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

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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)

ctrl-alt-apple-8

my mom uses that all the time, along with alt-apple-8 (which zooms in and out) -- it's designed for people with poor eyesight

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

With Tiger, you can also hold down ctrl and use the scrollwheel to zoom in and out, I recently discovered.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

For what's it worth, WebKit is like a billion times faster than Camino.

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 14 January 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

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

yep, not being able to do this = suckage. i'll have to stick with spotlight for now.

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 14 January 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

There's some quicksilver Mail.app plug in. Does that do the trick?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 14 January 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, cntl-scrollwheel is brilliant!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 14 January 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://hmatt.com/mac/macbookfreeware.html

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've never used quicksilver...thinking about it but I'm really trying to lighten things up here. I have a first generation Mac G5 single processor, from when they were first released. I have 1 gig of RAM. It used to be speedy but by now it's terrible. I know I've bloated up with stuff, but I also try to work with all the extras off....I don't complain about speed when I've got Slimserver and all this stuff running. I know I need more RAM and soon as I can afford it, I'm gonna max it out as much as I can, but I'm looking for software solutions.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Have you, you know, done the thing with the thing? Disk permissions?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

I have a first generation Mac G5 single processor, from when they were first released. I have 1 gig of RAM

??!

i've got a G4 powerbook with 768MB and stuff zooms. the only thing that occasionally fails to zoom is firefox, which can occasionally get sticky, but i can forgive it.

what does your process viewer thing (can't remember the name of the app, and am at work using OS FUCKING 9 IN AN OLD-SKOOL STYLEE, so can't check) say is causing the problem?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

stuff is generally fast...but I do a lot of heavy graphics stuff...hi-res photoshop and whatnot.

but are you using Tiger? even basic desktop stuff gets slow...but that's often when I've had Photoshop and other memory intensive programs active.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

but there could be any number of things messing me up, for instance for Font Management I use a free program from Linotype...maybe it's buggy, I dunno.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

i'm using 10.4.8 - but no, i don't do any intensive image-processing stuff.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

quicksilver mail plugin + address book plugin = soooo amazing.

I set it up so that I can select a file, launch quicksilver, press s (for send) and then type 2 letters of the person's name from my address book and it sends them the file, without even starting mail.app

also, get the web search plugin, i think it's called. It has like 350 built in websites, so you do like quicksilver -> imdb -> "whatever" and it does it.

― five roses (Elliot), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

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