« Memory and hope
The Minnesota Starvation Study »

iMeme for Mac Nerds

If you’re on a mac right now, make a list of all the applications in your /Applications folder which begin with a gratuitous letter ‘i’.

Here’s a magical ruby one-liner to cut and paste into a Terminal to list them:
ruby -e 'Dir[%q{/Applications/i*}].each { | app | puts /\/(i.*).app/.match(app)[1] }’

My list:

  1. iAlarm
  2. iAlertU
  3. iCal
  4. iChat
  5. iExtractMP3
  6. iJournal
  7. iMovie HD
  8. iPhoto
  9. iRecord
  10. iSquint
  11. iStumbler
  12. iSync
  13. iTag
  14. iTunes
  15. iWeb

Fifteen. How bout you?

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at 11:03 pm and is filed under Macintosh. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

8 Responses to “iMeme for Mac Nerds”

  1. Topher Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    I think when Apple started using the engine from Konqueror, the caught the infection that makes you start all apps with a particular letter. I’ve noticed that Gnome and KDE are starting to grow out of that, but Apple hasn’t been doing it as long, they’re still in mid-throe.

  2. ee Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    syntax error near unexpected token `(’

  3. Ed That Goes Ping Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Gah! Stupid smart quotes!

    Those are supposed to be regular keyboard single and double quotes, but Wordpress smartened them to proper curly quotes. That’s what caused the error. :(

  4. Ed That Goes Ping Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    OK, I think I got the quotes issue fixed.

  5. ee Says:
    February 7th, 2008 at 10:53 pm

    cool script, Ed. Ok get:

    iAlertU
    iCal
    iChat
    iDVD
    iGTD
    iMovie HD
    iPhoto
    iStumbler
    iSync
    iTerm
    iTunes
    iWeb

  6. ee Says:
    February 7th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    iRecommend iGTD :-)

  7. Ed That Goes Ping Says:
    February 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

    GTD scares me.

    Is iAlertU the coolest thing ever or what?

  8. ee Says:
    February 8th, 2008 at 10:20 am

    iInstalled iAlertU on alark. It is fun to show off, but ideeply despise people who walk away from their SUVs with the loud “CHIRP CHIRP” that announces they don’t give a crap about your kind and makes sure you know it with the same tact as the guy pounding his horn at 3AM outside your bedroom window.

    But yeah, iAlertU is kinda cool. Especially if ithink of it as a swipe at those guys.

Leave a Reply