When at Rasputin music yesterday in Berekeley, I picked up a couple discs: Simon and Garfunkel greatest hits, and Talib Kwali’s “Quality” album. It’s still true that cd’s give you the greatest flexibility. You can rip them, re-rip them, mix them, or anything. It’s still kindda weird that people are willing to pay 99 cents […]
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 […]
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
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.
So I bought some peaches at the farmer’s market down by the Ferry Building on saturday. Today I discovered I had horribly mistreated them. A few notes, in the hope that others will not repeat my mistakes: The lighter-colored the peach the better. Don’t refrigerate them unless they’re about to spoil.. it drys them out. […]
Using itunes to feed my usb sound device which is hooked up to my DAC and speakers. I decide I want to move to a different room, and so I try pulling the usb cable while itunes is still playing. Music cuts out for a second, but then starts coming out the builtin speakers right […]
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 […]
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 […]
As I was sorting out all the bills, receipts, and forms that I had accumulated over the past 6 months, I found two checks, worth a total of roughly 450 bucks. This filing bin was totally worth it. ;-P