― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 19 January 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link
does anybody know any good shareware games to download?
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago) link
*You have shot 2000 lbs of food. You were only able to bring 20 lbs back to the wagon*
― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:06 (twenty years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:23 (twenty years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link
iTunes Artwork - This do?
― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 19 January 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
WeatherPop - adds current weather info to menubar. I didn't see the point at first but now I'm creepily addicted to it.
Synergy - my favorite of the iTunes remote controllers.
― Hammy (hammy), Monday, 19 January 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 19 January 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 19 January 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 January 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
MailSafariiChatTransmitThothAlepin (a Stickies/NotePad replacement)SherlockWatsonAddressBookNetNewsWire (RSS feed reader)iCalOracle Calendar (for the shared calendar at work)CD Finder (for CD-R/DVD-R catalogs)iTunesBBEditPreviewFileMakerImageReady (which I use more often for image processing than Photoshop)iPhotoNetwork UtilityX11 (for Soulseek mostly)TerminalMacPAR Deluxe (for processing most lengthy USENET downloads)Stuffit Expandera folder filled with aliases to just about everything else
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
Konfabulator is cool and actually, pretty easy to program. As is AppleScript.
ShapeShifter is a lot like Kaleidoscope if that's your bag.
GarageBand is pretty awesome, as is iLIFE in general. FUCKING IDVD4 WON'T BURN FOR ME THOUGH.
Bit Torrent kicks ass. So does WeatherPop. MacMAME for-evah!
VLC plays .avi files very well, including divx.
Marine Aquarium is amazing.
Peak is a seriously good tool for music.
I tried to go over to Mail and lasted a few weeks until it started crashing all the time. I'm now back on Entourage.
― don weiner, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link
and Mail is still the best for IMAP email (I use IMAP for everything instead of POP)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago) link
Never let the flame be extinguished.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:32 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 07:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
― don weiner, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
Is Safari the best browser to run these days?
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:52 (twenty years ago) link
See the wikipedia on IMAP and POP.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:48 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:03 (twenty years ago) link
I don't know why, but I got very exited about this, despite not knowing "scriptable" from a bite in the leg.
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago) link
Actually, at least here, most ISPs let you chose which one you want to use. IMAP stores the mail files on the server (can log in from anywhere & have all yr mail available to you) vs. POP downloads it to your computer (if you log in on a different computer, you won't see any of yr mail in the server inbox). My ideal is IMAP with a copy of the mail on my local disk for backup. I check my mail all over on different computers, so I like having all my messages always available.
― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 22 January 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 January 2004 07:11 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
It turns out it's easy to get on the beta for nvUltra. Recommended for Notational Velocity junkies.
― stet, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
my experience was not as good (bloated, buggy), but at least it doesn't crash as soon as you open it on recent macos, unlike the original and nvalt. i gave up after a couple of days. it's been in beta for like 5 years. the author seems a bit nuts tbh and i'd be surprised if it ever ships.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
I've never cottoned on to any of those note-bucket/offboard-brain type apps. I'd rather forget things.
― G. DβArcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 2 February 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
nvUltra has been fine. I don't use any of the new features. seems just as fast as NV/nvAlt to me.
― what have I done to deserve you (lukas), Thursday, 2 February 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link
Torrent client Transmission finally hits v4.0.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 06:17 (one year ago) link
Rewriting from C to C++ is a wild project to take on but Iβm glad it worked out for them I guess
― G. DβArcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 07:21 (one year ago) link
Is there a reliable way to update a 2013 MacBook to one of the newer OSs? Without destroying the computer?
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 09:32 (one year ago) link
Not sure but I have a 2015 Macbook that's running Monterey fine
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 12:49 (one year ago) link
i was pleasantly surprised at the (low) price of "mid-2015" macbooks like the one i use day-in and day-out at work and which copes with that fine. like Β£300. proper ports too, like usb and hdmi and sd card and actual earphone plug.
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
(^ running big sur, nagging me to install monterey)
Finally sold my 2014 mbp for $175 and bought an m1 air on sale for 800. Happy with the upgrade
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
proper ports too, like usb and hdmi and sd card and actual earphone plug.
they all have usb and earphone plugs? i can get behind complaining about missing sd card, but hdmi?
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
ports i have nothing to plug into are useless to me. all my external drives are usb2*, my tv and monitor both have hdmi.
(* when i sent this one back to get the battery fixed they sent me a newer mac to use for the two weeks it'd be away. i backed everything up before it arrived but the replacement only had usb3 inputs. it stayed in the box.)
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
so, truly asking for a friend here:
does anyone have any suggestions for music software (think garageband, logic, or even something like audacity) that would be compatible with a 2011 iMac running Sierra? he got a hand-me-down ancient iMac and wants to use it to do some basic demo recordings, but is finding that stuff like garageband requires newer OS that can't be installed on older macs.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
can it go to High Sierra? Audacity works for that.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
i will ask! according to this, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251009089, a mid-2011 iMac can install 10.13 high sierra, so that might just be a possibility. thanks!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
Also check out Reaper... you might could find an older version that'd be compatible...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 9 February 2023 23:13 (one year ago) link
I have a mid 2011 Mac mini running High Sierra and Audacity fwiw
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 February 2023 23:17 (one year ago) link
Yah, thereβs a current version of Reaper that will run as far back as 10.5https://www.reaper.fm/download.php
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 February 2023 10:03 (one year ago) link
caek was right, it's bad.
caek, what did you move to?
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:17 (eleven months ago) link
a weird neovim plugin with very few users that i like a lot but doesn't appear to be maintained and i cannot in good faith recommend https://github.com/wincent/corpus
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:53 (eleven months ago) link
i also played with obsidian. it wasn't for me, but it seems like nvultra but with a roadmap and community. that's definitely worth checking out.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:54 (eleven months ago) link
https://obsidian.md/
I like the idea of Obsidian but it seems like the ultimate "fuck around with the settings rather than get things done" kind of app. Like, I would spend all my time building taxonomies as a way to procrastinate.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:00 (eleven months ago) link
i get what you mean but i think its mostly fine. its adoption by the zettelkasten community is the source of that vibe. i was as happy as i was going to be with it after changing like 3 settings.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:03 (eleven months ago) link
(i think it was just cosmetic stuff re: colorscheme and font, teaching it the folder structure i wanted, and a shortcut to open a dated for today)
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:04 (eleven months ago) link
*a dated note
I might try Obsidian again when I go back to Uni in October. I mostly use Scrivener (e.g. for keeping notes and essay writing), and even though it can be hard work, and the updates are never what I want, I just prefer Scrivener's look and feel.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:16 (eleven months ago) link
a weird neovim plugin with very few users that i like a lot but doesn't appear to be maintained and i cannot in good faith recommendOh perfect. AND I can pretend that I'm finally going to become really nimble with vim.I'm keeping to-dos in Logseq (similar to Obsidian) and have been toying with moving my notes there. It's great for what I'm using it for, but I'm leery. And, dammit, the unified title display / search / create UI hasn't been bettered.
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:48 (eleven months ago) link
The Zettelkasten crew led me to this app The Archive which has exactly that UI and is actually pretty decent so far https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/
― stet, Sunday, 16 April 2023 16:37 (eleven months ago) link
that looks perfect, stet, thanks. have been using nvultra for a while, but it's trying to do a lot more than i want. i don't really like the *feel* of obsidian, even though really it's doing a lot of what I want. i do find logseq good for work - daily meeting journal, key areas as pages etc. but for personal stuff I just want raw note taking. my old simplenote on phone + nvalt on mac set-up was perfect tbh.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 April 2023 13:17 (eleven months ago) link
Alternate plug for iaWriter as my solution for this. I keep trying to use Obsidian and whatever new system comes along, but i dunno - I can procrastinate enough tags out before doing actual work.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 23 April 2023 01:56 (eleven months ago) link
my favorite technology "radar" (because it's the the only one of these kind of things that isn't completely worthless) has logseq in it's quarterly report
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radarhttps://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/logseq-as-team-knowledge-base
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 27 April 2023 05:51 (eleven months ago) link
I have thoughts on thoughtworks but I, too, appreciate their tech radar
― mh, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:31 (eleven months ago) link
Just posted a vague and messy question tangentially related to this:
Second Brain: Note taking, productivity, Notion, Airtable, Obsidian, Mondays, Asana etc
― dan selzer, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:36 (nine months ago) link