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

Burn's good stuff! Does what I need it to.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

what are the advantages of using something like this over mail.app?!?!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

searching from:name works for me in gmail

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.

I haven't had any trouble with imap gmail and mail.app. For the record.

it basically works, but my problem is in adequately accessing a third account.

dan, cant you get google accounts on acuterecords? thats what i do for my domain name

& then it just syncs the same way gmail does

yeah, if you like the gmail way of doing email that is probably the way to go

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.

just used automator for the first time... pretty useful, actually!

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?

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

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.

i have faith that itll all work out for you dan

im worried tbh!

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?

oh god i knew this would happen

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.

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, December 1, 2009 1:55 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think mail.app will let you archive all your old mail as a backup

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

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!

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.

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

not my old yahoo emails. It doesn't look like it's quite as slick as I'd like.

i just killed it, it already didn't work exactly as advertised.

are your old yahoo emails on a server somewhere?

are your old yahoo emails on a server somewhere?
--caek

They're on yahoo of course

so why can't you jut add it as imap account? i think i'm missing something.

yahoo doesn't support imap.

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.

it is 2009 why can I still not move more than one playlist at a time in itunes?!!?!??!?!

seriously.

http://www.asktog.com/columns/075AppleFlatlandPart1.html

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

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.

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

that dude needs to have fewer bookmarks, applications, fewer everything,

i bet his texts are too long too

seems likely

he should be friends with tracer