It still seems pretty fast, though I haven’t been using it that much. There’s not much justification to use Opera on Linux when you have the option of using Firefox on windows. One interesting note is that it appears to run gmail just fine. This is with the configuration where the browser identifies itself as […]
Trying Opera 8.51 for Linux. It certainly seems very fast and much improved. The interface is a lot cleaner and doesn’t have all the weird MDI crap that it used to have before. Settings dialogs also seem a bit better, but it still seems hard to find common things (why are Font settings in preferences […]
Ah, the half-workingness that is Linux. I turned on KDE/Kubuntu and composite at work today. It works better than I thought it would (no crashes yet) but man is it buggy. Shadows not matching window sizes, garbage on the screen. Fun stuff. A few tips: If you’re using the nvidia driver, make sure to say […]
Found out about Music Giants off the Wired feed. It’s another itunes lookalike, but with very high bitrate downloads, at $1.29 a pop. If only iTMS would do the same thing, I’d be all over that. Music Giants is WMA lossless only.. though one might imagine a system where you record the bits as they […]
We managed to fix Ramesh’s dead powerbook on Saturday. Fixing a mac for the first time is an interesting experience for people like me who have been only fixing pc’s all these years. The toolset is very different, including Disk Utility, Firewire disk mode, and Open Firmware. The fix ended up being that he has […]
Just the network meter had stopped working for me when I upgraded to 10.4.3. I found out that deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.ragingmenacs.MenuMeters.plist and then setting everything up again in the preferences pain fixes it all up.
Well, it looks like Apple might do to the photo world what Final Cut did to the video processing world. Aperture looks pretty damn interesting. It gets many things right, that I’ve sort have been hoping for in raw conversion software: use of the full screen.. Aperture has its whole interface designed around this dual […]
With the fullsize keyboard now, I can finall start to use my powerbook in desktop like situations when warranted. This means hooking up my external LCD monitor so that I don’t have to keep looking down at the display. This in turn involves calibrating the display so that hte colors look right. And then there’s […]
After much debating and hesitating, I took the plunge and ordered the white apple bluetooth keyboard. There were many uncertanties surrounding the purchase of this product… many conflicting reports regarding its connection reliability and its overall quality. Well, I’m happy to say that I’ve been using it for about 10 mintues now, and it seems […]
So it looks like there are only three reasonably priced RAW conversion programs for the Mac: Bibble Pro 4.3 (~130$), Capture One LE 3.7.1 ($99), and Nikon Capture 4.3 ($99). I tried all three, and Capture One LE seems to have the best output. It’s large advantage in my case is that it is very […]