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.
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 […]
c|net is running an article claiming that Apple is moving to Intel chips… If it’s really true, what does it mean about my brand new laptop? Does it mean in less than 2 years, nobody will be writing new apps for it? I can’t imagine most development houses are going to like developing for two […]
iPhoto continues to be really slow. It eats a lot of memory, so much so that other programs take a hit. It even makes ichat unbearable. The OS X scheduler is a bit odd. Its very aggressive at giving priority programs receiving user input. On the other hand, it is also very aggressive about removing […]
2nd post! Well.. i haven’t gotten around to installing many 3rd party apps yet. I feel like there is a whole bunch of stuff to get used to just with the preloaded iLife and etc. There are a few things that I’m still getting used to. The one biggest one has to be the fact […]
Upon quick reflection, it looks like Apple totally screwed up my original order. I had wanted a 15 inch PB with 512MB and English OS X and the 128mb vram card. What I got was a non-functinoal 15 inch PB with two 512MB sticks and a Japanese version of OS X. Who knows if it […]
Powerbook is on a plane somewhere according to UPS. Refreshing the tracking page every 10 minutes is really depressing. I can’t move funds from my ING direct account to my Ameritrade account because ING has a minimum 10 day period between depositing funds and being able to withdraw those funds.