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

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

feel like if I ever used caeks computer it would feel like driving the batmobile

texshop + bibdesk is pretty much my life, or at least 2/3 of it (gotta sleep sometimes)

kinda :/ about that but it pays the bills

i use vim to edit and just use texshop to compile/preview.

What're the advantages of vim? I use vi for quick unix hackery for our departmental web page etc, but o/w I just want to be able to type and require very little from a text editor than that. I can't think of when I'd need to do regex find/replace, for instance, although I think I could do that in texshop if I cared enough. But I'm open to being sold on an improved workflow, so what're the advantages of vim?

I've never branched out beyond emacs + latex for this stuff. I see the attraction of graphical frontends but I guess I'm happy enough with my workflow.

you are probably using vim in vi mode, euler. the original vi binary is not distributed on any modern unix that i know, although i remeber you are a solaris dude, so maybe you really are.

anyway, once you're running vim, remember it is crippled to emulate vi by default, i think (depends on your system vimrc). so the first thing you should do is add "set nocompatible" to your .vimrc to make it into vim.

here's some links for taking advantage of vim

http://vim.runpaint.org/
http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/

you probably want to install at least

http://code.google.com/p/snipmate/ and
https://github.com/ervandew/supertab

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