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its pretty messy code as this stuff goes, and oh yeah you'll need to have your ilx settings properly set up so that you show name, email address, date and time for thread pages (not webmail link!) and time of last message for newanswers view.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

also, unfortunately, it records yr. own post to a thread as a "new answer". given how hackish this is, lots of these problems are fairly unavoidable barring a bunch of work.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

so, what program should i use as my imap client? mail? thunderbird? or is there something better than either of these?

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Those are your options. Personally I prefer Mail as the least bad option, but they both suck in their own special ways. Briefly, Mail tends to fuck up IMAP connections when asked to shift large amounts of data and it's text editor is a little, ahem, eccentric; while Thunderbird knows less than nothing about OS X.

I've never tried Eudora, but I'm told it's tolerable. Mailsmith and Gyazmail are both useless since they don't support IMAP. If you are l337 then there's always mutt.

― caek (caek), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:58 (twenty years ago)

hi ppl! has anyone used my "unread" greasemonkey script? after about a month now i can't read ilx without it.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

link plz

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

posted like 7 posts above this.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:21 (twenty years ago)

I tried it the day you first posted it, Sterling, and it says it's enabled, but it's not working for me.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

are you showing name, email address, date and time in that order in yr ilx settings? (and last msg time in newanswers?)

it is picky like that

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. I have everything on New Answers Pages turned on except "Mark Threads which contain images," and everything on Thread Pages turned on above the "Show Messages" pulldown menu.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

My new favorite Mac-a-ma-bob is Fob, which is a little timer that I use to make sure I do ten minutes of work to two minutes of fucking around on the internet. But I'm sure you can use it for other things.

I must go. My two minutes are up.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 8 May 2006 01:13 (twenty years ago)

i too installed your greasemonkey script a couple of days ago, sterling, and it does nothing for me either :-( i think i have the same settings as rock hardy.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

ha, fob looks just like what i need, for exactly the same reason...

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

hmmm.. try with "show webmail link" and "permalink" OFF, and also "show message dates as relative" off.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

No luck.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Shouldn't it be http://ilx.p3r.net not http://ilx.ph3r.net ?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Either way, it doesn't work for me either, I'm afraid, even with all the settings as you say.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

sigh. guess its not to be.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

is there an app for itunes that gives reliable statistics for music listened to through itunes? something like last.fm/audioscrobbler but with stats that are actually not weirdly distorted? (for example i ripped the Dr Octagon CD to my computer last week and listened to the whole thing straight through at least 3 times which equals at least 60 plays but last fm tells me i've only listened to 9 Dr Octagon tracks or like the fact that it claims i've listened to more Devendra in one week than it says i have listened in total).

it doesn't have to be web related i'm not particularly interested in anyone accessing the stats other than me.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

*but with stats that are actuallydependable not weirdly distorted?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

is that a weird thing to want?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

snapz pro x is the best screen capture tool i've come across. it does video too!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 8 May 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Introducing Instant HandBrake
April 21st, 2006

I have uploaded an SVN build of the stripped-down, iPod/PSP-dedicated version of HandBrake, called “Instant HandBrake”.

At the moment, it lets you create iPod-compatible MPEG-4 or H.264 files, or PSP-compatible MPEG-4 files. The default is to automatically crop the picture to fill the screen (4:3 on the iPod, 16:9 on the PSP), or you can choose to keep the original format.

http://handbrake.m0k.org/

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Woah, not a program but an OS X feature I didn't know about. Alt-Apple-8 to toggle on and off screen zoom capability, then Alt-Apple-hyphen or equals sign to zoom in and out respectively.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 21 May 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

pff it doesn't work on my laptop. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 21 May 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

oh man!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 21 May 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Mac for babies!

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I just discovered ctrl-alt-apple-8.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

haha what the hell is that for

― ferzaffe (flezaffe), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's for saving battery on laptops.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

IIRC black takes more energy than white on LCD panels as pixels are transparent at 0Volts and plant a +Volts, the backlight is on all the time.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

universal access, people. the control panel will explain all.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, well that's what this said anyway. Guess it's good as anti-glare too.

x-post. CONTROL PANEL? Get with the times, old man.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

is there anything any good for retagging mp3s? on the pc i used to use tag & rename:

http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

but i haven't seen anything like it for os x.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

tritag used to be ok before its freedb lookup function broke

― ferzaffe (flezaffe), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'll let Tracer post here in more detail but he mentioned using Automator and Cog on the I HATE APPLE thread

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

MP3 IDX seems to work for my purposes.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

I use MP3 Rage, sometimes.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Tom that was for renaming the actual files, based on ID3 tags that are hopefully already correct. MP3 IDX seems to work alright for tagging. I tried one program that "automatically" finds CDDB info and changes all your tags - it was a total failure, so luckily I had backed everything up. There may be programs that are better at this, now. The big feature I've asked for in Cog (on their forums) is the ability to edit tags directly within the application. It still astonishes me that renaming stuff in iTunes doesn't change the ID3 info - one of many reasons I have abandoned that stinking hulk.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

For form's sake, here is the page for Cog, the application I want to marry some day - http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ (gapless playlists; flac support; strickly business)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

It still astonishes me that renaming stuff in iTunes doesn't change the ID3 info

Are you sure?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

It still astonishes me that renaming stuff in iTunes doesn't change the ID3 info

Hmmm... One thing to do that remedies most ID3 problems is to select the tracks in iTunes and then choose Advanced -> Convert ID3 Tags. Choose v2.4 in the resulting menu. A lot of pesky tagging problems disappear after doing that.

For tag management thereafter, I use a couple of different scripts from http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Alba - I'm not sure. I wouldn't even mind iTunes' lapses and half-assed wackery so much if it were clearer what happens and when. But in my experience, no, it doesn't.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

And Chris those scripts are OK, but they assume one is using iTunes, which I don't! So they're not much help for me.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

my new favorite hoonja doonjas -

mail appetizer (kind of like growlmail but more beefed up; at least i think so, cause i never got growl to work with mail)

from the same programmer comes an installer for CD paranoia - the command-line tool that rip AIFs directly from CD with no DA conversion. manual here, but essentially it's just /usr/local/bin/cdparanoia -Bf to extract an entire disc with each track separate

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

new release of Cog (you have to compile it yourself) makes an ELEGANT MOCKERY of itunes' library by letting you slide out a little tray next to your playlist that shows you... the contents of your music folder, including revealable subfolders, etc

DUHHH

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 September 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

how easy to do is that?! the compiling, i mean. i've been using cog quite a lot recently to play ogg, flac etc.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

anybody run xscreensaver on their mac? if so, how does the gleidescope module look?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

xtorrent - bit torrent for OS X that actually works.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

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