Speaking of Mac apps, there's this NY Times article about 'thinking tools'--I've never used one on any platform. Is anyone familiar with these? I'm very curious about how they may work in the real world.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
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§ ita § - Dec 20, 2005 4:09:23 am PST #6081 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tom Scola - Dec 20, 2005 4:11:44 am PST #6082 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2005 4:18:44 am PST #6083 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Man, that's an irritating article. I agree that if writing didn't break us, this won't either.
Jessica - Dec 20, 2005 5:49:26 am PST #6084 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
10 apps every new Mac owner should download.
I've been curious about Quicksilver, but without using it, it's hard to really understand what it does.
NVU looks nice -- from the screenshots, it's much more full-featured than Tacos.
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2005 4:46:14 pm PST #6085 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was all excited because I noticed that Intellisync for Yahoo was back -- I used to use it so I'd magically have my contacts and calendar on the web, on the PDA, and on my computer.
I installed it, synched with my Yahoo account, and then promptly couldn't synch with the computer anymore. Bastards. It used to be a threeway.
Uninstalling Intellisync wasn't enough, either. I ended up uninstalling the PalmOne software and reinstalling the latest version. Now I can synch again, but I'm skeered of Intellisync and their troublesome conduits.
Anyone else tried this?
eta: BITCHES! Suddenly it doesn't look like Versamail will synch with Eudora anymore. Fuck.
eta^2: I like the old version better. This is twisty. And it's separated my mail.
tommyrot - Dec 20, 2005 5:49:18 pm PST #6086 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. Adobe Reader 6.0 (on my iBook, OS X 10.4.3) can read the text of PDFs outloud. This is news to me. Does it do this through the system (e.g. an API call) or is this something that comes with Adobe Reader? (In Adobe Reader, I can access the reading functionality by going to the View/Read Out Loud menu.)
If you are in most (all?) applications, you can go to the menu item with the application name, then Services/Speech/Start Speaking Text, etc. However, this seems to be grayed out for all my applications. How does one enable this functionality?
Mostly, I'm just curious. But it does amuse me to have my computer read out loud the court's decision in the PA Intelligent Design case.
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2005 5:52:04 pm PST #6087 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tommy, try selecting text and going back to Services.
DCJensen - Dec 20, 2005 5:53:10 pm PST #6088 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
The Mac can read the text of anything out loud. I wonder if they just tapped into that?
tommyrot - Dec 20, 2005 5:54:58 pm PST #6089 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tommy, try selecting text and going back to Services.
Sorry, forgot to mention that doesn't work. At least in Firefox - wait, it does work in Safari. OK, the Firefox folks must not have enabled it.
ION, I am too tired to figure out if I should care:
Heembo writes "CNN is reporting that Google just acquired a 5% stake in AOL for $1 Billion, shutting Microsoft out of the deal." Under this new agreement, among many other things, Google Talk will now interface with AOL's instant messenger according to the announcement on Google's site. From the announcement: "Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said: 'AOL is one of Google's longest-standing partners, and we are thrilled to strengthen and expand our relationship. Today's agreement leverages technologies from both companies to connect Google users worldwide to a wealth of new content.'"
(from Slashdot)
DCJensen - Dec 20, 2005 5:59:04 pm PST #6090 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
My Windows XP with Adobe Reader 7.0 can read text. Neat.