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Mac Thread: Gihgehls hates the title and I don't give a fuck.
ben0207
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New Mac Thread!
Woo!
Proper OP coming in a bit!
Applications to shove down your fat pipes:
Transmission
The best BitTorrent Client available, possibly ever. Really useful for all those linux distributions and WoW patches we all need so often...
Adium
For all your IM needs.
Journler
For writng a journal, and stroing notes and stuff. I havn't used it since the first 2 weeks of this semester when I actually bothered doing any work, but YMMV.
HandBrake
For warezing up your DVDs, you 1337 hax0r you. Handles DVD ripping and encoding into all the useful formats.
Please give me suggestions and maybe I'll stick them in here. (and maybe I won't and will instead insinuate your mother is a whore. Who knows.)
Oh, and hopefully either me or somebody else will be providing some meaningful content at the time of MacWorld SF. Probably me.
Your stupid suggestions, you filthy crackheads
Smultron
Some sort of text editor, for once you've picked the Pop-tart crumbs out of your neckbeard, you basement-dwelling loser. (suggested by Vulpine)
Woo!
Proper OP coming in a bit!
Applications to shove down your fat pipes:
Transmission
The best BitTorrent Client available, possibly ever. Really useful for all those linux distributions and WoW patches we all need so often...
Adium
For all your IM needs.
Journler
For writng a journal, and stroing notes and stuff. I havn't used it since the first 2 weeks of this semester when I actually bothered doing any work, but YMMV.
HandBrake
For warezing up your DVDs, you 1337 hax0r you. Handles DVD ripping and encoding into all the useful formats.
Please give me suggestions and maybe I'll stick them in here. (and maybe I won't and will instead insinuate your mother is a whore. Who knows.)
Oh, and hopefully either me or somebody else will be providing some meaningful content at the time of MacWorld SF. Probably me.
Your stupid suggestions, you filthy crackheads
Smultron
Some sort of text editor, for once you've picked the Pop-tart crumbs out of your neckbeard, you basement-dwelling loser. (suggested by Vulpine)
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On that note, when is iChat going to be ported over to a Win/*nix distro, so I can share my happy shiny ichattyness with the non-converted heathens?
The answer is pretty simple, and two-fold: Firstly, Adium supports a shit ton of messenger protocols. iChat, AIM, MSN, GChat, it's all there. So I don't need to use the shitty butt-smell official MSN client. Secondly, it's customisable as shit. So sensible people like me can have a messenger client that looks like iChat, whilst lunatics can have one that's see through or something.
iChat MSN compatible yet? I'm not going to go around to dozens of people and try to convince them to use AIM.
Transmission is also fantastic, and has converted me from my previous favourite of Tomato Torrent.
Same here. I feel that anyone looking for a good torrent app for Mac needs to look no further.
Ahh, good info. I didn't realize until just doing the research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_clients) that iChat wasn't supportive of more protocols.
However, I'm not seeing the webcam support on Adium. Is there a newer release or plugin that allows that? Also, it is also a purely OS X resident, even though it supports several protocols. What I really want is a multi OS, multi platform (gotta go on my iPhone) IM program that supports voice, text and video conferencing, as well as desktop/file sharing and a whiteboard.
Why do I feel like I'm asking too much?
Do they allow you to download individual files? I thought Azureus was the only one with that feature.
In a related matter, every time I attempt to change Azureus' Upload speed from a random double digit number (right now it's at 12, but I'm sure it was something else at some point) to something less absurd it automatically changes back, right before my eyes and even if I save.
And on a side note, sometimes I lose the ability to click on my desktop icons after bringing my computer back from sleep. What's the deal with that?
Well at least Automator works by itself, but I don't know why you made it run so slow. I made one workflow that pops up a warning, gets folder contents, sorts them by name, then renames them sequentially. There's no reason in the world this workflow should take 15 seconds to complete. It should be done moments after I accept the warning dialog, which also takes a good 5 seconds to pop up after starting the script. I'm tempted to just open up parallels and do this by hand twice as fast in ACDSee.
It does now, something long overdue. Not much I can think of that Transmission doesn't do. I believe it does encryption now too.
Great! I'll switch when my current downloads are done, because I don't really like Azureus.
I've been really, really interested in AudioFinder, which is not only a pseudo-integrated audio browser but also has some neato chopping/editing/batching features. I've been keeping an eye on it for the better part of the last 8 months or so (but was too busy to seriously work with audio) and I think I'm gonna plink down the change for it tonight.
Of course in my renewed interest in mac audio software I also came across Alphabet Soup, which lets you use the qwerty keyboard as a trigger for sample playback. Not sure how many audio guys are here, though.
and a blast from the past (aka earlier today)
Try over USB. I've found that my phone only does half the stuff it should over Bluetooth, and the other half over USB. I can browse files, folders, etc., without anything fancy, but if I want to do something as basic as sync the address book, I gotta plug it in. Wouldn't surprise me if it's something odd in iSync.
You gotta pay $20 for full version, but it lets your xbox360 browse and play music from your mac over the networks without any tomfoolery or vmware hax.
flip4mac, wmv through quicktime
http://www.flip4mac.com/
vlc media player for any other vid. types not supported by quicktime
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
B.net: Kusanku
There's also Perian if you want actual Quicktime support for other formats.
I throw my hat in with Transmit (top class FTP client) and Sizzling Keys (iTunes and OS X hotkey control app).
I want to see if I can change it to a symphony warming up
Any guesses as to what it could mean? Maybe it's a code to tell everyone who doesn't own a Mac to get the fuck out of San Francisco, because there's a huge smug cloud rolling in.
"Oh, also, a slogan for the show: “There’s something in the air.” Guesses: (mild) an AirPort-enabled network backup storage device for Time Machine; (medium) some sort of ubiquitous wireless networking for new MacBooks; (hot) the long-fabled touchscreen tablet-sized Newton-y thing, replete with ubiquitous wireless networking."
I'm going for the medium.
I bought an album on one computer but have since gotten another one, is there any way to just redownload the song (legally obviously) I figured if I just logged in again it would be all cool but it apparently it is not.
Satans..... hints.....
Copy the music files (.m4p) to your new computer, and drag them into your iTunes window. You'll be asked to authenticate with the iTunes music store with the account you purchased with: do this, and provided you have spare authorisations, you'll be able to play them just fine. You get five authorisations, and if you want to de-authorise a computer, just go to the Store menu in iTunes, then "De-authorise my computer..."
No they didn't.
Now an internal one would be rather nice and so on, but still, not worth the development time? Maybe a sim card slot so you can text message and call from your Macbook Pro? That'd be interesting... 10.5.2?
The official AIM client and Trillian Pro on the PC both work fine with iChat on the Mac. I don't think either supports 4-way video chat like iChat does but one-on-one chats work fine. The Windows and Mac versions of Skype also allow for video calls.
Run software update if you haven't already. Apple released a fix for this problem shortly after 10.5.1 was released.
If you've already done that and you're still having the problem, describe it a little more in-depth. Is this happening randomly or after waking from sleep? Does it persist until shut down or restart or is it just intermittent? Sometimes my keyboard seems to lag a little, especially when I have it set to Japanese instead of English and I start trying to type in a webpage URL... Is that what you're describing? Something like it?
Steam: Jacobontap
LoL: FutureBlues
or to turn off the hourly back up shit so it just runs once a day.
I want to be backed up, but I don't think I need to be backed up this good
I'm not near a Mac at the moment but I guess you want something like http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ ?
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