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

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

How is that different than Acrobat?

And why did they have to call it that?

yeah gross eh

it's free, I only need to do this one task with pdfs ever, and it seems to have a good system - it superimposes all the pages in the doc, so you can draw crop boxes that include everything.

testing out Total Finder right now:

http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/

Adds tabs to your finder windows. I'm already addicted to SizeUp for window management. This may be the next step. I mostly hate spaces, only use it occasionally. This seems like a better way to keep many different things open and organized without using Spaces. It also has Dual Mode, a single window with two finder browsers in it, and a bunch of other hoonja-doonjas. I think most people think this is inferior to Pathfinder, but I found Pathfinder annoying. This is such a minor tweak, aesthetically and workflow wise, that can make a big difference, instead of Pathfinders whole application based method of browsing with sidebars and all kinds of nonsense.

what is best rss reader these days

Reeder

(it costs money)

hmmm

also finally just looked at evernote. whoah.

reeder looks like a windows refugee's idea of an ipad app, but it is fast.

I like Reeder on my iphone, but always just go back to Google Reader on the mac. There's some new extension that makes it look pretty but I kept forgetting which icon meant "mark all as read" so I went back to google.

Still rockin' my old version of NetNewsWire from before they stuck in the ads

There's also Gruml (free). I used it a lot last year – there were some trivial bugs and it lacked a couple of features but it's had a few updates since then. As with Reeder you need a Google Reader account.

reeder on iphone, reeder on ipad, reeder on mac

awww yeah

https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer

ok that's great; I often want to write just little tiny programs & haven't ever bothered to figure out Xcode (I learned to program before GUIs were common).

Anki---this is pretty awesome. seemed a little cumbersome at first, but once you nail down how models/templates work, it's totally boss

witch!

mac's alt.tabbing always bugged me and witch fixes it.

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really liking this. also figured out how to configure Spaces in a way that actually keeps things where they're supposed to be

anki is my religion

it's pretty great! wish i'd discovered it in the first two years of med school

I don't have a need for Anki (Pleco does the job on my iphone and ipad) but it really is great. Best thing is the huge variety of free flashcard packs all over the web.

Spaces is too stupid now, I gave up on it. Most of my apps are just in full screen mode now.

spaces works fine for me?

Best thing is the huge variety of free flashcard packs all over the web.

I'd love to use flashcards for French but haven't found anything. So I call bullshit on this.

call bullshit on u

do you use anki, TH? i spent <15 sec (i managed to type 'fre') and found a deck with 3500 cards in it. i just learned what "agacer" means!

nb that was searching from within the application

bullshit!

I've really benefitted from doing the 4500 card 'german vocab' deck. One problem is that you have to generate 'reverse' cards to properly learn spelling, genders etc. but the english sides of the cards aren't always properly differentiated enough from each other to serve this purpose. There are also mistakes, and an weirdly high number of christian theology words. Still amazing, though. I've learnt thousands of words.

cant remember which apple thread it was but i seem to remember someone (Ed?) having a two computer system (desk/lap) that involved checking out an svn repository of his User folder or something? to keep the two in sync?

how does anyone else do this?