More apple koolaid

On an impulse, bought the airport express. It took a while to get set up right, but it seems to work fine. It’s slightly annoying how its rather sensitive to wireless network interference. I wish the audio buffer was a bit larger, enough to handle 1-second dips in signal strenght or something. Also, it doesn’t […]

OS X needs RAM

I’ve read it many other place before, but now I see what people mean. The OS X experience for me is significantly improved with 1.5GB of RAM instead of 512mb. I got a 1 gig kingmax stick from newegg for

A sound re-routing utility

Found the little app called “SoundSource” which sits in the menu bar and lets you quickly choose the output device for sound. The other useful thing it does is it can re-route system-beeps and notifications differently from music. This keeps your room from booming with swooshes from ichat and dings from mail.app.

ingenious

My new linksys router was about to go back to frys when I discovered that OS X has a network setting called “DHCP plus manual address” in which you can specify just the IP address that you want, but get all the rest of the info from the DHCP. It seems like a violation of […]

Aiyaiyai

What a day. My new notebook is obsoleted, just like that. Actually, not really. I’m sure Steve Jobs and Apple is not dumb enough to abandon its installed base of PPC customers. It would have been nice if it had happened a few years earlier though.. then I really wouldn’t have had to venture over […]

Fun with Gmail POP

So I finally decided to try to wean myself off the gmail interface and use mail.app instead. Mail.app is a fantastically written program, and its smart folders are so fast even for thousands of messages. I successfully downloaded all my 100megs of gmail email to my powerbook so far. Everything seems to work alright except […]

3 of 4

Wow, got most of it done and its just saturday. The room has much less random pieces of paper laying around (thanks to my filling box), the farmer’s market was so-so but not super (the Rainbow co-op is better), and the Heats vs Pistons game was a blow-out (I’m really looking forward to a Detroit […]