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

making yr own is good for stuff like medicine, where the process of making them itself is useful for memorization. also, i haven't seen many decks (ie i haven't looked) with the kind of complexity i need. my, eg, pharm cards have a model where each drug has six fields, and each field has a template, so Anki can generate six cards for me for each drug i enter.

cf language drills, where there's a pretty simple binary. this is this.

xp caek i guess the only reason i would want any kind of 'syncing' would be for, as you say, dotfiles and "documents in progress." your solution for the former seems good, and i suppose dropbox would work for stuff like writing or w/e. another, possibly thornier issue, would be dealing with apps like LR. say i bring my laptop on vacation, take some pics, edit them, whatever. i suppose there's a 'merge' function in LR3, but i've never gotten in too deep with the file management end of things over there.

isn't this why we have the cloud

all my serious writing i keep in version control (along with source code) so synching is just checking out.

all the casual stuff i put in http://notational.net/ and store the NV file on dropbox. occasionally i use google docs. i would probably do something different here if i had an iphone.

all my super serious writing i put on ilx

yeah i'm using notational velocity and syncing with simplenote (on iphone), i like it

and, really, i'm not doing any "serious writing" right now, and certainly nothing long enough to merit needing version control. figure the "version control" afforded by dropbox is probably good enough

(the main difference as i understand it being that true version control tracks changes)

as an aside, i always thought it was weird that my old job didn't use some kind of version control for all the copy we wrote. not even 'track changes' in word (yuck).

in addition to tracking versions, which is surprisingly useful...

if you're comfortable on the command line a modern distributed VC (like git or mercurial) provide a good way of keeping things in synch, and if you're ever in a situation when you're working with other writers then it would be handy, since it manages merges (although whether the way it does that is suitable for prose is another thing).

but it sounds like it would probably be overkill 4 u.

haha, totally. i fuck with this stuff out of sheer nerdiness, not because of any actual need

haha otm me too a lot of the time

I'll say one hoonja doonja I've never figured out is Path Finder.

not sure where to ask this - when using Reeder fro Mac, I've been having two problems: (a) I cannot get to download links included in posts (whether in text or in HTML formats) (b) whenever I click to open a post in my web browser, it will launch a new window rather than a new tab in the one that's already opened.

(a) could be to do with what the originating site chooses to include in its rss text (hard to know without being able to see yr screen) and (b) could be your browser's setting for handling new page requests from external apps (I recall changing a parameter manually in firefox), i.e. neither of those things happen to me.

thx!
(a) I typically notice when trying to download an mp3 from pitchfork - Reeder will give me the option to "download to disk" but then nothing occurs
(b) you're right - i think this started when I switched to the new Safari - I might need to play around in the settings.

in addition to tracking versions, which is surprisingly useful...

if you're comfortable on the command line a modern distributed VC (like git or mercurial) provide a good way of keeping things in synch, and if you're ever in a situation when you're working with other writers then it would be handy, since it manages merges (although whether the way it does that is suitable for prose is another thing).

but it sounds like it would probably be overkill 4 u.

― caek, Friday, August 19, 2011 11:15 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark

so things i have done to procrastinate, largely because some other nerd told me it would be "useful":
--actually figured out the difference between bash_profile and bashrc and all that. i think.
--set up a "dotfiles" folder that has all my bash stuff and vim whatevers
--established symlinks in ~/ that point to that garbage
--deleted macports
--installed python 2.7
--installed dev tools
--acquired hg in the form of machg
--installed homebrew

now, for no good reason, i'm going to set up a repository on bitbucket with my dotfile stuff, clone it, and then run this .py script $nerd gave me to automatically generate new symlinks in ~/ that point to the ones in the dotfile repository (as well as making backups of those replaced).

now i'm just trying to think what should go in dotfiles or why any of this matters, at all

--deleted macports

otm

--installed dev tools

unless you're doing mac gui dev, i prefer https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer

--acquired hg in the form of machg

otm

--installed homebrew

booming post.

for the dotfile symlink stuff, that's what https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick does. might work for you.

unless you're doing mac gui dev, i prefer https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer

aw man wish i'd known about this :(

for the dotfile symlink stuff, that's what https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick does. might work for you.

well i'll be

what the fuck are you guys talking about

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134336/focus=134979

lol!

we are talking about hoonja doonjas, tracer, our favorite little ones

what happened to the good ol' hoonja doonjas?

What's homebrew about?

like macports but made some better philosophical decisions early on

e.g. doesn't try to install it's own gcc, python, tex, perl, etc. when you install some little utility

development of new recipes is a bit more straightforward too, which may not bother you directly, but it means that the community is much more active, there are more packages, and the system is generally more robust

huh, cool

quickcursor: oh neat

Only 5 years late, but http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ is so awesome. Any other neat/fun video software?

god i love Hazel!!

yesterday it occurred to me that I could combine Hazel with Dropbox..

http://www.cdfinder.de/en/en/screenshots.html <3 Elvis Telecom for pointing this gem out (here: Maintaining a Digital Music Collection )

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120326061614691

simple terminal command to make the dock pop up instantly!

superb, thanks for the link.

don't know where else to post this. The cloud wars are really heating up. First google docs becomes google drive and I suddenly have a google sync'd folder on my computer a-la dropbox. Now dropbox suddenly asks me if I want to upload all the pictures from my camera. Maybe I will let dropbox manage my photos. Probably quickest way to get my instagram and regular photos onto my computer and online for viewing and sharing outside of instagram or facebook. This should really heat up once ios 6 comes out with Facebook integration. I'm content to use a few different sources for different things. Dropbox still wins for easy folder sharing with other people, quick photo galleries etc. But this new google drive is a great way to get my google docs on my desktop and backed up.

hmm very tempted to use it for some document backups... why not

ilx consumer advice thread for THE CLOUD & music & storage riyl icloud google music dropbox netflix spotify

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20082711-285/how-to-use-preview-in-os-x-lion-to-digitally-sign-documents/

have used that SO much lately tbh

http://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/

as one thing well says, i recommend the "watercolor" map (aerial is fun, but you can't see your desktop icons v well if you are in a city)

Anyone using Fever around here? I feel like I'm spending most of my days trying to keep up with my RSS feed so this looks like something for me. But 30 bucks is pretty steep for an RSS reader...

Anybody else using Soulver? I think it's changing my life. Spending a lot of time figuring out and comparing costs for paper while printing, this lets me type things up in english and see totals, and the totals update when I change quantities.

wtf: http://www.acqualia.com/media/images/soulver/introduction/myYear.jpg

lol, women.

$200 a week? i've been lookin' in the wrong places

Never heard of this app before now but I am absolutely sold after playing around with it to figure out some budget probs

Is there a good (non-java) osx download manager? I've used speed download for years but apparently it's broken on 10.8, and it doesn't look like the devs have any further interest in it..

soulver is great

What would be the best/most easily searchable place to store a lot of pdfs: iCloud, Dropbox or Evernote? Wondering if Euler has thoughts on this one.

I take it you don't have so many pdfs that you'd exceed the free allotment of Dropbox? I do alas; might just pony up the cash but I dunno, I recently used GoodReader to upload them all onto my ipad (all 20 gb of them, yikes) but I can't search them that way. right now I have the collection of them (with metadata assiduously added by hand, uggh) copied onto both machines, & then I can search with spotlight. but this suxxx to keep them updated. I use BibDesk as my main receptacle though.

I bought DevonThink Professional a few years ago in order to make this work better but I never really got into it. maybe I should try it again! just...need.......time......

I don't have that many yet; maybe one day! Just want to get started right early on. Good point re searchability in bibliographic software; maybe I should be deciding on that before I do anything else... I'd been thinking of RefWorks (free at my school but apparently not exactly intuitive to use), Zotero and Mendeley; whatever I use has to work across PC and Mac.