FOR YEARS, NAPS have gotten a bad rap, derided as a sign of laziness, weakness, or senility. We are "caught" napping or "found asleep at the switch."
- Andrew Trinh
Adding hidden items in Web sites is what separates good developers from great ones. Below I've compiled a list of 10 of my personal favorites from the past few years.
- Andrew Trinh
Laptop for me is usually just for work, so productivity apps. I've got Twitter (duh!) and Dropbox so far. Will get my copy of Office installed soon.
- Andrew Trinh
from IM
Must-haves for me are Carbon Copy Cloner although you can just use Time Machine, I guess. Reunion for genealogy. 1Password for keeping passwords. Cocktail for automating some OS X maintenance routines. AppShelf has been very useful for helping me track reg #s for software. AppZapper is good for getting rid of all the little bits of an app you're deleting, not just the app itself. Delicious Library for inventory of your books, games, music. OmniGraffle for making flowcharts, etc.
- Spidra Webster
1Password keeps track of my passwords and registration numbers. I forgot about AppZapper! Delicious Library looks pretty awesome, but I'm wary of having just Mac-only software for my database. I use Trillian for IM since it syncs between multiple devices and looking into Undercover.
- Andrew Trinh
I also discovered Albert and that's pretty handy. For those of you that remember QuickSilver, it's like the updated version.
- Andrew Trinh
Just upgraded from Audio Hijack to Audio Hijack Pro today and figured I should namecheck that app here. It's useful for recording sound from any source on your computer.
- Spidra Webster
Quicksilver is essential for me, it makes, it simplifies every thing. Xilisoft video converter, jdownloader or site sucker, Coda, and MacJournal
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
Scrivener and MarsEdit based on your needs.
- Akiva
Oh, and also some sort of drive maintenance, you may not need to optimize (so they say) but you do need to defragrament & res-assign out of place volumes/files. I use disktoolspro (it works well enough for me), but there's numerous ones out there, I think iDefrag or something, it the way most people go. And one of the StuffIt packages to expand or shrink file sizes
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
SecondBar if you have two screens. ShiftIt if you want to zoom and move windows with keys.
- Morton Fox
I prefer Psi for IM because it has a built-in character counter.
- Morton Fox
Oo, SecondBar sounds like it'd be real handy for me. Although too bad you can't add a bar for each extra monitor...
- ronin
Ooh TotalFinder and Shiftit looks nice.
- Rodfather
F.lux (color temperature for indoor lighting — try it for a few hours at night, then turn it off and see what a difference it makes), Adium (IM, IRC), Albert (alternative to Quicksilver, Spotlight, QuickSearchBox, Butler, etc.), BetterTouchTool (lets you assign actions to touchpad gestures, and also lets you resize windows to half/quarter screen), Spark (global hotkeys — I use it for...
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- Amit Patel
Some great suggestions here, thanks everyone! Good to be back on Mac.
- Andrew Trinh
I have one and I Like It. (Actually, mine is a 13". The 11" doesn't have an SD card port, I think, so keep that in mind.) Mine replaced a netbook, too.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I just can't make the decision. It's $1300 for a MBA or only $400 for a netbook.
- Andrew Trinh
The MacBook is a terrific upgrade if you can afford it... It depends on how immediate your needs are. If you have another computer you can use while you wait, I would try to save up for the better one. You won't be sorry. I was frustrated with learning new shortcuts (moving from Windows to Mac) for a about a day, even though I was formerly a Mac user, but after that it's been amazing. The other thing to consider is whether you'll need 3G or 4G and not just Wi-Fi. I plan to get an iPhone later as a hub.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I doubt they'll be doing anything because it's the Philippines. Chances are it's staff because the location is locked down and confidential for our conference. I persisted on getting a police report just for the sake of insurance, but wasn't expecting our belongings to be returned.
- Andrew Trinh
from IM
I had to look up 'spiral spud' and now I'm mad we don't have those here.
- Anika
It's so not worth the money because you only see them at festivals and everything is overpriced. They're still delicious and oily though. :-(
- Andrew Trinh
I just found out that they do exist here. I'm going go try one today, I think.
- Anika
from Android
I have heartbreaking news. I've been asked to relay that the amazing person we know here as carlotta fancypants aka extra super cutie passed away in her sleep in the early morning of Friday, July 23, 2010. I do not have many details to pass along. I can say she was not physically well for some time. I do know this world lost something and grew a...
Sad, sad news. One of the bright stars of my friendfeed experience, as I'm sure she was to all who knew her in real life. I hope that final dream was peaceful. Rest in peace, carlotta super cutie.
- JCunwired
from Android
Oh my God... :( I don't even know what to say. My condolences.
- Penguin
from iPod
I am so sorry…. My most heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. We were the most casual of acquaintances, but I always knew she'd make for a best friend. She was a lovely person and will be sorely missed. Farewell, Carlotta.
- Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)
I was just looking at her flickr pics. She looks like she was a lovely person. I'm sad I didn't get to know her other than a few threads I remember seeing her reply to. RIP :(
- Tamara
Ah, but none that I actually use. Hmm.
- Andrew Trinh
from IM
There's no money to be made developing android apps it seems like. And higher fragmentation along the various handsets makes it a bit more of a task keeping said app up to date.
- Jonathan Hardesty
from Android
RT @enkae1: Pharrell is starting up a Pharrell Youth Centre or some shit.. Blacktowns got one of those - its called Westfield Blacktown Shopping Centre.
Slacker radio changes the title bar to the current song, that still works.
- dthree
Even when it's saved as a bookmark? Bookmark titles take priority over tab titles but this shouldn't be the case since some tab titles auto-update with important information like new mail.
- Andrew Trinh
It is a bookmark, but I didn't change the name. If I change the name of the bookmark, then it refuses to update like you mention.
- dthree
I noticed this same issue. The was I got around it was to use Top Sites for my frequent bookmarks instead of an actual bookmark.
- Brett Cannon
I think the workaround is to not change the title when you save a bookmark.
- dthree