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Apple
Thanks for the memories Steve.
Thank you Steve Jobs for changing our world. For looking at a device and taking it to the next level. For not being afraid to be different. For being the little fish in the big pond and showing us that anything is possible.
Your life may have been cut short, but you’ve left a great company behind and the most amazing fans. We will miss you.
Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss
My parents should be so proud of me because I’m addicted to the internet, not drugs.
Dear Mom and Dad and the D.A.R.E. people,
I listened. I’m not addicted to drugs, instead I’m addicted to the internet.
I’m not wasting all my money on meth and crack and things like that. Though I do spend money on hosting, Flickr Pro, online backup and Amazon. Not to mention all the apps and music I get from iTunes. But that’s not the point, I’m being good.
I don’t go around, stealing things just to get a fix. Wait, that’s not exactly true. I have been known to “borrow” the internet from the library across the street when mine goes out just to send an email. And I do know where to find free internet if I need it. Again, not the point.
Lion. Why you no like my computer?
Sad Cat
It’s sad but it’s true, Lion won’t work on my iMac. It’s one of the first generation Intel iMacs and it didn’t make the cut.
Ohh well. I can still put it on my work computer so at least I’ll be able to play with it.
And I can still get backwards scrolling if I want it via Scroll Reverser.
The fastest browser on my Mac is Firefox 5.
I tested four browsers with the SunSpider tests and it turns out that Firefox 5 was faster than Chrome, Safari and Opera. This was quite surprising to me as it beat out Chrome but quite a bit. It’s also interesting how far behind Safari is.
Opera 10.5 – 534.0ms +/- 1.4%
Chrome 12 – 524.6ms +/- 4.6%
Safari 5.0.5 – 566.9ms +/- 4.2%
Firefox 5 – 448.8ms +/- 0.9%
Now the tests aren’t scientific by any means, but they do represent my computer on a normal day. I’d suggest you run them for yourself and see what you come out with.
Google Music vs Amazon Cloud Player – A quick review.
I’ve been testing out both Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player and have to say that they are both nice services.
Below are my pros and cons of each service after some initial testing.
Price:
Google Music – Free (for now)
Amazon Cloud Player – First 5 gigs are free, after that it’ll cost. Tip
Uploading:
Google Music:
- Pro: Creates a native Mac system preference.
- Pro: I can set the bandwidth used to upload my music.
- Pro: Automatically uploads all my music. And when new music is added to my system, automatically uploads that as well.
Spent $0.99 on Bird Zapper for iPad and it’s awesome.
I don’t usually impulse buy games for my iPad, but when I saw Bird Zapper the other day, something made me download it and I’m glad I did.
Bird Zapper has fantastic graphics, good game play and it keeps me wanting to play more. Basically you use your finger to connect three or more like birds and zap them. There are plenty of combos and bonuses and it just hooks ya.
If you’ve got an iPad or iPhone I think you should check it out. For $0.99 it’s a heck of a lot of fun.
Life on just the iPad doesn’t work for me.
Well I made it though a week without my iMac. How did I do? Well…. not so good.
I was doing fine for a few days. Granted it helped that Lily was sick and I had to sleep with her a few nights and that took away from my computer time.
However I found it difficult to live just on the iPad.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the iPad and think it’s a great machine. But it lacks advanced controls that you get on your computer and multitasking is pretty much non-existent.
Can I survive a week with only the iPad?
My iMac is currently in temporary storage. We were to get our carpets cleaned today, now it’s not until next Monday. So instead of moving everything back, it’s staying in storage. That means that my desk and iMac are not available to me.
Ok, they could be if I really wanted. But I thought it might be fun to see if I could survive a week without my main computer. Instead of an iMac, I have my iPad.
What are Macs made of? Sweet, majestic unicorn tears.
I think that’s why they are so awesome.
From Chrome to Safari to Firefox and back again.
It seems that I can’t find a browser that is perfect. I try them all, I love parts of them all, and there are always things I don’t like.
With Chrome, its startup speed is annoying me. It takes a while to do something on startup and I’m not sure what that is. I think it’s loading the start page images, but whatever it is, its been taking to long. It seems you can’t go anywhere until it’s got that thing done so I’m stuck wanting to go somewhere, but can’t.
So I switched to Safari.
