Month: June 2007

  • One more thing….

    Itunes download package for windows just grew in size. You will now be force fed Safari as part of this download. I have absolutely no idea why the hell apple would want to do this….or for that matter, why would I want to run Safari under windows. I thought the Mac guy was supposed to…

  • Keynote….

    Okay so Stevie did his keynote…..10 “new” things about Apple’s OSX Leopard. Well more like 3 news things and 7 recycled things….you decide: New Desktop (New Menu bar, New Dock, Stacks, consistent window look, prominent active window). New Finder (New sidebar, search other macs and servers, shared computers, back to my mac, cover flow). Quicklook…

  • WWDC Day1 – Keynote

    Started lineing up at 7:00 am this morning. Front of the line people actually were here at 5:00 am….Now that takes some dedication. NOT ME!!!! Anyways some shots of the massive lines outside/inside and upstairs at the Moscone West. It’s 8:40 am right now and we’re all waiting….good pastaries, lots of coffee and juice…..YUM!!!

  • San Francisco here I come….

    So I’m back at my hotel –after getting my badge, bag, t-shirt and dinner– and am getting ready to go to bed early. Need to be in line for WWDC keynote tomorrow at 6:00 am. Now that is fully 3 hours before the keynote, I better get a seat in the main Ballroom. We’ll see…

  • OSX Keyboard Shortcuts

    Head over to rixstep.com and have a peek at their list, detailing a ton of keyboard shortcuts for OS X (and also ones for Windows XP). The list has your standard shortcuts and some “super secret” ones that the author has collected overtime. Did you know you can hold down the “shift” key after login…

  • Bigdisk…

    I did not get a chance to post this last night as I was totally smashed. At 7:43 pm last night this was the scene in our machine room. A happy XSAN of 13TB being burned in for the next 12-hours. It’s 9:30 am now and I just stopped my abusive dd command (dd if=/dev/zero…

  • Google gears app No. 2 is out

    In and of itself this might not be big news, but I think it is the trickle that will eventually turn into a flood, so put on your life jackets…..I warned you. As a follow up on my earlier story on how google will use gears to move in on Microsoft’s domination of the desktop,…

  • The Iceberg hits Toronto

    ROM_Crystal_opening_wide_crowd_02, originally uploaded by wvs. Okay, so I missed this event. This is a shot of festivities at the opening of Royal Ontario Museums new extension, lovingly known as the “Iceberg“. Image credit goes to Sam Javanrouh, my new favourite torontonian shutterbug. Check out his main site Daily Dose of Imagery, absolutely fantastic stuff.

  • You need this clock…

    This is one of the coolest clocks I’ve seen in a long time. Check it out (needs flash) or go here to download a screensaver of another version of the clock. Almost as cool as those nixie tube clocks.

  • Bill, google is coming to getcha…

    Well, here is my prediction after digesting most of the content that came out of G-Day. Google Gears will soon make MS Office (and for that matter most “installed” applications) obsolete. Google’s Gears homepage explains that Gears is … Google in a press release states that Gears “marks an important step in the evolution of…