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Get (free) MacJanitor for a start and run that. That speeded mine up a bit. I think it's pretty safe.

For a speed test, I don't think you need to buy anything - just go to an online speed test like http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp and it will tell you how your connection is going.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 11 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

And of course, run Disk Utility's 'Repair Permissions' yadda yadda. Perhaps you've done all that kind of thing.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 11 September 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

try Xupport

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

also keep 10% of your disk free, i'v got a puny 10G HD and if I get down near only 1G free everything stats flipping out

big kudos for the link to "Download Comment" - i've been looking for this for ages as well

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

one website brought me to a tiny thing called Bandwith Optimizer. Just before running it I did a CNET bandwith test and registered 53.5kbps. Then I installed it and ran it again and got 2562.8kbps. We'll see if this is a good and lasting thing and not a fluke. the CNET think I think is an american version of the adslguide.org test, but I'll try that as well.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

and now it's slow again. Maybe this is related to the people who moved in downstairs. Must be porn freaks.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

ok. sorry, one last thing...tell me if this sounds indicitive of things. LimeWire always worked fine and fast for me, with a consistent connection. Lately, the "quality" bars on the lower left corner keep fluctuating between turbocharched, excellent, good, poor, up and down, while the downloading files will say 2 minutes, then 3 then 4 then 20 then just stop. only to kick in again for a second, only to stop again. What does this sound like? any ideas?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/megatrack/?branch_id=52796&release_id=172990HREF

track atlantic storms

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tomato Torrent is pretty good as a bittorrent client.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ed's thing is cool.

tomato torrent: I have no idea how that works : / cd you explain?

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

It's for downloading tomatoes, but it doesn't work.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

cozen have you not been initiated into the bittorrent circle?

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

no :(

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://torrent.youceff.com/
http://indietorrents.com/
Basically bittorrent files are very small, and when you open one the program goes out and searches among the internet for other people who have the file open, and you download and upload and receive the file (mp3, video, whatever) that way. It's just another P2P application.

suprnova.org used to be the standard for bittorrent files, but I think it has been down now for a few weeks or so. Tomato torrent is just a program that lets you manage your bittorrent downloads and uploads...sort of like a download manager on your browser.

A google search for "bittorrent os x" can provide you with download links, etc.

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, ive noticed that "quality" fluctuation on limewire recently and also the fact that any search will now bring up alot of pretty unrelated stuff. For example searching "isaac hayes ikes rap" the other day gave me hundreds of results for things with just "rap" or "ike" in the title as well as alot of seemingly automatically generated things called "isaac_hayes_ikes_rap" at about 100k each - ads? spam?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I never get that on Acqlite - try that...

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 September 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the gnutella network is pretty crowded with auto generated virus spam

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

http://sofa.ambitiouslemon.com

http://cedmen.chez.tiscali.fr/sofa/images/screen05.jpg

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh that's fucking sweet.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

LaunchBar allowed me to empty my dock. It is top.

Quicksilver is OK if you demand a no-cash alternative.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

one good thing about stickies - being able to minimize notes to windowshaded size

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.osxgnu.org/info/pkgdelete.html

― Spinning Down Alone You Spin Alive (ex machina), Friday, 12 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

REVIVE. i want more

― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

xAct is a godsend.
NewsFire = grebt

― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish i had a non buggy .cbr reading app. both comical and comic book viewer keep crashing on me.

― :| (....), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Newsfire too. Especially how they release updates every other fucking day. (xpost)

Stickywindows and iTattle are handy too.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, xupport too.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

what is a good application to extract files from ipod back to my computer? (at home w/o external hard disk)

― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Friday, 24 December 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Jonathan have you found this yet? I don't have an iPod but I remember downloading something in order to get stuff from a friend's Pod onto my Mac.. but I can't remember what it was called!! I had to find a serial # in order to get it to move more than one song at a time tho.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ipodlounge has a few suggestions

http://www.ipodlounge.com/downloads.php

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Was going to post: http://sprote.com/clutter/ for getting cover art to mp3s but the one jon posted looks betta.

Also, my old standby for editing mp3s and such: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

what is a good simple mac paint program? (like an equivalent to mspaint.)

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

what's a good newsreader?

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

podcasting software!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

FOR USENET

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.boyzoid.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=F24B4EE0-E081-2BAC-69992BF0B349A0CD

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Jon I've been using Newswatcher since 1994!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it feels very .... MAC OS 7

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

FYI... this is a nice program for getting mp3s off your iPod. It's shareware for your first 10 uses and $15 after that.

http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=iPodRip

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 22 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

iPod access - http://www.drewfindley.com/findleydesigns/ipodaccess/

I had to use this to fix my parents' iPods - they had their music spread across six computers between them, Mac and PC. Worth paying the shareware price instead of moving a few at a time.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 23 January 2005 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone have the new url to the build of valknut.app

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~chrisj/download/

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.computer-support.ch/Xupport/

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

xupport's dead handy.
Also pdf reader plugin http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
And ftp thing with useful network traffic monitor http://www.interarchy.com/main/

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Wiretap's pretty nice; are there any apps that record streaming audio to mp3?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Folder Player - http://www.discosw.net/folderplayer.html

goodbye "playlists"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

well well well, look at you. you must be pretty proud of yourself.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

heretic

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 27 February 2005 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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