So is this also the iPhone thread? Does Mac = Apple or does it just mean the computers? I'm not sure I'm hip enough to be here. Anyway...
Macs = Apple computer brands.
I think he's asking whether iPhone-related questions are OK in here.
My guess: if it's related to syncing it to iTunes or something like that, it's probably relevant... if it's about phone-related features, then it's got nothing to do with Macs.
So is this also the iPhone thread? Does Mac = Apple or does it just mean the computers? I'm not sure I'm hip enough to be here. Anyway...
Macs = Apple computer brands.
I think he's asking whether iPhone-related questions are OK in here.
My guess: if it's related to syncing it to iTunes or something like that, it's probably relevant... if it's about phone-related features, then it's got nothing to do with Macs.
Meh, I asked about a cover for my iPhone. I think as long as it doesn't entirely derail the thread, it's okay, since there's no big iPhone thread.
if iTunes had a "smart shuffle" feature. like, right now it's kinda late, and i just want to listen to ambient kinda dub "beats" or something, and like so far i've gotten lucky but i would be totally sad if loud music came on that didn't fit the mood. a shuffle that matched your current music by style would be cool
like pandora, but for the music i have already
So make a playlist that only contains ambient music and just play that one on shuffle? You can even do it automatically with a smart playlist: just properly tag your genres, create a smart playlist to include all songs of that genre and then whenever you add new stuff to iTunes (and any subsequent iPods) it'll add it to the playlist automatically.
Edit: So in a way, iTunes does have what you're looking for. They're called Smart Playlists. Learn to love them.
yeah. If you get all OCD on your music like I am, labeling and rating stuff, smart playlists are fucking awesome. It takes some time if you have a large library, but it only takes a minute or two to do it to a new cd you import.
how about a simple sound recorder? soundrec32.exe or something for mac, basically. garageband takes waaay to long to start up just to use the 'record' function.
how about a simple sound recorder? soundrec32.exe or something for mac, basically. garageband takes waaay to long to start up just to use the 'record' function.
Quicktime Pro does that, but I'm not sure if it's an available feature for basic Quicktime. Look it up, should be an option in the File menu.
how about a simple sound recorder? soundrec32.exe or something for mac, basically. garageband takes waaay to long to start up just to use the 'record' function.
I just use Audacity. It's pretty powerful, but easy enough to use for simple stuff.
I tried Thunderbird and ran away screaming for my mother. Mail.app for me, along with iCal.
I've been thinking of trying out Mail.app at home with my Gmail account, seeing as how you can use IMAP now. I've never really understood/learned what IMAP was, but apparently it will completely sync my online Gmail with Mail.app, and vice versa. That sounds pretty damn cool, so I'm gonna invest some time learning about setting it up, now that school is over for the semester.
Oh, and I would so use iCal if there were a way to sync it with Google Calender. Yeah, I'm a google whore and an apple whore. :P
I tried Thunderbird and ran away screaming for my mother. Mail.app for me, along with iCal.
I've been thinking of trying out Mail.app at home with my Gmail account, seeing as how you can use IMAP now. I've never really understood/learned what IMAP was, but apparently it will completely sync my online Gmail with Mail.app, and vice versa. That sounds pretty damn cool, so I'm gonna invest some time learning about setting it up, now that school is over for the semester.
Oh, and I would so use iCal if there were a way to sync it with Google Calender. Yeah, I'm a google whore and an apple whore. :P
There isn't much time to invest, really. Add the account in Mail.app. IMAP leaves a copy of the message on the server -- what you see in your Inbox in Mail.app is what you see in your Inbox at mail.google.com.
Unless you desperately need Google Calendar for something (meeting schedule is based there, whatever) ... and even then, you don't. You can subscribe to calendars that are in Google Calendar in iCal and vice versa. Can't edit them, though. Programs exist to do that, but they cost $fucking insane for what they do.
Not sure if I should create a new topic but what are some essential mac apps
So far I have
NetNewsWire for rss feeds
Adium
VLC
TextMate
Toast (cd/dvd burning)
Transmit for S/FTP
LittleSnitch
I would like an app that is just like DVD shrink if such a thing exists.
Also an IRC client that is as close to mIRC as possible.
Also, though I can get dreamweaver for a very reasonable price I would prefer a free or inexpensive syntax highlighting editor that is a little more "robust" than TextMate.
Unless you desperately need Google Calendar for something (meeting schedule is based there, whatever) ... and even then, you don't. You can subscribe to calendars that are in Google Calendar in iCal and vice versa. Can't edit them, though. Programs exist to do that, but they cost $fucking insane for what they do.
It's not that I desperately need to use Google Calendar. I just desperately need to use an internet-based calendar, since I don't have a laptop, and need to access my calendars from home and school. If the programs that do exist for syncing google with ical cost $texas, then that gives me an idea. I've been looking for a summer project to keep me busy, but have been having trouble thinking of an idea. I could try my hand at this. Hmm...
Changing gears, I've got a question for you resident Apple Genius'. I've just installed Vista Business via bootcamp. I like to listen to music while I code, and since my music is all in my OS X iTunes folder (and I usually work in Visual Studio for school stuff) I have no music. Is there a way I can create a "share" of sorts on my iTunes folder, and connect to it from within Vista?
Unless you desperately need Google Calendar for something (meeting schedule is based there, whatever) ... and even then, you don't. You can subscribe to calendars that are in Google Calendar in iCal and vice versa. Can't edit them, though. Programs exist to do that, but they cost $fucking insane for what they do.
It's not that I desperately need to use Google Calendar. I just desperately need to use an internet-based calendar, since I don't have a laptop, and need to access my calendars from home and school. If the programs that do exist for syncing google with ical cost $texas, then that gives me an idea. I've been looking for a summer project to keep me busy, but have been having trouble thinking of an idea. I could try my hand at this. Hmm...
Changing gears, I've got a question for you resident Apple Genius'. I've just installed Vista Business via bootcamp. I like to listen to music while I code, and since my music is all in my OS X iTunes folder (and I usually work in Visual Studio for school stuff) I have no music. Is there a way I can create a "share" of sorts on my iTunes folder, and connect to it from within Vista?
You'd have to get Vista to recognize HFS+ drives. MacDrive supposedly does the job, but $50 is a bit steep for me. I tried HFSExplorer once on a friend's computer but it didn't work, nor do I believe that would be the right functionality for you.
EDIT: In case anyone bleeds money, Spanning Sync is the ridiculous product I'm talking about. $25/annually or $65/one time just seems way, way too costly for what it does.
I would like an app that is just like DVD shrink if such a thing exists.
You already have toast, so all you need is something to shrink the video files.
Handbrake should do the job (I think).
Handbrake is for converting DVD images to a different format, not stripping it down and dumping it as a DVD again.
Yeah, I just checked and it doesn't support dumping to a VIDEO_TS structure. I thought it did.
It looks like Toast (or Popcorn) will actually do the job, you just have to rip the DVD with MacTheRipper first.
DVD2One looks like a more streamlined way of doing the same thing.
I still can't believe no one has made a better ripper yet. The publicly available MacTheRipper is PowerPC-based. There is an Intel one but the developers went into an extremely shady donationware mode. They won't tell you how much you should donate, only that "$50 should be enough". I use DVD Decrypter in WinXP/Parallels for my DVD ripping needs.
I still can't believe no one has made a better ripper yet. The publicly available MacTheRipper is PowerPC-based. There is an Intel one but the developers went into an extremely shady donationware mode. They won't tell you how much you should donate, only that "$50 should be enough". I use DVD Decrypter in WinXP/Parallels for my DVD ripping needs.
Yep. I rarely rip DVDs, but when I do it, it's in Parallels (or on my desktop PC).
This really is one area where Mac support is pretty awful. Which is strange because there are a bunch of Linux command-line tools to do the job that could be easily ported, then have a quick GUI chucked on top.
Also an IRC client that is as close to mIRC as possible.
If you must use something more mIRC-like you'll need to shell out for either Snak or Ircle. Neither of them are very modern nor see many updates anymore. As far as I'm concerned Ircle is abandonware anymore. Neither of them are worth the money unfortunately and haven't been for a number of years. Back in the day these were decent apps but they've long since passed their prime.
Use Colloquy and love it with all of your heart. It neither looks nor acts like mIRC but there's no Mac IRC clients that I know of that do. What's awesome about Colloquy is it is very configurable and has a lot of really useful plug-ins. It's interface looks and acts more like iChat/Adium than mIRC which will take a little getting used to. Once you get past the initial interface hump it's very intuitive.
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I think he's asking whether iPhone-related questions are OK in here.
My guess: if it's related to syncing it to iTunes or something like that, it's probably relevant... if it's about phone-related features, then it's got nothing to do with Macs.
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Meh, I asked about a cover for my iPhone. I think as long as it doesn't entirely derail the thread, it's okay, since there's no big iPhone thread.
The camera worked when it wanted to take my pic for the account profile. Today? No worky.
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So make a playlist that only contains ambient music and just play that one on shuffle? You can even do it automatically with a smart playlist: just properly tag your genres, create a smart playlist to include all songs of that genre and then whenever you add new stuff to iTunes (and any subsequent iPods) it'll add it to the playlist automatically.
Edit: So in a way, iTunes does have what you're looking for. They're called Smart Playlists. Learn to love them.
or Brawl. 4854.6102.3895 Name: NU..
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Hooray, OCD! :^:
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Some people say it's not worth it.
I say fuck those people, I want my album art.
or Brawl. 4854.6102.3895 Name: NU..
So I'm SOL it seems?
right click
get album art
Does this do what you want?
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14352/spark
or should I switch to thunderbird?
Mail.app all the way here, but the decision will probably be based on which one you like the look of better.
It looks like it will, thank you so much! Five internets to you.
Quicktime Pro does that, but I'm not sure if it's an available feature for basic Quicktime. Look it up, should be an option in the File menu.
I tried Thunderbird and ran away screaming for my mother. Mail.app for me, along with iCal.
I just use Audacity. It's pretty powerful, but easy enough to use for simple stuff.
Mail.app emails are searchable via spotlight so I'm sticking with it. That and it integrates with the system address book.
Seriously. If nothing else, the integration between all of OS X's built in programs is enough to make you use them.
I've been thinking of trying out Mail.app at home with my Gmail account, seeing as how you can use IMAP now. I've never really understood/learned what IMAP was, but apparently it will completely sync my online Gmail with Mail.app, and vice versa. That sounds pretty damn cool, so I'm gonna invest some time learning about setting it up, now that school is over for the semester.
Oh, and I would so use iCal if there were a way to sync it with Google Calender. Yeah, I'm a google whore and an apple whore. :P
There isn't much time to invest, really. Add the account in Mail.app. IMAP leaves a copy of the message on the server -- what you see in your Inbox in Mail.app is what you see in your Inbox at mail.google.com.
Unless you desperately need Google Calendar for something (meeting schedule is based there, whatever) ... and even then, you don't. You can subscribe to calendars that are in Google Calendar in iCal and vice versa. Can't edit them, though. Programs exist to do that, but they cost $fucking insane for what they do.
So far I have
NetNewsWire for rss feeds
Adium
VLC
TextMate
Toast (cd/dvd burning)
Transmit for S/FTP
LittleSnitch
I would like an app that is just like DVD shrink if such a thing exists.
Also an IRC client that is as close to mIRC as possible.
Also, though I can get dreamweaver for a very reasonable price I would prefer a free or inexpensive syntax highlighting editor that is a little more "robust" than TextMate.
Look like 30ish posts back
You already have toast, so all you need is something to shrink the video files.
Handbrake should do the job (I think).
Handbrake is for converting DVD images to a different format, not stripping it down and dumping it as a DVD again.
It's not that I desperately need to use Google Calendar. I just desperately need to use an internet-based calendar, since I don't have a laptop, and need to access my calendars from home and school. If the programs that do exist for syncing google with ical cost $texas, then that gives me an idea. I've been looking for a summer project to keep me busy, but have been having trouble thinking of an idea. I could try my hand at this. Hmm...
Changing gears, I've got a question for you resident Apple Genius'. I've just installed Vista Business via bootcamp. I like to listen to music while I code, and since my music is all in my OS X iTunes folder (and I usually work in Visual Studio for school stuff) I have no music. Is there a way I can create a "share" of sorts on my iTunes folder, and connect to it from within Vista?
You'd have to get Vista to recognize HFS+ drives. MacDrive supposedly does the job, but $50 is a bit steep for me. I tried HFSExplorer once on a friend's computer but it didn't work, nor do I believe that would be the right functionality for you.
EDIT: In case anyone bleeds money, Spanning Sync is the ridiculous product I'm talking about. $25/annually or $65/one time just seems way, way too costly for what it does.
Yeah, I just checked and it doesn't support dumping to a VIDEO_TS structure. I thought it did.
It looks like Toast (or Popcorn) will actually do the job, you just have to rip the DVD with MacTheRipper first.
DVD2One looks like a more streamlined way of doing the same thing.
I still can't believe no one has made a better ripper yet. The publicly available MacTheRipper is PowerPC-based. There is an Intel one but the developers went into an extremely shady donationware mode. They won't tell you how much you should donate, only that "$50 should be enough". I use DVD Decrypter in WinXP/Parallels for my DVD ripping needs.
Yep. I rarely rip DVDs, but when I do it, it's in Parallels (or on my desktop PC).
This really is one area where Mac support is pretty awful. Which is strange because there are a bunch of Linux command-line tools to do the job that could be easily ported, then have a quick GUI chucked on top.
If you must use something more mIRC-like you'll need to shell out for either Snak or Ircle. Neither of them are very modern nor see many updates anymore. As far as I'm concerned Ircle is abandonware anymore. Neither of them are worth the money unfortunately and haven't been for a number of years. Back in the day these were decent apps but they've long since passed their prime.
Use Colloquy and love it with all of your heart. It neither looks nor acts like mIRC but there's no Mac IRC clients that I know of that do. What's awesome about Colloquy is it is very configurable and has a lot of really useful plug-ins. It's interface looks and acts more like iChat/Adium than mIRC which will take a little getting used to. Once you get past the initial interface hump it's very intuitive.