I would be there right now.

Simon ,'Objects In Space'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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meara - Apr 10, 2007 4:30:23 pm PDT #1221 of 25496

What is Liquid Ledger? I've got Quicken free with my Mac, but I"m not especially feeling the love...


Gris - Apr 10, 2007 4:31:34 pm PDT #1222 of 25496
Hey. New board.

Liquid Ledger: [link]


Liese S. - Apr 10, 2007 4:35:37 pm PDT #1223 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Man, am I so glad I didn't post here earlier. My Tivo remote stopped working for the Tivo (still did for the tv). I thought I'd gotten it miscoded somehow and went online to find how to get my codes. When I realized that the dog had sat on it and switched it from SAT to TV. Oops.


sarameg - Apr 10, 2007 4:41:53 pm PDT #1224 of 25496

Liese, you can now tell about how advanced Biscuit's butt is!

Except I keep trying to press the right mouse button. It's driving me insane.

I've spent my entire computer life switching between unix mice, mac mice and laptop trackpads on a daily basis. Throw in the occasional ms mouse...I don't even think about it anymore. But if you are used to just one, it's got to be crazymaking.


DCJensen - Apr 10, 2007 4:47:49 pm PDT #1225 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

The one-button-that-you-can-click-on-both-sides design is very pretty, but not as responsive as two REAL buttons would be

I must chime in with my concurrence that if you can't get used to it, any usb mouse will do.

Also, have you tweaked it at all, in the Keyboard and Mouse control panel [link] It can't do anything about the tactile difference, but it might help.

It took a while for me to get used to electric keyboards after growing up with a manual typewriter, too. hee.

(Although one would have to equate the touch mouse with a membrane keyboard, which I still haven't quite gotten used to.)


Liese S. - Apr 10, 2007 6:21:32 pm PDT #1226 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Liese, you can now tell about how advanced Biscuit's butt is!

Ha! It's really a tiny button. And it's a switch, not actually a button. It's possible he didn't do it by sitting, but did it surreptitiously with his paws so that I couldn't watch tv and paid more attention to him.

It backfired, though, because it got the tv stuck on Discovery during Mythbusters and then Most Dangerous Catch. Which was very addictive.


§ ita § - Apr 10, 2007 6:29:07 pm PDT #1227 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That Quicksilver looks cool. I'll have to give it a look.

My hesitation about going all Mac...what do I like better on the PC?

WS_FTP Pro. That duck program irritates me. I like the interface of WS_FTP Pro so much better.

UltraEdit 32. Have not found my one true Mac text editor. I'm playing with Zend Studio eval, and it's overkill in the other direction. What I mainly need is FTP Open/Save, syntax highlighting, regular expression search and replace...well, and everything else.

Paintshop Pro. I don't wanna go Gimp. PSP was a great price point ($80) for the complexity, and it's made me very happy. There isn't much that Photoshop does that PSP doesn't that I'd be willing to pay for.

SQLYog. Connects me to my remote databases and lets me manage them and run queries against them.

Typograf. I know the Mac must have a kick assed font manager. I just haven't found it yet.

Office. Need it. Don't wanna buy it.

WebLogExpert. Munches the stats from my websites and makes them pretty for me.

TiVo Desktop/To Go. I don't think that needs explaining.

Picasa. I'm quite addicted to it now. Helps me quickly sort through and manipulate images for my web sites. Sorting's the key thing. I have more than a thousand submissions sitting around waiting to be checked.

So I'm gonna be bicoastal for a while.

I don't watch TV/DVD on my desktop anymore. I haven't watched any Fox shows online because their app won't work on the Mac.

I don't torrent to the PC anyore. Azureus wouldn't work on it.

I don't IM/Skype on the PC anymore. Man, I thought I'd found my OTIM with Trillian, but nope.


NoiseDesign - Apr 10, 2007 7:00:52 pm PDT #1228 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

The Tivo Desktop/Tivo To Go stuff on the Mac is working pretty well now. You have to buy Toast to get it, but I've been running it and liking it so far.


§ ita § - Apr 10, 2007 7:07:21 pm PDT #1229 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I goddamned bought Toast on the PC. No desktop without pay? Even without burning?


tommyrot - Apr 10, 2007 7:11:06 pm PDT #1230 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So, aside from the Toast issue, how do Tivo Desktop/Tivo To Go compare between the PC and Mac versions?

I was thinking of buying Toast for my MacBook, but then I realized I could run the Tivo stuff in an XP virtual machine, so I'm not sure buying Toast for the Mac is worth it....

eta: Wait, do you only need Toast if you want to burn DVDs on a Mac?

eta2: OK, You need Toast if you want to encode for any portable device....