The DS Lite is not exactly what I'm looking for, because it has no glass, lucite, or clear materials. Just like the opaque eMac, it's different enough to be in a separate category. I'm also not talking about the iMac nor the clamshell iBooks; they're translucent colors, while I seek a fully transparent shell around graphite or snow or whatever.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:28 PM on March 18, 2008

Some more examples of what I'm talking about are:
The Apple Pro Mouse, SoundSticks II, this iPod case sort of fits the bill...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:55 PM on March 18, 2008

OK, I think I found the answer. Whilst browsing Mac accessories, I found a mouse described as "clear over white". Specifically, a review states:

“Happily, the basic Mouse/Mouse II symmetrical ovoid form factor has been retained with Danger Mouse, although in opaque white or black (or red, about which more below) livery rather than the clear-over-white motif of the older design. I do prefer the aesthetic effect of clear-over-white. The opaque color looks a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 2:54 AM on March 31, 2008

More searching reveals the phrase "crystal clear" when referring to the display. Also it's been called "the graphite and ice color scheme".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 11:43 PM on April 12, 2008 marked best answer

Aha! Apple themselves refer to it as "crystal clear enclosures".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 5:57 PM on July 20, 2008 marked best answer

In Linux I always unmount the drive. Often IO operations are put on hold, so to speak, and even when the file manager lists the file as copied it may not be so.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:34 PM on July 11, 2008

I feel for you. I had a similar experience, albeit with a small German cockroach, and I slept downstairs for three days.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 12:00 PM on June 25, 2008

I think he'd like John McPhee. He even started out as a writer for The New Yorker.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 11:37 AM on June 25, 2008

I would contact the CBC and ask them to put it on Youtube, for two reasons. First, I'm sure they would appreciate being notified of additional venues for this video. Secondly, compressing FLV twice is going to look terrible.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:00 AM on June 14, 2008

You want books with "false documents" in them, don't you?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 6:25 AM on June 14, 2008

When I worked at Marshall Space Flight Center I heard they have an archive of these space-themed paintings. Unfortunately the closest I could get to them is to browse lo-res scans.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 2:30 PM on June 11, 2008

if you're rather savvy, I'd suggest using Makefiles. Of course that requires you to be able to manipulate many command line utilities. On the other hand, this situation is tailor-made for some sort of build-automation software.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:46 PM on June 11, 2008

Another benefit of ripping to WAV is that it is uncompressed. Any lossless format saves you the time of re-ripping when you decide to switch to a new format (lossy or lossless).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:26 PM on June 5, 2008

I like the Yellow Dog Linux suggestion. Be sure to get the 5th edition, which is the latest that they support on the original iMac. Don't forget to install SheepShaver to run OS 9 in a virtual machine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:24 PM on June 5, 2008

That seems to be the idea, but if you read transhumanist blogs or essays, they talk about possible future technologies. There aren't reports of "how I like my hearing aid and how I think it could be improved", but there are dozens of authors pontificating on "how I will use nanotechnology in my Adrienne Barbeau-bot".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 11:04 PM on June 4, 2008

I would second No Absolute Time and The Double Slit Experiment.

The relative time theory says there is no clock, real or imagined, that tells the same time when moving as when it is still. When objects move, physics behave differently than when they are at rest (relative to the frame of reference). You can say particles decay at such-and-such speed, and disagree with your speedy friend who says they decay at a different speed, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 6:43 PM on June 4, 2008

I have a very similar laptop and installed Basic Linux on it. Once I get SVGAlib working, I will turn it into a digital picture frame.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 10:05 AM on May 30, 2008

I got a tablet last year and never looked back. Note-taking is so much easier: an infinite amount of paper and colored pens are at my disposal. In fact, when I had to hand-write notes, I sorely missed Edit Undo.

Two downsides I've found: battery life and noise. But those vary among device and personal preference.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:39 PM on May 27, 2008

I would like to know this too. I have the same problem. A Yahoo Answers result turned up Scandex Systems, based in Tampa, Florida. Unfortunately I have no personal experience with them or any other service.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:44 PM on May 27, 2008

Another idea (in the legal dark gray area) is to search for ebooks of your content. If the book is popular enough, someone else has already scanned and OCR'd it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:48 PM on May 27, 2008

Several people use Subversion or another version control system to store their /home directory. Joey Hess may have been the first to use CVS, but that method is probably not the latest and greatest.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 5:42 PM on May 26, 2008 marked best answer

I thought Flash supported this with its own built-in renderer... Ah, it looks like GPU support and 3D are only for the upcoming Flash 10. In the meantime, Swift 3D seems to be popular.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 6:37 PM on May 18, 2008

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the GUIdebook shows examples of GUIs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:19 PM on May 16, 2008

Seconding the GNUstep suggestion. It's like OS X but open-source.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:17 PM on May 5, 2008

All CD audio is stereo, 16-bit, 44.1kHz Pulse Code Modulation. WAV and AIFF and Apple Lossless maintain this quality. When burning, iTunes maintains this quality.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 8:52 PM on April 20, 2008

Specifically, this is a "tiling window manager".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 10:36 AM on March 28, 2008

Maybe this is what you want: ShadowCopy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 5:19 PM on February 27, 2008

I haven't used it, but Disk Library may be what you need.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:54 PM on March 20, 2008

If you ever come across the software, use mini vMac + a handy guide.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 8:15 PM on March 4, 2008

In addition to the aforementioned AVS Forum, I recommend the Home Theater Forum. Members are very personable, even though it's a huge site.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:52 AM on February 26, 2008

Open Source has apps that answer some ideas:
* Scrabble can be played with Quixotic
* Project Gutenberg can be pretty-printed with GutenMark
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:54 PM on February 22, 2008

If I understand your question correctly, you need My Dream App. They don't create all the app suggestions they get, but developers congregate there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:35 PM on February 22, 2008

This may be apropos or not, but the Hotwire shell is trying to blend a traditional shell with object-orientation and a modern GUI.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:04 AM on February 9, 2008

Have you tried emulating Win98 with Q? It may not be as fast as using a VNC, but it eliminates the need to keep that old laptop around.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 8:42 PM on May 29, 2006

Gizmo gives you a plain ol' SIP number. You find it by cliking on your Profile in the app. For example, mine is 1 (747) 635-8852. Any SIP adapter will have instructionson how to use it with your particular SIP number.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 4:53 PM on May 11, 2006

I would recommend Gizmo because it uses the open SIP technology. This means that you can call people with other SIP phones (like Vonage, EarthLink, etc) for free and vice versa. Yahoo and Skype will only work with their own users, or require you to pay to connect to the PSTN.

Furthermore, you have a much greater selection of telephone adapters if you should choose to get one. Also call recording is built into the application—I use it quite frequently.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:51 PM on April 17, 2006 marked best answer

If any OS X users have the same problem, use the free TNEF's Enough.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 5:54 PM on February 23, 2006

Thanks a lot Captain_Science and almostcool!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 8:48 PM on February 15, 2006

I read it (saying "rabbit rabbit" as the first words out of your mouth on the 1st) as a kid, in a magazine put out by the kids' TV channel Nickelodeon.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 8:45 PM on February 1, 2006

Maybe you are asexual.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 6:15 PM on January 26, 2006

If you're not afraid to get your hands dirty with the command line, nothing produces better output than LilyPond.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 6:12 PM on January 26, 2006

I would definitely recommend Cyberduck. It integrates flawlessly with SubEthaEdit (auto-upload on save is great, but I'd be surprised if an FTP app didn't have that feature). It updates you with the fantastic Growl, and I really like how effortless it makes everything.

Also you can't beat the good karma of open source.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 10:21 PM on November 18, 2005

I imagine some sort of AppleScript could be used to call your favorite application to download the file and then add it to your iTunes library.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 10:26 PM on November 13, 2005

I third jEdit. I love its cross-platform capabilities, and its feature set—already rich—can be extended with an easy-to-use Plugin Manager.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 12:01 AM on October 3, 2005

If you are at all concerned about audio quality, you won't use Audacity. It's transcoding your MP3s. I use MusiCutter or MP3 Direct Cut—wackybrit is right.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:59 PM on August 13, 2005

If you mean classical literature, it's likely in the public domain (ergo, free!) and can be found at Project Gutenberg (here's some prettier/more semantic versions).

The best eBook seller (yeah, I know why pay for something you could get for free) is unquestionably Fictionwise. Cheap prices, and more importantly, they sell titles in a variety of formats.

As for spoken word recordings, you can find many (but not that much poetry, I'm afraid)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 11:30 PM on August 9, 2005

I love my Moto v710. The megapixel camera has pretty good quality compared to everything else that Verizon was offering when I got it—about 4 months ago. Really you're going to have to limit your ideal phone to the ones offered by the carrier you choose.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:16 PM on July 24, 2005

That's a very cogent tactic, but won't it backfire when people utilize other types of spam blockers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 12:39 AM on July 17, 2005

I second zsazsa's suggestion. It's perfect. You never mentioned what file types you're using, but virtually every audio format on the planet (don't get me started on DSD) can be converted into PCM (ie WAV). You didn't mention MP3, and I would hope most studios wouldn't deliver lossy formats unless specifically asked for, so the MP3Gain suggestions are irrelevant (unless I'm blind and you mentioned MP3 somewhere).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:55 PM on July 16, 2005

I remember this! You're right about the “y” thing. It was... Mac OS 8. Who'd have thought saving all 3000+ bookmarks would come in handy?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 8:16 PM on July 12, 2005 marked best answer