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

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.

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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!

FREEDOM

I used to know of some way to take any arbitrary text and make it BIG, like "large type" in Address Book. What was this?

Quicksilver.

Yeah, I thought so. Quicksilver is an unstable piece of trash, tho.

otm

yay! http://mac.utorrent.com/beta/

been rocking this for 24 hours now without trouble. it's like transmission without the broken protocol and azureus without feeling distressed that something so skeezy is on your computer.

Holy shit! Joy!

Quicksilver iTunes plugin + Growl

=?

oic

What is broken with Transmission?

It doesn't upload as much as Vuze or uTorrent on the same connection for me, which screws my ratio on private sites.

holy wazongas - ExpanDrive is like magical fairy dust!

how the hell can something like this exist?

who needs a goddamn VPN i ask you

Edgies.

http://www.sophiestication.com/coversutra/ is great for iTunes. Loving the keyboard shortcut to bring up a floating player HUD. And it scrobbles without that dodgy last.fm scrobbler plugin.

Dude, you're only bothering with this because you've now got acres and acres of spare monitor space you want to fill somehow ;)

Nice idea, but really ... I've never thought it a particular hassle to flick in and out of iTunes when I want to change the record. And now that I've started using Spaces not just as a curio but as an essential productivity tool, it's even more straightforward (ie all music apps live in Space 3, meaning I'm a keystroke away from them at any time).