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

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?!

haha I totally pasted that link after only reading the blog post here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/09/things_to_do_with_programmes_4.shtml

ten fruitless minutes later pissing about with subversion I give up

: /

also not mac only but still looks great:
http://www.fitbit.com/

http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive

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SSHFS for Darwin: http://mac.pqrs.org/sshfs/

Mount arbitrary remote filesystems over SSH. Doesn't work with Finder yet, but fine from the command line.

― caek (caek), Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:52 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Also, http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ does speak Finder, but its installation is a bit more involved.

― caek (caek), Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

I now approve of the Google code version. The "*unsupported*" GUI wrapper for sshfs is useless, but otherwise, this shit really works.

h'mmmm. isn't that the same thing as what i posted last week? sort of?

From and end-user perspective I guess it is, actually.

Actually, expandrive is a macfuse front-end: http://daringfireball.net/2008/03/expandrive

so performance should be identical

i thought so!