Comments on: Quake-style slide-down terminal on Mac http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/ expert ruby on rails development Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:46:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Casper Fabricius http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-67 Casper Fabricius Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:47:09 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-67 Hi "Welcome" ;) Thanks for the encouragement. You are right, you can keep on discovering new "easter eggs" in OSX - just today, Lau (see comment #7) showed me a cool zoom function, where I can zoom in on anything by holding down Ctrl and scrolling - nice! :) On the downside I'm starting to realize that it was a bad choice to buy the cheapest Macbook Pro with only 512 MB RAM, since the laptop is swapping a lot under both OSX and Windows. Adding 1 GB of RAM will cost me 2500 DKK (more than 400$), so that's not gonna happen immediately ... Hi “Welcome” ;)

Thanks for the encouragement. You are right, you can keep on discovering new “easter eggs” in OSX - just today, Lau (see comment #7) showed me a cool zoom function, where I can zoom in on anything by holding down Ctrl and scrolling - nice! :)

On the downside I’m starting to realize that it was a bad choice to buy the cheapest Macbook Pro with only 512 MB RAM, since the laptop is swapping a lot under both OSX and Windows. Adding 1 GB of RAM will cost me 2500 DKK (more than 400$), so that’s not gonna happen immediately …

]]> By: Welcome. http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-66 Welcome. Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:53:11 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-66 Always happy to welcome fellow propellerheads to the binary wonderland of Macintosh. With the FreeBSD underpinnings wrapped in elegant, simple yet powerful design, the process truly becomes as beautiful as any destination. And unless you want it to, the discovery process which accompanies Macs never really ends. There are easter eggs tucked away all over the place. Mac Hacks can be a lot of fun, be they for useful endeavors such as Visor to your personal workflow, or great breaktime diddle-sessions uncovering hidden eye candy or even better, harnessing the stellar Apple Core API's. Very happy to have you along for the ride. p.s. Apple WILL do stupid things from time to time. Just shake your head and understand shit happens to the best of us. But overall, the experience will be top-tier. Enjoy! Always happy to welcome fellow propellerheads to the binary wonderland of Macintosh. With the FreeBSD underpinnings wrapped in elegant, simple yet powerful design, the process truly becomes as beautiful as any destination. And unless you want it to, the discovery process which accompanies Macs never really ends. There are easter eggs tucked away all over the place. Mac Hacks can be a lot of fun, be they for useful endeavors such as Visor to your personal workflow, or great breaktime diddle-sessions uncovering hidden eye candy or even better, harnessing the stellar Apple Core API’s. Very happy to have you along for the ride.

p.s. Apple WILL do stupid things from time to time. Just shake your head and understand shit happens to the best of us. But overall, the experience will be top-tier. Enjoy!

]]> By: Casper Fabricius http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-65 Casper Fabricius Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:02:13 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-65 Hi Lau - and thanks for yesterday, that was fun. No, I actually didn't give Mail much of change, because I wanted to stay compatible with all my fellow Outlook users - but now that I see how painfully slow Microsoft Office 2004 runs in Rosetta, I'm having second thoughts, also because I can't sync with Entourage. I've installed Quicksilver; it seems pretty cool! Hi Lau - and thanks for yesterday, that was fun.

No, I actually didn’t give Mail much of change, because I wanted to stay compatible with all my fellow Outlook users - but now that I see how painfully slow Microsoft Office 2004 runs in Rosetta, I’m having second thoughts, also because I can’t sync with Entourage.

I’ve installed Quicksilver; it seems pretty cool!

]]> By: Lau http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-64 Lau Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:21:37 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-64 Did you try the built in Mail app for email? If you have an iSync compatible phone, try it out (but remember to back up your addresses and calendar up once in a while. I know people who have lost their contacts because of sync). Syncing addresses and iCal calendar items is neat. Have a look at Quicksilver, if you haven't http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ a quick application launcher and more. Did you try the built in Mail app for email?

If you have an iSync compatible phone, try it out (but remember to back up your addresses and calendar up once in a while. I know people who have lost their contacts because of sync). Syncing addresses and iCal calendar items is neat.

Have a look at Quicksilver, if you haven’t http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
a quick application launcher and more.

]]> By: Björn Rixman http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-63 Björn Rixman Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:07:13 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-63 Adium is definitely the way to go, that is if you can live with having a cartoon duck in your dock (the app lets you pick a colour though)... The amount of protocols supported is impressive, and nowadays it rarely crashes. Animated terminal background images? Sounds a bit busy for my taste... Another app I can recommend is <a href="http://virtuedesktops.info/" rel="nofollow">Virtue desktop</a>, kinda like the upcoming "spaces" thingy in 10.5. Oh, and <a href="http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX" rel="nofollow">Linotype FontExplorer X</a> for fonts management instead of the built in fontbook... Adium is definitely the way to go, that is if you can live with having a cartoon duck in your dock (the app lets you pick a colour though)… The amount of protocols supported is impressive, and nowadays it rarely crashes.

Animated terminal background images? Sounds a bit busy for my taste…

Another app I can recommend is Virtue desktop, kinda like the upcoming “spaces” thingy in 10.5. Oh, and Linotype FontExplorer X for fonts management instead of the built in fontbook…

]]> By: Jeremy http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-62 Jeremy Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:41:18 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-62 Congrats on the Macbook Pro! I have a few favorite apps to share: <a href="http://iterm.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow">iTerm</a>: Sometimes quirky, but does a nice job with terminal emulation, colors and editors like VIM. I prefer it over osx terminal. Of course there's <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">fink</a>, but I prefer <a href="http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/" rel="nofollow">DarwinPorts</a>: Want a nice traceroute? sudo port install mtr ... How about network analyzer? sudo port install ntop ... Need to use encryption? sudo port install gnupg. Don't forget to install Xcode and X11 from your system install DVD. You will need them later to build other apps, and Xcode is a great dev environment (although <a href="http://macromates.com" rel="nofollow">TextMate</a> is the ultimate rails editor). Also, for DVD and movie playback, skip the QuickTime player and get <a href="http://niceplayer.indyjt.com/" rel="nofollow">niceplayer</a>. And if you want to toss out your television, check out <a href="http://getdemocracy.com/" rel="nofollow">Democracy</a>. Congrats on the Macbook Pro! I have a few favorite apps to share:

iTerm: Sometimes quirky, but does a nice job with terminal emulation, colors and editors like VIM. I prefer it over osx terminal.

Of course there’s fink, but I prefer DarwinPorts: Want a nice traceroute? sudo port install mtr … How about network analyzer? sudo port install ntop … Need to use encryption? sudo port install gnupg.

Don’t forget to install Xcode and X11 from your system install DVD. You will need them later to build other apps, and Xcode is a great dev environment (although TextMate is the ultimate rails editor).

Also, for DVD and movie playback, skip the QuickTime player and get niceplayer. And if you want to toss out your television, check out Democracy.

]]> By: Casper Fabricius http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-58 Casper Fabricius Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:58:54 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-58 Thanks for your comments, guys. I'll definitely give AdiumX a try. I'm also very impressed by the sleep function - I had it sleeping the entire night on batteries, and the drain was almost non-existant. Thanks for your comments, guys. I’ll definitely give AdiumX a try. I’m also very impressed by the sleep function - I had it sleeping the entire night on batteries, and the drain was almost non-existant.

]]> By: Oliver http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-61 Oliver Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:32:07 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-61 1) Never shut it down! Sleep is your friend, shutdown is for suckers. It almost doesn't use any power while sleeping so you should default to doing that -- plus it makes the whole machine much more accessible any time you need a quickfix. 2) Use AdiumX -- Much nicer! 1) Never shut it down! Sleep is your friend, shutdown is for suckers. It almost doesn’t use any power while sleeping so you should default to doing that — plus it makes the whole machine much more accessible any time you need a quickfix.

2) Use AdiumX — Much nicer!

]]> By: Jakob S http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-60 Jakob S Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:25:37 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-60 Welcome to the cult :) I too never shut down the laptop, I just close it and let it sleep. Works just fine. For IM, I use Proteus. Adium didn't fit my needs, for some reason I don't recall now. Welcome to the cult :)

I too never shut down the laptop, I just close it and let it sleep. Works just fine.

For IM, I use Proteus. Adium didn’t fit my needs, for some reason I don’t recall now.

]]> By: Der Alte http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-59 Der Alte Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:11:48 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-59 I have a Powerbook, and I never shut down OS X unless I have to because of an upgrade. The battery drain is minimal, and unlike many of my recent windows PCs the sleep feature is seamless, and never cocks up. So instead of shutting down, just slam that Macbook Pro shut, and let it sleep. For instant messaging, you might want to take a look at Adium <a href="http://www.adiumx.com/" title="here" rel="nofollow">. I think the duck-logo sucks, but the program is rocks supreme, and is very customizable. I have a Powerbook, and I never shut down OS X unless I have to because of an upgrade. The battery drain is minimal, and unlike many of my recent windows PCs the sleep feature is seamless, and never cocks up. So instead of shutting down, just slam that Macbook Pro shut, and let it sleep.

For instant messaging, you might want to take a look at Adium . I think the duck-logo sucks, but the program is rocks supreme, and is very customizable.

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