What is it about Rolo’s? I can consume a whole pack of rolo’s in like seconds. I think they are designed to do just start, you start unraveling them and presto they are all gone.
Sooo much new I say, sooo much new. First the Mac. The mac is good. The transition going to mac has been much easier than I thought it’d be. In fact its pretty damn slick. I like the mac alot. It’s a bit like my first pc experience, in the sense that i bought my first pc to play Doom. I bought my first mac to use ilife. Cause that’s all i got on it. Heh.
If you sold ilife on its own, it’d cost $500+ easy on a pc. I mean imovie is a great little editing tool, iphoto and making books and calenders is a snap, and you can do effects in it too, then idvd which i havent even touched yet but I know is gonna be good. iWeb is cool, and i’ve just glanced at its abilities for a sec. Garagband is waaay cool, GatorDave and I took a tour of that this weekend, very cool ablities in that software alone could cost ya big bucks. Folks, ilife is an excellent deal of a suite o tools.
On the browser side of things, Safari is, well, a browser. Its clean and mean and is fast as I would expect. Its built in RSS reader is kinda handy but I miss the extension goodness firefox enables me with. The biggest thing that bugs me is the lack of delicious integration. I dont bookmark in the traditional sense any more, I’m all deliicous enabled. I want to tag my bookmarks and send them directly to delicious in a smart and simple way.
Some of the simple things in the mac are there, but i cant think of them yet or I dont know cause i’m well, new i guess and I have an old way of doing things, but i havent found a simple way to get safari to consider delcious just yet. If i could get over that one hurdle i wouldnt have any complaints about the browser.
Theres aspects of the mac where you feel OS X is basically telling you “stop thinking”. Little things that get to me in using the mac at times. On the PC you get a big eject button on drives cause theres something about the comfortable phsyical representation of a button you can actually have command over that will enable you to eject a disc. I know that if my finger hits that button, i’ve told it to do something, and its phsyical, its my finger to do, where as on the mac its my hope that my intent to do, will be understood as a do, and thus done based on what command ive asked it to though theres a chance its also thinking about other stuff to do at the moment of the do.
Its like powercords, you yank them and you have assured result – power off. You had control. You feel powerful. The mac does away with a bit of that control and enables you to find it in ways well… you have to get used to. Its not that i couldnt eject a disc, it was the uncertainitly in finding the way to eject that bothered me, even if it was just for a split second, that feeling of no control, at the whim of a “clicking” disc drive was incredibly painful. The same kind feel sits in me when i download and install files, where do they go really, they just install, they just work, all is well is what the mac tells me. I’m so used to being uberly nosey on the pc, where’d that file go, make room here, there, and so on. I just dont have that knowledge to be percice on the mac yet, and i sometimes wonder will i get it?
Another point in fustration is software. On the PC the question is never “is there an app that does x” its more of finding it via the web. All the pc apps are done, they are out there, go find them. On the mac its different, did someone make this kind of app yet? Like blogging clients on the mac so far as dismal compared to the pc, in fact its really kinda lame at best on the mac. Your choices are 1 or 2, and the pc, you have the choice from a dozen i bet. And then on the mac where theres no apps, there may be widgets and vice versa. Widgets in the desktop are handy, neat and semi-useful. To me, its cool code that if you got a purpose great, if not…… well.
One thing that is fun is resting on the heels of all these intel-native-binary RSS sites for the new mac systems. There are daily posting of apps that are not native on the new dual core machines. Watching these lists is like a constant new high you can tap into daily. You know how I love the new, well, RSS brings you the beauty of new daily on these babies!
Hmmm…. in other news, on the blogsphere side of things… ok one thing, had to go…
Drowning out the good vibes of LazySunday
Apparently LazySunday had to be yanked form YouTube because it was copyrighted and thus really SNL’s right, yadda dadda material. Its sad when the struggling show like SNL makes a clip, it goes viral on the web, gets massive, makes SNL come to life again in the hopes and dreams of consumers and then.. legal freaks SLAM on the breaks, take it off the sites that made it massive and of course.. they decide to then sell it or promote it thru more certified channels, tis a shame they didnt do that in the first place but then again they wouldnt of known if it wasnt for sites like YouTube. This is classic corporate agenda crap that can really back fire on end users. Now I have a host of mixed feelings, I love LazySunday but I’m pissed that SNL/NBC doesnt recogonize the fact that the web made breathed life into their otherwise nearly dead show in fact, I watch SNL now, on my tivo, soley for the hope to see more digital shorts. In general the writing of the show has been in the dumps lately.
The viral ad scene on the net has exploded lately. Has anyone seen those clips of the Burger King and Brooke Burke on the web lately? They are hilarious. And its all web, strictly on the down low in the hopes to generate more buzz, and the more underground it is the better it seems to grab at folks.
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