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

i like Opera for some reason. i’ve forgotten why.

you like the arts

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

alt-tab between *windows* (not applications) and it knows about full screen and spaces.

Oh, will try this. Will this replace my beloved and abandoned Spectacle?

i would never and i will never abandon spectacle, and how dare you for even raising that possibility

*holds spectacle so close*

I switched from spectacle to rectangular and for my uses it’s exactly the same

you know spectacle, it might be time for you die. goodbye old friend

hey what's up rectangleeeee

I prefer to use option tilde control, what is wrong with you guys?

i just attempted to do that with my left hand and now i'm in the er

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)

its

Oh, will try this. Will this replace my beloved and abandoned Spectacle?

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.

I am a savage and use the trackpad gesture to reveal all windows

I switched from spectacle to rectangular and for my uses it’s exactly the same

Audion is back (ish) https://panic.com/blog/facing-forward/

so this was like the Mac analogue to Winamp?

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.

I’m an idiot,
how do I install skins (faces?)
Link in app gives a 404
I downloaded the pack but can’t drag and drop and no installer

File menu -> Open Faces Folder
then 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

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

https://xbarapp.com/

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

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.

xbar doesn't like me. well, it doesn't like the fact that I'm still on Mojave.

me too

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.

how many gams?

4 gams

I’m on big sir and honestly it’s very good

dan maybe too easy but worth a shot. the File menu of Safari has this option?

https://i.imgur.com/3PofkiL.png

Yeah but it’s a one time thing that only goes one way.

ah i see. well, quit chrome forever, problem solved :)

if you use pinboard the Pins app for ios and macos is really great.

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.

if you use pinboard the Pins app for ios and macos is really great.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Ugh

I’m rebuilding the Spotlight index so I’ll see if that helps

Content search is crucial

rebuilding Spotlight helped fix a similar problem for me a few months back

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.

corrupted search index on iPhone used to suck bad, but I think _there are ways_ to more easily address that now

I think eventually I just didn’t restore from backup and bought a new device, lol

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.

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i use Alfred (is this the same as Arthur??!), which still seems preferable to spotlight, and is quick and easy to use, but i've been using it for so long i don't know whether spotlight has caught up.

lol yes i meant Alfred

i use alfred as well, but i usually only use the bare, bare minimum functionality of it - typing the first letter or two of a commonly used app to open it up. that alone has saved me 1 second per use, several million times already.