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Right now, my dock has:

Mail
Safari
iChat
Transmit
Thoth
Alepin (a Stickies/NotePad replacement)
Sherlock
Watson
AddressBook
NetNewsWire (RSS feed reader)
iCal
Oracle Calendar (for the shared calendar at work)
CD Finder (for CD-R/DVD-R catalogs)
iTunes
BBEdit
Preview
FileMaker
ImageReady (which I use more often for image processing than Photoshop)
iPhoto
Network Utility
X11 (for Soulseek mostly)
Terminal
MacPAR Deluxe (for processing most lengthy USENET downloads)
Stuffit Expander
a folder filled with aliases to just about everything else

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm also a tremendous fan of Konfabulator which has plug-ins for just about everything.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

my favourite, panther-only, is exposé which is a well nifty desktop managing tool.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks for that iTunes thing Dave B. Although, I have to say, it took about 4 hours to work since I have so much tuneage on my computer.

Konfabulator is cool and actually, pretty easy to program. As is AppleScript.

ShapeShifter is a lot like Kaleidoscope if that's your bag.

GarageBand is pretty awesome, as is iLIFE in general. FUCKING IDVD4 WON'T BURN FOR ME THOUGH.

Bit Torrent kicks ass. So does WeatherPop. MacMAME for-evah!

VLC plays .avi files very well, including divx.

Marine Aquarium is amazing.

Peak is a seriously good tool for music.

I tried to go over to Mail and lasted a few weeks until it started crashing all the time. I'm now back on Entourage.

― don weiner, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

VLC also plays .ogm files amazing well too.

and Mail is still the best for IMAP email (I use IMAP for everything instead of POP)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

others I use:
Sound Edit 16
Sielius
Bryce
Cinemation
Flash
Infiniti-D
Matlab
Appleworks
Hotline

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, now that I have Quinn tetris, I can die happy!

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Sound Edit 16

Never let the flame be extinguished.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that's why I can't upgrade to OSX. I'm not sure if some of the old sound programs would still work.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Sound Edit 16 is AWESOME, and not entirely functional within OS X. Which is why I'm glad I still have a workstation running 8.6...

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I've had mixed success with SE16 running under classic, mostly involving changing a few permissions so it can put scratch files where it likes to. But it is great.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Salling Clicker, is the best little hooja donga ever. Remote control of computer, iTunes and other stuff over bluetooth from mobile phone.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah Ed, I forgot that one. SOOOOOOO awesome. I have my computer hooked up to my stereo now, and use my Palm Pilot to run music from any room in the house. It's killer. Plus, it's scriptable!

― don weiner, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

can you hook it up to you dish washer, house lights or washing machine, oven etc?

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the difference btwn imap and pop?

Is Safari the best browser to run these days?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

On Mac it is, Mary, or so I think. Get it! It's very spiffy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

imap and pop are two different types of mail server, you won't have a choice of which one to use as whoever has your mail will have made that decision.

See the wikipedia on IMAP and POP.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

D00dz! Whatz a good Avi player or Avi2MOV CONVO?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus, it's scriptable!

I don't know why, but I got very exited about this, despite not knowing "scriptable" from a bite in the leg.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

imap and pop are two different types of mail server, you won't have a choice of which one to use as whoever has your mail will have made that decision.

Actually, at least here, most ISPs let you chose which one you want to use. IMAP stores the mail files on the server (can log in from anywhere & have all yr mail available to you) vs. POP downloads it to your computer (if you log in on a different computer, you won't see any of yr mail in the server inbox). My ideal is IMAP with a copy of the mail on my local disk for backup. I check my mail all over on different computers, so I like having all my messages always available.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 22 January 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Mplayer is the best video player around I reckon, at least for the more esoteric formats.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 January 2004 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I have "avi2mov" and it just doesn't seem to work.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the one thing I don't like about safari is it doesn't have a little bar at the bottom that tells you the location of hyperlinks when you run your mouse over them. can't imagine why not.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

slutsky otm

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

doesn't it drive you crazy?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah especially when the link leads to a mailto and then the comp instantly loads up mail gah fuck me till i fart!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Under view, hit status bar.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

yay! thanks bnw, I was poking around in prefs and couldn't find anything!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

That irritated the fuck out of me until someone told me how to fix it. Also it looked bad, like the webpage was spilling out of the window.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, agreed!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, is Safari just Netscape plus? I don't get it.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

It's actually Internet Explorer for Mac plus, in a way -- it was developed by Apple to provide a Mac-centered browser.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Er... but it's a Mozilla engine, isn't it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

with a twist of mozilla!

(xp!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! I don't know much about Mozilla, ya see.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

It's weird, bc on my version when I click it it links up with Netscape.

Anyway, what is a good homepage that a) is not google and b) is not ilxor?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, what do you want out of a homepage? I just use a blank page.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to be stimulated yet soothed, entertained but not overwhelmed, informed but not hit over the head. I want to reach different lands.

This is the default for my safari:

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/weather/default.jsp

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(Is Mac using all these brushed silver interfaces so that we will think we need to go out and buy the tianium overheater?)

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

www.aldaily.com ?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Safari is a little bit helpful I guess, with the ez links to Amazon and ebay. And the google window.

How do I toggle back and forth between applications? And why does my Acquisition icon keep bouncing up and down when I am not using it?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yes, I like aldaily and I read it a lot. It's just not something I would want to look at, say 4 am if I turned my computer on.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

alt-tab!

and I don't know!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't read aldaily in forever! that actually used to be my home page, until they got all snide and conservative

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It's bouncing because it wants your attention.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Alt tab does nothing for me. Oops, ichats bouncing, gotta go.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Not "alt", "cmd". The little thing with the apple next to the space bar. It switches between apps.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

And it does this rather stylishly if you're in Panther!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I am in Jaguar. Yes, apple tab is working; thanks!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, I guess I haven't completely left my pc days behind me (alt is in the same place as command!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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(the new macs are apparently hot shit, but this one's still ok and i hate waste)

― koogs, Friday, 13 February 2026 16:49 (four months ago)

I mean, I use it for a lot of stuff but the main purpose of homebrew is to make sure you have executables and their dependency chains that work on the version of macOS you have. maven's dependencies are... java?

― mh, Friday, 13 February 2026 16:53 (four months ago)

MacBook:koogs> brew upgrade mvn
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
mvn 3.6.2 -> 3.9.9

==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/maven/manifests/3.9.9

openjdk: A full installation of Xcode.app is required to compile
this software. Installing just the Command Line Tools is not sufficient.

Xcode can be installed from the App Store.
Error: maven: An unsatisfied requirement failed this build.

oh, it was xcode. xcode needed OS update. because apple.

― koogs, Friday, 13 February 2026 17:42 (four months ago)

I haven't understood a goddammed word here since calstars said you could look for "timer" in Spotlight a year ago.

― pplains, Friday, 13 February 2026 17:51 (four months ago)

whoa i didn't know you could do this

― 龜, Friday, 13 February 2026 17:53 (four months ago)

my favorite new doohickey in macOS is that it natively keeps clipboard history if you opt in now. Pop open Spotlight search, and mouse over the text area and you get three buttons to the right, including clipboard history. No more need for third-party apps that need all kinds of permissions.

― mh, Friday, 13 February 2026 17:55 (four months ago)

I'm still using macports over homebrew, but often I'm writing my own packages and need to specify particular versions of dependencies.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 13 February 2026 21:39 (four months ago)

three months pass...

https://www.whatcable.uk

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 24 May 2026 21:57 (one month ago)

that's awesome, i was on the verge of dropping money on one of these but i don't need one more physical hoonja doonja

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71hCKhogevL.jpg

― 龜, Monday, 25 May 2026 01:27 (one month ago)

I’ve got one of the newer Anker chargers and it has an app that connects over bluetooth and reports the usb c cable spec and what protocol the device is charging at. Has some intelligent charging modes, too

― mh, Monday, 25 May 2026 02:50 (one month ago)

Very useful thanks!

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 25 May 2026 03:26 (one month ago)

going insane trying to get to the state where my house only contains good cables

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 25 May 2026 03:59 (one month ago)

fastest purchase

― dan selzer, Monday, 25 May 2026 04:47 (one month ago)

Sadly doesn't work on ye olde Intel machines

― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 May 2026 03:41 (one month ago)

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