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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)

Perhaps I am not alive!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 13 January 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I tried quicksilver once. I am planning to try it again now I've got a man-sized 1GB of RAM.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 13 January 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

quicksilver doesn't take anywhere near as much ram as spotlight

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

well, i'm sure that apple will steal the idea and build it into the next version of os x and then it will take up tons of ram

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

ok i will try swapping spotlight for quicksilver.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

and here i thought it was quicksilver that was slowing everything down. how do i unshot spotlight?

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

srsly, dudes, is there an easy way to disable spotlight?

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

we don't know

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

love WriteRoom, thanks.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 13 January 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tuaw.com/2005/05/13/tiger-tips-hate-spotlight-turn-it-off/

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

so I downloaded spotless, which is an easy way to turn spotlight on and off, and/or turn indexing fully off. Great. I also downloaded easyfind, which is an easy and fast search to replace spotless...hell, I even put it's icon in the toolbar where the search field used to be because that's where I go to search!

Only problem for me? I can't search in mac mail now, which I used a lot.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 14 January 2007 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit

haha, ctrl-alt-apple-8!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

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