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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)

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.

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)

Meterologist crashes for me all the time

― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i use the firefox one

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cocoadialog.sourceforge.net/index.html

Cocoa Dialog lets you use native dialogs from shell scripts

― absolutego (ex machina), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

scrolling support for pre 2005 powerbooks!

― absolutego (ex machina), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheers Elvis!

xpost

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

peerguardian for os x

(windows here)

Basically this block know RIAA, MPAA ip addresses from connecting to your computer to limit liability to lawsuits.

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Firefox nightly builds.

The input handling has been rewritten. My middle mouse button works.
Fonts are better.
the preferences is now a non modal window and set up more like camino and safari

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

is there a media player like winamp that auto-detects mentalist anime / communist / hax0r tv broadcasts? i could use such an app

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.johnnarun.com/itunes_alarm/

this is a great alarm clock

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

AcidSearch keeps the new Safari build (for update 10.3.9) from opening, FYI. Time to switch to Firefox for good, I think.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 17 April 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

WeatherPop is the undisputed king of weather apps, people

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/movie_tv/archivefilmsmovieplayer.html

tiger widget that streams selected films from archive.org

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031124150312458

a script that makes itunes remember play positions for all tracks, not just podcasts

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Monday, 4 July 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.parsek.at/cerberus/downloads/

Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies Widget!!!!

― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

i saw that, but decided not to install it because it looks ugly. if i had time i'd mess with the html so it looked nicer.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

It looks ok to me... just transparent except text when running.

― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

is there a hoonja-doonja i can use w/mac os 10.4 to:

- identify my mp3s (and regularize them) by digitial footprint

and/or

- get an image of the relevant lp cover for every mp3 i have???

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

- identify my mp3s (and regularize them) by digitial footprint

http://www.indyjt.com/software/?show=ieatbrainz

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://members.home.nl/joostmarkerink/flashsavermaker/main.html

Turns flash into an os x screensaver!

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

what keys do people use for triggers in quicksilver?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I use Apple+enter since they are adjacent on the 12" keyboard.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

anyone have a good solution for making the "alt" key on an external usb PC keyboard work like "apple" on a mac keybaord?

― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

doesn't the windows key map?

Momus showed me a little app to remap keys, buggered if I can remember the name though.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

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