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[Killthee]

Anyone know of any utility that can calculate file hashes (CRC32, MD5, etc)?

HashTab?

 

[Pristine_Condition]

This doesn't embed the album art directly in the MP3 file, it just creates a link in the iTunes library file. If you were to take the MP3 and play it in Winamp, it wouldn't have any album art.

Use the Embed Artwork v1.1 Applescript from dougscripts.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Good thread. As soon as I get some kind of real job (that actually uses my degree) the Macbook Pro $3000 variety will be mine. I have used Macs but never owned one, got tired of my HP's breaking and Vista taking my memory.

 

[Blackhead]

Anybody find a quicklook plugin for gifs?

 

[Killthee]

Anybody find a quicklook plugin for gifs?

I don't think it exist yet : (

I've been looking for over a year now and have yet to come across one...

 

[btkadams]

Anybody find a quicklook plugin for gifs?

why the fuck does finder not let you do this. its probably related to safari's shitty attempt at playing gifs. why does apple ignore their existence. if safari didnt chug with gifs on a page and finder actually let you play gifs in the preview bar.... i would be leagues happier. not that i dont love my mac though!

 

[VNZ]

Anyone know of any utility that can calculate file hashes (CRC32, MD5, etc)?

I'm sure there's some GUI frontends but (the few times I need it) I usually do it in the terminal:

md5 [filename(s)]
crc32 [filename(s)]

 

[Hitokage]

This doesn't embed the album art directly in the MP3 file, it just creates a link in the iTunes library file. If you were to take the MP3 and play it in Winamp, it wouldn't have any album art.

Or, have the artwork as a file on your HD, use "Get Info", double click on the album field, select the picture file, and it'll embed it all in the id3v2 tag like you want.

 

[Killthee]

Anybody find a quicklook plugin for gifs?

I <3 You!

Ever since I saw the MKV Quicktime Quicklook Edit modified for DivX & WMV playback I was thinking of the possibility of editing it for GIF playback. I was pretty sure Quicktime could already handle animated GIF's so I figured it was just a matter of editing the plist with the MKV edit and adding the gif extension. For some reason or another (

Spoiler

i.e. I'm lazy

) I never got around to it till today when your post got me thinking about it again. I'm happy to report, SUCCESS!

Just add the gif file extension string after the mkv file extension string If you don't need the MKV quicklook edit then just replace "mkv" with "gif" in the string.

I’ve found a trick allowing me to display Matroska video files in Quicklook without the need of a plugin :

1 / First you need Perian for mkv support in Quicktime : http://perian.org/ (If you're just doing the gif edit, I don't think you'll need Perian)

2 / Then you need to add a Uniform Type Identifier in Quicktime Player :
- Edit QuickTime Player.app’s /Contents/info.plist
- Add the following code just before the last 2 tags </dict></plist> :

<key>UTExportedTypeDeclarations</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
	<array>
				<string>public.movie</string>
	</array>
			<key>UTTypeDescription</key>
				<string>Matroska Video File</string>
<key>UTTypeIconName</key>
				<string>generic</string>
<key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
				<string>com.apple.quicktime.mkv</string>
<key>UTTypeReferenceURL</key>
				<string>http://www.matroska.org/</string>
<key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
		<dict>
<key>public.filename-extension</key>
	<array>
			<string>mkv</string>
			<string>gif</string>
	</array>
		</dict>
		</dict>
	</array>

3 / In Terminal.app

touch /Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app

After that, animated gif's will play in Quicklook A couple of things to keep in mind:

• There's a short loading delay (~3 seconds on my CD2 MBP) after launching quicklook before the gif plays
• Gif's will play automatically after launching quicklook
• Seems like they play at full speed
• Gif's will not loop automatically after they finish
• This hack might break in a future update to Quicktime. Reediting the plist should fix it.

 

[Ashhong]

is there a way to hide folders and files from showing up under the Finder Search? i dont want my porn and stuff showing up

 

[giga]

Put a dot in front of the file/folder name.

 

[Ashhong]

what kind of dot? tried a period but it says files with that are reserved for the system or something.

 

[giga]

what kind of dot? tried a period but it says files with that are reserved for the system or something.

Create a new folder first and then when naming it, use the period in front.

 

[Jasoco]

I think you'd have to rename it with the Terminal because OS X is trying to protect you from yourself by preventing the file from being renamed with a period.

CD to the directory then use the mv command.

mv filename.ext .filename.ext

I think there's another way that doesn't require renaming the file though. Try Googling for it.

Oh, wait. You're just trying to hide files from Spotlight? THAT'S EASY! Why wasn't it suggested from the start? Don't hide the file because then you can't even get to your porn. You just want to remove the porn from being indexed:

Open System Preferences.

Click Spotlight.

Click Privacy.

Add the folder with all your pornography to the list.

 

[Killthee]

is there a way to hide folders and files from showing up under the Finder Search? i dont want my porn and stuff showing up

System Preferences -> Spotlight

 

[giga]

Sure you can get to hidden files, cmd+shift+g or terminal.

If anything, one could simply find the folder in your Spotlight preferences or just browse upon it accidentally.

 

[giga]

Delete.

 

[Ashhong]

ah, so simple! :lol

although its too easy for someone to go into spotlight prefs and see which folders i felt needed to be hidden haha

 

[Jasoco]

Here's a question. How many people are using your computer? Do you use Users? Do you lock your screen? Do you REALLY have suspicious people in your house or at work who would go through hoops to find your porn?

 

[Ashhong]

my second statement was probably a bit over the top. i doubt anyone is going to do that except the occasional nosy friend that knows macs.

however, occasionally various people might be on my computer. for example yesterday my older brothers friend was using it. i dont want him to open spotlight searching for say...photo booth and see a folder called "photos of tits"

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

I've sorted this issue, the problem is you cant use .icns files you need to convert them to rsrc with this program.

Sweet.

We have the same Preview and Safari icons. NICE.

 

[Killthee]

I don't like anybody else using my profile so I just turn on the guest account and lock my screen via LockTight when I'm away from my notebook.

 

[Blackhead]

I <3 You!

Ever since I saw the MKV Quicktime Quicklook Edit modified for DivX & WMV playback I was thinking of the possibility of editing it for GIF playback. I was pretty sure Quicktime could already handle animated GIF's so I figured it was just a matter of editing the plist with the MKV edit and adding the gif extension. For some reason or another (

Spoiler

i.e. I'm lazy

) I never got around to it till today when your post got me thinking about it again. I'm happy to report, SUCCESS!

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa18/killthee/GAF/Screenshot2009-07-2623h34m52s.png

Just add the gif file extension string after the mkv file extension string If you don't need the MKV quicklook edit then just replace "mkv" with "gif" in the string.

After that, animated gif's will play in Quicklook A couple of things to keep in mind:

• There's a short loading delay (~3 seconds on my CD2 MBP) after launching quicklook before the gif plays
• Gif's will play automatically after launching quicklook
• Seems like they play at full speed
• Gif's will not loop automatically after they finish
• This hack might break in a future update to Quicktime. Reediting the plist should fix it.

I <3 You too!

 

[Jasoco]

my second statement was probably a bit over the top. i doubt anyone is going to do that except the occasional nosy friend that knows macs.

however, occasionally various people might be on my computer. for example yesterday my older brothers friend was using it. i dont want him to open spotlight searching for say...photo booth and see a folder called "photos of tits"

He won't if you use the Privacy tab. And DON'T NAME IT THAT! With Porn you NEVER name it what it is! I named my porn folder "Sexy Time", but I'm the only one who ever touches my Mac. I also have it set to lock and require a password when I put it to sleep. (Though this might be new in Snow Leopard.) Just don't put the folder in an easy to find location. And use passwords and stuff. Set it to ask for a login at startup. Set a password to the screensaver. (If you can in Leopard. You can in Snow Leopard in case you can't yet in Leopard.) And don't name it anything crazy like "There is Porn in this Folder" or "Titties and Ass". I used to name it "Girlie Pictures and Movies" before I renamed it. But it's also in my Documents folder, and no one even touches the computer, and the ones who would don't even know what a Home folder is. Also, the icon is the "Pussy Wagon" keychain icon from the Kill Bill icon set on Iconfactory.

 

[mrkgoo]

He won't if you use the Privacy tab. And DON'T NAME IT THAT! With Porn you NEVER name it what it is! I named my porn folder "Sexy Time", but I'm the only one who ever touches my Mac. I also have it set to lock and require a password when I put it to sleep. (Though this might be new in Snow Leopard.) Just don't put the folder in an easy to find location. And use passwords and stuff. Set it to ask for a login at startup. Set a password to the screensaver. (If you can in Leopard. You can in Snow Leopard in case you can't yet in Leopard.) And don't name it anything crazy like "There is Porn in this Folder" or "Titties and Ass". I used to name it "Girlie Pictures and Movies" before I renamed it. But it's also in my Documents folder, and no one even touches the computer, and the ones who would don't even know what a Home folder is. Also, the icon is the "Pussy Wagon" keychain icon from the Kill Bill icon set on Iconfactory.

Better yet, wrap it up in an encrypted .dmg. Then only a password can mount it, and the contents are not indexed (or they are, but can't be viewed when it's unmounted).

 

[Jasoco]

DMG's corrupt absolutely. One bit out of place and it's all gone. Plus change one file and you have to backup the whole DMG again. A pain if you use Time Machine or any backup program (WHICH YOU BETTER BE DOING!) since it would have to copy the giant file every time.

 

[Althane]

He won't if you use the Privacy tab. And DON'T NAME IT THAT! With Porn you NEVER name it what it is! I named my porn folder "Sexy Time", but I'm the only one who ever touches my Mac. I also have it set to lock and require a password when I put it to sleep. (Though this might be new in Snow Leopard.) Just don't put the folder in an easy to find location. And use passwords and stuff. Set it to ask for a login at startup. Set a password to the screensaver. (If you can in Leopard. You can in Snow Leopard in case you can't yet in Leopard.) And don't name it anything crazy like "There is Porn in this Folder" or "Titties and Ass". I used to name it "Girlie Pictures and Movies" before I renamed it. But it's also in my Documents folder, and no one even touches the computer, and the ones who would don't even know what a Home folder is. Also, the icon is the "Pussy Wagon" keychain icon from the Kill Bill icon set on Iconfactory.

One additional tip for hiding porn (not that I do it... >_>)

(no seriously)

(nobody is going to believe me on this one, are they?)

Mac OS X hides files that begin with periods. So, naming a folder ".porn" won't show up in finder, or spotlight (at least, not that I've found). Granted, you should use typical security measures, but that'll hide it from 95% of other users.

How do you access your porn then? Simple, go to the folder where the porn folder is located, and go to go, and type ".[porn folder name]".

Personally, I'm using this to hide some of my more questionable downloads (not porn, dammit!) that I wouldn't like people finding without my permission. Of course, if they know what they're looking for, and how to look for it, then you'd better have other measures, but like I said, that'll stop 95% of everybody else, and even then it's a damn hard folder to find.

 

[giga]

For those who don't like centered docks:

Left/Top: defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start
Middle (default): defaults delete com.apple.dock pinning
Right/Bottom: defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string end

killall Dock

Applicable for vertical docks as well:

 

[scorcho]

i have that exact Ikea lamp. that is all.

 

[GodfatherX]

Waiting on my student loan to come through, but Im like 80% sure I'm buying the 13" Macbook Pro...been a long time Windows supporter, but the free iPod offer was calling me

any amazing things that anyone can show me to push me over the edge?

 

[Ashhong]

He won't if you use the Privacy tab. And DON'T NAME IT THAT! With Porn you NEVER name it what it is! I named my porn folder "Sexy Time", but I'm the only one who ever touches my Mac. I also have it set to lock and require a password when I put it to sleep. (Though this might be new in Snow Leopard.) Just don't put the folder in an easy to find location. And use passwords and stuff. Set it to ask for a login at startup. Set a password to the screensaver. (If you can in Leopard. You can in Snow Leopard in case you can't yet in Leopard.) And don't name it anything crazy like "There is Porn in this Folder" or "Titties and Ass". I used to name it "Girlie Pictures and Movies" before I renamed it. But it's also in my Documents folder, and no one even touches the computer, and the ones who would don't even know what a Home folder is. Also, the icon is the "Pussy Wagon" keychain icon from the Kill Bill icon set on Iconfactory.

shit, im not that protective of it :lol

changing the file names of all my files would be a chore...how would i be able to tell what video is what when if i have 50 videos titled redstove1.avi, redstove2.avi etc. doesnt matter now that its in the privacy tab. the folder all of my porn is in is just titled Files and is in another folder.

wrapping it up in a dmg file sounds really nice, but that would require too much work as its always changing. unless u can simply add to a dmg like a rar?

 

[LCfiner]

shit, im not that protective of it :lol

changing the file names of all my files would be a chore...how would i be able to tell what video is what when if i have 50 videos titled redstove1.avi, redstove2.avi etc. doesnt matter now that its in the privacy tab. the folder all of my porn is in is just titled Files and is in another folder.

wrapping it up in a dmg file sounds really nice, but that would require too much work as its always changing. unless u can simply add to a dmg like a rar?

pretty sure he was talking about renaming just the folder, not all the files.

if the folder shows up in the spotlight privacy tab as "other" or "syslib" or whatever, then who cares. the files within won't be returned from a spotlight search so they can be named whatever you want.

 

[Mar]

Mac OS X hides files that begin with periods. So, naming a folder ".porn" won't show up in finder, or spotlight (at least, not that I've found). Granted, you should use typical security measures, but that'll hide it from 95% of other users.

How do you access your porn then? Simple, go to the folder where the porn folder is located, and go to go, and type ".[porn folder name]".

Yeah, it'll hide it for general browsing around the filesystem in the GUI. But people should be aware that this is not a security measure, just a way to make files and folders 'hide'. Any frequent user of a unix type filesystem will list directory trees with the -a switch, which shows hidden files.

But, my wife isn't a unix person so it works great for me.

 

[InEffectMode]

What are the benefits and any necessary uses for having a Mac Book Pro with 8GB of memory? Any programs worthy of needing that much memory or is it just if you have massive applications running simultaneously?

Just for reference, I'm also looking at a Mac Mini with 4BG of memory and getting the mouse and keyboard to use with my current 23" wide-screen.

 

[XMonkey]

What are the benefits and any necessary uses for having a Mac Book Pro with 8GB of memory? Any programs worthy of needing that much memory or is it just if you have massive applications running simultaneously?

Just for reference, I'm also looking at a Mac Mini with 4BG of memory and getting the mouse and keyboard to use with my current 23" wide-screen.

Do you do lots of 3D design, video editing/production, or photo editing with very high resolution files? If not, you definitely don't need 8GB of RAM.

 

[Blackhead]

Do you do lots of 3D design, video editing/production, or photo editing with very high resolution files? If not, you definitely don't need 8GB of RAM.

I don't know, if 8 GB makes launching Parallels/Fusion apps a seamless experience it might be worth it just for that.

 

[Battlezone]

He won't if you use the Privacy tab. And DON'T NAME IT THAT! With Porn you NEVER name it what it is!

I have my Porn in a folder called "1976 Tax Returns" on my external drive, and my actual tax return PDFs in a folder called "Porn" in my Documents folder. Just because.

Holy shit, that's sexy.

 

[Particle Physicist]

my second statement was probably a bit over the top. i doubt anyone is going to do that except the occasional nosy friend that knows macs.

however, occasionally various people might be on my computer. for example yesterday my older brothers friend was using it. i dont want him to open spotlight searching for say...photo booth and see a folder called "photos of tits"

you can use Trucrypt to create hidden/password protected folders.

http://www.truecrypt.org/

 

[Ashhong]

new question, im having some issues connecting to my vista PC. i know its not exactly made for each other, but i cant figure this out since everything worked fine before i got my new MBP.

in the finder folder, my vista used to sometimes show up by itself on the left under network, but that stopped happening. i was still able to access it by putting the IP address into Go To Server though. however now, even when i do that, it connects to my user folder in vista, but all folders under that are empty, like vista for example. wtf do i do?

hmm i also now just noticed that the lil icon next to my vista network is a mac desktop, it used to be the PC with BSOD. oh and it keeps connecting me as guest, even though i put in my user name and all that.

 

[peppermints]

So I've been a Mac user for over two years now. But I feel like I'm doing things wrong. I know there's no right way to use a computer's interface, but I recently formatted and did a clean install of Leopard (feels really nice and fresh to start over).

I noticed that the default window sizes for both Safari and Firefox are quite small. Ever since I first got my Macbook, I have had this setup:

Firefox taking up most of the screen, Adium buddy list on the left corner. Everything else I'm using just kind of hides out behind Firefox and I use Expose to get to it when I need it. This is fine if it's just something like iTunes, but if I have multiple things I'm working it can get cumbersome.

Like I said earlier, I feel like this is very unconventional and going against the "document" based aspect of the GUI.

Anyone else care to post their setups for ideas/tips?

 

[Ashhong]

i dont understand the question. you can resize it to how you see fit and it should save that size. at least it does for my firefox, always opens up to fill the screen for me

 

[DeathbyVolcano]

Short Answer: Use Spaces.

Long answer: My setup:

Space 1:

Space 2:

Space 3:

Space 4 is for other, miscellaneous applications.

 

[peppermints]

I could just resize it to fit what I'm doing, but I mainly use this computer for webbrowsing/chat, hence the current set up.

I'm just trying to figure out why exactly the default window sizes are so small for the browsers, really. Is this just a visual design choice or is there something else behind it?

 

[DeathbyVolcano]

Well, you'll find that most browsers these days, even in windows, have a small default size. At least, that's what I've noticed anyway.

 

[Jasoco]

Anyone else care to post their setups for ideas/tips?

Forget Spaces. Use Exposé (Especially in Snow Leopard) and bind it to a mouse button or two. (One for all windows, one for show desktop.)

Pure multitasking bliss.

Instant access to all windows. I could never get into Spaces. I prefer to have everything visible at once. If I can't see it, I don't know what I am missing or forgetting and it makes me anxious that I might be forgetting something.

 

[noah111]

Instant access to all windows. I could never get into Spaces. I prefer to have everything visible at once. If I can't see it, I don't know what I am missing or forgetting and it makes me anxious that I might be forgetting something.

Yeah, spaces IMO is only for putting things aside for later use without closing a whole app. I usually am using programs like the desktop Hulu app, or Celestia, but when I am using these apps I use them, and them alone, not in conjunction with internet etc. Plus I would like to keep them open in case I want to get back to a certain thing, without having to re-open the entire program.. it's useful for certain things.

 

[Hitokage]

Virtual Desktops, or what Spaces provides, are essential when you have lots of various windows involved in the same task, more so when individual windows aren't tied together by parent application, but that's mainly the case with Unix/Linux and not OSX.

For example, I'd have Web/Chat/IM stuff on one desktop, an image editing project on another(GIMP is not MDI), and maybe a document composition on another.

It also makes for a great Boss Key.

 

[Blackhead]

How do I get Dashboard to start up at login?

And what's the best adblocker for webkit/Safari?

Short Answer: Use Spaces.

Long answer: My setup:

Space 1:
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb44/SufjanSays/Picture1-39.png

Space 2:
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb44/SufjanSays/Picture2-5.png

Space 3:
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb44/SufjanSays/Picture3-2.jpg

Space 4 is for other, miscellaneous applications.

What do you use Songbird for? I have a few ogg files but I rarely use the app anymore. Certainly not enough to keep it in my dock.

What skin is that for Adium? I wish the whole OS could be themed to look like that.

That spaces setup looks pretty useful. Growl alerts show up in every space, right?

 

[layzie1989]

I would also like to know what theme that is for adium

edit: ok nvm thats tweetie

i basically have adium and safari on the first space, mail on the second, itunes on the third, and a 4th space for whatever I want.

 

[peppermints]

I just can't get used to having the dock on the left. It feels so.. odd.

BrandNew, what is the Bowtie theme you're using? I quite like it.