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

2GHz core 2 duo

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.

p.s. under About This Mac > More Info > Disc Burning, do you have a "MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857D"

no :( I have HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA

nerds

no u

(wd appreciate a look at those notes when u have a chance tho :)

upholding adobe UI as a positive example of ANYTHING is pure insanity

http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/

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)

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.

Otm. I'm not big on modality, but it works incredibly well there.

i am a vi user, so modality is my jam : )

oh wait lightroom has modality like vi??? that is dope, vi is def the jam

lolz

finally have a vimrc i'm happy with now

you are a vim dude?

y

do you use caek.vim colorscheme y/n?

no iirc

http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/200407/vim.jpg

i use this too, wasnt aware it had modality

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.

Launchbar is stamping all over Spotlight and Quicksilver for me. instant send of any selected text, quick google searching etc.

launchbar is still around? wow! I think I stopped using it like six years ago

Yeah, it's way better than it used to be. Does pretty much everything quicksilver does as well

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.)

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?

They've put up a FAQ for Quicksilver users: http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/switch.html

thanks

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.

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.

Snippets for code fragment management is ROXOR - http://www.snippetsapp.com/

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.

You can't cherry-pick files, but you can quicklook your way inside .zips:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/t_trace/20071125/p2

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.

oldie but a goodie; everything I need from a to-do app
http://www.anxietyapp.com/

ILX app is Zing

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

cheers dan!

sleepingbag that is the very essence of a hoonjadoonja

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?

anyone ever found an alarm clock that works with itunes? sleep mode kills all the ones I've tried

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/

i lost powercontroller when my hd died but i don't remember that having any problems w/ sleep mode.

in fact i think i switched to that cos whatever i had before had sleep mode problems.

btw sleeping bag what's the tab-like menu icon to the left of the time?

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https://wincent.com/products/synergy
it's a thing for itunes

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.

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.

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.