I know that I haven’t been posting a lot lately, and what I have posted has mostly just been links to blogs with my quick thoughts, but in case you hadn’t heard I recently got a totally awesome new computer. Speaking of which, I present the best of my Photo Booth collection.
In case you don’t know, and are too lazy to click on the above link, Photo Booth is a nice little application included with OS X which takes advantage of the built-in iSight webcam on all new macs (except the Mac Pro) which allows you to take pictures.
Photo Booth is probably what half of the people who visit Apple stores around the country end up using when trying out Macs. There are a ton of cool effects that everyone loves, but when it comes down to it, it’s just a little program that Apple threw in to better advertise the built-in iSight. Still, it’s cool, and here are some of my best snapshots…
Continue reading ‘MBP: Photo Booth’
I found this awesome chart on TUAW, and I couldn’t not post it. It follows every major Apple product upgrade from 1976 until 2007.
Wow. According to Cinematical, Disney announced at Comic-Con that they would be releasing a new Narnia film (there are 6 more to go) every year. That’s a pretty big goal to set. The Harry Potter films have come out every year and a half, which is in itself a very short amount of time for that type of movie.
Most films take 2 or 3 years to make, depending on the amount of special effects and money involved. So releasing a movie every year for the remaing 6 films (the next one comes out next summer) is a very ambitious plan.
I personally liked the first Narnia film, but I have to agree with Cinematical that at this speed they are probably going to be really rushed, and I worry about the quality of the upcoming movies. But if they do pull of all 7 films it will truly be amazing.
Do not continue reading until you have finished reading the book.
Continue reading ‘Harry Potter 7′
As of today, Akismet has caught over 10,000 comment spams on this blog since I installed it late last October.
So now I wonder… is this a good thing or a bad thing? Good because it indicates traffic (?) and because Akismet caught them. But bad because, well, it’s spam. I really don’t know what I’d do without Akismet.
There are many, many RSS readers out there and many of them are very good. So why don’t I use what is believed to be the best one: NetNewsWire? Because it costs $30! Sure, it’s a pretty interface, sure it has a tabbed built-in web browser, but when it comes down to it they’re making you pay $30 for prettier icons.
But then you would say that I should get NetNewsWire Lite, as it’s free. Sure, but it doesn’t have the wide column feature, the ability to the flag items, or even a search! It’s almost like a trial of NetNewsWire, a way to get you to like it, and then buy it. Enter RSSOwl.
RSSOwl may not be the prettiest program in the world, but it certainly isn’t ugly either. It’s cross-platform, which is exactly why I started using it a couple of months ago, knowing that one day I would need another feed reader to learn.
It has all of the features (or at least that I need) of NetNewsWire and (surprise!) it’s free. You can’t argue with those numbers. If you can get a feed reader for free, would you really want to add on $30 for prettier icons and a sligtly familiar *cough*iTunes* interface?
Well, now that I’ve had it for a couple of days I think that I’ll be able to give a brief review of the Macbook Pro, OS X, and Mac software in general. I’ve mentioned how I came to buy it in previous posts, so now I’m going to get to the actual computer itself.
It’s awesome. When I first took the computer out of the box it was suprisingly bigger than I expected, but in a good way. Bigger like screen size, but super-thin otherwise. Opening it up and seeing the awesome keyboard, and then turning it on and seeing the awesome screen was…. well, awesome.
Continue reading ‘The Macbook Pro: My thoughts’
Yay! I got it! I got the Macbook Pro!!!!!!!
To be more specific, I got the baseline 15-inch, 2.2 GHz, $1,999 Macbook Pro with a 120 GB hard drive, 2 GBs of RAM, and a 1440×900 resolution. Niiiiiice. Oh, and with Front Row, iLife ‘06, a backlit keyboard, a SuperDrive, a built-in microphone and a built-in iSight webcam. (Which took the photo above)
I got it last night 2 days early because I found out that there was a shortage on the model because of the new LED displays. The 5th avenue apple store was sold out, but the Soho one had “limited stock.” Limited stuff runs out quick, so my parents were nice enough to go down and buy one and eat dinner down in Soho at Arturos.
And, obviously, they weren’t sold out. But if they were it may have been another week until it got delivered after ordering it online or back in stock at one of the retail stores.
Anywho - I have it now! I’ve only used it for about 4 hours as of now, but the LED (non-glossy) screen is excellent, and the casing is awesome. And I’m already starting to get used to the Mac stuff like the apple key instead of control, ejecting hard drives, etc.
More later!
