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les meat
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 Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:38 pm |
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Azureus is garbage, never support crap that doesn't feel like a proper Mac app.
Photodrop Widget:
http://www.dropping.at/
Take screenshots (so its like a crop tool) then drag them off to the desktop/email whatever… OR!
drag them onto the image upload widget
http://www.modelconcept.net/image-upload-widget/
and send them to image shack with the address put in your clipboard. (also works with normal files etc)
Adium (Best IM Client ever, so clean)
Textmate (Nothing competes with this on any platform)
CSSEdit
Transmit
The Unarchiver (For 7zip/rar/etc)
Omnigraffle
Disk Inventory X (Looks like crap but is useful if your disk is full to find that 4gig disk image you forgot to delete)
"They also changed form widgets too, probably to match the rest of leopard?"
Nah its so that they're more customisable for web developers, colour change etc.
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les meat
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:37 am |
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| Kappuru wrote: |
| If there's one thing I really like, it's how all these mac apps have stylistic unity. Is that cocoa or whatever? |
Cocoa helps alot, but consistency is just something Mac developers pay more attention to.
CSSEdit for example features only a few standard Cocoa elements (customisable toolbars and the search field, lets remember that you rarely see customisable toolbars in windows and when you do they rarely listen to you like IE/outlook) it also features a ton of custom elements like the accordion control, its document tabs and the HUD windows, yet it feels like a perfect OS X citizen because the UI choices mirror things seen in iLife and work/feel like you expect them to. Even the tabs mirror the new safari 3 dragable tabs perfectly.
Shortcuts are always consistent, Preferences are always in the application name menu and always command+, as a shortcut so no more digging about in edit/file/view/tools like you do in windows because its in a different place in every windows app.
Things like that really, its all just attention to detail and conventions.
Inquisitor for Safari
http://www.inquisitorx.com/
Set up some shortcuts in it, for me typing "Dogs" then hitting shift+return will google image search "Dogs"
I can't browse the net without this now.
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les meat
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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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les meat
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:09 pm |
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| gooktime wrote: |
| 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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les meat
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:59 pm |
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| 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.
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les meat
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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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les meat
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:25 pm |
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| gooktime wrote: |
| 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. |
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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les meat
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les meat
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:19 pm |
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| thatbox wrote: |
| 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! |
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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les meat
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:46 am |
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| thatbox wrote: |
| 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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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.
| les meat wrote: |
| 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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