Trans Lucy 2 is Universal and freakin' sweet
My friend Clark, who seems to be my only resource for anything, pointed me in the direction of an incredible little app called Trans Lucy 2. It's a video/DVD-player that actually lets you modify the transparency of the video window and then overlay it on your screen, so you can watch whatever's playing while working/chatting/surfing in the background. Perfect for people with small screens, or folks (like me) who hate constantly moving around windows depending on what they want to do. Right now I'm watching a Thomas Jefferson biography (thanks, Netflix!) while talking via iChat and writing this post in Camino. Depending on what task I wish to focus on, I just change the focus of my vision. And it works really well.A registered version of Trans Lucy 2 is $15, but you can download a demo version at www.translucy.com.
Update: seany explains the best benefit of Trans Lucy over other apps with similar functionality: "The nice thing about this is that you can 'click through' the movie and work as normal. In other apps, their windows are selected when you click anywhere. To all intensive purposes [sic], the app disappears except for the video. I find it great for following video tutorials as I can track the actions in real time without swtiching between windows."
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"Very cool app, tried it for 5 minutes, purchased it. Really nice to be able to click through..."
Same here, but the opposite as in tried for 5 minutes (well 2), and zapped it with AppZapper. I hated it.
Just wanted to point out that I quoted "to all intensive purposes" with "[sic]." You grammar hounds should know what that means.
May 31 2006 at 7:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyVideoLan does desktop video too..
May 31 2006 at 7:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyVery cool app, tried it for 5 minutes, purchased it. Really nice to be able to click through...
oh.. and you can set the video as "desktop" as well.. pretty nifty!
See!! The problem can plague you even when you try to avoid it...
May 31 2006 at 4:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply> I swear that the internet will change our written
> language forever, if only by dumbing down the
> populous so completely...
That's "populace".
Thank you for calling that out McGruff. I just slapped my forehead when I saw that.
I swear that the internet will change our written language forever, if only by dumbing down the populous so completely that they no longer recognize what is proper grammar from what is not. I've gotten called a troll so many times for pointing out grammatical mistakes that I don't even bother anymore, but I do appreciate others that do.
The internet truly is perfectly designed to destroy our centuries-long well-crafted written language. Any unlearned sod can make a FUBAR post that will be seen by perhaps thousands of readers, some of whom will undoubtedly pick up any mispellings or mistakes of phrase or grammer and repeat them elsewhere. There, they will be seen again and repeated in multiplicity. It's really a shame that it never works the other way. *sigh*
PEOPLE: It's not "for all intensive purposes" it's "for all intents and purposes."
McGruff urges you to take a bite out of bad internet English.
VLC doesn't have the click-through feature.
May 30 2006 at 11:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat, dear Ronaldo, is the wonder of iWeb.
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