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Kappuru
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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I think adiumx is better than ichat, unless you want to do video things. whats your aim, tim?
i didn't get a MBP. They're too big and you could land an aircraft on them. I'm a travelling man, I need something that I can put in my ballistic foam case (2400JPY at Narita Airport and COMPLETELY worth it) and throw it in a bag and get on the next plane.
Since 1995, I have never gone more than a span of seven months without stepping on some kind of airplane. Also, I have a PC desktop for games.
But yeah! It's still fast and speedy. Widgets are nice... and tim, the weather channel widget should work for Tokyo! But you can just fire up your dokodemo issho and check the weather, right?
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fairy godmilf
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: oakland, california
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:06 am |
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| hectique wrote: |
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| anyway, hey! can we talk about widgets? why doesn't the weather widget work for tokyo? i'm not even kidding when i say i reallllllllly wish it did. |
Strange. I just set the weather widget to "Tokyo, Japan(Tokyo)" and it says it's 75°F over there. |
shit!
it works now!
it did NOT work last time i checked -- some three months ago.
good job apple, then!
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fairy godmilf
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: oakland, california
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:08 am |
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and kappuru a 15" MBP really isn't that big!
also, i don't use AIM. i just use gmail chat!
and i tried adium forever ago and there's just . . . something about it i don't really like.
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les meat
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:09 am |
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| 108 wrote: |
and kappuru a 15" MBP really isn't that big!
also, i don't use AIM. i just use gmail chat!
and i tried adium forever ago and there's just . . . something about it i don't really like. |
Try it again its very customisable
http://adiumxtras.com/
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gooktime
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:53 am |
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| tim no wonder it feels fast if you've been using osx firefox... that's some nasty shit. |
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les meat
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:09 pm |
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| tim no wonder it feels fast if you've been using osx firefox... that's some nasty shit. |
No idea why anyone would subject themselves to Firefox when using a Mac, the interface feels completely wrong and things like context menus are not sized/spaced correctly. Also font rendering is trash next to Safari
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Mr Mustache
Mean Mr. Mustache
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:27 pm |
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I've been using Firefox on a mac...now I'm feeling confused.
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gooktime
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:59 pm |
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man does nobody else love quicksilver?!
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| No idea why anyone would subject themselves to Firefox when using a Mac, the interface feels completely wrong and things like context menus are not sized/spaced correctly. Also font rendering is trash next to Safari |
Yeah, and it feels dog slow and doesn't take advantage of OSX specific stuff like the keychain. |
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Legal Step
honorary korean
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:39 pm |
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Yeah safari is cool. I don't use anything else. I hope when Safari 3 gets out of beta it rocks the interwebs.
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regular chickens
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:56 pm |
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I use Firefox on Mac because I like things like Adblock Plus (for custom blocking), Greasemonkey, and the extension I wrote for adding things to my linklog. Safari's extensibility just isn't there yet for my needs. Does it support mouse gestures yet?
Apps I like:
Cog is nice for Winamp-like music-playing (including ogg, ape, and flac support).
Textwrangler is a free text editor that does everything I need it to (syntax highlighting, tabbed-ish editing, editing over FTP/SFTP, search/replace with regular expressions and multiple files, etc.
I use Cyberduck for FTP and secure FTP, but it's painfully slow sometimes, especially when doing batch uploads or downloads. I use command-line sftp quite a bit for this, too.
Mayjay is a pretty decent little JDICT interface, though its results are way too broad when you're searching on English terms.
Vienna for RSS.
Colloquy for IRC. It's got one of the nicest IRC interfaces I've seen (I like nice GUIs for managing the multiple channels I waste time in).
Mail.app is basically the same as Thunderbird, which is what I was used to on XP.
Tomato Torrent is a very light and no-nonsense Bittorrent app. It lets me throttle upload/download speeds and isn't rejected by my usual trackers.
MPlayerOSX handles MKV playback for me, though it lacks remote support. I need to get Perian up and running.
I would really like an easy way to play the variety of emulated video game music formats I used to throw at Winamp. Audio Overload sucks, and so does Richard Bannister. |
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potato
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hectique
Joined: 05 Apr 2007
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Corinth
thatbox
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:48 pm |
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Kapp, in the things you listed as being awesome you did not list Quicksilver, and this terrifies me. Does anyone know if there's a Windows equivalent for my desktop?
I have to use Firefox OS X because Camino and Safari don't understand Firefox plugins. Also, Safari doesn't do F5 reload, and various other tiny annoyances I don't know how to fix. Definitely love its font rendering, though :( |
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les meat
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:59 pm |
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Kapp, in the things you listed as being awesome you did not list Quicksilver, and this terrifies me. Does anyone know if there's a Windows equivalent for my desktop?
I have to use Firefox OS X because Camino and Safari don't understand Firefox plugins. Also, Safari doesn't do F5 reload, and various other tiny annoyances I don't know how to fix. Definitely love its font rendering, though :( |
Nothing on windows can do what quicksilver does, Colibri does the app launching part but none of the things that make quicksilver an interesting application. Colibri looks a bit dead though so its unlikely a windows app will ever catch up with quicksilver now, it would just need too much work.
With quicksilver you could dig into your itunes library and give a song a star rating.
or find an image file on your hard drive, resize it, convert it to a jpg and then email, send it to an IM user it or upload it to ftp or imageshack and copy the url to the keyboard.
All in a few key presses, it really is quite amazing but is a little too powerful for my needs :)
As for safari F5 reload (Hate F5 reload, its got absolutely no connection to the action other than "IE used it", cmd+R makes much more sense) have you tried the system preferences keyboard section, you can remap shortcut keys in any osx application from there, try remapping reload to F5 if it lets you use single keys.
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Corinth
thatbox
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:19 am |
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| Azureus is garbage, never support crap that doesn't feel like a proper Mac app. |
It is what it is, and what it is is a Java app that runs on everything from your dog to your Athlon XP. Ain't nobody trying to pretend it's in line with your OS UI, but it looks exactly the same on everything you use it on so there are no surprises. I can understand choosing not to use it if style is your prerogative, but calling it garbage isn't necessary in the least. It's one of the most full-featured torrent apps on any platform, and it works on all of them.
PS - I sure hope Leopard has a RESIZE FROM ANY SIDE OR CORNER feature in its window manager :( |
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Corinth
thatbox
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:23 am |
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| Also, kapp, I upload to Flickr from OS X (do all my photo developing in Lightroom on my MBP these days) using this widget: http://ropiat.free.fr/flickit/ |
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potato
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:32 am |
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| les meat wrote: |
| thatbox wrote: |
Kapp, in the things you listed as being awesome you did not list Quicksilver, and this terrifies me. Does anyone know if there's a Windows equivalent for my desktop?
I have to use Firefox OS X because Camino and Safari don't understand Firefox plugins. Also, Safari doesn't do F5 reload, and various other tiny annoyances I don't know how to fix. Definitely love its font rendering, though :( |
Nothing on windows can do what quicksilver does, Colibri does the app launching part but none of the things that make quicksilver an interesting application. Colibri looks a bit dead though so its unlikely a windows app will ever catch up with quicksilver now, it would just need too much work.
With quicksilver you could dig into your itunes library and give a song a star rating.
or find an image file on your hard drive, resize it, convert it to a jpg and then email, send it to an IM user it or upload it to ftp or imageshack and copy the url to the keyboard.
All in a few key presses, it really is quite amazing but is a little too powerful for my needs :)
As for safari F5 reload (Hate F5 reload, its got absolutely no connection to the action other than "IE used it", cmd+R makes much more sense) have you tried the system preferences keyboard section, you can remap shortcut keys in any osx application from there, try remapping reload to F5 if it lets you use single keys. |
launchy > colibri, imo
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gooktime
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:12 am |
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| The Quicksilver Flickr/Transmit plugins are the best uploading solution, friends. |
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Corinth
thatbox
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:10 pm |
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| gooktime wrote: |
| The Quicksilver Flickr/Transmit plugins are the best uploading solution, friends. |
I haven't pirated Transmit yet. |
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les meat
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:48 pm |
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| thatbox wrote: |
| les meat wrote: |
| Azureus is garbage, never support crap that doesn't feel like a proper Mac app. |
It is what it is, and what it is is a Java app that runs on everything from your dog to your Athlon XP. Ain't nobody trying to pretend it's in line with your OS UI, but it looks exactly the same on everything you use it on so there are no surprises. I can understand choosing not to use it if style is your prerogative, but calling it garbage isn't necessary in the least. It's one of the most full-featured torrent apps on any platform, and it works on all of them.
PS - I sure hope Leopard has a RESIZE FROM ANY SIDE OR CORNER feature in its window manager :( |
I'm big on interfaces, if they're inconsistent or poor that makes an app garbage and useless to me in my book :) but yes I appreciate Azureus is a fine torrent program and I do use it in windows where all interfaces suck anyway.
I always found the lower right resize faster, because its a much bigger target than the 2-4 pixel wide edges on windows. Now I'm used to it I only ever use the right corner on windows too.
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gooktime
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:06 pm |
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| thatbox wrote: |
| gooktime wrote: |
| The Quicksilver Flickr/Transmit plugins are the best uploading solution, friends. |
I haven't pirated Transmit yet. |
you really should!
So yeah, I've had Safari 3 beta open for the entirety of the last couple of days and it hasn't become dog slow nor has it eaten all of my memory - this was all standard fare on older versions, eh. |
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les meat
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:25 pm |
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| gooktime wrote: |
| thatbox wrote: |
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| The Quicksilver Flickr/Transmit plugins are the best uploading solution, friends. |
I haven't pirated Transmit yet. |
you really should!
So yeah, I've had Safari 3 beta open for the entirety of the last couple of days and it hasn't become dog slow nor has it eaten all of my memory - this was all standard fare on older versions, eh. |
The windows version is a little rough around the edges, I'd suggest windows users stay away from it and wait for the final release.
Don't judge it on that one.
Mac version however has been rock solid for me, fucking excellent so far
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oneEIGHTkevin
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: Portland
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:22 pm |
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GUYS WHOLLY FUCK!
I got a 15" MBP with LED lit screen!
What is a good IRC client?
Also this thing is awesome so far but I have to sell all my other computer shit to afford it. I did the education discount and I plan to sell the free ipod they gave me so it will have ended up costing me around $1600 for this bitch.
Anyways, I gotta figure out how to use this thing now. Gonna windows it up even!
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les meat
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oneEIGHTkevin
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: Portland
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:44 pm |
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thanks, I'm trying to use it now but for some reason I can't see the chat messages... I'm probably just an idiot though.
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rye
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:45 am |
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| regular chickens wrote: |
| Audio Overload sucks, and so does Richard Bannister. |
Yes. Thank you. What kind of bastard writes a bunch of emulators, then writes a separate extension set that adds to them what _should_ be standard features and has the balls charge for it? |
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:33 am |
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| Richard Bannister wrote: |
| fMSX was one of the first MSX emulators to be released, and over the years it has developed into one of the best. In accordance with the wishes of the original author, Marat Fayzullin, this OS X version is shareware software, with a registration fee of $20. |
I don't really understand the logic behind this. |
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Corinth
thatbox
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:14 am |
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| The logic behind it, at least from what I gather, is this: if it is free on Windows or Linux, charge money for it on OS X. |
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Kappuru
forum bishonen
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:06 am |
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okay, i installed quicksilver. It's nice for app launching, but where's this powerful functionality? to me it just seems like spotlight that i use ctrl spacebar for instead of apple-spacebar.
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gooktime
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:39 pm |
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Tutorial videos
At its most basic, you can find an item after invoking quicksilver, then hit tab and you get a second 'action' pane. Say I want to upload an image to flickr - the flickr plugin comes with QS by default I think:
I can hit DSC, tab, Fli and get this:
You get a ton of app specific 'actions' depending on what plugins you have installed. The iTunes plugin has a bunch of applescripts for controlling iTunes, so you can alter playlists or hit 'pp' for play-pause, etc. |
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oneEIGHTkevin
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:04 pm |
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Man that flickr thing is priceless!
MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC!!!!!
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Corinth
thatbox
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:53 pm |
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| oneEIGHTkevin wrote: |
Man that flickr thing is priceless!
MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC!!!!! |
Uploading to Flickr on Windows can be pretty nice, too. I have it in my right-click context menu! |
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les meat
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:19 pm |
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| thatbox wrote: |
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Man that flickr thing is priceless!
MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC!!!!! |
Uploading to Flickr on Windows can be pretty nice, too. I have it in my right-click context menu! |
I imagine you could do the same for Flickr using Automator
Batch rename is fucking excellent every mac user should set it up
Select a bunch of files then you can:
+ Add text before or after the file name
+ Add date/time (created/current/modified)
+ change case
+ Add numbers after files (Change a bunch of random image file names to something like "HOTBAGPIPING1" to "HOTBAGPIPING50")
+ SEARCH AND REPLACE IN FILE NAMES
The Automator workflow is pretty simple
get selected finder items>Rename finder items
then save as a plugin
Bannister is a jerk, but seriously most other mac software is well deserving of the shareware fee.
Try finding applications even remotely as nice as Textmate, CSSEdit, Transmit on windows
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Corinth
thatbox
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:14 am |
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| I'm pretty happy with Crimson Editor and SmartFTP on Windows, actually. |
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les meat
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:46 am |
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| I'm pretty happy with Crimson Editor and SmartFTP on Windows, actually. |
Its just a matter of how nice you want things, some people think notepad is fine.
Textmate just includes so many nice features like really rich syntax highlighting and best of all are its commands and snippets which take advantage of the built in OSX niceties like Ruby, Perl, Python, Applescript.
For example if you drag an image into a HTML document then it will insert an IMG tag with the address to the image but it uses the OSX scripting backend to find out the width/height, also it converts the file name into a readable alt attribute. "Photo_of_dogs.jpg" would get an alt attribute of "Photo of dogs"
Of course you can also drag images into other languages like CSS where if you drag it onto the base of the document it will set you up an image replacement class with a width and height, but if you drag it into a class then it will simply add it as a background image, but if you drag it between a "url()" then it will just insert the url.
This is all accessible and extendable by the user, doesn't stop with image files of course you could set it up to run any commands for any type of document.
Thats just drag commands though, you can also script plain commands that you run. One of the coolest features of normal commands is you can tell textmate to render the output as html (using Safari's WebKit engine) in a little popup window. This is used in the HTML validation command where it actually sends the document to the W3C validator and then it applies a regex to the returned page so that the error listing actually links back to your own document.
Another example would be my List Colours command which I wrote, I'm certainly no programmer but managed to throw this together in ruby
Searches your currently open file for Hex, RGB and CSS Named colours and lists them as clickable swatches which then jump to the line in your Textmate document.
Best of all is snippets, if you type something like "div" then press tab it will insert a div for you with the class highlighted so you can then type the class, then press tab again to jump inside the div. These really do speed up writing html hundreds of times.
It just has so much functionality and automation available but the interface is completely minimalist, for the small fee is makes something like Dreamweaver look completely pathetic
Transmit however isn't really anything special. Its just got a really nice interface and integrates REALLY well with other applications. Its just an FTP program but done really well and really nice.[/img]
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gooktime
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:14 pm |
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| so, uh, 10.4.10 is out! |
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Kappuru
forum bishonen
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:16 pm |
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so uh.. anyone using leopard yet? or want to snail mail it to a brother?
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Corinth
thatbox
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:39 pm |
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I just looked these things up, by the way.
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| Textmate, CSSEdit, Transmit on windows |
CSSEdit - US$29.95
Textmate - 39 Euro
Transmit - US$29.95
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les meat
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:35 pm |
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| thatbox wrote: |
I just looked these things up, by the way.
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| Textmate, CSSEdit, Transmit on windows |
CSSEdit - US$29.95
Textmate - 39 Euro
Transmit - US$29.95
lol |
someones unemployed
how are those instant noodles and microchips treating you?
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Kappuru
forum bishonen
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:40 pm |
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| thatbox wrote: |
I just looked these things up, by the way.
| les meat wrote: |
| Textmate, CSSEdit, Transmit on windows |
CSSEdit - US$29.95
Textmate - 39 Euro
Transmit - US$29.95
lol |
CSSedit is well worth it. What's wrong about supporting small developers?
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Corinth
thatbox
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:49 pm |
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| Kappuru wrote: |
| so uh.. anyone using leopard yet? or want to snail mail it to a brother? |
9A466 is on alt.binaries.mac and alt.binaries.mac.applications, but I don't have any DL DVDs or Firewire drives so I haven't tried it.
| Kappuru wrote: |
| CSSedit is well worth it. What's wrong about supporting small developers? |
Absolutely nothing is wrong with it. Those prices are pretty outrageous, however! |
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