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

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

I have been trying Hazel for the last couple of weeks - it just expired, in fact. Not totally sure it's worth $22 though; I guess I'll wait and see if I miss it moving all my PDFs around etc.

At first blush, Hazel just looks like a fancified interface to Applescript folder actions.

I just started playing around with Scrivener - I'm really enjoying it.

hurrah for free netnewswire!

I am loving Hazel! It is rocking my Desktop and Downloads folders. I've set it up to sweep torrents, picture clippings, screenshots, MP3s, and JPGs all into their own wee folders and now my Desktop is squeaky clean all the time.

I am also loving Google Reader.

I am hearting Geektool at the moment.

Geektool

http://lifehacker.com/assets/2006/07/geektool-fulldesktop1-thumb.jpg

xGestures

I got this a while ago because I had got used to being able to go back and forward between with a mouse gesture in Opera, and when switching back to Safari, it was one of the things I really missed.

So, I got it to replicate that, but it's the ability to set global gestures that make it totally awesome. I've set "rocking right" (holding down the left mouse button then pressing the right) to play/pause iTunes, which is so handy.

"go back and forward between pages" that should read.

http://docs.blacktree.com/nocturne/nocturne

night mode for your computer. Awesome for writing at night. I have mine set to tiny everything a nice orange and drop the brightness down very low. I wish I could screencap this.... but screencapping it makes it normal :D

oh sweet

Why is there even an app for that? Just go into the Universal Access part of System Preferences and switch to grayscale, then hit ctrl+option+command+8 to invert that shit…

Cool. I never knew about ctl+opt+cmd+8. I'm going to start watching all my pr0n this way.

it just turns a 3-step process into a one-click process

I also love the implication that anybody is supposed to know about "ctrl+opt+cmd+8"

lol n00b

Any of you guys played with Piclens? It's pretty cool.

Even I know about ctrl+opt+cmd+8. It's like the ABACAB of Mac lore.

xyzzy

It doesn't just invert the display, you MacAspie choad!

and with that, I realized he was my brother

OK, new toy: skitch!

awesome

is there anything that can reliably play back music in a wide variety of formats, including CUE files? i know there's nothing like foobar, but i feel like there should be something half decent. oh, and is there anything good for mp3 retagging yet?

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/04/30/afloat-2-0-returns-window-floating-to-leopard/

this is so awesome for hulu / dvd player

http://www.usingmac.com/2007/11/18/leopard-tweaking-terminal-codes

Devon Office Pro is rocking my organisational world right now.