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

iTunes Artwork - This do?

WeatherPop - adds current weather info to menubar. I didn't see the point at first but now I'm creepily addicted to it.

Synergy - my favorite of the iTunes remote controllers.

Mail
Safari
iChat
Transmit
Thoth
Alepin (a Stickies/NotePad replacement)
Sherlock
Watson
AddressBook
NetNewsWire (RSS feed reader)
iCal
Oracle Calendar (for the shared calendar at work)
CD Finder (for CD-R/DVD-R catalogs)
iTunes
BBEdit
Preview
FileMaker
ImageReady (which I use more often for image processing than Photoshop)
iPhoto
Network Utility
X11 (for Soulseek mostly)
Terminal
MacPAR Deluxe (for processing most lengthy USENET downloads)
Stuffit Expander
a folder filled with aliases to just about everything else

Konfabulator is cool and actually, pretty easy to program. As is AppleScript.

ShapeShifter is a lot like Kaleidoscope if that's your bag.

GarageBand is pretty awesome, as is iLIFE in general. FUCKING IDVD4 WON'T BURN FOR ME THOUGH.

Bit Torrent kicks ass. So does WeatherPop. MacMAME for-evah!

VLC plays .avi files very well, including divx.

Marine Aquarium is amazing.

Peak is a seriously good tool for music.

I tried to go over to Mail and lasted a few weeks until it started crashing all the time. I'm now back on Entourage.

and Mail is still the best for IMAP email (I use IMAP for everything instead of POP)

Never let the flame be extinguished.

Is Safari the best browser to run these days?

See the wikipedia on IMAP and POP.

I don't know why, but I got very exited about this, despite not knowing "scriptable" from a bite in the leg.

Actually, at least here, most ISPs let you chose which one you want to use. IMAP stores the mail files on the server (can log in from anywhere & have all yr mail available to you) vs. POP downloads it to your computer (if you log in on a different computer, you won't see any of yr mail in the server inbox). My ideal is IMAP with a copy of the mail on my local disk for backup. I check my mail all over on different computers, so I like having all my messages always available.

xpost

yt-dlp is also available on MacPorts
https://ports.macports.org/port/yt-dlp/

Displaperture
https://manytricks.com/displaperture/

It makes the top corners of your screen rounded, like in the old days. That's it.

Front and Center
https://hypercritical.co/2020/01/08/front-and-center

Another retro hoonja doonja - click a window in any app and all that app's windows come to the front.

do you listen to ATP or are otherwise part of the john siracusa fandom?

Another retro hoonja doonja - click a window in any app and all that app's windows come to the front.

that is the opposite of what I want (a Cmd-Tab variant that only brings the last window of the app to the front)

TIL Mac has a built in timer. just search for it in spotlight. when triggered it shows up in the menubar counting down by second. neat!

neofetch

https://github.com/lsaacsilva/Neofetch-macOS

Requirements
macOS
Homebrew (If not installed, the script will install it automatically)

it's an installer installer?

probably meant innocently for the people who just want to put the cool terminal dump of sysinfo in their screenshots, but yes... don't do that

it's crazy-making how many tutorials I've run into over the past few years where the first step is "pipe this script from GitHub direct from curl to bash" and I scream internally

for anyone who doesn't know why that's bad:

in this case, I generally give some level of trust to homebrew. I trust that this neofetch app runs fine (without system permissions). I do not trust that no weird commits will make it into a random GitHub project, one of which could install a backdoored copy of homebrew

lol i am definitely somebody who doesn't know why that's bad so thank you

i did already have homebrew installed though for some reason

😬

homebrew is good or at the least good enough. use it to install all kinds of hoonja-doonjas

homebrew is now complaining about my operating system and the new operating system won't support my hardware. so, effectively, if i want to run the new version of maven, say, i* have to buy* a new laptop.

(* work laptop, i don't have to buy anything. still, a perfectly good, i7, mid-2015 macbook in the trash)

install maven manually? homebrew's not commercial and I don't expect the volunteers to update the packages and executable in perpetuity unless some very enthusiastic volunteers take that on

mvnw is an wrapper for mvn from apache themselves and it downloads the correct mvn jar and uses that. it's very handy and avoids the above problem. i've modified my 'mci' script (maven clean install) to use mvnw if the relevant config file exists.

(the new macs are apparently hot shit, but this one's still ok and i hate waste)

I mean, I use it for a lot of stuff but the main purpose of homebrew is to make sure you have executables and their dependency chains that work on the version of macOS you have. maven's dependencies are... java?

MacBook:koogs> brew upgrade mvn
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
mvn 3.6.2 -> 3.9.9
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/maven/manifests/3.9.9
openjdk: A full installation of Xcode.app is required to compile
this software. Installing just the Command Line Tools is not sufficient.
Xcode can be installed from the App Store.
Error: maven: An unsatisfied requirement failed this build.

oh, it was xcode. xcode needed OS update. because apple.

I haven't understood a goddammed word here since calstars said you could look for "timer" in Spotlight a year ago.

whoa i didn't know you could do this

my favorite new doohickey in macOS is that it natively keeps clipboard history if you opt in now. Pop open Spotlight search, and mouse over the text area and you get three buttons to the right, including clipboard history. No more need for third-party apps that need all kinds of permissions.

I'm still using macports over homebrew, but often I'm writing my own packages and need to specify particular versions of dependencies.

https://www.whatcable.uk

that's awesome, i was on the verge of dropping money on one of these but i don't need one more physical hoonja doonja

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71hCKhogevL.jpg

I’ve got one of the newer Anker chargers and it has an app that connects over bluetooth and reports the usb c cable spec and what protocol the device is charging at. Has some intelligent charging modes, too

Very useful thanks!

going insane trying to get to the state where my house only contains good cables

fastest purchase

Sadly doesn't work on ye olde Intel machines