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regan_russell wrote:

SupremeCmdr wrote: Any reason why the Carbon Emacs is preferred?

I'd suspect that since Emacs originated elsewhere, porting even part of it to Objective-C and cocoa would increase the likely-hood of bugs and bloat.

If I wanted to write superfast code on the Mac, I'd use C, Carbon, maybe some assembler and most importantly, profile the hell out of the code.
If I wanted to use all the features of OSX and ensure longevity of my software, I'd use Objective-C and Cocoa.

I am not a great Emacs fan.. I have only come a cross it in a couple of workplaces..

Regan

The Cocoa Emacs uses the original NextStep bindings, so basically it's just a checkout of the latest version of emacs from FSF, 23.* something. I built mine from the commandline like any normal OpenSource app.

I'll have to checkout the other one to see what the difference is.

nekonoko wrote: Here are some of the items in my dock though

Hey Neko, how do you change the drive icons? The pic of the hard disk is kind of depressing.

^ CandyBar is one way 2 do it

RageX wrote: Hey Neko, how do you change the drive icons? The pic of the hard disk is kind of depressing.

It's just a matter of cut and paste. First, find a replacement icon you like. Right click on it, select "Get Info" ...



... and click the small portrait in the upper left corner of the dialog (it will highlight with a blue border). CMD+C to copy.



Next, right-click the drive icon you want to change, select "Get Info" ...



... click the small drive icon in the left hand corner ...



... and paste using CMD+V.



If you ever want to revert back to the default icon, do the "Get Info" thing again, click the portrait and hit the delete key.

nekonoko wrote:

fu wrote: that's a huge busy dock neko !

Beats digging through the 195 items in my Applications folder

I've found that the vastly improved Leopard Spotlight is great for application digging - Spotlight will locate the package, allow me to launch it, and immediately halt the search without further disk scrubbing - total time: approx. 1.5 seconds.

That being said, I still fill my dock with tons of (sometimes useless) icons: here is my trusty 1.5 ghz PowerBook's current Desktop.


(checkout the Kerberos icon in the upper area of the dock - I don't need it there: all Kerberos commands are completed from a command prompt, I just like the look of it)

Thanks for all the great suggestions on software, it's really helped to get my feet wet. I'll add a couple to the list of must-haves:

Unison
Transmission
Colloquy
EyeTV - My mac is now my tv+tivo, with support to dump shows to my iphone!
gSync - Finally have gcal<->ical<->iphone 3 way sync!
Handbrake
iPartition - Definitely worth the $$$. Can non-destructively resize bootcamp partitions.
Joost
NeoOffice - I have iWork but I use OO at work so I can't really make the jump yet.
Wallet - I hope they bring iphone syncing to this app when the SDK comes out.
Xvid/DivX - The player seems to have some bugs but a lot of potential.

Once I get my hands on a Time Capsule my computer purchases for '08 are done, I swear! I need to start spending money on furniture and motorcycles instead

semi-fly wrote: here is my trusty 1.5 ghz PowerBook's current Desktop...

how's leopard running on the g4? my main laptop is 12'' g4/1.5 but i still run panther on it... another g4 pbook user here reported that so far is ok...

RageX wrote: iPartition - Definitely worth the $$$. Can non-destructively resize bootcamp partitions...

i must be one of the very first iDefrag/iPartition buyers (not wise - i know) and in its early days it used to funk up things quite a lot, the latest releases + 10.4.x seem to be ok... did u notice anything funny running it on 10.5.x...?

RageX wrote: I'll add a couple to the list of must-haves:

Thanks for adding to the list! Here are a few more (maybe not all "must haves", but all are handy) from my Apps & Utilities folders.

• coconutBattery - great battery monitoring tool
• CSSEdit - useful for quick CSS edits
• DiskWarrior - Excellent disk directory repair tool
• Documents To Go - MS Office & PDF document viewer/editor for my Palm Treo 700p
• Emailchemy - handy for importing and exporting email among many different formats
• Flickr Uploadr - self explanatory
• Flip4Mac - WMV player for Mac
• GraphicConverter - Awesome image tool
• Interarchy - convenient gui front end to a lot of file transfer tools
• iStumbler - wireless tool
• iWork '08 - finally starting to get within shouting distance of the MS stuff, and, in some limited areas, better. I find myself starting to open Numbers now instead of Excel for new projects; graphing seems easier than in Office.
• Leopard Cache Cleaner - very useful, but potentially dangerous, maintenance and troubleshooting tool.
• Lineform - surprisingly simple, yet full featured $79 vector drawing tool. Hated it at first, then watched the tutorial videos on their website, now I'm a big fan.
• Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office 2004 on the G4, Microsoft Office 2008 on the Intel - Sometimes ya just gotta do what ya gotta do.
• OmniGraffle - pretty good diagramming tool.
• OmniOutliner - pretty good outlining tool. Kind of like what More would be if it were still being developed.
• OnyX - nice utility. Handy for kicking off cron'd maintenance scripts on laptops that aren't always powered on and other "clean up" tasks.
• Opera - Alternative browser. I use it for one of my online personalities, Firefox for another, and Safari for a third. (Basically, it makes it possible to be logged into three different google/yahoo/whatever identities at the same time, so I can switch between work/family/hobby workspaces very easily.)
• Picasa Web Albums Uploader
• recorder.xhead - Ever want to use your laptop as a sound-activated voice recorder? This is the tool.
• SiteSucker - a nice gui tool for mirroring sites, downloading files, etc.
• Stuffit - for old time's sake
• TechTool Pro - commercial disk repair and hardware diagnostic utility
• Tidy Up! - convenient way to find and manipulate duplicate files
• TNEF's Enough - lets you unpack those ^$*#$@# winmail.dat files you get from Outlook users
• VMware Fusion and Parallels (I lean very slightly towards Parallels, but I have a pile of VMware VMs that I've put together over the years on other platforms)
• Yep - "iPhoto for PDFs." Sort of.

josehill wrote: [*]Emailchemy - handy for importing and exporting email among many different formats

right on, it saved my day many times

josehill wrote: *]Interarchy - convenient gui front end to a lot of file transfer tools

best (s)ftp/webdav gui i ever tried, Transmit is ok but i do prefer Interarchy

also for any of you with a huge library of (real) books, Books is worth trying (it's the free equivalent of Booxter which will also archive music/images etc)

fu wrote:

semi-fly wrote: here is my trusty 1.5 ghz PowerBook's current Desktop...

how's leopard running on the g4? my main laptop is 12'' g4/1.5 but i still run panther on it... another g4 pbook user here reported that so far is ok...

Leopard runs extremely well on my PPC hardware, especially for general usage - Dock animation performance and Intel optimized applications are the most noticeable speed offenders.