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

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.

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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).

I know its not mac only but can I rep for how good dropbox.com is?

Also growl is proving surprisingly useful right now.

Also: fuck the dodgy Last.fm client. iScrobbler is the only way to roll.

xpost Dropbox is a FUCKING JOY, yes -- and really, really highlights just how reekingly piss-sodden iDisk is.

iscrobbler

I meant to type that in the search box.

Best place to get it is via the link from the Last.fm group: here.

It is devoid of all bells and whistles, but works seamlessly, handles iPods perfectly ... and is written by a decent dude who genuinely gives a shit about it.

Does everyone in Academe know about the truly fucking amazing Papers?

http://mekentosj.com/papers/

iTunes for Academic papers, links with the word 2008 bib tool as well. Can't tell you how awesome this is.

I tried that, but ended up using the similar Sente, which I'm a huge fan of: http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/site/introduction.html
made bibliographies almost as easy as using bibtext, with the codez

ever time I try to use any thing *TeX I fight it for a week and then slink sullenly back to work. I tried Sente as well but the search interface is vastly inferior. I am agitating with the papers developers for them to support annotations and then I will be as a happy as a pig without swine flu.

See, I've wondered about Sente (on Stet's recommendation) and Papers looks interesting too, but a combination of sensible naming convention + Spotlight has never missed a beat for me ... seriously, I think I could put my finger on any downloaded paper you cared to ask for, and I just know I'd spend more time dicking about with Papers, Sente etc than I would actually using them usefully :)

As for bibliographies ... I've got the reference section for my last essay to do after lunch, but it really will be as simple as reading, copying and pasting. Fuck an Endnote, etc.

(I guess what I'm saying is: I'm really, really fucking anal about the way I store PDFs and take notes from them. Heh.)

Papers makes it so easy to manage everything and pull metadata pretty well. My only gripes are lack of annotation support and no interface to SSRN or Science direct's search engines.

I agree wrt fuck an endnote.

Yeh, Sente's killer feature for me was binning EndNote.