Category: Macintosh

NY pictures, but Homepage kind of cropped out some of iPhoto’s captions. So some don’t make sense. Whatever.

…Will be up tonight, tomorrow at the latest.

We had a great time, got to see friends and some landmark-type stuff. Great food as always (except for maybe a little midnight White Castle run…). Tai got a $10 ‘Tag Heuer’ watch and I got a cool pen set from the MoMA. We hung out on the lower-east side a bit and hit a few bars the first night and I must say, Disco-house just isn’t my thang. C’est la vie.

As expected, navigation while downtown was a little hard, without certain twin-tower shaped compass points. It was very eerie to be in Battery Park and not have them towering above you. I took some shots of the empty airspace and to say that it’s sad is obviously a gross understatement.

I am and probably always will be a sucker for less-than-advertised tickets for Rent on Broadway. The Nederlander theater is such a cool place and Rent always puts a smile on my face. And I’m not retarded, I’m rhyming. Man.

I actually had more conversations with cab drivers this trip than I’ve had any other trips combined. Weird.

Security was hella thick and Laguardia had just stepped it up for our departure Sunday afternoon. Tai’s feet and shoes were searched and my things were thoroughly extrapolated from my bag. At least the guy had the decency to put it all back in. When I went to help him, he freaked out and said, “Dude, the FAA is right there…” and when I turned to look, I saw a man in fatigues with what looked to be some sort of machine gun. At least inside the terminal I felt safe.

So the trip was a success and New York for less than $500 total is always a pleasure.

Okay, on Camworld today, a reader writes in about eTrade’s preview of their new site:

I guess it’s time for me to find a new brokerage and bank…

…Because the new-fangled site does not support Netscape 4.x on his Mac. Do people seriously consider dropping their fucking bank because it doesn’t support a god-damned 2-year old browser? I mean, jesus. I think that might mean it’s time to readjust your priorities, when using IE5 (by just about all means a better browser, on the Mac) is just too impossible to consider, but changing banks based on something so arbitrary is a snap.

Recipe for a successful Super Bowl party if you yourself are not exactly a football fan:

1. Invite over friends who are equally apathetic about most sports in general, football in particular.

2. Make bean dip.

3. Make sure aformentioned guests are in possession of a deep-fryer and much fried foods.

4. Fry many foods.

5. Make awesome chicken wings, also fried but not battered.

6. Watch 5 culmunative minutes of the first half between the four (well, seven) of you and remark when someone scores.

7. Take cute baby pictures instead of watching the insipid half-time show.

8. Tune in and actually pay attention right as the losing team makes a last 2-minute drive to the end-zone to tie it. THEN watch in amazement as the now-tied game turns back to the original winning team in the last 1 second of the game.

9. Let cool for 3-4 hours, serves 4-7.

I don’t want to call this ‘Why Macs Are Better Than PCs because then some of you PC people out there might not see it. But you really should. It’s not what you think it is. TwoThingsAtOnce

“I already had some level of “game,” but this book just helped me take my game to the next level.”

Don’t know how or why he found it, but SU think you need this book. For everyone’s sake, really. I’m getting tired of going out with you and seeing your game fail.

The new iMac wuvs you…

Okay. In MacOS X, if you take a screenshot of a flash movie in IE and then drop it into Illustrator…

The shot is still a vector. Does anyone else think that’s just insane? I’m loving this OS more and more.

…but it sure is cool.

Alternate’s possibly some people’s only Mac-news outlet, so here goes:

1. New iMac, flat-panel 700 & 800 mhz G4 models, looks like a lamp some people say, SuperDrive on the high-end, prices at normal iMac prices ($1200 and up)
2. iPhoto, pretty cool new digital photo studio thingamajig for MacOS X only, sort photos, share them, edit them, buy hard-bound books with them for $30, etc. Pretty fucking cool.
3. 14″ iBook and lowered prices on the 12″ models, no speed bump for them
4. No new G4s announced, kind of a let-down as the iMac is so cool, a newer, faster G4 tower to expand the Pro line would have made sense, but whatever.

I’m sure I’ll be told if I’ve left anything out….

If you’ve had enough of the hype, go check out SvN’s sneak look at the new iMac. Or, not really their sneak look, but TimeCanada.com’s slipup. So who’s going to get fired for that?