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

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.

Might as well ask here -- advice re: recording phone calls on the iPhone, as I'll need to arrange for an upcoming interview I'm doing.

what is a good free video encoder/converter? I use ffmpeg x at home but there are too many files to install here at work.

Visual Hub?

anyone using growl? good ... this is a public service announcement to save 20 minutes of your valuable time.

see when you install the 1.1.3 upgrade? if, like me, you've got growl installed at ~/Library/PreferencePanes, be warned that the installer -- without asking -- will install the new version at /Library/PreferencePanes.

which means you end up with a) two versions of growl; b) the old one still running, not the new one; c) the old one getting confused and upset and dumping a shitload of .reg files in your trash all the time.

i've seen some imbecilic behaviour from installers before, but this takes the biscuit. developers: if you can't write a fucking installer properly, don't bother: just let us drag and drop the fucking files ourselves, eh?

they're also one of those infuriating setups where you can't e-mail them directly: you have to fanny about on google groups.

shame, because it's a great little program. but this is dickwittery par excellence.

Omnigraffle Pro 5. This is SOOOOOO much better than Visio it's just not even a thing. The bezier stuffs in 5 totally is rules.

I should get this so I can start making cartoons and graph art again. I can't fuck off quite so blatantly at work anymore :(

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

http://ianhenderson.org/delimport.html

awesome

http://code.google.com/p/radio2daap/

are people using radio pop?

http://radiopop.co.uk

it has the twin virtues of radio 4 & graphs

http://www.radiopop.co.uk/users/cozen

http://img.skitch.com/20080911-fg5u9smigsy2wskgj9neyms28i.jpg

not mac only, but dropbox just went public and is my favourite thing lately. fantastic for not having to worry about which machine i've been working on.

awesome

http://code.google.com/p/radio2daap/

it sounds great, but how do i use it? is there something there to download?!