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

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

or this, if i want to use my own hosting.. http://getfileshuttle.com/

i use this thing http://min.us/

or http://www.dropmocks.com/ is the same thing i think

anyway, it's good

How do that workie?? You have that page bookmarked, open it, then drag a file to it? Seems more of a hassle than dragging to the menubar

yeah i guess. it's less hassle than photobucket though.

Not saying much..

Tracer do you not use dropbox? Just drag the pic into your "Public" folder, then right click and choose "copy public URL". You get a link you can paste in. Is seamless.

i use this often
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9221/

If you're on a Mac and use Gmail as your mail service and you currently use Mac Mail to gather said email... this works better.

http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/

tried mailplane? (i haven't, but i'm going to need one of these things soon)

No, this is better.

for some reason sparrow's site doesn't work unless you take out the www

What platform and browser are you on? I just loaded the link I posted just fine in Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome.

OMG, don't tell me you're using Explorer.

I've been using Mailplane for months and months (a year or two?)

It's great. It's basically gmail as an app. A step beyond using Fluid to create an app. But it has more features. Even if it didn't, I still like it.

Sparrow is more of it's own app with a fancier UI. I tried it once but didn't take to it over mailplane. I see it was just updated, I'll give it another shot. It's got a long way to go. It's just not mature yet. It's way of dealing with labels is a total mess.

It didn't even recognize my labels until I went into the label. And it doesn't recognize nested labels, which is totally crucial. I used a google lab for that for months before google finally made it an official thing.

But Sparrow is still Beta. I'll check back periodically. I'd like to get away from the google interface any way I can, but Sparrow just doesn't have enough features yet to replace Mailplane.

There's all kinds of stuff that I still depend on the gmail web interface for, that no mail app does. So I guess my expectations are low. Sparrow is WAY better than apple mail, though.

I see Sparrow is backed up on downloading my mail, so we'll see what happens. But here's a simple thing...I have some mailing lists where messages skip the inbox and go right to archive with a certain label on it. With Mailplane or gmail on a browser, I can see the label folder is highlighted.

Anyway, it's pretty sharp and I'm sure they'll work all this stuff out soon enough.

Kenan. Mailplane IS gmail. Everything you can do in gmail, you can do in Mailplane. But more.

I guess nothing can solve the problem of it being an app you have to install instead of a web app that you can use anywhere you have a browser.

Sparrow is nice, though. Just sayin. :)

I really don't understand you. I use gmail when I'm on somebody else's computer. Then I come home and Mailplane is running, which looks just like gmail and does all the same things as gmail and is completely in sync with gmail, but it also has more features making it easy to use, including downloading and archiving recent messages in case you're offline. How is that not exactly what you're asking for? The only reason to NOT use Mailplane is if you really have issues with the UI and you want to make sure all you mail is being downloaded and archived on your computer.

But you're just talking about the difference between POP and IMAP. "Including downloading and archiving recent messages in case you're offline." This is not exactly mind-blowing tech.

Mailplane isn't POP or IMAP. It's GMAIL. Loaded as an app. It's the same thing. Sparrow is as well, just with a more fancy UI and less features. Technically I suppose Sparrow may be IMAP, but it doesn't really matter. I'm not trying to blow minds. I'm trying to find out why you think Sparrow would be better than Mailplane, and why Mailplane isn't good enough for you!

Technically, Mailplane is a fancied up SSB. I don't know if Sparrow is an SSB with the UI tacked on top, or an IMAP mail client. For instance, it also doesn't have access to gmail's filters. Obviously since the mail is going to gmail first, it'll get filtered, but you'll have to open gmail (or mailplane) to change that. I assume Sparrow will eventually add all that.

I am disappointed to find out Mailplane doesn't archive all mail locally.

xxp Because I am angry about mail. GRRRR!

Look, I said that Sparrow is nice, and I'll stand by that.

I don't know enough about the technology behind it, but the way Mailplane archives recent mail has nothing to do with IMAP or POP. It's a browser window that stays open as an app that downloads your mail so you can work offline.

Looks like Sparrow is IMAP. It's currently syncing and downloading several thousand gmail emails.

Surely just the headers.