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Got tired of the "oh, you want to do THAT? Sorry, there are no good programs for that on the Mac".

Good programs, eh? I bet you wouldn't be able to find an elephant in your living room either!

Got anything like the free iLife on Windoze? The best stuff is on the Mac. So go troll somewhere else.

they just don't do a lot.

Looks like neither do you (other than writing trolls, that is.)

Me? I just feed trolls.

It's called SideTrack

SideTrack is a replacement driver for the trackpad (touchpad) found on Apple PowerBooks and iBooks. It brings many of the advanced trackpad features found on Windows laptops to Mac OS X.

SideTrack supports these features:

Vertical scrolling at left or right edge of pad.
Horizontal scrolling at top or bottom edge of pad.
Map hardware button to left or right click.
Map trackpad taps to no action, left click, left click drag (with or without drag lock), or right click.
Compatible with uControl, including uControl's scroll emulation.

In seconds I found these seven to ten (three unix) titles.. MacUpdate also had BeerStack and BeerMeister.

The real question is, what platform does Fritz Maytag use?

In seconds I found these seven to ten (three unix) titles.. MacUpdate also had BeerStack and BeerMeister.

The real question is, what platform does Fritz Maytag use?

My friend and former roommate, Ken Ferry, wrote an application that greatly aids in adding metadata in the form of keywords to iPhoto. Keywording has been part of iPhoto for many revisions now but the interface has always sucked: a panel in a disparate GUI style with a list of keywords in the order they were created. What his app, Keyword Assistant, does is to provide an autocomplete for finding and assigning already created keywords, an easy mechanism for creating new keywords, and a way of alphabetizing existing keywords. And it's free (gratis) to boot.

Keyword Assistant for iPhoto page or the MacUpdate page for KA

My connection with the project is in that of tester, and, lately, Japanese localizer.

Yeah, I took a quick look at the HIG and I think that's probably the most reasonable explination. You can find the HIG here but here are some of the more relevant quotes on contextual menus:

"A contextual menu provides convenient access to often-used commands associated with an item."

"Include a small subset of the most commonly used commands in the appropriate context. For example, Edit menu commands should appear in the contextual menu for highlighted text, but not a Save or a Print command."

In fact, I just noticed that they put the back and forward menu commands in the history menu, which does seem to suggest this is the most likely reason why it isn't there, as a user doesn't usualy associate a history command with the current page.

I guess it would be nice to have, but I never got used to it so I couldn't say. You might also be able to use something like USB Overdrive to define an action for a middle click to go back or something (I assume you probably have a scroll wheel if you have 2 buttons). It's worth a shot.

I know it's a bad joke but I can't resist.
Number four is long gone replaced by Chess. Number three is a on the iPod (it's still there right?) not OS X. Number two...umm...macupdate? and lastly Number one. Too F#%K'ing expansive!

Yeah, it was posted here on the 12th of January, 2004.

(stupid preview and submit buttons being right next to each other.... *grumble*)

that prompt sucked, what needed to be installed was MacsBug, then you could do all sorts of fun commands in the OS wide debugger :D

the great thing about MacsBug is that it automatically invokes itself when anything even thinks about crashing. my server (runs OS 9) has MacsBug installed along with a script that will log debug information and then restart the computer.

speaking of... that log must be getting pretty full after 4 years of this configuration...

*runs to his server to parse^H^H^H^H^H^H delete the debugger log*

that prompt sucked, what needed to be installed was , then you could do all sorts of fun commands in the OS wide debugger :D

the great thing about MacsBug is that it automatically invokes itself when anything even thinks about crashing. my server (runs OS 9) has MacsBug installed along with a script that will log debug information and then restart the computer.

speaking of... that log must be getting pretty full after 4 years of this configuration... /me runs to his server to parse the debugger log

You can try TinkerTool to do this. The version I have (2.32) isn't fully compatible with Panther, but the dock orientation and pinning is (the new version is 3.1, I haven't updated). Currently, my dock runs up the left side of the display, with the trash can end pinned to the bottom left corner.

You can also open the Dock's plist and change the orientation and pinning there.

(Note: I haven't tried the other TinkerTool options, so I can't say how useful or stable they are.)

The configurability is a Mac vs. Linux philosophy thing. Don't tout it, you'll start a flamewar. Suffice to say, Apple has decided that for UI, One Consistent Way is better than a huge amount of configurability.

You need CocoaGestures to get system wide gestures. The hotkeys support is already there.

The system-wide password manager? Prithee, sir, what then would we call KeyChain?

System wide spellchecking is part and parcel of the very good Apple text widgets. You use their widgets, you get it for free. You can configure it specially, or you can let all the code in NSApp just do it for you (usually what you want).

Apple doesn't do things like auto-completion in a generic fashion (although you never see it mentioned, they do provide a completion service, and other people have cheerfully extended this functionality with supplemental abilities.) because they haven't decided on their One Consistent Way to do it. Until then, we have a plethora of software, free and commercial, that does most anything we want. The OS X software community is very happy correcting any perceived flaws or blank spots a dozen different ways.

UI is a very subjective matter, so Apple (that makes money off of their good, consistent user experience) takes the middle road in most everything. It's smarter for them that way, since it's so incredibly easy to extend their input mechanisms.

And for the command-line wary, you can use an application like TinkerTool (available from finer download site such as MacUpdate or VersionTracker) to show invisible files in the Finder, or if you don't want to muck around with that:

In the Finder, select "Go To Folder..." from the "Go" menu (or hit cmd-shift-G on the keyboard, type in '/Volumes/NAMEOFYOURIPOD/iPod_Control/Music/F$$' where NAMEOFYOURIPOD is, you guessed it, the name of your iPod and $$ is a number starting at 00 and counting up (01, 02, 03...mine goes up to 19, I don't know if it's a fixed number so your's may be more or less). You'll find your files place seemingly randomly with slightly mangled filenames in those directories. Unfortunately, you can't just go to the Music directory and pick one because they're all hidden folders as well.

While it's totally safe to copy the files out of there, as another poster stated you wouldn't want to just drop a file in one of them as your iPod won't recognize and play it.

Not that I've used this for ripping from friends' iPods...

-T

I also said that Macs were "relatively problem free." I doubt you ever have to deal with malfunctioning HPs, Toshibas, IBMs, Dells (like my mother in-law's laptop which has been sent back to Dell twice with jacked motherboards). ;-)

I check all these daily:

MacInTouch
MacNN
MacMinute
MacFixIt
Mac OS X Hints
MacSurfer

Great software update resources:

VersionTracker
MacUpdate
OS X freshmeat

Other great sites:

O'Reilly Mac DevCenter
O'Reilly Mac OS X Page
Apple Mac OS X downloads
Apple Third Party Products Guide

Developer sites:

Mac OS X Developer Home Page
Mac OS X Developer Documentation
Darwin
OpenDarwin
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Use MPlayer: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10784

iTunesDL for Mac predates iTunes for Windows. I know a few Mac users who happily download copyrighted music, software, serial numbers, etc.

mlMac connects to the Kazaa and eDonkey networks on OSX.

A user with a Mac, who can't even use Kazaa

Then there is MacGamefiles if you only want games.

There is no open source grammar checking library! At least none robust enough to provide any useful information.

Grammar checking is notoriously difficult...hell, back in the day there used to be companies like Casady & Greene (sniff...I liked their stuff) that made standalone grammer checkers like Grammarian. Many other companies with standalones went under, but their source code is now relegated to the sands of time.

The cloest thing I've seen to what may become a viable grammar checking library for open source is the Link grammar parser. It seems pretty good and has a online sample of what it can do, including some automated translation!

You can use this project for free in non-commercial applications. Alas, this runs afoul of the SISSL license used for OpenOffice.org since it explicitly allows for commercial products to be derived from the OOo source code (like StarOffice). It's also incompatible with LGPL and GPL, too, since it would place an additional restriction on how LGPL/GPL software is used. AbiWord has some bindings for the link grammar parser in its code, but they're not activated due to licensing restrictions.

About a year ago when I contacted the team, they said they were going to do a rereleas under an MIT style license or a GPL-compatible license, although thus far I've not heard anything since. Anyone know them and want to help set a few wheels in motion?

The other alternative is to add in a bridge to communicate with a separate process from a GPL licensed project, where the separate project is never loaded into the same address space and is under a non-commercial non-GPL license only. I've wanted to do this for NeoOffice and have sketched out rough APIs, but I haven't had the time to sit down and actually code it.

You're probably referring to mlmac, which is a GUI wrapper around mlnet (formerly mldonkey). Between this, the BitTorrent client, Limewire and the Mac Direct Connect client, Mac users are well served on almost all of the major networks.

i just got mlmac a few days ago and have been workin' the bejeezus outta the thing (kazaa, mldonkey) woohoo. thanks.

Ahhhhhh....Aqua-riffic!

Looks MUCH nicer.

Or try MacUpdate. Like VersionTracker, but you don't have to pay for the cool features (email update notifications, etc).

Which is fine, but they say 'you can't sync Contacts, Calendars or Notes automatically' without commenting that you can using OS X.

iSync'll take care of the first two (and very well). You can do notes manually, or there's a lot of OS X apps which'll do it for you - Pod2Go is a good one, which scrapes news, weather etc off the web and slaps it into notes. There are others, but there's also a new Interactive Fiction thing under development, so the opportunities are endless.

I'm quite sure some enterprising PC developer will code up something similar, if they haven't already, but for once it's nice to be ahead of the crowd as a Mac User :)

Mark

If you need to connect to a IBM 3270 (and similar mainframes I guess), there's a very nice free client that's running just fine in Mac OS X.

It just seems that streaming isn't really the problem...you can listen to streams any number of other ways, from countless other sources. To be able to (easily & painlessly) grab anyone's public iTunes shares as usable .mp3s strikes me as far, far more offensive to those in power. In fact it flies directly in the face of allowing iTunes to stream but not really share files...

-Ted

For those who need a GUI.
SSH Tunnel Manager

The license was simple, Don't Steal Music, but still some people did not manage to understand it. Streaming was nice and innocent until some really smart people started ripping the streams and do other funny things.

If you abuse it, they will shut it down - simple and easy.

In the end Apple ist just a company and has its responsibilites. You want to steal music? Fine, get Kaaza/Limewire/What ever, why abuse iTunes?

Thank you guys, just another neat feature disappears...

Weeeee

The license was simple, Don't Steal Music, but still some people did not manage to understand it. Streaming was nice and innocent until some really smart people started ripping the streams and do other funny things.

If you abuse it, they will shut it down - simple and easy.

In the end Apple ist just a company and has its responsibilites. You want to steal music? Fine, get Kaaza/Limewire/What ever, why abuse iTunes?

Thank you guys, just another neat feature disappears...

Weeeee

Kind of.

I guess you are referring to this

"Neo is a Cocoa shadow client for the Kazaa network, it is not a real Kazaa client. Neo scans through IP ranges looking for Kazaa hosts, indexes their file list, and stores them locally on your hard drive."

"Implementation" may be a bit over the top.

and it sucks ;)
at least last time i tried

Actually, you want RsyncX. It has a nice GUI front end, understands MacOS resource forks, and still uses rsync on the back end.

*ack* You need to sign up to get access to Battery Reset. Sorry .. :-( You can get it from MacUpdate instead ...

There are solutions to this, of course. For instance if you are printing to printers on a PC network, I'd advise getting GimpPrint. It takes a lot of Linux printer drivers for GIMP, adds some nice UI, and makes them general OSX drivers. (The underlying CUPS printing system is very nice - its just that printer dirvers often are woefully underpowered in their native OSX forms)

GimpPrint

The other solution to accessing a Windows network with a Mac is the "write it down solution." Hardly ideal, although to be fair, something Linux users also typically end up doing. There are some freeware/shareware solutions that provide browsers. Not all of them work equally though. (i.e. they don't really solve the underlying issues) The following is one that many people like. (I personally only have a few shares and thus only need to set them up once, after which "who cares?"

SMB Browse

My point isn't that this is a huge problem. (It isn't) But it is something that is vastly easier in XP than in OSX. Further many "less tech savvy" individuals will have problem hooking their Mac to their PC network. Hopefully Apple will resolve this in 10.3. (Certainly they need to seriously revamp the Finder due to its lack of multithreading and poor FTP support along with the SMB problems)

There are solutions to this, of course. For instance if you are printing to printers on a PC network, I'd advise getting GimpPrint. It takes a lot of Linux printer drivers for GIMP, adds some nice UI, and makes them general OSX drivers. (The underlying CUPS printing system is very nice - its just that printer dirvers often are woefully underpowered in their native OSX forms)

GimpPrint

The other solution to accessing a Windows network with a Mac is the "write it down solution." Hardly ideal, although to be fair, something Linux users also typically end up doing. There are some freeware/shareware solutions that provide browsers. Not all of them work equally though. (i.e. they don't really solve the underlying issues) The following is one that many people like. (I personally only have a few shares and thus only need to set them up once, after which "who cares?"

SMB Browse

My point isn't that this is a huge problem. (It isn't) But it is something that is vastly easier in XP than in OSX. Further many "less tech savvy" individuals will have problem hooking their Mac to their PC network. Hopefully Apple will resolve this in 10.3. (Certainly they need to seriously revamp the Finder due to its lack of multithreading and poor FTP support along with the SMB problems)

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Ralf

You can always use Chimera Knight...

In a nutshell, this article is saying, "Waaa! It's hard to be a real programmer!!"

Who didn't already know that?

For an anecdotal refutation, there are more interface tweaks available than I have time to explore.

Specifically regarding themes/schemes/skins/etc: It's a little bit of a bummer that Apple has never sanctioned them, but I can say after twiddling with WinAmp over on the dark side, that most interface remakes are absolute crap anyway. It's a perfectly windows-like waste of time sorting through the thousands of available skins to find the one skin that's an actual improvement to the original.

Of course, your mileage may vary.

In case you thought it was a serious article, please peruse your friendly Mac OS file archives.

Here are some places to start:

MacUpdate
Apple
Mac OS X Apps
Stepwise
OSX Page
Versiontracker

I wonder if this is in response to the recent tweaks to change the put back the Smiley Mac at boot?

It's called Vapor X. Here the link: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8145

From your friend in CRB251C. ;->

This place has thousands of mac games. Some are shareware, but most are abandon ware.

Mac Gamer .

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