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Goodness, surprise the 2mlc geeks don’t like it but 2lmc spool – On Tiger: Wake the fuck up, people hey let’s shoot some fish…

1) it’s not a *wow* upgrade like Panther was, but does definitely bring a faster, cleaner feeling OS to Mac users. Recently proven in speed tests…

2) Dashboard may be useful for some, not me, but I probably wlil get round to making a nice widget sometime. A tivo thing most likely. Useful to about 200 people max…

3) Automator is ok for people who aren’t like 2mlc to make scripty things. I am annoyed by the lack of a scheduling component tho… By then i guess learn some CLI and cron stuff if important to you. I did.

4) Spotlight isn’t fast? Huh? Show me a search with the depth and breadth for faster… If you just want keyboard access to stuff you *know* then use Quicksilver surely?

5) Paying through the nose yearly? Speak for yourself. Firstly they are clearly not doing the yearly deal (Panther was in my grubby hands October 2003) and lets be realistic here about licenses – it’s just not the same game let alone ballpark as MS.

6) Stuff still doesn’t work like magic – iSync, yes i’m pointing at you – but fucking hell, if you think it’s going to be shit then wait and find out before buying it dude.

Whatever, fucking lamer london mac geeks think, its a pretty good package. Why not download it and try it out for yourself first to see?

Dumbasses… sheesh…

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This isn’t new but Trent Reznor very kindly released the fab latest single in garageband format. Well, I’ve seen lots of people commenting on how great this is (and PC users whinging about how hard it was to get it to work for them – like, whatever) but not many people releasing their own mixes – my mistake, there are 500 of the things and a competition over at CJB.net – so here’s mine. Bertrand said it sounded a bit like Hybrid, which was very kind.

The Hand That Feeds (Neuromantics Mix).mp3

Much more fun to contribute than commentate I think. I’m guessing copyright on this track is pretty much slaughtered! thanks again Trent – much fun! 500 mixes… wow…

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Playing with my PSP today and noticed the menu interface had changed colour to green! I’m like, WTF? Turns out it changes colour every month, May is green:

The order is: 1 Silver, 2 Yellow, 3 Lime, 4 Pink, 5 Green, 6 Light Purple, 7 Light-Blue, 8 Blue, 9 Purple, 10 Gold, 11 Brown, and 12 Red.

I haven’t decided if I like that yet, but it is just another example of the sheer thought that goes into the design of things from Japan. We are learning, but not fast enough…

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I was a little worried that I wouldn’t find a use for these, being so fantastically organised… *snigger*

Turns out it was really obvious – have a smart folder for “recent work” which contains files opened in the past couple of days from my /Data/Work directory, and ~/Documents directory.

Useful to find stuff, obviously, a neat way to handle back-ups (mirroring in effect) of the most important files right now so even a hard drive crash would lose zero work. Live updates of what’s there is nice but the choice part is the visual search for images. The little play arrow in the blue divider activates a screensaver type mode and makes available new controls for thumbnails, next, back, play slideshow, etc. Very handy, very swish.

Now if only Photoshop CS would actually open the files doubleclicked from the finder… hmmm, broken.

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