Perapera-kun: Japanese Popup Translator :: Add-ons for Thunderbird: Wow. If any of you have a need for on-demand Japanese readings, and are using Thunderbird for your mail client -- this is very helpful.
cover art?
Oct. 13th, 2008 01:38 pmOne of you kind folks was recently mentioning an album cover art finding utility which worked well with unusual albums. I thought I bookmarked it in delicious at the time, but apparently I experienced BOOKMARK FAIL. I'm using iTunes built-in one with marginal success, and Discogs and Google Images for everything else.
Anyone else got a decent recommendation for cover art finding tools?
Anyone else got a decent recommendation for cover art finding tools?
leave the noise
Aug. 13th, 2008 02:59 pmI seriously want my browser to tell me which window or tab is playing a noise. A little speaker icon next to the title, that's all. Auto-playing sounds and flash and crap are making me unhappy.
hopefully of use to some of you peeps
Aug. 27th, 2007 10:54 amI've been using some interesting and fun software tools, some for longer than others. I figure some of you might be looking for the same solutions I've found, or may be able to suggest better things for me to use; so here is my must-have suite of apps. Everything listed is utterly free (not shareware or nagware): ( the list )
For a long while, I worked with Illustrator all day, every day, for the four days a week that I (mostly) worked my way through college. At the time I was so impressed with the Illustrator UI model that I was beginning to wish Adobe would make its own OS; I felt it would trump MacOS for usability. This was the "pre-Photoshop 6 world," you see...
But my one-time prowess has dulled mightily, and even the muscle-memory that is still devoted to chorded keystrokes is betrayed by Adobe's revisions to longstanding keyboard shortcuts, while keeping 80% of them identical. I also find that I'm having a hard time hunting out changes both subtle and gross because my entire fucking UI is in Japanese. So...
Bless these folks' hearts:
Update: After finally getting the drawing the way I wanted it, I find that MS Word 2003 is not willing to import .EPS graphics. It demonstrated this to be by crashing grandly when I tried it, somehow eradicating text that I'd written an hour ago, despite the auto-save feature of Word being set for "10 minutes." This also happened to be the text where I'd had an epiphany of not only how the system I'm designing should work, but how to concisely define it.
So now I'm relegating that drawing to the in-app tools that MS Word has, which suck, and trying to remember what the hell I wrote. It was marginally clever. Honest!
But my one-time prowess has dulled mightily, and even the muscle-memory that is still devoted to chorded keystrokes is betrayed by Adobe's revisions to longstanding keyboard shortcuts, while keeping 80% of them identical. I also find that I'm having a hard time hunting out changes both subtle and gross because my entire fucking UI is in Japanese. So...
Bless these folks' hearts:
Update: After finally getting the drawing the way I wanted it, I find that MS Word 2003 is not willing to import .EPS graphics. It demonstrated this to be by crashing grandly when I tried it, somehow eradicating text that I'd written an hour ago, despite the auto-save feature of Word being set for "10 minutes." This also happened to be the text where I'd had an epiphany of not only how the system I'm designing should work, but how to concisely define it.
So now I'm relegating that drawing to the in-app tools that MS Word has, which suck, and trying to remember what the hell I wrote. It was marginally clever. Honest!
MindManager, et al
May. 21st, 2007 04:57 pmI'm working with MindManager to plan out a portion of my project, primarily as a learning exercise to put me on even footing with the game designers, who are using it for their tasks. It uses "mind maps" to organize data - so it's not a flow-chart generator, which might be more what I need. So far, what I'm seeing is just a traditional outline list that has been radially rotated around its primary subject.
MindManager's like US$400 or so, but at a glance I am hard pressed to find an advantage to using it. Have you used this type of organizational software? If so, what advantage did you feel it gave you over traditional outline formatting?
MindManager's like US$400 or so, but at a glance I am hard pressed to find an advantage to using it. Have you used this type of organizational software? If so, what advantage did you feel it gave you over traditional outline formatting?
Recently at work I was given a fast new PC to use. Transferring my mail and browser preferences have always made it a pain to get on a new machine. This time, however, I found MozBackup, a piece of freeware for backing up and restoring Mozilla profiles.
It schlurped up my Thunderbird Mail profile, mail archive, address book, accounts - everything except my Extensions - and I was able to restore that archive onto my new machine. The same for my Firefox browser experience.
Hoo hah, that was easy. Anybody who has to transfer to a new Windows box, I can't recommend this enough!
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Now if I could just remember to visit my own damned del.icio.us feed to get the PPC-optimized builds for my PowerBook at home. My Mac seems to choke heavily on Firefox!
It schlurped up my Thunderbird Mail profile, mail archive, address book, accounts - everything except my Extensions - and I was able to restore that archive onto my new machine. The same for my Firefox browser experience.
Hoo hah, that was easy. Anybody who has to transfer to a new Windows box, I can't recommend this enough!
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mozilla)Now if I could just remember to visit my own damned del.icio.us feed to get the PPC-optimized builds for my PowerBook at home. My Mac seems to choke heavily on Firefox!
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