Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
For the most part I am a big promoter of all things Apple. They continue to innovate and build great products. Apple has made my life easier many times in the past and for that I thank them. All evidence so far points to iPhoto ‘08 being completely unusable.
My photo needs are meager. Crop, rotate, a twist of brightness or color enhancement - combined with the ability to share with friends and family on Flickr make me happy. Unfortunately, iPhoto ‘08 can’t crop on my machine and I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’ve got a macbook that is less than a year old. I of course maxed out the memory to 2GB. Just opening iPhoto and doing nothing takes up 318MB of memory. My CPU spikes up to 48% according to Activity Monitor without doing anything. All of this may be fine, but when I try to crop a picture, I now am presented with a box in the middle of my picture that I have to drag, resize, and move. When I drag the corners of this box, both CPUs spike up to 100% and the machine becomes laggy. If I need to resize this box one, two, or three times in a row, I need to wait for perhaps a full minute for this operation to complete. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Grrr. I just opened iPhoto, flipped between events to photos (to see how many I have), then back to photos. Now iPhoto is pegged at using 70% of both cores. Again, I am doing nothing. I don’t know what I am going to do. The new iMovie is designed so you can make a video in a snap. How about focusing on cropping a photo in a snap. This is crazy.
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Ok, quick opinions in no particular order. I got this mouse because my old Logitech got all jumpy on my desk and drove me insane.
Uncomfortable.
Looks great and matches my macbook.
Side buttons impossible to actually push (but who really cares).
The trackball is kinda silly and not too natural.
It tracks well on my desk.
The preference pane gives no acceleration option - only a slow to fast slider for tracking.
Expensive.
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Ok, so you go to your Documents folder on your mac. There you put all your fun Word documents. You are familiar with moving around and organizing your files into folders, then opening with Word. Maybe you’ve seen Google docs, but it didn’t matter to you since you like to deal with your documents the way you’re accustomed. Enter MacFuse and DocFS. Now you can have a folder on your Mac that is sort of like a little portal into Google docs. Double click, create new files, delete files, open in Word - the difference is that when you’re at work or a friend’s house now you can get to your docs on Google. Free and easy backup.
So you have all these pictures that you organize into a folder structure and thats how you like to work with them. Picassa web and Flickr are just confusing. Enter PicassawebFS and Fuse.
RSS Feeds as a file system. Gmail as a file system. An LDAP directory as a file system. Anything as a file system. That’s what FUSE is all about. This is seriously badass and Google has released this early version of FUSE for the Mac (which has been popular on Linux for a year or two).
Watch this video and become one with MacFuse.
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