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My Latest Love

Thursday, 29. March 2007, 04:33:09

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RocketDock from Punk Software and the desktop from VladStudio.com. Minimizing videos to the dock keeps them playing (except when you're viewing them in iTunes or QT - keep moving your mouse over the docked icon to refresh the thumbnail). The interface is very smooth and useful.

Here's a screencast demonstrating how simple the utility is. Now, if only the virtual desktop manager were released for Vista.


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Vista...

Thursday, 8. February 2007, 09:17:43

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has been released for a week now. What has Vista done about the War in Iraq? Nothing.

What was the point of this lame duck OS change? The threat of Leopard attacks looming on the horizon, and the resilience of the Penguins despite all efforts to dissolve their environment, can only signify that Vista was too little, too late.

In the years to come, it is a sad reality that Vista will grow in size and user-base, but by the end of 2008, the real winner will be the team which can put forward really innovative plans and developments for the improvement of the experience.

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Vista Wallpaper Repository

Friday, 2. February 2007, 21:51:52

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I pulled a lot of good wallpapers from various sources and put them up on my Picasa web page. I'd have done it right here, but I wasn't too keen on keeping opera busy with uploading one or two zip files with 140MB worth of images. Besides, it's automatic in Picasa.

Hope you like em. Cannot upload the full sized-versions for obvious reasons. Please feel free to look for the high quality images online. I'm sure a simple search will get them for you. While you're at it, also check out the Vladstudio set for widescreens that apple keeps putting up in their downloads for OS X section.

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How the Zune could be better and other zuny antics

Tuesday, 17. October 2006, 19:27:28

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Have you seen the reviews for the Zune player and the tech specs?

Their most prominent feature (apart from the s*** colored player) is apparently the ability to share music by transferring it from player to player wirelessly. That's all fine and good. Restrict the number of plays to 3 times and flagging a song to buy it from the zune website. Sure. Why not?

Why didn't they just take the next step? Make it like the way iTunes playlist sharing works over a network? If the Zune user wants to, s/he can share the contents of the playlist over a short area network. If the people picking up the shared playlist like a song, they can play it (or a sample). It'd be your own personal little broadcasting station for all the Zune players in the area. More incentive for people to buy the damned things. That's how the GBAs work. That's how the PSPs work. Duh! Etc.

And oh!, before I forget, this will be one of very few and sporadic posts on this page. I'll be interacting with the new and improved MyOpera interface whenever I want to, in a digest edition. Just letting ya know in case you cared. If you didn't well tough titties.

Well, Jon Stewart's blown any chances of his becoming a future president of the USA as a Republican candidate. You've gotta be able to pitch properly. You might even say he threw the opportunity into the ground (well, to be accurate, he only managed to toss it in the general direction of the ground). Shrug. Oh well. Nothing to be done about it. He knows he blew it.

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Apple Screws Up!

Monday, 7. August 2006, 18:43:56

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During the demo of Leopard, the Mac or the application that was open froze. The guy demoing it on stage froze too. In terror.

In related news, Microsoft issued an emphatic statement.
Apple continues to mimic our innovations. We've had apps freeze on us in demos Tonnes of times! Now do you believe WE are the original trendsetters?

In other news, I still haven't got my priorities straight. :smile: Kill me now.

UPDATE 01:50AM CDST: Watched it. It was a minor glitch. The kind where an app freezes on you. Happens quite often on Tiger. So it was more of a feature than a bug really. Just trying to help you out Steve.

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How to be well acquainted with all your songs

Friday, 14. July 2006, 05:44:11

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Add a smart playlist to iTunes (with live updating turned on) to add all songs where the play count is 0. Watch as the songs disappear from the playlist.I started with 6.9hours worth of songs. Waiting for CoverFlow. Come and get it.

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CoverFlow for Windows?

Thursday, 13. July 2006, 20:47:48

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Have you seen CoverFlow for OS X?Have you seen it perform? The video on the CoverFlow website makes one drool to say the least. Well, someone's trying to make a Windows port for the emotionally needy and Mac devoid.Anyone care to do some alpha testing? Download from the release page here and get back to me about whether you'd not let your worst enemies experience the pain and suffering endured by using that application or whether it's so precious, you'd jump down Mount Doom just to keep it away from your soulmate.

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There. Now I feel much better.

Tuesday, 11. July 2006, 01:21:55

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In case you doubted his claims to budd...eeit..ude... (?) with John Hodgman, you were wrong.

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Of Hardware erotica and Webstandards

Wednesday, 17. May 2006, 16:54:02

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I'm a bi-platform person. Yes. I go both ways. I need the Windows PC to run my major applications (MATLAB, LabVIEW, gaim) for which, I admit, there are mac versions. However, me being able to buy an Apple Macintosh leave alone install stuff which I need valid licenses for is a pipedream at best.

I need the Macintosh for my daily "feel good about myself" moments. And they've got some wicked... ummm widgets... and stuff. Point is, the trailers play really well on the iMacs. The slashdot article (last night) about web pages being web compliant got me testing all my browsers (iMac and windows flavors) for ACID2 compliance. I tried Safari on the iMac and it passed beautifully. Firefox on the Mac was awful. So was Opera for the Mac. I didn't try IE for Mac. It's not supported now anyway. Who cares.

On the PC, IE7beta2, of course, was worse than Firefox on the iMac. The latter was atleast making an effort. I won't risk installing Flock on either platform. That thing's waay too buggy. Even for a beta. Firefox on the PC is still, much better than IE7beta2. Opera of course, passes the test.

All of this is fine and good, but what's the point if even after all of this, the opera community website in itself is buggy when run in Opera? Is it my platform? Or is it because I've got too little RAM backing up the processing needed? Whatever the case, sorting images in the photos section is a pain if you want to drag and drop to a particular location. The javascript works fine in Firefox, but in Opera, it's delayed and very much dependent on the number of scroll wheel turns you make. Bloddy irritating. The rest of the page validates and everything, but it rankles.

Is it the CSS on the photos page or is it just Opera? Like I said, works on Firefox don't it? I ought to take the server monkeys up on this one.

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The Polar PC Teddy Bear

Thursday, 4. May 2006, 19:37:44

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First, you will see him here (WARNING: PC Users beware. The content of the page is extremely Mac-friendly. You must regard the webpage as hostile).

You will then go here.

You will see him.

That is all.

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Eeep. Beta bugs

Monday, 24. April 2006, 22:40:12

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You take the good with the bad. The bad however almost crashes the entire page file handler of windows.

Browsing through blogs randomly while using remote desktop led to the pagefile reaching astronomical values. This has happened once before and is definitely Opera acting up. One more incentive to keep taskmanager running in the background. Just one little click and the pagefile usage dropped from 599MB to 202MB. Freaky.

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