:48 (four years ago)
ooh thanks, this is great! at least it is on ios; I'll add it to the list of Big Sur only apps for when I finally brave that upgrade.
― toby, Sunday, 28 March 2021 16:55 (four years ago)
Oh God, after several years of trying to get Spaces to work for me I think I've finally cracked it. The last piece of the puzzle was assigning apps to specific desktops using right-click in the Dock. Previously I had it all set up nicely but then as soon as I restarted an app I'd edge back into chaos again. They only launched Spaces 14 years ago. I guess I'm a slow learner these days.
― Alba, Friday, 30 July 2021 14:37 (three years ago)
So while I've mostly defended apple music as really being not much different than prior versions of iTunes so long as you adjust the interface to suit, I've just discovered one major feature that's missing...when you plug in your iphone you can't play the music off of it like you've always been able to.
So are there any apps that allow that? I haven't checked Swinsian but will. Wondering if anybody knows anything. I don't want to sync. I don't want to download, I just want to use the iphone as a source of music to play through my computer, like when I plug my iphone into my car.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 September 2021 14:25 (three years ago)
Is there any way via scripting or an app that will remember my desktop layouts for regular laptop use vs. use with external monitor vs. mirroring via projector in a classroom?
I'm tired of my desktop icons moving around and overlapping each other and having to drag windows around between monitors when I plug in.
― joygoat, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:16 (three years ago)
i just ran into my first serious spotlight problem. it can't find a few excel files i create a couple of years ago. i know where they are. i can open the finder window where they live. but if i search for them, using words that are in their files names, they just don't appear in the spotlight results.
it seems like some people use something called Arthur? anybody here use that? is it good? i had understood Spotlight to be kind of integral to the system, with it own way of indexing etc so frankly i'd rather it just worked properly but if Arthur is a good alternative i'll try it.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:14 (three years ago)
i have been a launchbar user for like 20 years. it's in the same category. lb/arthur, etc. are more general than spotlight (they can run "commands", control music, search emojis, insert the date at the cursor, etc.), and also less capable (e.g. they won't find anything in the *contents* of a file that spotlight can't also find). but if you just want a quick way to type a few chars from the name of a thing and open it then they are great.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:18 (three years ago)
they may not search the folders you want them to search by default btw. searching the names of every file on your disk is not a good default, so they probably only search a couple of folders OOTB and you'll need to teach them about your stash of cool files (or tell them to search subfolders or whatever).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:20 (three years ago)
UghI’m rebuilding the Spotlight index so I’ll see if that helpsContent search is crucial
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 23:00 (three years ago)
rebuilding Spotlight helped fix a similar problem for me a few months back
― Nhex, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 23:01 (three years ago)
I had a similar thing with search on a previous iPhone where it just stopped finding App Store when I searched for it. Never managed to fix that.
― Alba, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 01:13 (three years ago)
corrupted search index on iPhone used to suck bad, but I think _there are ways_ to more easily address that now
I think eventually I just didn’t restore from backup and bought a new device, lol
― mh, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 02:30 (three years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:14 bookmarkflaglink
i use Alfred (is this the same as Arthur??!), which still seems preferable to spotlight, and is quick and easy to use, but i've been using it for so long i don't know whether spotlight has caught up.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 7 November 2021 17:51 (three years ago)
lol yes i meant Alfred
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 7 November 2021 17:53 (three years ago)
i use alfred as well, but i usually only use the bare, bare minimum functionality of it - typing the first letter or two of a commonly used app to open it up. that alone has saved me 1 second per use, several million times already.
― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, 7 November 2021 17:55 (three years ago)
Spotlight does that too. Alfred does a lot more. But spotlight does stuff too.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 7 November 2021 18:59 (three years ago)
I've used EasyFind for forever – lightweight, free, and easy to use.
― ヽ（´ー｀）┌ (CompuPost), Sunday, 7 November 2021 20:20 (three years ago)
Do these alternatives search document contents though? Like what's in an email message or a Microsoft Word doc or a Notes file?
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 7 November 2021 20:23 (three years ago)
All the ones I’ve seen use Spotlight underneath the hood to do it. Apart from one (amazing looking) open source thing that you need to build from source to use.
― stet, Monday, 8 November 2021 13:57 (three years ago)
re: Shortcuts
https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-monterey-the-macstories-review/5/#shortcuts
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 14 November 2021 20:46 (three years ago)
anyone ever see/use this?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 14:49 (three years ago)
whoops.
https://www.spikenow.com/
I saw that recommended this week and was also curious, but i'm so done with email apps that ingest all the email into their own sketchy servers for processing. It's a good way to get sacked (at work) or hacked (for personal) and I'm just not having it.I do love the idea of shifting email to conversational, but the few clients I've used that try it make a massive mess of the emails for users on traditional clients so that also sucks.
― stet, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:09 (three years ago)
Also saw this week a recommendation for https://superhuman.com/ but $30 a month(!) to also have the same email-on-our-servers thing is wild
― stet, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:10 (three years ago)
yeah, looking at the same recc as you
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:17 (three years ago)
i don't get emails from humans any more really.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:24 (three years ago)
does anyone have any experience installing windows via virtual machine on a M1 model? i have never used VMs before, so i have little direct experience. i understand that bootcamp doesn't work on M1s (the second comment here seemed informed, to me: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/future-of-boot-camp-on-apple-new-macbook-arm/52f63e5f-0aa4-4a90-89af-a6efe7ab30bc). the most mentioned alternative, Parallels, is $120/yr, jfc.
is Wine my best option?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 December 2022 19:38 (two years ago)
Parallels is subcription now? OofVMWare Fusion is still an option tooIf it's not too intensive you might as well go with Wine, it's just more steps to do what those other two will do for you
― Nhex, Monday, 19 December 2022 20:31 (two years ago)
(i have no insight on the M1s, unfortunately)
I've been using the free version of VMWare Fusion and it works... OK? Running Linux VMs mostly and not Windows that much. Still waiting for the VirtualBox 7 beta for M1s to settle down.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 19 December 2022 20:47 (two years ago)
try UTM https://docs.getutm.app/guest-support/windows/
― mh, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 05:39 (two years ago)
the two approaches are either to use Windows-arm via commercial tools where the x86 translation, if needed, is done by Windows and you need to do the account jump to get the ARM version of Windows, or run something like UTM that is virtualizing x86 via qemu and then running that version
depending on whether you care about gpu or other device support, commercial license or not, pick your poison
I’ve been trying to do half-assed support for data scientists doing computey crap and trying to hand-wave at how you want to virtualize the command line
― mh, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 05:44 (two years ago)
Surely the data scientists could just requisition second computers
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 07:05 (two years ago)
oh like they don’t spend enough money already?I think the ones doing stuff on their own laptop are probably in the minority judging from the zillion jupyter notebook nodes
― mh, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 16:45 (two years ago)
Virtualbox?
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:10 (two years ago)
VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org(trigger warning: it's free, but VB has been an Oracle product since 2010)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 03:36 (two years ago)
I never thought of myself as needing a freeform brainstorm/collab/mind-map type of app, but after the latest OS updates I tried out Freeform and kinda like ithttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-freeform-a-powerful-new-app-designed-for-creative-collaboration/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 December 2022 03:07 (two years ago)
this is like... the giga-doonja
https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:17 (two years ago)
yup, got that in a bundle a long time ago, it's great. but funny thing is when everything's running fine you just sorta forget about it...
― Nhex, Friday, 20 January 2023 00:54 (two years ago)
Ran that for years. Replaced it with swiftbar because I didn’t need most of what it offered but it is indeed great.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 20 January 2023 02:16 (two years ago)
It turns out it's easy to get on the beta for nvUltra. Recommended for Notational Velocity junkies.
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 20 January 2023 02:28 (two years ago)
I got into XRG years back, especially on full-time server Macs. Now with an M1 Pro and a fiber connection I'm pretty confident about things.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 January 2023 02:50 (two years ago)
― stet, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 15:29 (two years ago)
my experience was not as good (bloated, buggy), but at least it doesn't crash as soon as you open it on recent macos, unlike the original and nvalt. i gave up after a couple of days. it's been in beta for like 5 years. the author seems a bit nuts tbh and i'd be surprised if it ever ships.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:43 (two years ago)
I've never cottoned on to any of those note-bucket/offboard-brain type apps. I'd rather forget things.
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 2 February 2023 23:22 (two years ago)
nvUltra has been fine. I don't use any of the new features. seems just as fast as NV/nvAlt to me.
― what have I done to deserve you (lukas), Thursday, 2 February 2023 23:25 (two years ago)
Torrent client Transmission finally hits v4.0.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 06:17 (two years ago)
Rewriting from C to C++ is a wild project to take on but I’m glad it worked out for them I guess
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 07:21 (two years ago)
Is there a reliable way to update a 2013 MacBook to one of the newer OSs? Without destroying the computer?
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 09:32 (two years ago)
Not sure but I have a 2015 Macbook that's running Monterey fine
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 12:49 (two years ago)
i was pleasantly surprised at the (low) price of "mid-2015" macbooks like the one i use day-in and day-out at work and which copes with that fine. like £300. proper ports too, like usb and hdmi and sd card and actual earphone plug.
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:56 (two years ago)
(^ running big sur, nagging me to install monterey)
Finally sold my 2014 mbp for $175 and bought an m1 air on sale for 800. Happy with the upgrade
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:15 (two years ago)
proper ports too, like usb and hdmi and sd card and actual earphone plug.
they all have usb and earphone plugs? i can get behind complaining about missing sd card, but hdmi?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 18:04 (two years ago)
ports i have nothing to plug into are useless to me. all my external drives are usb2*, my tv and monitor both have hdmi.
(* when i sent this one back to get the battery fixed they sent me a newer mac to use for the two weeks it'd be away. i backed everything up before it arrived but the replacement only had usb3 inputs. it stayed in the box.)
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 19:05 (two years ago)
so, truly asking for a friend here:
does anyone have any suggestions for music software (think garageband, logic, or even something like audacity) that would be compatible with a 2011 iMac running Sierra? he got a hand-me-down ancient iMac and wants to use it to do some basic demo recordings, but is finding that stuff like garageband requires newer OS that can't be installed on older macs.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:46 (two years ago)
can it go to High Sierra? Audacity works for that.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:02 (two years ago)
i will ask! according to this, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251009089, a mid-2011 iMac can install 10.13 high sierra, so that might just be a possibility. thanks!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:05 (two years ago)
Also check out Reaper... you might could find an older version that'd be compatible...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 9 February 2023 23:13 (two years ago)
I have a mid 2011 Mac mini running High Sierra and Audacity fwiw
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 February 2023 23:17 (two years ago)
Yah, there’s a current version of Reaper that will run as far back as 10.5https://www.reaper.fm/download.php
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 February 2023 10:03 (two years ago)
caek was right, it's bad.
caek, what did you move to?
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:17 (two years ago)
a weird neovim plugin with very few users that i like a lot but doesn't appear to be maintained and i cannot in good faith recommend https://github.com/wincent/corpus
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:53 (two years ago)
i also played with obsidian. it wasn't for me, but it seems like nvultra but with a roadmap and community. that's definitely worth checking out.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:54 (two years ago)
https://obsidian.md/
I like the idea of Obsidian but it seems like the ultimate "fuck around with the settings rather than get things done" kind of app. Like, I would spend all my time building taxonomies as a way to procrastinate.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:00 (two years ago)
i get what you mean but i think its mostly fine. its adoption by the zettelkasten community is the source of that vibe. i was as happy as i was going to be with it after changing like 3 settings.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:03 (two years ago)
(i think it was just cosmetic stuff re: colorscheme and font, teaching it the folder structure i wanted, and a shortcut to open a dated for today)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:04 (two years ago)
*a dated note
I might try Obsidian again when I go back to Uni in October. I mostly use Scrivener (e.g. for keeping notes and essay writing), and even though it can be hard work, and the updates are never what I want, I just prefer Scrivener's look and feel.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:16 (two years ago)
a weird neovim plugin with very few users that i like a lot but doesn't appear to be maintained and i cannot in good faith recommendOh perfect. AND I can pretend that I'm finally going to become really nimble with vim.I'm keeping to-dos in Logseq (similar to Obsidian) and have been toying with moving my notes there. It's great for what I'm using it for, but I'm leery. And, dammit, the unified title display / search / create UI hasn't been bettered.
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:48 (two years ago)
The Zettelkasten crew led me to this app The Archive which has exactly that UI and is actually pretty decent so far https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/
― stet, Sunday, 16 April 2023 16:37 (two years ago)
that looks perfect, stet, thanks. have been using nvultra for a while, but it's trying to do a lot more than i want. i don't really like the *feel* of obsidian, even though really it's doing a lot of what I want. i do find logseq good for work - daily meeting journal, key areas as pages etc. but for personal stuff I just want raw note taking. my old simplenote on phone + nvalt on mac set-up was perfect tbh.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 April 2023 13:17 (two years ago)
Alternate plug for iaWriter as my solution for this. I keep trying to use Obsidian and whatever new system comes along, but i dunno - I can procrastinate enough tags out before doing actual work.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 23 April 2023 01:56 (two years ago)
my favorite technology "radar" (because it's the the only one of these kind of things that isn't completely worthless) has logseq in it's quarterly report
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radarhttps://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/logseq-as-team-knowledge-base
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 April 2023 05:51 (two years ago)
I have thoughts on thoughtworks but I, too, appreciate their tech radar
― mh, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:31 (two years ago)
Just posted a vague and messy question tangentially related to this:
Second Brain: Note taking, productivity, Notion, Airtable, Obsidian, Mondays, Asana etc
― dan selzer, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:36 (one year ago)
are there any good free ipad apps for light photoshop style features? I basically just want to be able to free select images and copy paste heads from one image to another
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 25 May 2024 21:00 (eleven months ago)
Procreate is not free but it’s well worth 12.99 for general fun therapeutic mucking around (and head copy and pasting)
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 25 May 2024 22:39 (eleven months ago)
I've been using this multiple times per day:
https://www.trymeeter.com
Consolidates all your video calls from all your different apps (Zoom, Teams etc) into one little dropdown menu in the menubar, which lets you join them in one click
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 July 2024 10:06 (nine months ago)
Heads up Sequoia users - SubtitleMe uses the new Translation framework that listens to your voice and auto-translates. Everything is done on device. Works with audio-routers like Loopback so you live translate movies in VLC or wherever. Pay what you want…https://serpentisei.gumroad.com/l/subtitleme
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 September 2024 09:40 (seven months ago)
Unsolicited testimonial: https://booktrack.app has become an essential - as important as Paprika, BBEdit, News Explorer. If you think you might need it, just pull the trigger on it.
They have other apps for movies and music, but their book app just integrates well with how I read
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 29 December 2024 03:32 (four months ago)
Surely it can’t be better than keeping lists with cryptic notes split across Reminders, Todoists, Notes and, when it finishes loading, Goodreads?
― stet, Monday, 30 December 2024 13:03 (four months ago)
i choose to simply read the books
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 December 2024 17:15 (four months ago)
If the choice is between reading them and tracking them in an app ... realistically I'm going to have more success with the app. Maybe I'll start arranging spines by color.
― rainbow calx (lukas), Tuesday, 31 December 2024 20:57 (four months ago)
I've got over 1500 books (both print and electronic) here, so after the second/third time of buying something I forgot I already had I needed the app
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 00:29 (four months ago)
The app is brilliant so far, I bought it right away
― stet, Thursday, 2 January 2025 01:46 (four months ago)
does anyone have a current link or any info about the app (before they were called that) mentioned to kick off this thread?
― encino morricone (majorairbro), Thursday, 2 January 2025 06:55 (four months ago)
Clutter? Long dead I think but if you want a archive.org link it's:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030601000000*/http://www.sprote.com/clutter/
Found via https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/23806/clutter-is-fantastic
― Alba, Thursday, 2 January 2025 10:29 (four months ago)
This is not specific to macs but I guess this is sort of a general purpose internet hoonja doonja thread.
A YouTube downloader that actually works:
https://cobalt.tools
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 February 2025 11:25 (three months ago)
4kdownloader also works for video and audio including SoundCloud
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 February 2025 15:37 (three months ago)
thx Alba! Was intrigued by the description and wanted to see. Apple Music actually does something kind of similar, sort of, where you can collapse the interface to just an album cover "tile."
― encino morricone (majorairbro), Wednesday, 12 February 2025 10:59 (three months ago)
yt-dlp is also available on MacPortshttps://ports.macports.org/port/yt-dlp/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 February 2025 06:08 (three months ago)
Displaperturehttps://manytricks.com/displaperture/
It makes the top corners of your screen rounded, like in the old days. That's it.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 8 March 2025 00:41 (two months ago)
Front and Centerhttps://hypercritical.co/2020/01/08/front-and-center
Another retro hoonja doonja - click a window in any app and all that app's windows come to the front.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 8 March 2025 16:33 (two months ago)
do you listen to ATP or are otherwise part of the john siracusa fandom?
― 龜, Saturday, 8 March 2025 19:04 (two months ago)
that is the opposite of what I want (a Cmd-Tab variant that only brings the last window of the app to the front)
― rainbow calx (lukas), Saturday, 8 March 2025 20:32 (two months ago)
TIL Mac has a built in timer. just search for it in spotlight. when triggered it shows up in the menubar counting down by second. neat!
― calstars, Thursday, 15 May 2025 19:17 (two days ago)