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

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?

― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 6:11 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

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.

I use coversutra because it has a nice floating control window that I can set to f16

Can anyone recommend some kind of a program that will quickly compare folders (items) on my HD and let me know if they're identical? I was doing some consolidating and backing up of my ITunes libraries and somehow at some point managed to create duplicates of LOTS of stuff (this is the underlying actual files, not songs in the library). I'm being forced to open multiple finder windows and compare folder sizes, dates, etc. and it's super annoying. Cheers

never used it but ... http://www.araxis.com/find-duplicate-files/index-eur.html

Haven't tried any of these, but might as well give the open source ones a try:
http://alternativeto.net/desktop/winmerge/?platform=mac&sort=likes

ok hey, anyone want to recommend an itunes automatic duplicate deleter before i get unruly re: my 42000 duplicate songs?

Most of the stuff listed in that thread seems to be based on having the duplicates entered into your iTunes library - a straight ahead general purpose file comparison utility seems more appropriate.

yes exactly - not everything is imported into iTunes, bnw, but thanks for the thread anyway

will try the araxis thing

do i pay for launchbar y/n

Y

ok

Y

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.

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

lightroom. (if you like it you can start a new catalog and use it for your own photos too.)

aperture too

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.

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.

fukn bbcoed

parallels bundled with 9 other apps for $50 (parallels usually retails for $80) at mac bundle - will macdvdripperpro finally replace mactheripper??

fukn bbcoed

― stet, 19 March 2010 01:59 (1 week ago)

imo it's time we as a community started asking serious questions

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?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10035

not exactly what you're looking for but i use this, works ok

i'll try it out, thanks!

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Any recs for a free DVD-Divx converter?

Handbrake