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

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/

GarageSale and iSale are both pretty crap compared to Ebay's free (Windows) software. Too many submenus (as for pre-filled item info), too much cutesy stuff.

Delicious Library sounds awesome for the first day or two, until you've catalogued X number of DVDs and then you realize that you already pretty much knew what you had and what's the point of keeping this up? LibraryThing is similar, but at least there you get to have fun finding out which people across the country are like you book-wise, how you stack up in the groups you've joined, etc..

witch!

mac's alt.tabbing always bugged me and witch fixes it.

Did you guys know that iChat in the latest 10.4.X supports generic USB cams?

all my software is up to date, but mine does not :(

I just discovered WebDeveloper in Firefox (on mac, but also on Windows?). I fucking love it. Should have installed it much earlier and save some time when changing the HTML in a Wordpress Theme.

I just discovered WebDeveloper in Firefox

Sounds like I should discover it -- um, where is it?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

Too kind.

Meanwhile, while I'm sure there's an answer upthread, I'm long overdue for something for identifying/scrubbing spyware and just plain cleaning up the drive and all. Preferences, anyone?

do you have spyware on your mac??

I sure as fuck hope not! (But stupider has occurred, thus my possibly unjustified concern.)

For the time being, the consensus is that your concern is unjustified. Some people play it super-safe by having an account without administrator privileges for day-to-day use, and if you're really worried you could do that, but frankly I wouldn't bother.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476. This will have to do while I am still working on my maturiyty and self-control.

tell application "Safari"

	

	set frontmost_window to (window 1) -- Window with index 1 is frontmost

	repeat with idx from 1 to the count of every tab in frontmost_window

		do JavaScript "window.location.reload()" in (tab idx of window 1)

	end repeat

	

end tell

tivo for radio

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/radioshift/

yeah, now that steam has... run out of it, that looks pretty good

http://proxi.griffintechnology.com/

for those with massive movie collections, i just found a great alternative to delicious library. dvdpedia is less bulky, supports fullscreen and comes with an itunes-like coverflow feature.

I can't believe I never mentioned Textmate here!

http://macromates.com/

I only scratch the surface of its features, but it's easily the best text editor I've ever used.

I still haven't moved on from BBEdit although I know I should

Textmate still feels a little sluggish to me

Did I ever post on this? I'm still all up on NetNewsWire, TextMate, Coda, Transmit, CSSEdit, Twitterific (despite friggin advertisements), iScrobbler, and a half dozen other things.

Anything new for the new year? (Finally installed Leopard today.)

I'm still on tiger. Just got a 1TB drive, can anybody recommend a free or shareware or cheap back-up solution? Carbon-copy cloner or anything like that?

I'm nervous about updating to Leopard because some of my software may not like it and updating from Panther to Tiger slowed my computer down (I have the first silver g5 tower), though I've read reports that Leopard is actually faster than Tiger even on a way older machine. Any truth to that?

dan i don't know, i've been scared too. but i'm tempted based on the spotlight improvements alone (i.e. the thing actually working).

for backups, deja vu has always worked like a dream for me -

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9221

If you're prepared to pay a bit, I'm told SuperDuper is better than CCC for backups.

I'm still on tiger. Just got a 1TB drive, can anybody recommend a free or shareware or cheap back-up solution? Carbon-copy cloner or anything like that?

Yea carbon copy cloner works well!

I'm nervous about updating to Leopard because some of my software may not like it and updating from Panther to Tiger slowed my computer down (I have the first silver g5 tower),

Backup with Carbon Copy Cloner and test that you can BOOT off your external disk -- I think this only works with firewire disks. Anyway, if you can boot off yr backup volume (hold alt/option at boot), you can install Leopard on the system drive and keep yr old Tiger install on the external. If you don't like Leopard, boot off the external and image Tiger back to the internal.

though I've read reports that Leopard is actually faster than Tiger even on a way older machine. Any truth to that?

My Powebook G4 flies with a fresh install of Leopard.

guys this thing is sooo good -

http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/set-up-a-self+cleaning-mac-with-hazel-320951.php

http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php

this is seriously the best hoonja doonja ever

DOES anyone know where I can get a copy of Maniac Mansion for my old OS? is mac yes