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

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.

I use http://keakaj.com/powercontroller.htm and don't regret the reg fee at all.

to "program" your mac to do other things, try automator, which is built in - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/automator/

It's kinda funny that Cog seems to have had a redesign to make it a lot more like iTunes.

QuickTime 7.2 addresses critical security issues and delivers:
- Support for full screen viewing in QuickTime Player
- Updates to the H.264 codec
- Numerous bug fixes

yeah toby :(

Delicious Library is godlike-- especially with the iSight. Scan the barcodes on all of your CDs, DVDs, tapes, video games, books, and it finds them on Amazon, downloads the cover, puts up some information, and puts them all on a sexy little shelf. It even modifies the cover so it looks like it's in a shiny DVD or CD case (or flattens it if it's a book). Seriously you need to see this thing. There's a demo that allows you fifty items, IIRC.

Sorry if it already got mentioned, but I love it.

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

Also, you can just get Vienna which is free. (though I use NetNewsWire because I sync across several computers

Just as another alternative you can set up a cron job that invokes AppleScript that starts your alarm clock playlist.

we used delicious library to list a few hundred things for sale on amazon and ebay earlier in the year - definitely an absolute godsend. i think garagesale also has functionality for barcode scanning built in, too, for all your ebay needs.

actually if garagesale hasn't been mentioned already, that's definitely one of my favourite mac apps. i can't imagine using ebay without it.

obviously i guess that isn't the main idea of delicious library, but it's a very useful sideline.

what IS the main idea then?? it sounds like a lot of busy-work to me. i already do enough tedious crap at my day job.

i think the main idea is that you might want to have some kind of digital catalogue of all your books etc. doesn't appeal to me at all, but i can imagine there's a market for it. for us it certainly speeded up all the book selling, and also made it more 'fun', too (probably the lack of tedious crap in my day job helped here - realistically waving barcodes in front of your laptop for hours isn't the best leisure activity going).

on the iphone front, i have a feeling that this is going to be great (it's already pretty good):

http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/