days of the week
J: Why is Sunday called Sunday? Is it because we worship Jesus, and he’s the Son of God?
J: Then why is Monday the first day of the week?
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lyrically understood
T: (singing, loudly)
with my mou———–th
will I make kno———-wn
I face the mess, I face the mess!
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cool…
well, with my new Core2Duo MacBook Pro, at least Flock sure is a lot zippier. I haven’t really tested anything serious out yet, just been doing basic setting up, transferring of files and installing applications. I installed Lightroom but I haven’t set up my library yet, so there’s no pictures to play with. I’ll be doing some work with Nuendo/Cubase SX soon, so I’ll let you know how that goes. And yes, I installed Windows XP so I could work with Nuendo… I’ve been busy, no time to play, I guess.
Back to Flock. Flock used to take a good 10 seconds to open a new window, which was really annoying when you clicked on a link and nothing happened for 10 seconds. Now it opens a new window in under a second. Much more useable! 
I love Flock for blogging, because it gives me a nice offline blog editor, and works with blogger and wordpress.
I thought I’d share a bunch of applications that I downloaded in the course of setting up my new computer. Maybe you’ll find some of them usefull. They are in no particular order, but are mostly web tools or media tools, or just cool stuff. Go searching for them at macupdate.com, they have tons of stuff. I like it better than VersionTracker. It’s just nicer. I dunno.
- Adium
- Books 3.0
- Bootcamp
- bpmWidget
- Carbon Copy Cloner
- Cyberduck
- flock
- FontExplorerX
- Google Earth
- Growl
- iSquint
- iStat pro
- MediaFork
- MenuMeters
- OnyX
- Quicksilver
- SilverKeeper from LaCIe
- Skype
- Shades
- TextWrangler
- Vienna
- VLC
- Flip4Mac Windows Media Components
I’m using Shades right now, actually, because it’s late and I’m typing in bed, and N is asleep. It keeps the brightness of the screen down to a more comfortable level. And cool, my keys are backlit! woo hoo!
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surprise! new toy!
well, I gone an done it now. I went out and bought a MacBook Pro. Kudos to Coach for getting me a nice deal… I justify it to myself by saying that I have a new contract coming up for steady work, and it will cover the cost… and I NEED it for the job, so… yeah… ok, honey?
The first thing I did? After signing in and choosing my username, I shut it down and put on my protective film from www.bestskinsever.com. Thanks megs for the tip. I thought, well, this is as fingerprint and dust free as it’s ever going to be, so I should just stay up late and put the skins on. It’s kind of like putting on automotive window tinting, if you’ve ever done that. You get the film wet with soapy water, apply it, and then squeeze out any air bubbles until it’s nice and smooth. Then you let it dry. I was a little apprehensive about putting something wet on my computer, but it’s only a thin film and it dries pretty quick. I had a couple of towels around just in case to quickly dry up any excess liquid. I did the palm rest and the bottom. I’m not sure if I’m going to do the top, because I have a feeling that the apple will cause unsightly bubbles (it’s slightly raised). I know, I’m anal.
There remains a few pieces for the battery, the battery latch area, and the trackpad button. There’s a piece for the trackpad too, but I don’t think you’re supposed to use it. It would be hard to slide your finger along the trackpad with plastic film over it, don’t you think?
Anyway, here we go again with new toy setup addiction. Maybe I can do some fiddling with it while I’m at work tomorrow… hmmm….
