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 (fourteen years ago) link
do i pay for launchbar y/n
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Y
― stet, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
ok
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
― caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
aperture too
― 丫 power (dyao), Friday, 19 March 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
fukn bbcoed
― stet, Friday, 19 March 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
i'll try it out, thanks!
― Nhex, Saturday, 10 April 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 11:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Any recs for a free DVD-Divx converter?
― Salted gnocchimole (admrl), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Handbrake
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
okay trying anki again and it's pretty fantastic.
― dyao, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna give this a try:
http://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/
to be more productive.
― ? (dyao), Saturday, 21 August 2010 08:44 (thirteen years ago) link
based on the following principle
http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
― ? (dyao), Saturday, 21 August 2010 08:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i use it. it works.
― SYNTAX ERROR (remy bean), Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Would pay anyway, it's too damn good to do without.
― stet, Friday, 27 August 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
in 2010: macvim + texshop + macvim + texshop + omnifocus + macvim + texshop + mercurial + bibdesk
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
vim hoonja doonjas: snipmate + supertab together
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
love texshop
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Sunday, 21 November 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like if I ever used caeks computer it would feel like driving the batmobile
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Sunday, 21 November 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
i use vim to edit and just use texshop to compile/preview.
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Sticking w/BBEdit, me.
― stet, Sunday, 21 November 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
TextMate and/or Coda here
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, but I can't remember what it is. Something about security, I'm sure.
― stet, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
or this, if i want to use my own hosting.. http://getfileshuttle.com/
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i use this thing http://min.us/
― caek, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
or http://www.dropmocks.com/ is the same thing i think
anyway, it's good
― caek, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link