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Now with Flair!
I have been quiet for longer than I would have liked, but hopefully you will see the effort I have put into updating the blog. There was a certain lack of imagery that I have tried to correct going back and updating past posts with images to give it that special touch. I’m pleased with how things are looking. more importantly I have been working a lot on the back end. Most of these changes have no direct effect on the readers but there is one specific add-on I hope will make things a little more comfortable for readers to comment. I have initiated Open ID login so there should be one less password and user name for you to have to remember. If you’re not familiar with Open ID take a little time to familiarize yourself. It’s good! I’ve been using it myself after I created my chi.mp account a few years ago.
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Digital Memories
Posted by Jak in Technology on September 25, 2009
Recently I decided to stop putting off the innevitable migration from analog to digital. I still have dozens upon dozens of photographs from the last 20 years or so that I had access to my own camera. Some of this is spurned by the need to post embarrassing pictures of all my friends on facebook in vengeance for posting my ugly mug up for the world to see. Some of my photos are neatly fitted into photo albums so I have decided to tackle these last. I have plenty that are loose and need to be better cared for. My wife has even more but I’ll let her play with those herself. On my mac I have iPhoto which is a great little piece of software but of course not available in the windows flavor, to this end I downloaded the latest version of Picassa. I’ll use freeware or open source products whenever possible, and I was overjoyed with the simplicity of Picassa. Granted I have some tweaking to learn but I was pleased by how much Google has take n the cue from Apple on their photo managing software.
Is it still just Rock and Roll?
Posted by Jak in Computers, Technology on September 11, 2009
Originally I was quite concerned about Apple’s plans for iTunes 9. The rumors of social networking tie-ins and more store-centric updates really left me uneasily considering skipping the update. When the event on Tuesday confirmed the rumors I really started getting irritated about the potential of turning iTunes into an even worse behemoth. Devin Coldewey over at TechCrunch Summed up my fears of bloatware in his appeal for iTunes Lite. Like any good Mac fan-boy though, I dutifully downloaded the update as soon as the page would refresh.
The Tube
Posted by Jak in Technology on September 9, 2009
Watched Surviving Disaster again last night, this time Mr. Courtley is leading a rag tag band of pencil pushers through a blazing inferno. Breaking through walls and repelling 3 stories down a cat5 cable to the safety of a 100 ft jump into an emergency inflatable. Sweet. I made the comment that watching this show was like “Boy Scouts on Speed.” Perhaps I said steroids, but you get the point. I may have a man crush on Cade.
Tonight is the Destination Truth and Ghost Hunters Crossovers. I can’t wait! 2 full hours of snarky Josh Gates commentary, who could ask for anything more?
In other news Today apple is causing bouts of buyers remorse over the updated iPod Lineup:
Even the classic gets an upgrade from 120GB to 160GB without a change in price. I have concern that despite the redesign iTunes 9 may be just so much bloatware with the added social fuctionality. I really don’t want to tweet and connect to FB from iTunes. I have API’s for that and iTunes is already slow enough without more network traffic to bog it down. Switching to Songbird is looking better all the time.
An Open Letter to Tim Cook
Tim,
Back in July at Apples Quarterly earnings call you made a comment that has been bugging me.
“Our goal is not to build the most computers. It’s to build the best.”
I get that and it’s great that you want to put out a premium quality product, but where we disconnect is the need for non-premium apple products. I love my apple hardware don’t get me wrong, but I think there’s a problem when the best that I can reasonably afford is a Mac Mini. You know that little standalone apple TV on ‘roids you keep trying to discontinue? It’s not enough though. I finally broke down and got myself a new laptop this year. A dell. Yes you heard me a dell xps 1530. I had to compare apples to oranges and when I can buy a faster processor, a larger hard drive, and more RAM for a fraction of the cost of a Macbook Pro? It really was a no brainer.
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