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

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).

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.

TBH being able to format a citation properly and the amount of swearing it causes in my girlfriend was reason enough not to bother with endnote.

not mac but gotta believe google apps will eat http://www.pixlr.com/ any day now

I've been hearing about Papers, I will give it a try. I use BibDesk to manage my citations (I work almost entirely in *TeX) and I guess it can be used as a paper organizer, but I've not explored that. But what I'd like is a program organizing other author's PDFs in which I could take notes on papers ---and preferably write notes on topics for which there is no corresponding paper; a note organizer in addition to a paper organizer. Right now I have notes scattered all through my folders, because my papers intersect topics somewhat but then I don't know where to put the notes on that topic. There must be something good in all those notes I wrote, say, 5 years ago, that I haven't opened since then!

I don't know how Papers handles this, but in Sente you can do pretty much this: highlight the text of the PDF you want to note, hit "note" and it'll extract it and leave a space for you to type yr note. You can make yr own notes without a reference as well.

Video: http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/site/videos/notes.html

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See, this kind of thing is why I love and adore Spotlight ... even if I don't know which file or folder I put some random thoughts, I can apple-Space, search for those thoughts and invariably find them.

What I'd really, really like is for Spotlight also to be able to search iPhone notes when it's connected (or even in wifi range) ...

I don't trust spotlight: too often it doesn't bring up results that I *know* are there. It's most obvious with System Preference panes, which should appear but often don't.

I haven't found Spotlight as useful as I'd hoped it would be for finding information in my notes. That's partly a function of how many notes I have, and how many repeated phrases there are in them. I think no automated solution will help with this, though.

xpost exactly

DevonThink's intelligent categorisation might be able to help with that. Review here:
http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html

I am very big on devonthink. Organises my mind so I don't have to.

been debating for a while whether devonthink is something i ought to use....not doing research, tho, so it might be overkill.

also, i work exclusively in *TeX, but i'll look into this papers thing

I looked at the DevonThink website, found it kinda bewildering but maybe if I d/l a demo it'll make more sense.

It's one of those "Everything buckets" like Yojimbo, that you drop PDFs, RTFs, .docs, text, pix etc into, and can categorise them, but it has extra auto categorisation that tries to sort them for you. It's pretty handy.