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

Not Mac specific, but if we're talking about to-do lists and gtd (ugh) apps, I like https://ticktick.com enough to pay for it.

In conjunction with a todo.txt

sorry, used 'conjunction' incorrectly. You know what I mean, though

wasn't omnifocus bundled with OSX back in the powerPC days?

― 龜, Monday, August 7, 2017 12:12 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no iirc a demo of omnioutliner was.

omnifocus came out of someone writing an insane amount of applescript to turn OO into a task manager. that package of scripts was called kinklessGTD (lol).

sold

TickTick looks p neat. Though I always have to laugh at the "it only costs a cup of coffee per month" advertising. It always makes me think: "Well, if you put it that way, I'll take the coffee."

Will try the free version.

https://shawnblanc.net/2014/03/history-of-omnifocus-for-mac/

Just switched from ticktick to Trello--WAY better, but I'm afraid of Atlassian shutting it down some day!

Trello's so much better I feel like I just rebooted my entire life

> anybody run xscreensaver on their mac? if so, how does the gleidescope module look?
> Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 10:04 (eleven years ago)

I now have a Mac at work and can answer my own question. It looks OK. The way he's implemented the image picker means you can't use the hidden option to get it to generate geometric shapes for you (and i can't find a file that would let you specify options manually). But pointed at a folder full of nice Bosch images it's fine.

(btw, I get a script busy warning when opening the fold in this thread, something about link skimmer. Sounds a bit suspect)

I've been using Thunderbird for years to manage work and personal email accounts (both gmail), but it's getting really slow. What is everyone's preferred email client for Mac? Should I go with Inbox?

Airmail is pretty decent

Probably challops but if I had to make a decision today I'd start with the built-in mail client for a while and then ditch it if it's not a good fit

Yeah Mail works fine.

As a gmail user I still just use mailplane.

I haven't uninstalled Go for Gmail yet. Doesn't mean there's not something better out there.

Looking for something that only shows desktop notifications for mail in my primary gmail folder. And oh, those notifications must be able to span my half-dozen spaces, not just the one the app is running in.

Being using Spark, I like it for managing personal accounts

i've finally gotten off my lazy ass and installed a password manager (dashlane, in my case). it is a pain in the ass to go through all of my passwords and change them and synch them up, but so far i feel like dashlane is making it about as easy as it can be.

anyone else use it? if so, i'm wondering what happens when the 30-day free trial ends (i know i'll be able to keep using the desktop/chrome extension as normal, but it'll stop syncing with my iphone? but if does that, won't that mean that i'll be totally screwed whenever trying to enter any password on my phone?)

Why did you choose Dashlane instead of more well-known ones like LastPass, KeePass, AssPass etc? What made you settle on this one? Asking for "a friend".

honestly i just read read a little bit of the recently published WIRED set of articles on security (https://www.wired.com/2017/12/digital-security-guide/), and in the password manager article they hyped dashlane, 1password, and lastpass. of the three, dashlane seemed to have the best "free" plan, and was the only one of the three that seemed practical to use for free in perpetuity. i might be wrong about that, though - that's why i was unsure about how it syncs up with my iphone after the 30-day period passes. if it turns out that i do have to pay, though, it's only a few dollars a month. i'm happy to add that small amount to my VPN monthly payment to give me a little peace of mind.

btw is AssPass real? looooool

for some reason i always quote "the password is assward" like it's from some famous movie or something, but now it's happening in real life!

I don’t feel like mingling my work and home ones so I use Apple’s stuff at home and my group has a shared keepass one at work

pro tip: apple doesn’t have a standalone password lookup app on iOS but it’s in the settings app

With great regret I have to inform you AssPass is not real (yet!), rather a figment of my questionable imagination. But if you want to B in BzNzz, I'm positive that as partners we can get billions of $$ in S1l1c0n V4ll3Y for our amazing start up.

"At AssPass, we care about security. That's why we don't store all your passwords in some silly crypto-code thingy (lol nerds), but in a place where no-one will ever find them, let alone hack it: in our asses. Your passwords will be drinking tequila's by the pool and having a blast playing Marco Polo with other safe passwords, all secure and tranquil, in the one place where the sun never shines. AssPass: We really take security seriously. We take your passwords in the ass."

"We put the ASS in password" probably a better tag line

(ty for the wired link for real btw :)

loooool

you'd think i'd raise an eyebrow at AssPass, but no, seemed legit to me!

I use 1Password and more or less endorse it. I don’t have a subscription though; I bought full versions of Mac and iOS apps before that was a thing.

i have 1passwd too and it is great, or at least it was until a recent version wanted me to sign up for some cloud thing that i totally didn't want but seemingly had to use in order to get it working on my work computer, but i managed to install an older version (6 i think) and now it works just fine w/my dropbox like it always did and yeah, no subscription. i got kinda shook by the weirdo cloud rigamarole thing though

Hey, I have a somewhat basic Mac IT question, but does anyone know if the new OS is okay for a 2012 Macbook?

I'm using it on a 2011 mini so I'd expect so

i like dashlane - as you say, Karl, it seems about as easy as these things get to be... HOWEVER am examining my options now that the free has expired

what turns off is the "sync" which synchronizes your devices' password lists. so each device still has the same password list as when the "free 30 days" expired - but if you change/add a password on one device, you have to manually add/edit it on your other devices. it's a clever thing to force you to pay for - didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but i now recognize how annoying it is to go without it.

:-/ that's what i was afraid of! so basically, after 30 days, if you added/changed a password on your laptop and had dashlane generated a strong unique one like v#m.g)nm29]|, then then you'd have to either manually enter than in on your iphone or copy and paste it from your laptop to your phone (which seems less than completely secure)?

yes :(

good lord, how many typos can a post have? sorry about that, i was apparently typing in a hurricane!

thanks for confirming, sean! in my quest to never pay for anything, i think my plan is to update all of my passwords on mobile/laptop during this 30-day time of plenty, and then just deal with the occasional headache of adding or changing a new password afterward.

Another vote for 1password - paid version, using iCloud to sync.

Another vote for 1password - paid version, using iCloud to sync.

is there a hoonja doonja for connecting or choosing between which of the various bluetooth enabled appliances around the flat? there must be an easier way than going into settings all the time.

the bluetooth icon in your top menubar
if not there you can enable it in settings

sorry, i meant on a phone.

if it’s for audio the audio player should have the little icon to pick where to send it. other devices, good luck :/

sorry, i meant on a phone.

urp, apparently i was running ssX in emulation on 10.6.8, because upgrading to high sierra has ruined it. is there any good slsk client for an intel-based os x besides soulseekQT?

What’s wrong with qt?

dunno i haven't gotten it yet i guess the idea of being forced into the only possible alternative seemed grim, i remember the clients that were not ssX being pretty bad

QT works better than any other client I've had

i just don't like change ok

it's clunky looking but works like greased lightning

it's the Millennium Falcon of OS X Soulseek clients.

it is!

I use backblaze and pretty happy with it though wish it could just accept that I don't plug in my external hard drive for months at a time