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What new app would you like to see?

Thanks.
Download completed.
Alas. Studio MX works only on OS X 10.2
I am stuck with (and love) OS 9.2.
There seems to be nothing for it but to get the newer OS....
One cannot hold back the future.

rowand

:(
 
Originally posted by MrMacman
A mass renamer...

For files I rip off a cd that I want to remove or add 'The Beatles --'

Or something like that... but I don't want to rename all of the files by hand.

If someone was to make an application like that... like a 'rename all' feature... would be helpful.
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There are 24 programs to rename files in OSX on versiontracker.com alone.

My vote is for a voice conferencing program. Maybe even a hack that allows you to connect multiple audio chats under iChat.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
There are 24 programs to rename files in OSX on versiontracker.com alone.

My vote is for a voice conferencing program. Maybe even a hack that allows you to connect multiple audio chats under iChat.
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Oooh, good idea. :eek:
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
There are 24 programs to rename files in OSX on versiontracker.com alone.

My vote is for a voice conferencing program. Maybe even a hack that allows you to connect multiple audio chats under iChat.
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uhh
Batch file renamer tool... Batch file renamer tool... iPhoto renamer...

missing something?
:confused:

Link me to the best one please.
 
Originally posted by MrMacman
uhh
Batch file renamer tool... Batch file renamer tool... iPhoto renamer...

missing something?
:confused:

Link me to the best one please.
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I have no idea what the best one is. In the past when I have needed one I just downloaded it used it and got rid of it. There are so many of them coming and going all the time I just don't see a need to keep one around. Though I also don't have to constantly rename things.

To find all of them in versiontracker or at least most of them you need to simply search for, "rename". Versiontracker has a pretty dumb search engine and it only searches the file name so you want to keep it as simple as possible or you will miss a lot of apps.

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/s...action=search&str=rename&plt[]=macosx&x=0&y=0
 
haha, I was one letter off all of those.

Still so far 5/5 don't have the simplicity that I want.

I want to add 'The Beatles --' before a folder of song titles... soo hard... such a hard dream...
:eek:
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
What's so hard about having any of those programs do that?
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One worked... kinda...

The other ones said things like 'names changed' and I look at them and they are exactally the same.

Yeah okay I guess...

:rolleyes:

smknappy -- Keep up the good work.
 
Originally posted by MrMacman
One worked... kinda...

The other ones said things like 'names changed' and I look at them and they are exactally the same.

Yeah okay I guess...

:rolleyes:

smknappy -- Keep up the good work.
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Hey, no problem it was a literal question not one trying to flame you. Can I ask which ones you tried I'm just curious about they're usefulness.
 
An application for person like me. When a problem comes up it would work with questions and answers. A one on one assistant to work through my problem to its successful resolution. Such as finding where IE favorites are located in OS 9 for transfer to X. To setup Mail when I end up with a spinning beach ball. The program would have the advantage of being able to see what is actually going on with my computer.
 
Originally posted by wdlove
An application for person like me. When a problem comes up it would work with questions and answers. A one on one assistant to work through my problem to its successful resolution. Such as finding where IE favorites are located in OS 9 for transfer to X. To setup Mail when I end up with a spinning beach ball. The program would have the advantage of being able to see what is actually going on with my computer.
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Pay me $50 and hour and we'll setup a remote desktop client on your computer and I'll walk you through repairs.:)
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Pay me $50 and hour and we'll setup a remote desktop client on your computer and I'll walk you through repairs.:)
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Thank you for the offer MacBandit. I wish that I had that kind of money. It is certainly a service that I could use at times. If we ended up that we could do it in a half hour that would be more affordable.


That CPU speed accelerator sounds a lot like the Connectix programs "Speed Doubler" & "RAM Doubler." They seemed to work well on Mac OS 8. I wonder if they are just as effective and really worth the price?
 
Originally posted by wdlove
Thank you for the offer MacBandit. I wish that I had that kind of money. It is certainly a service that I could use at times. If we ended up that we could do it in a half hour that would be more affordable..............
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From some things I've read Apple is working on something very similar. I believe they are getting ready to setup AppleCare so that they by default login to your computer on the first call using a remote desktop client and fix it on their own.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
From some things I've read Apple is working on something very similar. I believe they are getting ready to setup AppleCare so that they by default login to your computer on the first call using a remote desktop client and fix it on their own.
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That certainly would be an awesome feature for AppleCare. I have called them in the past. It is very frustrating for the both ends of the phone. My problem is have limited knowledge on technical terms and being able to find the item that they are looking for. Or actually describing correctly what I'm looking at.
 
Originally posted by motaman
The best websites I've seen were all made with Front Page, which, apparently is not made for Mac. What do we have to compare (with it)?

How about some thing like that?

Rowland
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I would love if Apple could do to webpage creation what they did to presentations with Keynote.
 
Originally posted by motaman
Thanks.
Download completed.
Alas. Studio MX works only on OS X 10.2
I am stuck with (and love) OS 9.2.
There seems to be nothing for it but to get the newer OS....
One cannot hold back the future.

rowand

:(
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Try posting a "want to buy" ad to the marketplace/classified section of the site. Maybe someone's got an old version of Dreamweaver 4.0 they're willing to part with.
 
motaman said:
Macromedia Studio MX? I don't think that works on a Mac....:confused:
I had no success finding a suitable Mac Web Page creator.
I need help.

rowland
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Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash MX are all part of the Studio suite...if that allays some confusion...as far as apps go...I like the file renaming idea...I wish there was a plug-in or something that kept me more up to date on song titles while listening to internet radio via iTunes, although I may not just be doing it wrong/not looked hard enough.
 
Not so much a new app...

.. I wanna run MicroSloth Virtual PC on my G5
(Not so much wanna but hafta, due to 2 client who insist on using Frontpage :mad:
 
motaman said:
The best websites I've seen were all made with Front Page, which, apparently is not made for Mac.
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FrontPage? Best? Don't get me started! Dreamweaver is probably the best thing out there. Half the stuff you can get for free on versiontracker is probably better than FrontPage.

I'd love to see a revamped office suite. It kills me to have to use MS Office, and AppleWorks needs work. I'm thinking of Keynote simplicity & useability carried over to word processing and spreadsheet.

iChat compatibility (esp video) with the rest of the world would be great.
 
Mass Renamer functions

smknappy said:
I'll try and get going on it sometime today or early this week. Any feature requests other than mass renaming?

Also, I'm still open to other ideas as well since this one isn't big enough to be a final project. Keep the ideas coming!
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some ideas :>

1. support for asian and euro symboles (frensh, german, chez, japan, chinese, russian and so on)

2. support for id3 tags and the like in aac, ogg, mpc and so on. (and renaming stuff there)

3. creation and automove to subfolders (autosorting files into directories) via regexp rules

4. target selection of files via directory (this directory, all directories within this directory and all subdirectories, all files in this directory + all files in subdirectories, only files in this directory)

5. autosuggestion of different renamings of the same files (if multiple rules apply)

6. support for case sensitivity
 
two other ideas:

General UML Modeling tool that supports:
Ruby, C++, Obj-C, Java, PHP 5, Perl 6.

(creates class structures)

Native Aqua LaTex Editors with GUI Elements (real word processing applications that you can do real work with, not that stupid ms office or open office or apple works type of shii...t ;)

maybe both programs to be open source / GPL + working under linux/kde/gnome too.

maybe getting money from writing books on both programs and giving lessons and support (i dont like the shareware idea very much u know)
 
stable cross platform multi protocol im/chat program

irc,
jabber,
icq,
aim,
yahoo,
msn.

audio conferencing and video conferencing if possible, automatically, if you add one account to your list, you add people actually and you can add more accounts to the people already added,
that way ppl that got aim and icq arent listed 2 times, the application choses one automatically (maybe you can set preferences), and if possible allows audio or even audio/video chat, file sharing, real time chat and real time group chat, file transfer and dcc connections (if both or the group of users got protocols that support that)

would be nice if it looks native in mac os x, on kde, and on windows.
maybe you can take a look at SDL and add gui stuff to it... who knows.

have fun :)

hm, else i can think about LifeSim. a peer to peer, serverless network world simulation with basic types of chemestry, physics and other basics that serves as a massive multiplayer gaming platform as well as a base for sociological research on building up of communities and societies.

cs-students i told about that said i am sick :)
 
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