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

*You have shot 2000 lbs of food. You were only able to bring 20 lbs back to the wagon*

iTunes Artwork - This do?

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.

Mail
Safari
iChat
Transmit
Thoth
Alepin (a Stickies/NotePad replacement)
Sherlock
Watson
AddressBook
NetNewsWire (RSS feed reader)
iCal
Oracle Calendar (for the shared calendar at work)
CD Finder (for CD-R/DVD-R catalogs)
iTunes
BBEdit
Preview
FileMaker
ImageReady (which I use more often for image processing than Photoshop)
iPhoto
Network Utility
X11 (for Soulseek mostly)
Terminal
MacPAR Deluxe (for processing most lengthy USENET downloads)
Stuffit Expander
a folder filled with aliases to just about everything else

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.

and Mail is still the best for IMAP email (I use IMAP for everything instead of POP)

Never let the flame be extinguished.

Is Safari the best browser to run these days?

See the wikipedia on IMAP and POP.

I don't know why, but I got very exited about this, despite not knowing "scriptable" from a bite in the leg.

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.

nvUltra has been fine. I don't use any of the new features. seems just as fast as NV/nvAlt to me.

Torrent client Transmission finally hits v4.0.

Rewriting from C to C++ is a wild project to take on but I’m glad it worked out for them I guess

Is there a reliable way to update a 2013 MacBook to one of the newer OSs? Without destroying the computer?

Not sure but I have a 2015 Macbook that's running Monterey fine

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 £300. proper ports too, like usb and hdmi and sd card and actual earphone plug.

(^ 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

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?

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.)

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.

can it go to High Sierra? Audacity works for that.

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!

Also check out Reaper... you might could find an older version that'd be compatible...

I have a mid 2011 Mac mini running High Sierra and Audacity fwiw

Yah, there’s a current version of Reaper that will run as far back as 10.5

https://www.reaper.fm/download.php

nvUltra has been fine. I don't use any of the new features. seems just as fast as NV/nvAlt to me.

caek was right, it's bad.

caek, what did you move to?

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

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.

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.

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.

(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)

*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.

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

Oh 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.

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/

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.

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.

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/radar
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/logseq-as-team-knowledge-base

I have thoughts on thoughtworks but I, too, appreciate their tech radar

Just posted a vague and messy question tangentially related to this:

Second Brain: Note taking, productivity, Notion, Airtable, Obsidian, Mondays, Asana etc