Farewell Powerbook
Well, that happened a lot faster than I imagined. I put my Powerbook on craigslist and it sold in 3 days, for $1200 cash. It was a good run. But in the end, you were just too slow.
That sounds about right
A study says that most iPod users “don’t buy from the iTunes store”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5350258.stm. Surprise surprise. In the 1.5 years of owning an iPod, I’ve bought maybe 20 tracks. Anything I really care about, I buy the CD and rip it. This gives me higher quality rips, and the freedom from DRM, while only paying slightly […]
iTunes History
An interesting “history of the iTunes client”:http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/14/itunes-from-0-0-to-7-0/. What amazes me is how little it’s changed.
Browser proxy app
Ok, this new “Projects” section is for me to document ideas for little random apps that I want to write some day. This is the first one. Here’s the problem: I use vpn and then a MS terminal services client to work from home. The problem is that, running a browser through RDP is pretty […]
Zune Zune Zune
Lot’s of news about it today. I’ll let you google for it yourself. I tried to a little bit, but I still came away with questions. They seem to make a big point about how PlaysForSure isn’t dead. But what’s the relation then exactly? Does it use something like PFS? Can the device play tracks […]
New Microsoft Keyboard
The “Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop”:http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=080. Here’s “CNet”:http://news.com.com/Microsoft+unveils+Vista-friendly+peripherals/2100-1042_3-6115484.html. Looks like a comfort curve + scissor switch design, with a fancy mouse/keyboard recharger. Interesting that they’ve done away with the number pad. Hopefully they’ll have this thing out at frys or something so I can go feel it. Also with a proximity censor and ambient light sensor […]
Apple Announcements
As anyone who cares about Apple stuff probably already knows, Apple “announced some new stuff”:http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/09/12/showtime/index.php today. Lots of “meh” items, but a few noteworthy ones. * iTunes videos are now 640×480. That’s pretty good, almost DVD. Makes the value proposition much better, and the quality will be very comparable with torrent-able HDTV recordings. Where is […]
IronChefPython
This is some “cool stuff”:http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/screenroom/ironpython_flv.html. It’s amazing how much sense the Common Language Runtime makes. It’s really cool how you can just re-implement any Python method in C# and realize a huge performance improvement with very little glue code.
Myths
Sometimes people make really annoying posts “like this”:http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/08/the-little-things-anti-aliased-fonts-help-mac-os-x-shine/. As the author was clearly corrected, XP does support anti-aliased fonts. And even his screenshot is a poor example, because the title bar of the shown window has anti-aliased text. Without ClearType turned on, XP doesn’t anti-alias your font until it hits a certain size. If he’d […]
Mid-range desktops from Apple
I’ll just say that I think the new “24 inch iMac”:http://www.apple.com/imac/ only strengthens my theory about Apple not working on a low-end Mac Pro.