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		<title>My Menu Bar, redux</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like when I&#8217;m bored, I post one of these.  So, without further ado, the &#8220;systray&#8221; equivalent on my mac, as of about 5 minutes ago: And from left to right, those icons are: Tweetie, for all my Twittering needs. &#8230; <a href="http://devlogic.org/2009/07/10/my-menu-bar-redux/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems like when I&#8217;m bored, I post one of these.  So, without further ado, the &#8220;systray&#8221; equivalent on my mac, as of about 5 minutes ago:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-782" title="menubar-20090710" src="http://devlogic.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/menubar-20090710.png" alt="menubar-20090710" width="542" height="22" /></p>
<p><span id="more-781"></span>And from left to right, those icons are:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/">Tweetie</a>, for all my Twittering needs.<br />
<a href="http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/">Typinator</a>, which is a typing auto-corrector. Makes it hard to type the word &#8220;Teh&#8221;.<br />
<a href="https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTEzOTUyNDk">Dropbox</a>, which is an excellent network file-sync utility (with a good web interface).<br />
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/">Google Quick Search Box</a>. I used to use Quicksilver. Alcor (the author of Quicksilver) started working at Google, and this is his project. It&#8217;s not a full replacement for Quicksilver yet, but it does the job for what I need.<br />
<a href="http://www.sophiestication.com/coversutra/">Coversutra,</a> which I use for controlling iTunes. It also does neat screen-pops when the song changes.<br />
<a href="http://centrix.ca/NetworkLocation/">NetworkLocation</a> automatically changes things like my screen brightness, default printer, proxy and security settings, screensaver, and background (among many others), whenever I connect to specific networks.<br />
<a href="http://www.orange-carb.org/SBM/">SlimBatteryMonitor</a>, which I discovered through a MacWorld article. It&#8217;s just a battery charge meter, but it&#8217;s smaller than the Apple stock one.<br />
<a href="http://www.jeb.com.fr/en/ejector.shtml">Ejector</a>, which lets me eject any mounted filesystem (network shares, CDs, flash drives, etc).<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergykm/">SynergyKM</a>, which is a gui front-end for Synergy, a keyboard &amp; mouse-sharing program.  Lets me control my linux workstation with the keyboard and mouse connected to my laptop.<br />
Apple&#8217;s Bluetooth widget<br />
Apple&#8217;s processor widget; it lets me disable one of my two processor cores, for better battery life.<br />
Apple&#8217;s Monitor widget, for fast resolution changes.<br />
<a href="http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/">SoundSource</a>, a freebie from Rogue Amoeba. Lets me pick which input/output devices to use for the bleep-bloops.<br />
Time Machine<br />
Apple Airport status<br />
I stopped using MenuCalendarClock; this is the built-in menubar clock from OS 10.5<br />
Spotlight</p>
<p>Some day I may also do a similar inventory of the applications that live on the Dock. But I&#8217;d have to be even more bored than I am now, so don&#8217;t hold your breath!</p>
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		<title>Bah, back to basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 a few moments ago, and as a result all of the themes I like seem to have broken. So it&#8217;s back to the Kubrick variant until I find time to write and/or steal a different &#8230; <a href="http://devlogic.org/2007/10/11/bah-back-to-basics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 a few moments ago, and as a result all of the themes I like seem to have broken.  So it&#8217;s back to the Kubrick variant until I find time to write and/or steal a different theme.</p>
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		<title>What do I think of MacWorld SF &#8217;06?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Apple announced a lot of new stuff on Tuesday at MacWorld San Francisco; am I impressed?Â  Let&#8217;s see: Steve Jobs started off with the usual crap about Apple sales and revenue; that doesn&#8217;t really mean anything to me.Â  I &#8230; <a href="http://devlogic.org/2006/01/11/what-do-i-think-of-macworld-sf-06/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So Apple announced a lot of new stuff on Tuesday at MacWorld San Francisco; am I impressed?Â  Let&#8217;s see:</p>
<p>Steve Jobs started off with the usual crap about Apple sales and revenue; that doesn&#8217;t really mean anything to me.Â  I guess it&#8217;s nice that Apple is making money, but it&#8217;s not all so exciting to someone who isn&#8217;t a stockholder.</p>
<p>And then the new product announcements (AKA the stuff I actually wanted to hear about):<br />
<strong>iPhoto 6</strong>:Â  OK, so it&#8217;s iPhoto, but they added &#8220;photo casting&#8221;.Â  Way to take a meme and expand it, Apple.Â  So this is really just a way to subscribe to an iPhoto collection that&#8217;s been shared.Â  It&#8217;s nice that it&#8217;s not permanently linked to .mac, but I&#8217;m not sure how useful it&#8217;ll be, until 3rd-party applications (like, for example, the popular &#8220;Gallery&#8221; PHP photo-gallery) reverse-engineer the protocol to add support, so that you can view these &#8220;photo casts&#8221; online before you subscribe to &#8216;em.Â  And apparently there&#8217;s new photo-editing features, like a full-screen mode and &#8220;instant edits&#8221; (or whatever terminology Apple uses).Â  Nifty.Â  But I&#8217;ve got Photoshop.Â  And Adobe&#8217;s new Lightroom (the free public beta is only for the Mac right now) seems to be a replacement for both iPhoto <em>and</em> Aperture, so iPhoto may take a back seat once Adobe pushes Lightroom out of beta.Â  Pass.<br />
<strong>GarageBand 3</strong>: Hm.Â  Let&#8217;s see:Â  all that really changed in GarageBand this time was the addition of the podcast creator.Â  Granted, it&#8217;s <em>way</em> easier to use than Mega Seg or CastBlaster.Â  But I don&#8217;t make podcasts (yet); what&#8217;s the point for me?Â  Pass, until I decide to start writing music or recording a podcast.<br />
<strong>iWeb</strong>:Â  This is apparently the &#8220;new thing&#8221; from Apple&#8217;s software division.Â  OK, it&#8217;s a nice web page editor.Â  The templates are kinda neat, but I&#8217;m limited to <em>only</em> using the templates; there&#8217;s not an easy way (that I&#8217;ve seen so far) of creating my own templates (or, for that matter, starting with a blank page).Â  Yeah, I can take X random template and modify it to fit my needs, but that&#8217;s not really the same thing, ya know?Â  Maybe Apple will sell &#8220;iWeb Theme Packs&#8221; just like they sell &#8220;Jam Packs&#8221; for GarageBand.Â  Ooh, they could call them &#8220;Memory Packs&#8221; or something saccharine like that.Â  The integration with the rest of the iLife suite is nice, but I&#8217;m not a big fan of the giant .mac advertisement every time I open iWeb.Â  And where&#8217;s SFTP (or even FTP) publishing to an arbitrary server?Â  If I have to publish to a folder every time I make a change, and re-upload the entire thing to my hosting provider, it&#8217;s probably not something I&#8217;m gonna plan on using all the time, you know?Â  Especially if I create a media-rich site like Apple wants me to, full of pictures and movies.Â  And if my &#8220;podcast&#8221; page gets to be more than one or two episodes long, it&#8217;d take hours to re-upload the site.Â  Pass (for now).<br />
<strong>iMovie HD 6</strong>:Â  Hm.Â  I haven&#8217;t used iMovie that much, since most of the movies I acquire are already perfectly edited.Â  But I guess it&#8217;s nice that I can now open multiple projects at the same time; the lack of an MDI in previous versions of iMovie was something about which I read a lot of unfavorable reviews on teh Intarwebs. Pass, until I start editing the raw files from my ReplayTV on my laptop.<br />
<strong>iDVD 6</strong>:Â  Yeah.Â  I&#8217;ve got DVD Studio Pro.Â  I didn&#8217;t even bother installing iDVD.Â  Pass.<br />
<strong>iTunes 6.0.2</strong>: Hm.Â  I was irritated by the &#8220;mini store&#8221; when I launched the newest version of iTunes yesterday, especially given the measly 768 vertical pixels on my laptop&#8217;s display.Â  But it was easy enough for me to click the &#8220;hide&#8221; button and go on with life.Â  And to all of the privacy nuts out there who are freaking out because Apple is being sent information about what tracks they&#8217;ve got selected in iTunes:Â  I&#8217;m concerned about privacy myself, but come on; it&#8217;s easy enough to turn off and ignore.Â  Go after someone who <em>actually</em> means to do evil with your data for a change.Â  Or stop using the product altogether; sometimes the self-proclaimed &#8220;protectors of privacy&#8221; on the internet are worse than Jesus&#8217; fan club.Â  No, I don&#8217;t want to be &#8220;saved&#8221; on this particular issue.Â  Yes, I&#8217;m OK with that.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s iLife &#8217;06. Now, for&#8230;<br />
<strong>iWork &#8217;06</strong>:Â  Hm.Â  Let&#8217;s see.Â  I&#8217;ve already got Microsoft Office, I don&#8217;t produce a newsletter (which is pretty much all Pages seems to do), and I don&#8217;t make presentations (which really <em>is</em> all Keynote does).Â  Pass.</p>
<p><strong>Pro Application &#8220;Crossgrades&#8221;</strong>:Â  Sweet.Â  Apple gets an extra $49 from their customers, so that they can run (what appears to be) the exact same software on the new Intel-based Macs.Â  Hm.Â  I think that if I were a &#8220;Pro&#8221;, I&#8217;d wait for the next version of these big titles, just so I&#8217;d get more for my money than a version of the software title that didn&#8217;t require the emulation layer to run.Â  Pass.</p>
<p>And, the new systems:</p>
<p><strong>iMac</strong>:Â  Hm.Â  Who would&#8217;a guessed that the imac would be the first intel mac?Â  Let&#8217;s see:Â  lower-end system (although not as low-end as the mini), great for people who don&#8217;t care about expansion (and, conveniently, perfect hardware control for Apple).Â  I like that the systems are supposed to be twice as fast (although of course, having two processor cores probably helps that a bit).Â  Of course, they used a benchmark program that was optimized for the Intel processor (you know, the opposite of what they did when they spec&#8217;d the G5 against Intel chips a few years ago?).Â  Keeping the price points the same was a nice touch, though.</p>
<p><strong>MacBook</strong>:Â  No, it&#8217;s not a piece of bookkeeping software, no matter what the product name might indicate.Â  It&#8217;s a shame the first new Intel-based Mac laptops are &#8220;pro&#8221; edition laptops rather than iBook reworks; I think I&#8217;d have much rather preferred that a lower-cost version was coming out first, like the mini or iBook instead of this new &#8220;macbook&#8221; product.Â  It&#8217;s nice to see that Apple didn&#8217;t strip out the Firewire ports like had been rumored, although I&#8217;m a bit saddened to see that they went to a Firewire 400 port instead of the Firewire 800 port that was previously on the PowerBook G4; I guess those pros don&#8217;t really need the high-speed Firewire to pull data off of their HD cameras, eh?Â  Well, OK.Â  2005 was the year of HD; since it&#8217;s 2006 now, I guess we can stop worrying about actually using those nifty new HD products that we bought last year.Â  The new power cord is a nifty idea, I&#8217;ll admit.Â  I know I&#8217;ve come close to knocking my system off of a table (or bed, or desk, or chair, etc) when the cord got tangled on my shoe.Â  I&#8217;ll also mirror the thoughts of a few other Internet people in saying &#8220;um, why do I need a remote control for my portable computer?&#8221; and &#8220;how many professionals need a built-in webcam on their laptop?&#8221;</p>
<p>The new Apple/Intel ad was a nice finish.Â  Shame Intel&#8217;s backpedaling now, saying that PCs aren&#8217;t boring.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>:<br />
OK, I really don&#8217;t like iPhoto at all, any more; this miraculous new &#8220;photocasting&#8221; that Apple loves so much is only available for the suckers who shell out for a .mac account.Â  I guess the $79 I paid for iLife &#8217;06 was a complete waste.Â  They should mention that on the box: &#8220;iLife &#8217;06 is $79, but in order to actually <em>use</em> the niftiest features, it&#8217;s actually $178.&#8221;</p>
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