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

now you need my dropbox email, password, and my mobile phone to get into dropbox

you can two-factor dropbox (and lastpass).

so even if you bruteforced a password (unlikely if its 20+ characters) youd need a persons phone or ubikey or whatever

everyone should two-factor their gmail also

the #1 annoying thing about lastpass is that its really just a browser plugin/ios app, so you still need to copy-paste its passwords (and usually enter your master pass) into non-browser apps

ah, that makes sense. So it works with eg your mail.app passwords etc? I haven't found lack of this to be a limitation for what I do, but I can see how it would be.

I stuck my toe in the water with lastpass despite reading lots of people saying 1password is the way to go because I wanted to try out a password manager before paying, but I'm happy enough/cheap enough that I think I'm going to stick with it. I use safari/osx at home, chrome/win7 at work and safari on the iphone in between, and it seems like it would cost me GBPtonnes to install 1password across all three. My biggest worry was how it would work with ios- I don't like the idea of having to rely on a different browser, but in the end I haven't even paid for lastpass on iphone. Bookmarklets mean it actually works really well in safari. Overall would recommend.

well it doesnt really *need* to work w/ mail.app since theoretically you're just entering a password once?

im thinking more of situations like e.g. the app store, where i need my apple ID password handy to download stuff and need to run back to chrome, open my lastpass vault, enter my master pass, copy the apple ID password, tab back to the app store, paste it in. <em>every time</em>

that is the one situation - the app store - where these password keepers are v annoying but i've gotten used to it

for the one situation, i just come up with a new password and remember it. three or four longish real words. no punctuation except the spaces. quick to type.

what if someone waterboards me for my 1password password

hey bro what's your password

ban noiseboarding

my password is lunawasme2005

that was encrypted right? only i can see that?

your password was *************?

*breathes deep sigh of relief*

1password is 50% off rite nao https://agilebits.com/store

tell me about your textexpander snippets

i have several gif based snippets

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9287652/images/gifs/getout.gif

what it your shortcut for that?

getoutgif

cool

this is neat
http://www.tomahawk-player.org/

Yeah that's ^ been available for awhile on the web and as a set of APIs. There was some big-time service that was using it for their underlying tech, can't remember what it was now. A bit hit and miss but yeah very cool.

in the same vein as tomahawk, this is the best app ive spent money on all year:

http://cloudplay.fm/

used to be cheaper, not sure when the guy raised the price.

whats the killer thing it does for you

being able to put soundclound + youtube + mp3s in my itunes library in one playlist

that i can listen to without having to keep a browser window open

what happens if a youtube or soundcloud goes down?

hottness

it skips itxp

i tend to just download the soundclouds if i like them that much... youtube audios too on the v rare occasion they're otherwise unattainable

128kbps webrips feel like such a defeat to add to my library, i like the idea of keeping it pure and streaming webstreams directly via an applayer

yeah exactly, prefer to just keep that shit in a casual menubar playlist till i can get my hands on a proper copy

well yeah it's only a temporary measure. i'm no audiophile though granted

actually i don't really do libraries either so idk why i let my weird self stray into these discushes

new iTunes update had me frustrated that you still can't open playlists up as windows, which I used to do all the time to move things around.

Discovered Swinsian, a lightweight iTunes replacement, that's pretty amazing. Using the trick of not just reading the iTunes library, but making my iTunes folder a watched folder, so anything I add to iTunes or buy shows up. It's quick and works pretty great.

Storyboarding software that lets me select tons of clipart - the more options the better? Storyboard That looks ok.

hey bibliographic software users: is there any reason I shouldn't change the directory where Zotero keeps my pdfs to somewhere in the cloud? They're taking up too much space on my hard drive.

The battery on my old laptop konked out and in the ensuing hand-wringing I fell into a couple Apple discussion board threads about MacBook Pro hyper-miling. School of thought says that keeping your laptop plugged in often could have negative effects on battery life, yadda, yadda. Anyway, folks recommended the silly-named http://fruitjuiceapp.com if you need something that tells you want to do about your battery.

Ooh – I like the sound of that, given that my last battery needed servicing after about 300 cycles.

so guys, I'm looking for an app to clean up my iTunes music collection, maybe correcting tags and titles, with a special focus on getting missing album artwork. I've seen a few apps here and there but reviews are always quite negative and prices steep. Can anyone recommend something? CoverScout looks cool (fetches missing album artwork from a numebr of websites) but at 20 bucks, I'd like to make sure that ita ctually works as adverstised.

doesnt itunes do that automagically?

it's supposed to - but it fails quite often.

I've never used it but know folk who swear by Jaikoz.

J'accuse

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard

i tried it. bit linuxy (i.e. awful UI), but pretty good at matching stuff. overview in podcast form at http://5by5.tv/b2w/104.

Is there a program out there that isolates duplicate audio files but by their waveforms (or by some other clever device) and not metadata?

Not that I'm aware of. I doubt that anything can match identical songs at different bit rates, etc.

http://www.lairware.com/songsergeant/ is a good one for library analysis

Thanks for the suggestion - I bought Jaikoz but so far I'm completely lost. Seems this is really way beyond my needs but I'll try to skim through the user manual.