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

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.

it says "fetch content of message 945/2984"

and so on...

the reason i use mail.app, even with my gmail account, is the searching is so good. better than gmail searching. BETTER THAN GOOGLE SEARCHING

that is true. But it sucks in so many other ways!

I'm going to bed.

Can anyone point me to a utility that will let me adjust the volume level of applications individually? I need my browser volume a lot lower than system and other applications.

audiohijack will do this, but it's a bit of a sledgehammer/nut thing for what you want

2 new things I'm trying out.

TeuxDeux. a To Do list created by the designer behind the Swiss Mix blog. It's a website that syncs with an iphone app and I've used Fluid to turn it into a browser based application. It's very simple, functional, looks nice. The one function I wish it had would be to have sub-tasks, but otherwise it's really sensible and much better than fancier apps. I mean, the point is getting work done, not spending a lot of time playing with a to do app.

Flux. Knows when the sun goes down and automatically changes your monitor's color temperature. Supposedly helps prevent insomnia? I'm a firm believer that staring at a computer screen late at night keeps me awake. I suppose it's more the actual processing of content and less the bright lights, but who knows. I'll have to turn it off to do design work, but otherwise, I'm liking it so far.

yah, i use flux. turning it off when your typing in a dark room at night, it's kind of horrifying how cool bright white the light is otherwise.

I also just bought transmit after 100 years of using Fetch.

There's some thing about blue monitor light being perceived to be like the sun or something. If I'm on the mac late at night I'll change the colour profile to sunset (?) and I swear it makes a difference.

I used to use Flux but I do a lot of photo-viewing at night so I stopped

xxp, yes, most people have their monitors set up to match the color temp of a G2 dwarf star, e.g. the sun. the basic problem then is, this means you are looking at something not as bright as the sun (whatever brightness setting you have it on), but with a similar spectrum (whatever brightness setting). there are claims this confuses your circadian rhythym, etc. it's not as simple as that since monitors are orders of magnitude fainter than SAD lamps or the sun or whatever. all i know is that for just web and typing and stuff, it looks harsh at night.

flux automatically changes the colour profile to match artificial lighting (much cooler, i.e. redder) at sunset, and it knows when sunset is based on where you live.

you can get it for windows too i think.

q is: what kind if bulbs are my ~energy savers~

i have it on fluorescent. tungsten and halogen are too orange for me. when i was writing my thesis (i.e. black background most of the time) i had it on halogen.

I have it on fluo as well. I have CFL in my studio/office, I don't know if that's supposed to emit like an incandescent or like a fluorescent, but this seemed the most sensible.

I'll see how things are tomorrow as well...I haven't calibrated my monitor in a year it seems.

when I switch to preview daylight in Flux, it seems super blue. I don't know if that's just in comparison to the warmer temp Flux has it at, or if it's messing with my calibration.

no, daylight/"disable for an hour" is the same as if you quit flux, i.e. your default calibration.

it looks so blue because you've been looking at orange. lol human brain.

i think, anyway.

flux just decided it was past sunset. i expected something a little more ... gradual.

check the transition preference, you can choose 20s or 1hour

teal & orange teal & orange

is there no refuge

This is cool, but I can't read any red text.

been using flux for a while and <3 it
recently i found camouflage which hides/shows your desktop icons

anyone know of any hacks that would let me have 512px icons on my desktop and/or tiled backgrounds on finder windows??

flux is some good stuff! i always thought this iMac screen was too bright even on the lowest setting at night

I love Flux, thanks! It would be great if it worked with the MBP's built in light level sensor.

I love Flux, thanks! It would be great if it worked with the MBP's built in light level sensor.

totes

is there any way to handle single track mixes showing individual track names? Figure if you could tell a program what is playing at what time during a track, it'd be possible.

You can do this with podcasts, and there's some utility where you can get add it to the ID3v2 tag, but I don't know what players actually support that...

guys: is there an online/mac app for FAXING?

i do not have a land line, btw.

efax.com

i just need to send, not receive. worth signing up?

you used to be able to send faxes free for a trial period but that seems not to be the case any more.

aha, very cleverly disguised free trial offer

http://www.efax.com/Free-Trial

didn't old osx have a print-to-fax option? (you had to have one of those modem cards)

it does, and i don't

(thx ed, i'm doing the trial)

don't forget to swallow sadness

anyone know a program which can automate the slicing up of pdfs for kindle consumption? Ie. to turn double page scans into single page. It seems like such a thing should exist... but does it?

oops found one already, for anyone else's reference there's Briss which seems to work a treat

http://briss.en.softonic.com/mac