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

And you can't get a serial number from one of the 10,000 w@r3z sites?

people like me have been using it for 1,000 years and are REALLY fast. I can layout a magazine with just using key commands.

it doesn't have a million palettes.

InDesigns method at beating quark was to make every feature available on a palette, so you could just click on everything instead of knowing the key commands to bring up whatever menu item you needed. Also, with the palettes, you can click on options while still basically being in your document, as opposed to Quark's method of making you open a dialogue window, clicking "preview", making changes, clicking apply.

Only problem is InDesign becomes a mess of palettes, and if you just click them all off, it can be easy to not know where to find the functions, especially if you're still accidently using quark key commands (and yes I know indesign can use quark key commands, but I don't want to do that, I want to get used to adobe so I can more seamlessly switch to photoshop/illustrator.)

The cure is to re-arrange your workspace which I just did. Basically, hiding palettes I'm not going to use, changing which palettes are group with which and putting them in good places. I now feel so much better. And you can save and copy the workspace, so like, I can copy my workspace to my iDisk and if I go to a freelance job, upload the workspace and everything is where I want it to be. That's nice. I know quark has this now, but fuck 'em.

Anyway, quark has been buggy as hell for as long as I can remember, and they spent the last several versions adding features so you could make websites with quark (who does that?) while Adobe was clearly adding features that print and design pros want.

it just sucks because like, half of how I'm able to make any money is because I know printing and general production issues, the other half is because I'm fast at Quark. Still, at this point, more and more places are switching to InDesign and there aren't as many freelancers who've made the switch, so that's something.

What would be nice would be to make money selling music and never have to use Quark or InDesign ever again. Wait, what were we talking about?

You can (I have), but it's idiotic for Apple not to bundle it with Macs. One of the first things people see when they buy a new Mac is those awful greyed out menu items with "FREE" next to them, which look so cheap and Windows. Such a bad impression. FFS, $30 is a rounding error on the price of a Mac. They include much more valuable software (e.g. iMovie). Just bundle it already.

http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Soundabout/SoundaboutMain.html

What I want to know is what the hell is up with FileRun, it's like the coolest thing that never actually came out. http://filerun.info

VIDEOABOUT too please

http://freakshowsoftware.com/

PhotoBooth clone for older macs. Works with other usb/fw cams.

Did you guys know that iChat in the latest 10.4.X supports generic USB cams? I am using an XBOX360 cam.

i can't see you

waht

ok, torrent client advice updates plz. I have Tomato Torrent, and of course it works, but what I really want is something that feels like uTorrent, with easy tracking of everything being hosted, etc. I have not played with X Torrent.

The other option, of course, is to just keep using the PC as a torrent machine, which is probably the better idea. :(

waht is wrong with azureus? (besides the fact that it is ugly)

Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. Thanks.

Thing is, Vista is expiring on me in 12 days, and I have no intention of buying a legit copy of the piece of shit, so I went and bought an iMac this weekend to transfer all my shit on to, and then I'll wipe the drives on my PC, reinstall XP, and use it strictly for storage. But I haven't used a Mac for fun not-work things in a while, so you will see me on this thread again v v soon.

Hooray new computer!

Didn't you used to take every opportunity to run Macs down?

Years ago.

It was just foolishness associated with not knowing how to smoothly use one. I outgrew that pretty quick.

That's why I dismiss everybody who says stuff I disagree with. They just haven't outgrown their early wrong opinions.

is soulseex still the best slsk for OS X?

ah, success. I wiped my PC, installed a rather lovely crack of XP, and got my Mac talking to that machine, so I can manage any of the files there from my Mac. So I have one nice machine, and one giant 540 gig storage facility and downloading station.

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yes it is. that said, honestly demands that i note a lot of people use solarseek (it may be a majority now) which has a lot of problems (e.g., certain information - such as bit rate - is only visible when the browser and the browsee are both using solarseek. solarseek is much more likely to crash; the search results window is more difficult to read and not fully manipulatable the way ssX and soulseek are. but apparently some people just want the program to look OSX-y and don't care how well it works.

so, yes, ssX is the best for OS X.

Did you guys know that iChat in the latest 10.4.X supports generic USB cams? I am using an XBOX360 cam.

ironically it didn't allow my iSIGHT cam! I use Skype for video chat now.

My biggest issue with ssX is that it beachballs constantly after a few days. I've reduced most of that by careful tuning of the network parameters, so it's not so big a deal now. I wish the interface were unified in one window, but I'll take ssX's relative stability any day over the disaster that is Solarseek.

i just paid $29 for newsfire.

will this completely change how i use the internet?!?

siw.exe

YMMV, Vahid. I downloaded an RSS reader (NetNewsWire Lite) two years ago and decided that they're not for me. Blogs and news sites being what they are, much of the content consists of links to other sites, which will keep you going back to your browser anyway. I guess the major benefit to reader programs is that for those who are on the internet all day, you'll know when your favorite sites have updated so that you won't have to keep checking back.

(Also, the site for newsfire says $20, so see if you can get your $9 back.)

slightly offtopic but...

dudzors, i have owned my mac for well over a year now and i remain quite convinced that there should be some way to, ahem, "program" it to do things, e.g. automatically launch iTunes at 10pm to play a certain radio show, or wake me up with the radio in the mornings (like an alarm clock). however i have been unable to figure out how. Anybody else do ostuff like this, and if so, how? As I said, it reallly seems like the pieces are there in OS X, but maybe i need some hoonja-doonja?

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-46603.html

http://electronicholas.com/itunesleep

totally worth the reg fee.