anybody using Brave?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
i tried it ON IPHONE for a while but it feels like multilevel marketing tbh
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
'volunteer to watch ads in exchange for bitcoin' is certainly a weird USP
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
Firefox with sync is great these days imo
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
i like Opera for some reason. iβve forgotten why.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
you like the arts
― mh, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
alt-tab between *windows* (not applications) and it knows about full screen and spaces.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
Oh, will try this. Will this replace my beloved and abandoned Spectacle?
― beard papa, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
i would never and i will never abandon spectacle, and how dare you for even raising that possibility
*holds spectacle so close*
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
I switched from spectacle to rectangular and for my uses itβs exactly the same
― joygoat, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
you know spectacle, it might be time for you die. goodbye old friend
hey what's up rectangleeeee
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
I prefer to use option tilde control, what is wrong with you guys?
― calstars, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
i just attempted to do that with my left hand and now i'm in the er
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
no joke though, i did just install rectangle, and i do appreciate it's added options (especially being able to use + and - to make windows just a tad larger or smaller, which feels intuitive because it's similar to the feeling of using the same keys to zoom in/out in other apps)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
its
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Alt-tab app not great for me. It'll bring up the window previews and tick through them but doesn't focus when I let go.
― koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
I am a savage and use the trackpad gesture to reveal all windows
― mh, Sunday, 27 September 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
― beard papa, Thursday, 1 October 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
Audion is back (ish) https://panic.com/blog/facing-forward/
― stet, Monday, 18 January 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
so this was like the Mac analogue to Winamp?
― Nhex, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah - it had a bewildering amount of skins, and until iTunes came along (it nearly became iTunes) it was probably the best MP3 playing app.
― stet, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
Iβm an idiot, how do I install skins (faces?) Link in app gives a 404I downloaded the pack but canβt drag and drop and no installer
― calstars, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
File menu -> Open Faces Folderthen copy whatever faces you want, or all of them, into that directory. each face is a directory within their archive zip
then if you go into preferences, they show up in the list
― mh, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
of course they'd already written those directions: they're at the bottom of the README.md on this page:https://dev.panic.com/panic/audion
― mh, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
https://xbarapp.com/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
and https://hmarr.com/blog/vitals/
that looks fun, thanks
will hopefully replace "cmd-tab to terminal, ctl-r pi enter" to ping and "new chrome tab, type weather, erase .com, hit enter" for weather
― lukas, Thursday, 25 March 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
every few months/years I look into finding a good solution to sync and/or transfer my bookmarks from chrome to safari so I can quit chrome, for a bit, or forever and usually find nothing good. Thought I finally found something with this:
http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/bookmacster.html
downloaded it and it's literally the most confusing thing I've ever seen. I mean I've barely started using it so maybe it'll be obvious once I do, but this thing is not gonna win any UI/UX contests.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 March 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
xbar doesn't like me. well, it doesn't like the fact that I'm still on Mojave.
― lukas, Thursday, 25 March 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link
me too
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 March 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
oh not xbar, that other one, vitals.
I guess I'm finally comfortable upgrading to Catalina. Big Sur will have to wait until I get my hands on a 16" M1 MBP.
― lukas, Thursday, 25 March 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
how many gams?
4 gams
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 25 March 2021 03:52 (three years ago) link
Iβm on big sir and honestly itβs very good
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 25 March 2021 04:56 (three years ago) link
dan maybe too easy but worth a shot. the File menu of Safari has this option?
https://i.imgur.com/3PofkiL.png
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 March 2021 10:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah but itβs a one time thing that only goes one way.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:00 (three years ago) link
ah i see. well, quit chrome forever, problem solved :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link
if you use pinboard the Pins app for ios and macos is really great.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 28 March 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
I installed Catalina yesterday without doing my homework -- didn't realize Dashboard would be going away. I used it regularly, and not just the calendar and CPU/network usage widgets I had as permanent overlays. Are there any good replacements for Dashboard? I know about Spotlight for unit conversions, but a small calendar app that I can make an always-there overlay would be great.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Sunday, 28 March 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
ooh thanks, this is great! at least it is on ios; I'll add it to the list of Big Sur only apps for when I finally brave that upgrade.
― toby, Sunday, 28 March 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
Oh God, after several years of trying to get Spaces to work for me I think I've finally cracked it. The last piece of the puzzle was assigning apps to specific desktops using right-click in the Dock. Previously I had it all set up nicely but then as soon as I restarted an app I'd edge back into chaos again. They only launched Spaces 14 years ago. I guess I'm a slow learner these days.
― Alba, Friday, 30 July 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
So while I've mostly defended apple music as really being not much different than prior versions of iTunes so long as you adjust the interface to suit, I've just discovered one major feature that's missing...when you plug in your iphone you can't play the music off of it like you've always been able to.
So are there any apps that allow that? I haven't checked Swinsian but will. Wondering if anybody knows anything. I don't want to sync. I don't want to download, I just want to use the iphone as a source of music to play through my computer, like when I plug my iphone into my car.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 September 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
Is there any way via scripting or an app that will remember my desktop layouts for regular laptop use vs. use with external monitor vs. mirroring via projector in a classroom?
I'm tired of my desktop icons moving around and overlapping each other and having to drag windows around between monitors when I plug in.
― joygoat, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
i just ran into my first serious spotlight problem. it can't find a few excel files i create a couple of years ago. i know where they are. i can open the finder window where they live. but if i search for them, using words that are in their files names, they just don't appear in the spotlight results.
it seems like some people use something called Arthur? anybody here use that? is it good? i had understood Spotlight to be kind of integral to the system, with it own way of indexing etc so frankly i'd rather it just worked properly but if Arthur is a good alternative i'll try it.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
i have been a launchbar user for like 20 years. it's in the same category. lb/arthur, etc. are more general than spotlight (they can run "commands", control music, search emojis, insert the date at the cursor, etc.), and also less capable (e.g. they won't find anything in the *contents* of a file that spotlight can't also find). but if you just want a quick way to type a few chars from the name of a thing and open it then they are great.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
they may not search the folders you want them to search by default btw. searching the names of every file on your disk is not a good default, so they probably only search a couple of folders OOTB and you'll need to teach them about your stash of cool files (or tell them to search subfolders or whatever).
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
UghIβm rebuilding the Spotlight index so Iβll see if that helpsContent search is crucial
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
rebuilding Spotlight helped fix a similar problem for me a few months back
― Nhex, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
I had a similar thing with search on a previous iPhone where it just stopped finding App Store when I searched for it. Never managed to fix that.
― Alba, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link