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― 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)

Eh, I think I'll pass on this one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 February 2005 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I know what you're thinking, and yes it can do folders full of aliases, in case you really need to scratch that "virtual mix tape" itch. Lately I've just been throwing random folders in there, full of Word documents and applications, just to see if it can find any sound to play. It doesn't like it when I do that.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 27 February 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.objectpark.net/en/mcc.html
MenuCalendarClock is an iCal compatible menu calendar and a configurable menu clock. Besides an elegant and streamlined look, it offers many compelling features to make it the ultimate calendaring utility for the Mac.

Even the non paid version is handy and fun. The ability to sync addressbook birthdays to calendar rules since one of my social networking site lets me export all my friends.

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

is there something more efficient than iprober to transfer mp3s from ipod?

― kansas topography (kansas topography), Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

omg never mind iprober is great

― kansas topography (kansas topography), Saturday, 5 March 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.kernelthread.com/software/ams/

this is neat!

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stepmenus/

this is going to be cool!

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone know any decent free/cheap budgeting software for my mac? or should i just set something up in the openoffice excel thingy?

need to figure out where my money's going, so i can save some. could do it with a pencil, but it seems like it might be more fun to actually do it on my computer.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14722

I CAN SEE YOU, usr/bin ... IN MY FINDER.

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

1992!!

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone know of a utility that'll resize batches of images? Whenever I want to post or send photos, I've gotta shrink 'em and take 'em down to 72 dpi. Times like these, I wish I could just drag-and-drop them onto some handy little app on my desktop.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://sarwat.net/bittorrent/

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen: Try QuickImageCM, it is nearly dreamy. There's also something called iResize or iSize or whatever which does what you want.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh for the days of the hopelessly fiddly DeBabelizer.

Photoshop will do it too, just make an action and boom. I often want to sharpen images a bit if they've been shrunk, and it's nice to have the full-on fiddle of Unsharp Mask to add to the batch process.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, yeah, that's how I actually do it, but I wasn't sure PS counted as a "hoonja-doonja".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bitsonwheels.com/

my favorite bittorrent client!

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

PS might not be able to create little drag-n-droplets for its batch processes, which is what Stephen X wants.. but then again maybe it can, I've never tried to do it. DeBab used to be able to do that.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.atzenbeck.de/research/wildWindows/

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040429122915489&query=itunes+store+option

make the itunes music store links more useful

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

QuickImagesCM works like a dreamsicle; thanks to all. I can now photobore my friends with nothing to stop me!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone have a good weather monitor applet?

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Monday, 21 March 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

On Mac OS X, you can run XFree86 from the Darwin text console or in parallel with Aqua. To get to the text console in Mac OS X you need to logout and type ``>console'' as the user name. This will shutdown Core Graphics and bring up the console login prompt.

HANDY!

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with the Weather widget in Konfabulator?

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a way to assign multiple search engine options to the Safari search box (ala Firefox)? Being able to search Ebay without going there is handy.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Konfabulator sucks

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Multiple search for Safari

My favourite at the mo is MenuCalender Clock - gives me date and time, and loads my calender from ical. Brilliant.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave: isn't that time limited?

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

aka you have to pay for any of the useful features?

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

HUMP

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://k1.dyndns.org/develop/projects/zxsp-osx/distributions/

zxsp - a spectrum emulator that will actually load off of old tapes directly!

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

well you normally have to pay for the "useful features" of Ableton Live too Jon but since when did that stop you?

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

konfabulator is a nice enough environment to "roll your own" for a lot of things - i adapted an RSS reader widget to improvise a server monitor for some bespoke processes we have going on our x-serve

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom, I don't have money for software. This problem will be remedied when I have "a real job".

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes at real jobs they make you pee to see if you've been smoking dope though

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ease up, buzzcut.

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/

I'm just fucking with you, shaggy

I'm gonna go to town with the new release of PyMusique tonight, I didn't get to try out the first one

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The reason I can do this with a totally clear conscience is because I believe that from enterprise architecture, risk management and cryptographic perspectives DRM is a completely unsustainable business model which should be rushed into a deep grave as quickly as possible!

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd link to it but it would appear that nanocrew.net has been fucked in the bandwidth goatass

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Agreed. Where it has been tried, the not very radical business model of selling DRM free high quality MP3s has succeeded. I'm sure the files have been traded but who cares, the artists and labels got some money.

DRM is fundamentally flawed because at some point you have to unlock or decrypt the track to play it. And at some point people are going to want to take a track out of the DRM world to take to a device beyond the vendor lock in.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

From the "enterprise architecture" standpoint it is pretty well understood in every other industry BESIDES software that artificially restricting the customer's use of a product is bad business

From a risk managment perspective it's bad because there is no 'defense in depth,' you are just relying on a single bit of crypto to be the lynchpin in your entire business process, and there is no recourse if it fails. Absolute assurance = infinite resources applied to the problem of assurance = no profits

From a cryptographic standpoint it's impossible to give out the holy trinity of encipherment: plaintext, ciphertext, and key, and then expect that the process/algorithm remain secret

It amounts to a lot of snake oil that software companies have sold to media owners to allow computers to keep being used for movies and music and such. What's funny about PyMusique is that you still PAY your $.99 or whatever, you just get a regular usable .m4a like we all wanted in the first place instead of some crippled bullshit.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom, have you seen hymn -- it strips the encryption post-download?

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I can now control itunes with my mobile phone.... thanks to:

http://veta.irowan.com/
and

http://www.irowan.com/romeo/

― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Saturday, 26 March 2005 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.magicpubs.com/mac/macosx.html

good clearinghouse of crap

― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Scale To Mail from http://www.littleapplescripts.com/ is rather nice.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone have a good weather monitor applet?

Meterologist

Otherwise, you can use the Weather part of X Resource Graph (which I use)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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