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Plus, it's scriptable!

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

imap and pop are two different types of mail server, you won't have a choice of which one to use as whoever has your mail will have made that decision.

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

Mplayer is the best video player around I reckon, at least for the more esoteric formats.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 January 2004 07:11 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I have "avi2mov" and it just doesn't seem to work.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

the one thing I don't like about safari is it doesn't have a little bar at the bottom that tells you the location of hyperlinks when you run your mouse over them. can't imagine why not.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

slutsky otm

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

doesn't it drive you crazy?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

yeah especially when the link leads to a mailto and then the comp instantly loads up mail gah fuck me till i fart!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

Under view, hit status bar.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

yay! thanks bnw, I was poking around in prefs and couldn't find anything!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

That irritated the fuck out of me until someone told me how to fix it. Also it looked bad, like the webpage was spilling out of the window.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, agreed!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

Wait, is Safari just Netscape plus? I don't get it.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

It's actually Internet Explorer for Mac plus, in a way -- it was developed by Apple to provide a Mac-centered browser.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

Er... but it's a Mozilla engine, isn't it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

with a twist of mozilla!

(xp!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

Yay! I don't know much about Mozilla, ya see.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

It's weird, bc on my version when I click it it links up with Netscape.

Anyway, what is a good homepage that a) is not google and b) is not ilxor?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago) link

Um, what do you want out of a homepage? I just use a blank page.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

I want to be stimulated yet soothed, entertained but not overwhelmed, informed but not hit over the head. I want to reach different lands.

This is the default for my safari:

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/weather/default.jsp

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

(Is Mac using all these brushed silver interfaces so that we will think we need to go out and buy the tianium overheater?)

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

www.aldaily.com ?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

Safari is a little bit helpful I guess, with the ez links to Amazon and ebay. And the google window.

How do I toggle back and forth between applications? And why does my Acquisition icon keep bouncing up and down when I am not using it?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yes, I like aldaily and I read it a lot. It's just not something I would want to look at, say 4 am if I turned my computer on.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

alt-tab!

and I don't know!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't read aldaily in forever! that actually used to be my home page, until they got all snide and conservative

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

It's bouncing because it wants your attention.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

Alt tab does nothing for me. Oops, ichats bouncing, gotta go.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

Not "alt", "cmd". The little thing with the apple next to the space bar. It switches between apps.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

And it does this rather stylishly if you're in Panther!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

I am in Jaguar. Yes, apple tab is working; thanks!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link

oh yeah, I guess I haven't completely left my pc days behind me (alt is in the same place as command!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh, I forgot; I like Show Desktop (instant hide all that sits in the menu bar) and also Lite Switch for apple-tab switching betwqeen apps. Yeah, it's a pc inspired app, but it looks so good under OS X...

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 23 January 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

Er... but it's a Mozilla engine, isn't it?

Actually it's Konqueror.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link

*checks* He's right, you know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:31 (twenty years ago) link

What's the best way to 'publish' an iTunes playlist? Exporting as text looks terrible, .xml doesn't work for some reason (when I open the file in IE, it's just XML code), and I think iTunes Publisher is shareware.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:42 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, how do you do that?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

I'm in Safari, it went to this loud Web page, I just want to turn down the volume, but where is it?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 23 January 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago) link

It's not in your menu bar? On my iBook it's also F4 and F5 keys for quieter and louder. There should also be a setting in your System Preferences.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

Ah fek all that, I play boxikon. I rool!

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

Eric's Ultimate Solitaire -- Montana. So addictive.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 23 January 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

Thank you Chris.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 23 January 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

NetNewsWire is eating me alive. I don't dare subscribe to a thread here with it.

― don atwater weiner, Monday, 29 March 2004 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

Steam! All the BBC stations organized into one, little... hoondga doonja!

http://members.cox.net/flixtonsoftware/Steam/

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

iTunes Publisher is freeware, as far as I can recall. I've never had any nags with it, anyway.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

PSI is a good jabber client with msn and aim transport.

Will

― willdabeast, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Haven't really added or subtracted any apps since I last posted. New things I really like are:

Gmail Status: a menu bar app that tells you if you have any unread Gmail email.

SolarSeek: slsk client that doesn't depend on X11 or any weird ports. Still in early development stage but works pretty well

xAct: converts .flac, .shn, etc. audio files to plain ole .aiff

Wiretap: records streaming audio (or anything coming through the speakers) to .aiff. I use it for recording RealPlayer streams.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link

that gmail status sounds very useful!! and what is the deal with this solarseek

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

wiretap looks handy

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Solarseek seems to require 10.3, so it's no good to me.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

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