huh, interesting. i was viewing a pdf in preview, and outside of that i updated the underlying file and generated a new pdf for it, and preview automatically redrew the newest version. wouldn't have thought it would do that.
― j., Monday, 10 December 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
it does do that, very useful for TeX things.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 10 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
Search box is my calculator
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 10 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
lol yes it me
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
someone described Pro Office Calculator as the Frog Fractions of calculators. if that sentence is not gibberish to you, it may be worth playing around with
― orifex, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
hmmm. so it's NOT really a calculator, you're saying
― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
i mean, it DOES work as a calculator, for a while
― orifex, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
the finder sorts numbers in filenames in a natural-language order now!
e.g.
123456707891011
― j., Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:12 (five years ago) link
Didn’t it always?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:38 (five years ago) link
huh i guess the internet says it's been there since 10.0, which would mean i should have noticed it before 10.14. but i came up on system 7 and unix and got used a long time ago to prefixing the filenames i wanted to sort right with 0s
― j., Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:43 (five years ago) link
i'm still getting so much delight out of my time-warp OS upgrade, what a wonderful life
apple does this according to a sanctioned alternative of the UNICODE COLLATION ALGORITHM
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/123174
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemDetails/FileSystemDetails.html
― j., Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:47 (five years ago) link
gonna try to master this multi-touch gesture:
Show desktopSpread your thumb and three fingers apart to show your desktop.
― j., Thursday, November 15, 2018 11:29 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i always forget about that one
― Karl Malone, Thursday, November 15, 2018 11:33 PM (one month ago)
i already forgot it
― j., Friday, 4 January 2019 03:39 (five years ago) link
same
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 January 2019 04:34 (five years ago) link
yet here i am doing it now, thinking about useful it would be
i still use fingers-together for launcher and feel like a boss every time
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 January 2019 08:40 (five years ago) link
best reminder app for macos? like something that can just flash up the word "posture" every 30 minutes
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 09:23 (five years ago) link
i have settled on Time Out - it's v good
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
DENTAL PLAN
― j., Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
i just excitedly searched the app store for "dental plan"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
saxamaphone, $3.99, reminder app but only for telling to get the reeds for the thingy that your daughter plays
― j., Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
my new coworker uses Time Out to trigger breaks, seems like there's a lot of configuration you can twiddle depending on your behavior-modification needs
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
bah Time Out wants me to pay a subscription SORRY MY DUDE THAT IS NOT THE WAY OF THE HOONJA DOONJA
playing around with these pomodoro things to see if i can make one work for what i want
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 January 2019 10:06 (five years ago) link
If you spend most of your time in a browser there’s probably an extension that does this
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 25 January 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
Stand up! https://getstandapp.com
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 January 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
Maybe this is the hoonja-doonja Tracer Hans is looking for.
https://www.uprightpose.com/en-au/
Of course it’s probably going to tell Facebook you are slouching.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 25 February 2019 09:10 (five years ago) link
hoonja doonjas must be software only!!
Chris i think yours is exactly what i'm looking for
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 February 2019 10:24 (five years ago) link
xp what kinda dark angel fuckin shit is that?!?
― j., Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:35 (five years ago) link
Beta of Reeder 4 is out https://beta.reeder.ch
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
I love Reeder; fantastic app
― stet, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
is it better than instapaper?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:43 (five years ago) link
Free trial of Rhino 3D
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:49 (five years ago) link
reeder is a feed reader, whereas instapeper aiui is still a bookmark/offline reader for articles you have already found and want to bookmark or read.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 14 March 2019 08:50 (five years ago) link
Although the latest version seems to have some Instapaper-like functionality too
― stet, Thursday, 14 March 2019 10:12 (five years ago) link
got it
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2019 11:33 (five years ago) link
I stopped using instapaper for Pocket after instapaper stopped working well. Pocket is way better.
I use reeder on my phone but find Feedbin so good that I just do all my feed reading via browser.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 March 2019 11:34 (five years ago) link
instapaper works now, fwiwi tried pocket for a few months during the great data protection fail that felled instapaper but several times it grabbed just the first few grafs of a story, which was just enraging
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link
I didn't like it as much but w/ both apps I usually just link to the original anyway. Pockets saving and integration with other things and everything is good. At first I hated it, but now I don't regret dropping instapaper.
But if people haven't tried Feedbin, it's killer. It syncs with Reeder so I use Reeder on the iphone. If Feedbin made a native app it'd own.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
Pretty happy with Inoreader. Their native app is pretty good but I’ll always stick with Reeder. The only feature I’ve ever missed is the ability to sync unread items beyond one month (but I guess the problem is with the aggregator not the reader)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 14 March 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
Just as another data point (I may have mentioned this elsewhere), but when Reeder was languishing I switched to News Explorer and haven't switched back.https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 16 March 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link
Does that have a central backend or does it poll each RSS feed individually and locally? Because that's the old NNW model and I never want to return to that
― stet, Monday, 18 March 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
still v happy with bazqux for all my feed management (with reeder for phone) tho i like the reeder 4 beta.
― Fizzles, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
I'm still on the hunt for the perfect solution for news/feed-reading. Fear my preferred method isn't available yet. I had to google "bazqux" after you namedropped it just now, Fizzles. It did not disappoint tbh:
Not free, not freemiumBeing paid service reader updates feeds of paying and trial users only. It doesn’t get rate limited by site owners for fetching millions of free users feeds and updates your feeds in time. It designed for the needs of paying clients not for the nice screenshots and reviews. And you get real customer support here.And we all know—free readers close.
Being paid service reader updates feeds of paying and trial users only. It doesn’t get rate limited by site owners for fetching millions of free users feeds and updates your feeds in time. It designed for the needs of paying clients not for the nice screenshots and reviews. And you get real customer support here.
And we all know—free readers close.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 March 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
I was gonna say that newsreader app reminds me of NetNewsWire... which apparently went back to the original developer last year and will be open source and free again?? What a world.
― Nhex, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
Baxqux is the business. And is like Pinboard in being happy with what it is, too
― stet, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
It's using iCloud for syncing and polling individually. Bazqux was never able to process a password-protected feed for me, which meant that I had to put those in Vienna - anyway, once News Explorer settled down it works great and syncs with my phone. Few apps support password-protected feeds, but it's a 100% must need for me.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 March 2019 08:43 (five years ago) link
are there any websites that observe dark mode settings in line with the 10.14.4 update?
― j., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
oh i guess this guy's does it, not that you're gonna wanna be looking at his website a lot
https://kevinchen.co/blog/support-macos-mojave-dark-mode-on-websites/
― j., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
Guys help me!
I used to have a hj that added the URL of a downloaded file (usually an image) automatically to its COMMENTS - visible when you "get info" and turns up in Spotlight search obv
does this ring a bell for you guys? does this still exist??
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
This works by default in Chrome and Safari, you get a "Where From" in the Info window. But testing now it only seems to be certain file types, like DMGs, and not images etc. I wonder if they've changed that, istr it worked in the past.
― stet, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link