A Stranger in a Strange Land

Did it totally on a whim but I kinda like it. Thanks to Phu Ly for an awesome looking theme. The sidebar took me awhile though. I think i’ve gotten it up and running the way I want, minor changes from now on only.

Just got the software upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.1 too. Much better than WP 1.5 which was a little buggy for me.

I’d heard about Comic Life before, and finally gave it a test run today.

It lets me do stuff like this:

… and this:

See the full thing I did here.

Google just keeps marching on …

Now you can zoom in on the moon baby!

(via Slashdot) 

For those that don’t keep up with tech news per se:

Apple switches to Intel processors!

I think it’s a good move, because this could be the thing that pushes Mac OS X into the mainstream. For all those who want to try it, wait a couple years! 

** Now that I’ve had the chance to see the webcast of the announcement, I’m more convinced that it’s a good move for Apple to make. Faster AND cooler chips? More software available? Cool …. I’ll be waiting fo’shure.

** Totally unrelated but this site has the most beautiful Mac screensavers. 

I usually feel up to date with technology, but after getting my new phone in the mail this afternoon I realised how far behind the curve I had fallen.

"Wah, got camera."

"Wah, got VIDEO camera."

"Wah, got radio … wah, got mp3 player."

"Wah, got Bluetooth, can transfer all kinds of crap over to the phone now."

All this technology in a candy bar sized piece of plastic. My friend showed me a lipstick sized one a few days back.

I’ll get that in 5 years, gotta keep to my schedule.

All this technology, and they can’t come up with a proper screen protector. I wonder … what’s the longest time anyone has kept the original screen protector on their phone? 

Me just upgraded to Tiger.

Me very happy.

Spotlight rocks by the way.

*Sticks tongue out to all Windows users*

This is just a list to myself, just so I can keep track of the stuff I’ve installed on my Mac over the months.

I guess this would be a fairly exhaustive list for the stuff that I do regularly, didn’t realise I had so many programs!

This list has come about over months of trial and error.

Items in bold are a must have for me from now on:

1. AdiumX (Open source chat client, Free)
2. Bittorrent OSX (Bittorrent client, Free)
3. Cyberduck (FTP Client, Free)
4. Desktop Manager (AWESOME desktop manager, free)
   
5. DivX (Err … for watching movies, free)
6. Firefox (Safari’s pretty good though, free)
7. Gallery Remote (Java application for my Gallery, both free)
8. Gimp (AWESOME Open Source Image Manipulator, free)
9. Growl (Global notification system for Mac OS X, free)
10. iScrobbler (Music notification client for Audioscrobbler, free)
11. Konfabulator (Widgets!, not free)
12. MacJanitor (Run cron jobs from GUI, free)
13. NVU (Web authoring system, free)
14. Onyx (Maintenance utility, free)
15. Quicksilver (Application launcher and more, free)
16. Rember (RAM tester, free)
17. SizzlingKeys (iTunes controller, free)
18. SuperCal (AWESOME display calibrator, free)
19. Taco HTML Edit (HTML editor, free)
20. Thunderbird (I use Mail.app but had to include this)
21. TransparentDock (Dock haxie, not free)
22. Viewit (Picture viewer, not free)
23. VLC (Open source media player, free)

Links lead to where I got the programs from, as far as I can remember. Windows users feel free to ignore this post COMPLETELY.