Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
- Office 2008. I have no need whatsoever for Office on my Mac, however I like the GUI changes made by the Mac team at Microsoft. Lots of clever things. I know I'll need Entourage on my new Mac at work, and the MyDay thing is really clever and doesn't pollute Exposé or Spaces. Nice.
- Webkit. Nightly builds rock nicely. Speed and lots of nice additions.
- Adagio for Strings. Ya I know, it will get old soon, but for now its a nice change from all the metal I've been grooving to at work.
- Call of Duty 4. Halo 3 multiplayer was getting old, and Peppi Roni was constantly crushing us RhymesWithNose people every time. He still kicks it hard in CoD4, but we have more of a chance against him now. Tonight is our community kill time. Hope my router acts nicely and doesn't give me weird errors like it did last night. Live is sweet, except when it wants to burp errors at me for whatever reason.
- iTunes still rocks. Its been a long time with few changes (except sweet content) and now I am learning a new language on the cheap (ie. free). Love that. Apple TV looks sweet enough to consume one of my HDMI slots on my Samsung LCD.
- That TimeMachine icon in the menu bar... I dig it. Also, I just had a backup where old stuff is getting deleted now. Cool. Time to get a Time Capsule (when they come out). I haven't had to use Time Machine yet, but its good to know its there when I need it. Thats the point, right?
- Firefox 3b3 and netvibes on the PC works better than FF3b2. A lot better. Makes me like netvibes even more.
- Internet radio... the ability to listen to my Pittsburgh Penguins home radio broadcast every game rocks. Shows some of the power of the internet and how it shrinks the world. I wish I could say the same for Last.fm... but I can't yet.
- Networked audio streams around the house. Control is sweet and if I'm in the shower, I can select something from my whole collection to stream in there. Perhaps some vintage Tull this evening. Before the boy goes to bed.
- MXML. Its slick, its quick, and makes all kinds of nice things happen. Including AIR.
- A package I got from a certain someone... opened my eyes to lots of exciting new things the world will be privy to sometime in the future. I can't wait. Its all quite excellent.
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