your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

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)

Sticking w/BBEdit, me.

TextMate and/or Coda here

is there a reason i shouldn't use CloudApp for quick n dirty image sharing? it works beautifully

Yes, but I can't remember what it is. Something about security, I'm sure.

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

or this, if i want to use my own hosting.. http://getfileshuttle.com/

i use this thing http://min.us/

or http://www.dropmocks.com/ is the same thing i think

anyway, it's good

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

yeah i guess. it's less hassle than photobucket though.

Not saying much..

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.

i use this often
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9221/

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/

tried mailplane? (i haven't, but i'm going to need one of these things soon)

No, this is better.

for some reason sparrow's site doesn't work unless you take out the www

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'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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Sparrow is nice, though. Just sayin. :)

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.

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.

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!

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.

I am disappointed to find out Mailplane doesn't archive all mail locally.

xxp Because I am angry about mail. GRRRR!

Look, I said that Sparrow is nice, and I'll stand by that.

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.

Surely just the headers.

it says "fetch content of message 945/2984"

and so on...

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

that is true. But it sucks in so many other ways!

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.

audiohijack will do this, but it's a bit of a sledgehammer/nut thing for what you want

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.

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.

I also just bought transmit after 100 years of using Fetch.

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.

I used to use Flux but I do a lot of photo-viewing at night so I stopped

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.

q is: what kind if bulbs are my ~energy savers~

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.

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.

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.