Lush. Get it while it’s hot. Still my favourite mp3 player on Windows by FAR.
I love the new Bento GUI and the Winamp Remote thingie sounds very interesting as well, which enables you to listen to your winamp music no matter where you are. I’ll have to give that a try.
Rumours have it that new MacBooks are in the works.
Two things that catch my interest;
- Aluminium case. This I like because the MacBook’s plastic sucks, scratches, turns an icky colour and doesn’t protect the inner components enough.
- ‘Extremely aggresively’ priced. Now we’re talking Apple here, so that could sit cost you a few ribs, but one can hope.
Maybe these’ll come along with the launch of Leopard? Which is rumoured to have reached Release Candidate stage by the way, and the 800Mhz G4 has been dropped as the minimum spec.
Notepad doesn’t cut it anymore to work on your html or php but a full fledged IDE is a bit overkill? You might want to take a look at Programmer’s Notepad, a free, open source, text editor with special features for coders.
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Awesome little program. Install it, launch it, and it indexes your files and programs. So the next time you either want to start a program or for example want to listen to a song you press alt+space and launchy pops up, type a few letters of either the application or the song and hit enter. It’s a real time saver. I was already hooked on Quicksilver on the Mac, this is the equivalent of it for Windows. It comes with a load of skins to give it a different look. It also has a plugin system for adding functions, things like a calculator are already built in, or an url launcher.
Give it a try, I love it.
Watch the video (hat tip to Corvo), it looks really great. I want!
Finally, it’s here. A nice alternative if Ubuntu or OpenSuse aren’t your cup of tea. This will power my Proliant soon.
Apple’s new OS, Leopard, is now officially delayed until October. Apparently because the iPhone is such an advanced high tech piece of equipment that they had to put Leopard devs on the project to get it shipping in June.
Suuuuure, it’s still just a bloody phone.
I’d care more if I still had any spare time for computers. As is; meh. I’m looking forward to playing with XenSource’s XenEnterprise at work, might even move my Proliant back to work, no time to play with it at home at the moment anyway, and it makes a perfect test server.
The second Xeon is in, and it’s yummy to see 8 threads like that. Ordered 3 harddrive trays, so now all I need is 3 harddrives and it’s Thunderbirds away.
Still trying out a bunch of different Linux distros. OpenSuse 10.2 was nice but too desktop focused and a bit of a mess with updates, Fedora Core 6 felt surprisingly solid, now it’s on to Gentoo.
The current big thing in linux land is Beryl, offering a luvly 3D desktop experience vaguely similar to but way sjweeter than Os X.
But now there seems to be a new kid on the block in the form of Mandriva’s Metisse. After seeing the demo vids I’m definitely going to give their LiveCD a go next week or so. It’s way beyond anything Beryl can do at the moment, if not as polished. Interesting times.
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