Comments on: New Desktop http://waitingcasually.com/2009/03/new-desktop/ Random musings on subjects of questionable import Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:07:28 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://waitingcasually.com/2009/03/new-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Jeff Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:34:34 +0000 http://waitingcasually.com/?p=58#comment-142 First, thanks for the cool links, Dr. Drang. You've done some neat stuff with GeekTool I see. I'll put your 'switching' script to work as I do tend to have both up at once and that will help. As you can probably tell from the desktop, I like to keep the screen sparse, so deciding not to display album art was a conscious decision. Second, you're precisely right! Hiding the PandoraBoy (indeed a typo) app does fix the issue I described. Weird that hiding it doesn't remove the app from system events but minimizing it does... Oh well. Again, thanks! First, thanks for the cool links, Dr. Drang. You’ve done some neat stuff with GeekTool I see. I’ll put your ’switching’ script to work as I do tend to have both up at once and that will help. As you can probably tell from the desktop, I like to keep the screen sparse, so deciding not to display album art was a conscious decision.

Second, you’re precisely right! Hiding the PandoraBoy (indeed a typo) app does fix the issue I described. Weird that hiding it doesn’t remove the app from system events but minimizing it does… Oh well. Again, thanks!

]]> By: Dr. Drang http://waitingcasually.com/2009/03/new-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Dr. Drang Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:58:16 +0000 http://waitingcasually.com/?p=58#comment-141 Two things about the Pandora scripts: 1. They were written for PandoraBoy, not Pandora Buddy. I don't know if that's a typo or if you modified the script, but I've never used Pandora Buddy and don't know what needs to be done to handle it. 2. I hide (not minimize) PandoraBoy while it's playing, and the display does change as the track changes. If you switch back and forth between iTunes and Pandora, you may be interested in this script, which toggles between play and pause regardless of which one you're listening to: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2007/12/playpause-hotkey-for-pandora-and-itunes/ And there's this set of scripts for displaying album artwork: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2007/06/album-art-with-geektool/ Two things about the Pandora scripts:

1. They were written for PandoraBoy, not Pandora Buddy. I don’t know if that’s a typo or if you modified the script, but I’ve never used Pandora Buddy and don’t know what needs to be done to handle it.

2. I hide (not minimize) PandoraBoy while it’s playing, and the display does change as the track changes.

If you switch back and forth between iTunes and Pandora, you may be interested in this script, which toggles between play and pause regardless of which one you’re listening to:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2007/12/playpause-hotkey-for-pandora-and-itunes/

And there’s this set of scripts for displaying album artwork:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2007/06/album-art-with-geektool/

]]> By: Posts about Lifehacker as of March 15, 2009 » The Daily Parr http://waitingcasually.com/2009/03/new-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Posts about Lifehacker as of March 15, 2009 » The Daily Parr Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:40:24 +0000 http://waitingcasually.com/?p=58#comment-13 [...] to organize them, Calibre is a feature rich e-book manager, … via gHacks Source: Lifehacker New Desktop - waitingcasually.com 03/15/2009 So after reading all about what GeekTool can do over on Lifehacker [...] [...] to organize them, Calibre is a feature rich e-book manager, … via gHacks Source: Lifehacker New Desktop – waitingcasually.com 03/15/2009 So after reading all about what GeekTool can do over on Lifehacker [...]

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