Winamp 5.5 – very nice indeed.
21:47 Friday 2 Nov 07
“Glad I got a mac. No viruses and hardly any spam” – a commentor on this blog
Last night I finally bit the bullet that is iTunes. I’m working upstairs on the laptop in the evenings now as it’s quieter and with the girls being around I’m not needed to help J. Bored of TV I looked for a decent alternative to the blatantly commercial iTunes. Unfortunately no-one has made anything for the mac (isn’t Microsoft the big baddie in dominating markets?) so if I want music I have to have iTunes. So it’s in and I have some music playing right now.
Fortunately, tomorrow we go IKEA (Noooooooooooooooooo!) to get a large desk so I can work upstairs from 3:30pm each day. The computers will be coming upstairs too so I’ll be able to go back to the fab Winamp 5.5 (see the visualisations in the new version? very good). So a decent music player plus hopefully 3 monitors should see me being quite productive. It also means that as I have more space I can play more music so I’ve got the iScrobbler added to iTunes and will do for Winamp. Some last.fm goodness there. I debated importing what I had at /podz but my daughter still has it in her winamp so… no.
And over the next week I’ll hunt around to see if Leopard will allow several apps to run on a 1.83 2gb mini and at a decent speed. Given that the minis are apparently being phased out I have my doubts. Though having looked at it I can’t honestly see a reason to upgrade. Eye candy does not warrant cash.
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If it’s an intel based mac, then Leopard should run faster on it… at least that’s what I’m hearing/seeing here
02:20 Saturday 3 Nov 07
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If Automattic is paying for it then I would upgrade to the biggest and slickest system possible. Preferably Linux.
12:51 Saturday 3 Nov 07
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Works fine on Intel machines, upgraded an iBook (1.2ghz and 1GB RAM) and it was SLOW!!! :-) The upgrade left only about 3gb on the hard disk but most of the programs we use won’t work so we don’t think we’ll be upgrading to Leopard quite yet…
Found this wee screensaver for OS X http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Screensavers/LotsaWater.shtml
and I bet you will like it :-)
22:59 Saturday 3 Nov 07
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AJ / Terry – cheers for the Intel info.
Root – I’m sure the company can afford the latest and greatest Linux :)
I still can’t see a reason to upgrade though and maybe I should wait until it’s been out a bit longer and it’s wrinkles are removed. Some more objective reviews would be good too.
And hey – go get a gravatar :)
23:56 Saturday 3 Nov 07
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erm, I do have a gravatat. Just logged into the site, it’s registered to the ‘mail@mydomain’ e-mail address I use here?
00:12 Sunday 4 Nov 07
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I’ll get round to it eventually…. promise!
00:31 Sunday 4 Nov 07
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Terry – odd… wonder if my code is getting in the way.
I’ll see.
00:34 Sunday 4 Nov 07
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Hmmm…. looks like your gravatar is on limbo. Weird… The default comes back for AJ and Root but not for you.
00:37 Sunday 4 Nov 07
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will this work? Created a new gravatar with a different e-mail address.
11:22 Sunday 4 Nov 07
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:-)
11:23 Sunday 4 Nov 07
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There you are!
:)
15:19 Sunday 4 Nov 07