I HATE APPLE

I should change my dock to something nicer...

I like TextMate and own it, but I haven't played with it enough to endorse it above all others. The extension that lets you download and install other extensions is pretty sweet.

i dropped my laptop six months ago and the corner of the case got smashed

i did this two weeks ago. not sure if the airtunes trouble i've had since is related or not.

TextMate has proved 100% worth it for me (for LaTeX). I imagine any other geeky writing will justify it, too.

If you already know your way around Vim or emacs then I get the impression from playing with Textmate for a couple of days that it isn't worth it. It costs infinity per cent more than either and can do less. But if you're using anything less sophisticated than that and you do serious text editing then it's definitely worth looking at. I never got BBedit, but then I am under 30.

p.s. the answer to my question turns out to have been Smultron.

i dropped my laptop six months ago and the corner of the case got smashed

i did this two weeks ago. not sure if the airtunes trouble i've had since is related or not.

May have dislodged the aerial from the airport card. Not sure which mac you have but on some it is easy to re-seat.

macbook pro. i think they keyboard is going to need replacing at some point (it occasionally fails to work on waking up from sleep), so maybe i could get that fixed at the same time?

toby, there was a recent "keyboard firmware update" that seemed to fix the issue with the keyboard not waking correctly for me. It's the only thing I've never had install correctly from Software Update, but running the updater in Applications/Utilities worked.

I should change my dock to something nicer...

Yeah, it helps. I stuck mine in one corner, which makes more of a difference in space management than you'd think, and then with Candy Bar replaced the "glass" background with an opaque png that matched my background-- it seems that there's a kind of mirror.png permanently on the layer behind the bar itself, and the more transparent the bar is the more of that really-annoying-bad-bad-idea reflection you get. So, thusly:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/better_dock.png

I'm finding it even less intrusive than the "simple" version that you get when you put the dock left or right. (You can do that on the bottom, too, if you like -- Candy Bar has a handy check box for that.)

Macbook Airs = overheating, poorly designed shitboxes. LOL

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/apple-fans-burned-by-hot-airs/2008/03/13/1205126082565.html

the problem with that opaque blue 3-d dock idea is that it's not so good on a 12" pb because i tend to keep the windows maximized to use all of the screen space. so then i just get a blue pop-up on a gray/white background which is fug.

can't we make the glass background TRANSPARENT??

I'd go farther than that if I had the chance -- I'd scrap the whole shitty thing and start over.

i'm doing left dock right now and i'm OK with that. some custom icons tend to pile up on each other a bit though.

you have to give 'em padding, yo.

specifically, about 10px all around at 128, 20 at 256, etc. Not counting shadows.

at first i was wigged out by the very dark slate gray theme but now i realize it makes everything look sharper, which is cool.

also i'm still impressed by how *fast* it is. seems faster than tiger!

Macbook Airs = overheating, poorly designed shitboxes. LOL

Not that I don't think Apple are totally irresponsible when it comes to shit like this, but I've gotta direct my LOLs at the yahoos who ran right out and bought "the world's thinnest laptop" from a company with a good, solid history of rushing -- furious, panting- red-faced -- everything to market. Do "early adopters" not understand that getting rid of heat is kind of a little bit of an engineering problem?

I mean, of course Apple is the problem, not dumb-ass spendy computer users. They had to know the thing was going to overheat constantly. Unless they conduct their testing in the same room that old Dr. Chew made eyes for replicants in. I can tell it's going to overheat from looking at the subway poster.

iCal is 1000000x better in leopard

As is Mail.app

DockDoctor widget allows you to change the look of your dock at the push of a button. it only has two options but the 2D dock works visually for me anyway.

http://innermindmedia.com/dock_doctor_widget.html

iCal is 1000000x better in leopard
You think? I'm dying to go back. It's a crashy buggy mess for me. I usu. work in monthly view, and it's a pain to add new items -- you can type the name, but then have to pull up info and then edit just to change the time -- and it always crashes if the name's too long. Still, I've got about ten calendars syncing to WebDAV, so that probably doesn't help either.

As for the Dock, I usually pin my to the menubar, set it to its smallest size, hide it and forget about it.

re: iCal i find editing in a pull-up window much easier than editing in a sidebar (or is it called a drawer?)

as far as crashy and buggy goes, i had that experience in tiger because i was trying to sync to at least three different places. all of that crap went away when i turned syncing off.

this might be also be a workflow thing. most of what i do with ical involves taking old academic calendars, importing them, and pushing/editing the pieces. i don't do a lot of adding brand-new items, which you're right, is noticeably slower with the new system.

ical works great for me esp. w/ the excellent mail support

Grr. I used to use my Nokia as a bluetooth modem, and everything worked all dandy. Then I tried to add another phone to use the same service, and since then, it's all been buggered. I've deleted the phone from bluetooth and readded it, deleted the connection in the Network prefs, and no dice. I get this in syslog:

Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem
Mar 13 19:21:50 Dave configd[14]: en0: DHCP duplicate configured service
Mar 13 19:21:52 Dave pppd[83421]: MPPE required, but MS-CHAP[v2] auth not performed.
Mar 13 19:21:53 Dave pppd[83421]: Connection terminated.
Mar 13 19:21:53 Dave configd[14]: en0: DHCP duplicate configured service

heyolp!

hmmm "file > new note" mysteriously stopped working in mail.app.

oh man, time machine is totally fucked up

Diagnosis: PEBKAC.

it's true

i got impatient with the process of making a 30gb time machine backup so i quit somewhere around gb #28.

then i dropped the 28 gb backup file in the trash.

now i am trying sudo rm -rf to get rid of it.

that's a very edited version of events

trying

whoa! it worked!

imap + gmail + mail = caching attachments for 746 of 29828

aha! disabling "marker felt" font was the culprit re: mail notes not working

So are you going to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageously bad fonts just to use mail notes? Or is there another way?

there must be some lifehacker bullshit on how to make that less annoying

yeah it even shows up in the goddamn message viewer window in marker felt!!

arrrrrgggghhhh imap is so ridiculous

why am i even bothering trying to be part of the 21st century

for something that's supposed to make email easier, IMAP has a funny way of going about it

I haven't used POP since the 1990s!

is there a good imap tutorial somewhere?

Tutorial? Why not just break down and beg for help, K?

I used it last year to pull down backups of my GMail, but can't be bothered any more.
xp

What's this about Rush Limbaugh saying that Time Machine doesn't back up mail properly anyways?

Software bugs are liberals, probably.