Date: 2009-11-20 22:07:22 Created: 2009-11-20 16:51:26
Spiritedaway is my favourite application of the week. A tip from Niclas (for the second or third time I think, but I never realized my need before), the application simply hides inactive applications after a while. If an application is inactive for 60 seconds (the default), it is hidden as if I had hid command-h.
I am liking this a lot after a few days of using it at work.
But I am pretty sure I would have hated it if I had not actively set it up myself. Just imagine trying to use someone else's computer and having every single window you do not watch like a hawk disappearing all the time. Madness.
But for me
and for now
it is working nicely.
There are so many times when I have been annoyed by window clutter yet have not brought myself to hide something I do not need right now. Doing it removes focus from the current task after all.
(But ut occurs to me now that OS X has a default "Hide others" command too. Then it only takes one keyboard command to hide everything else. Pretty nice feature really.)
It occurs to me that using Spiritedaway sort of inches me closer to a single-window feature early pre-release versions of Mac OS X had. Strange that.
As the last person in Sweden, I have begun using Spotify. The free version really is commercial radio the way it should be, all good music, no stupid talk and ads I can put up with.
At least for now.
It certainly remains to be seen if I will put up with it in the long run. I do not feel inclined to pay a monthly fee for music streaming, but at the same time I think the ads may get to me after a while. Even if the selection can not be beat. Perhaps. Possibly. Yes. No.
Excellent apple pie in huge doses, a good film and now this little meditation.
Good Friday evening, no?