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iP0wn3d!

Dan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:02:24 +0000

I broke down, and I bought one. I’m now one of those a**holes walking down the street checking his email. I want to stay connected, via email and the internet, and also a phone.

See, for what has now become a multi-year bother, my friends have been pestering me about getting a cell phone. I put it off citing the associated charges and the shortcomings of other phones. But now, I can do a lot of tedious tasks I used to use my laptop for – checking mail, calling people, reading news, find local movie show times, get directions from point me to point b. Even listen to my music and watch stupid internet videos.

Simultaneously a great and sad day.

Fully charged and ready to go

What I see when it says hello

A demo graph from the grapher program I bought

My daily news intake

Looking for movies - blue dot is where I was

Watching a Reel Big Fish music video on YouTube

Which album to play?!

Leopard

Dan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:15:46 +0000

Wüt for Leopard.

I’ve been enjoying the hell out of Apple’s new OS – you can read about its awesomeness elsewhere. I will express my surprise, however, that they are using a picture of Windows’ BSOD as the icon for network PCs. So… smug. I hope people are laughing about this as much as I am.

I was wary of the semi-transparent top bar, but the only thing I didn’t like about it was Google Notifier’s icon indicating that I have no unread mail. It… used… white…, not… transparent. I think you’ll agree it looked awful:

Much better after deleting the white bits and making them transparent:

Front Row

Dan — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:49:00 +0000

This is Front Row – a little media center that ships with OS X that works wonderfully with the apple remote that comes with MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Minis.

The video is a little joggy, and that’s a symptom of the screen capture tool, not the actual performance. (I have the screen capture tool set to 10 fps as opposed to 30 or so.)

The Switch

Dan — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:11:00 +0000

I know what I’ve said that I would be making the switch to Apple, but I made that leap today when my brand new MacBook arrived at my doorstep. I got my case in the mail about a week ago, and I assumed the computer would arrive in a similar fashion (a note in my mailbox would tell me I received a package and to please pick it up). Apple told me it would be here on or before the 18th, but my case got here the day after it shipped, so I had been hoping.

After checking my mailbox, I returned to my apartment somewhat disappointed, but looking forward to Monday. A few hours, a knock on my door and a signature later, I was ready to make the switch. I have since spent the last (too many) hours installing my favorite software and setting preferences and whatnot. (You see, this isn’t really my mac switch per se – this last year I started using the schools Macs for my programming needs and was blown away. School ended, no more Mac – what’s a boy to do?)