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

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

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.

I tried Anki once but it was really slow - did I just have a bad configuration?

it can be a bit slow starting up, but it's otherwise fine for me. ymmv.

okay trying anki again and it's pretty fantastic.

gonna give this a try:

http://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/

to be more productive.

based on the following principle

http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/

i use it. it works.

networking edition

shimo: VNC manager
marcopolo: 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 app
homebrew -- 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

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"
sleep
end tell

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

Would pay anyway, it's too damn good to do without.

in 2010: macvim + texshop + macvim + texshop + omnifocus + macvim + texshop + mercurial + bibdesk

vim hoonja doonjas: snipmate + supertab together

love texshop