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

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*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)

two months pass...
http://ian.janasnyder.com/valo.htm

cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Now that we're in the post-Andrew era, would a moderator put "hoonja-doonja" back in this thread title? Easier to search, for one thing.

do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

i was gonna say

s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

online games totally do not count as hoonja-doonjas

critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I DON'T CARE.

do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

xtorrent - bit torrent for OS X that actually works.

Er? I use BT straight up just fine.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

azureus is the jam if you can spare the ram.

s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://nightly.webkit.org/
better version of safari

Now that we're in the post-Andrew era, would a moderator put "hoonja-doonja" back in this thread title? Easier to search, for one thing.

I KNOW!!!

roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Arthur C Clarke should present a programme on Andrew's removal of "hoonja-doonja" from the thread title.

Alba (Alba), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

What's the general quality/stability of the nightlies, Jon? (I'm not with my Mac atm)

you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

tissp, they seem very very good and there's some good safari dom/js debugging stuff in it

roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

WriteRoom:

http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom

roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

guess what's back

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

yay canada

roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

The search function thanks you. Google searchign for "computer program" ain't fun.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

thanku stevem

do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

So, people who switched off spotlight because it uses too many resources - what do you do when you want to locate a file that you've misplaced?

toby (tsg20), Saturday, 13 January 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

haven't switched it off, but i probably should and then i'd get by with the locate command in terminal, no?

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 13 January 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

or use quicksilver?
which, granted, is a slight resource drain. but i don't really see how anyone lives without it.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 13 January 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)


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