I'm not sure about Windows, but Mac OS X has OS X spell-checking built into any application that's written on the Cocoa frameworks. Even TextEdit (Apple's equivalent to Wordpad) has red underlining, word completion, etc. built right in thanks to that feature in the OS layer.
Since no one seems to have mentioned it, I'd like to do a small plug for a really great Mac Stream Ripper. It's called Audio Hijack. Though, it's not limited to Streaming Audio. It can record any sound that runs through one's sound card -and- it does live audio effects as it's being ripped (if you want).
Emacs: I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice. Me: I hate Emacs. Emacs: Why do you hate emacs? Me: I cannot remember any of the keystrokes for it. Emacs: Why do you say that? Me: The designers of EMACS made them confusing. Emacs: Emacs? Hah! I would appreciate it if you would continue. Me: Well, I'd assume that it had to do with designing the program on machines before standardized meta keys were invented . .. Emacs: Is it because it had to do with designing the program on machines before standardized meta keys were invented that you came to me? Me: In a manner of speaking, yes. Emacs: Earlier you said you hate emacs? Me: That I do. Emacs: Can you elaborate on that? Me: It's not beautiful, like the one true editor - Pico. Emacs: Maybe your plans have something to do with this. Me: My plans are to code simple HTML pages, though I fail to see the relevance. Emacs: I don't understand. Me: Nor do I. Emacs: You mentioned that it had to do with designing the program on machines before standardized meta keys were invented? Me: No, we're past that now. Emacs: Perhaps you could continue. Me: For instance, take yourself; you're a subcomponent of emacs and you aren't very good at diagnosing my wrath. Emacs: Are you sure? Me: Quite; you just beat around the bush. Emacs: Is it because of your life that you are going through all this? Me: No. Now piss off. Emacs: What makes you believe now piss off? Me: I'm calling my lawyer. You've just made my sanity go down three levels. Emacs: Are you sure that you hate emacs? Me: VERY SURE. AAAAAAGAHAHAHAGAAHAH!
On the Mac Quicktime's not so bad. I do wish Apple would, in the consumer version, add fullscreen and playlists, though. If the competition has it for free, they should, too. But, file associations and "taking over" of file types just isn't a problem on the Mac.
Back in the mid-1990's, I was the subject of a research experiment that sounds a lot like this. It was being conducted by Brigham Young University. They were testing to see if certain kinds of music could enhance concentration. Using electrodes that were hooked up to my head, I'd look at a monitor and, depending on the frequency of my brainwaves, a puzzle would solve itself more or less rapidly (or some other similar premise).
There's the Omniweb 5 Beta preview that has built in RSS streams. Or if you prefer not to switch browsers, I strongly recommend Slashdock (do a search on Versiontracker for it) to stream in a tonne of RSS feeds.
All I can say is this reminds me of (at least, in the early days) Apple's main design principle: Focus and simplicity. I'm pretty sure Jobs himself was shoving that down people's throats, and I wish I knew where I could find a quote to back it up. In any case, it all boils down to "do one thing, do it well."
I wish I still had the original reply, but I remember emailing Woz about what motivates Jobs. And the answer ties in a lot with this - "To be respected for how he thinks."
Huh? Every time I've done this, I've needed a third party program like Mac Drive. I've never heard of non-native (or at least HFS and HFS+) file system support shipping on a manufactured Wintel box.
One thing, unless I'm mistaken, that seems Garageband is lacking is support for vocals. Now, as a fan of classical and new age music, that shan't be too much of a problem for me. But there are times when I prefer music with lyrics, as well. So, does GarageBand currently support vocals?
While they -could- do that, let's look at real life for a second. How many bricks and mortar stores do you see that sell one label only? The norm is to sell as many labels as possible so that the consumer gets as wide a selection as possible. So, here's how your market would work. Omni-Services like iTunes that will carry any label that is willing to sign a contract, or proprietary-services that only carry one label and, therefore, a limited selection. Not to mention the fact that a segmented market like that would be a pain for consumers. I'd hate to have to have multiple music stores just to find one song. And most consumers aren't really aware, in the first place, of what labels = what song/artist/album. It's not really a strongly branded thing, IMHO.
Seriously, how do the force you into doing one thing at a time? I can't alt-tab through running apps? I can't have 14 things running on my XP workstation next to me?
I think what is meant is that Windows uses a "maximize" feature, which takes up the entire screen. By default, "maximize" on a Mac means "grow this window to fit the contents therein, and not further". It means Macs tend to focus on having multiple windows (of different apps - not talking about MDI here) on the screen simultaneously.
Granted, you can resize windows on both Mac and Windows to obtain the other system's functionality, but we're talking default operation here.
Also, that option (alt) - escape hint can also be accomplished by using F5 for autocompletion.
It's intelligent, too. For example, say my paper includes the text "Slashdot". It's not in my system's dictionary. But if I were to type Sla + F5, it would suggest "Slashdot" as the first completion item.
One poster complained that OSX's implementation doesn't work with iTunes, for example. It probably never will. Actually, I had it set up so the music played at low volume. I'd like down, a distance from the speakers, with the Mic near my mouth. Using some custom "define a keyboard command" speech phrases (next track, previous track, play, pause, increase volume, decrease volume) I had a pretty nice keyboardless way of controlling my music.
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I'm not sure about Windows, but Mac OS X has OS X spell-checking built into any application that's written on the Cocoa frameworks. Even TextEdit (Apple's equivalent to Wordpad) has red underlining, word completion, etc. built right in thanks to that feature in the OS layer.
I hope I'm not modded off-topic, but how does VS.NET compare to Apple's XCode tools?
tell application "iKitchen" /bin/breakfast
display dialog "Make breakfast."
if the_result is "OK"
doshellscript
end tell
So, Turing is sort of like a real life Londes (Bebop)?
Sounds a lot like those rebound and ricochet r/c's.
Only two wheels instead of four.
Since no one seems to have mentioned it, I'd like to do a small plug for a really great Mac Stream Ripper. It's called Audio Hijack. Though, it's not limited to Streaming Audio. It can record any sound that runs through one's sound card -and- it does live audio effects as it's being ripped (if you want).
So! Happy ripping!
Like this. It sounds a lot like using one of those everlasting Gobstoppers for data storage.
Ten years from now: ... ...
i ll be viable evidence in trials against
**Keylog**
>Call transop received
Chocolate ration down ten percent.
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doubleplusungoodthinkers.
Emacs: I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time .
you are finished talking, type RET twice.
Me: I hate Emacs.
Emacs: Why do you hate emacs?
Me: I cannot remember any of the keystrokes for it.
Emacs: Why do you say that?
Me: The designers of EMACS made them confusing.
Emacs: Emacs? Hah! I would appreciate it if you would continue.
Me: Well, I'd assume that it had to do with designing the program on
machines before standardized meta keys were invented . .
Emacs: Is it because it had to do with designing the program on machines
before standardized meta keys were invented that you came to me?
Me: In a manner of speaking, yes.
Emacs: Earlier you said you hate emacs?
Me: That I do.
Emacs: Can you elaborate on that?
Me: It's not beautiful, like the one true editor - Pico.
Emacs: Maybe your plans have something to do with this.
Me: My plans are to code simple HTML pages, though I fail to see the
relevance.
Emacs: I don't understand.
Me: Nor do I.
Emacs: You mentioned that it had to do with designing the program on machines
before standardized meta keys were invented?
Me: No, we're past that now.
Emacs: Perhaps you could continue.
Me: For instance, take yourself; you're a subcomponent of emacs and you
aren't very good at diagnosing my wrath.
Emacs: Are you sure?
Me: Quite; you just beat around the bush.
Emacs: Is it because of your life that you are going through all this?
Me: No. Now piss off.
Emacs: What makes you believe now piss off?
Me: I'm calling my lawyer. You've just made my sanity go down three levels.
Emacs: Are you sure that you hate emacs?
Me: VERY SURE. AAAAAAGAHAHAHAGAAHAH!
On the Mac Quicktime's not so bad. I do wish Apple would, in the consumer version, add fullscreen and playlists, though. If the competition has it for free, they should, too. But, file associations and "taking over" of file types just isn't a problem on the Mac.
Back in the mid-1990's, I was the subject of a research experiment that sounds a lot like this. It was being conducted by Brigham Young University. They were testing to see if certain kinds of music could enhance concentration. Using electrodes that were hooked up to my head, I'd look at a monitor and, depending on the frequency of my brainwaves, a puzzle would solve itself more or less rapidly (or some other similar premise).
Time Bandits?
I could've sworn it was Ghost Busters II.
There's the Omniweb 5 Beta preview that has built in RSS streams.
Or if you prefer not to switch browsers, I strongly recommend Slashdock (do a search on Versiontracker for it) to stream in a tonne of RSS feeds.
I thought the "eat our own dog food" was an Apple policy and in those exact words, too. I've heard Jobs say it numerous times at WWDC's.
All I can say is this reminds me of (at least, in the early days) Apple's main design principle:
Focus and simplicity. I'm pretty sure Jobs himself was shoving that down people's throats, and I wish I knew where I could find a quote to back it up.
In any case, it all boils down to "do one thing, do it well."
I wish I still had the original reply, but I remember emailing Woz about what motivates Jobs. And the answer ties in a lot with this - "To be respected for how he thinks."
Huh?
Every time I've done this, I've needed a third party program like Mac Drive. I've never heard of non-native (or at least HFS and HFS+) file system support shipping on a manufactured Wintel box.
... Except the topic is Apple related and a valid comment was given.
Sounds like a troll to me.
One thing, unless I'm mistaken, that seems Garageband is lacking is support for vocals. Now, as a fan of classical and new age music, that shan't be too much of a problem for me. But there are times when I prefer music with lyrics, as well. So, does GarageBand currently support vocals?
I wish there was some way to draw some attention to Blind Guardian's music.
So much better, in my view, than the plethora of common market-as-you-go albums out there.
While they -could- do that, let's look at real life for a second. How many bricks and mortar stores do you see that sell one label only? The norm is to sell as many labels as possible so that the consumer gets as wide a selection as possible. So, here's how your market would work. Omni-Services like iTunes that will carry any label that is willing to sign a contract, or proprietary-services that only carry one label and, therefore, a limited selection. Not to mention the fact that a segmented market like that would be a pain for consumers. I'd hate to have to have multiple music stores just to find one song. And most consumers aren't really aware, in the first place, of what labels = what song/artist/album. It's not really a strongly branded thing, IMHO.
Seriously, how do the force you into doing one thing at a time? I can't alt-tab through running apps? I can't have 14 things running on my XP workstation next to me?
I think what is meant is that Windows uses a "maximize" feature, which takes up the entire screen. By default, "maximize" on a Mac means "grow this window to fit the contents therein, and not further". It means Macs tend to focus on having multiple windows (of different apps - not talking about MDI here) on the screen simultaneously.
Granted, you can resize windows on both Mac and Windows to obtain the other system's functionality, but we're talking default operation here.
Also, that option (alt) - escape hint can also be accomplished by using F5 for autocompletion.
It's intelligent, too. For example, say my paper includes the text "Slashdot". It's not in my system's dictionary. But if I were to type Sla + F5, it would suggest "Slashdot" as the first completion item.
One poster complained that OSX's implementation doesn't work with iTunes, for example. It probably never will.
Actually, I had it set up so the music played at low volume. I'd like down, a distance from the speakers, with the Mic near my mouth. Using some custom "define a keyboard command" speech phrases (next track, previous track, play, pause, increase volume, decrease volume) I had a pretty nice keyboardless way of controlling my music.