With Tiger, I was a rabid Quicksilver fan. I tended to use it almost exclusively as an application launcher and to add todos to iGTD. Every now and then, I’d use it to delete a file or something, but it was almost always just launch or todo. I did also use it to look up contact information, which is something you can also do with Spotlight.
With Leopard, Spotlight works a lot better, and is very quick as a program launcher. Its calculator feature works nicely, and I’ve used that a couple of times. I’m trying out Mail’s new todos feature, and I’m not completely sold on that yet. Even if I stick with iGTD, though, iGTD has its own hotkey-to-add a todo feature. No need for Quicksilver just for that single feature.
Translucent menu bar aside, Leopard has been a nice upgrade overall.
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Working on cool stuff with great people is the ideal, right? Check it out. There’s this most unusual product called the Eye-Fi, which combines an SD card with built-in wifi. What this means is that you can shoot pictures with your digital camera and have them uploaded to your computer and Flickr (etc) wirelessly, without doing anything. Bam! They just beam over. How cool is that?
Even cooler to know that my new company was involved in the Eye-Fi’s creation. Follow that link to learn a bit about how the Eye-Fi is set up. This is definitely a new way to do UI for a tiny standalone device like this.
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A question for the lazyweb, as I didn’t find an answer immediately via Google… how is it that I’ve seen a couple of random people register new user accounts, doubtless for nefarious purposes, even though I have user registration turned off on my blog? Yesterday, I even renamed wp-register.php, figuring that people may have been posting directly to the script. Is that not the right script?
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OK, I promise that my blog is not going to just be filled with ads for random stuff that I’m selling. I actually have a programming-related article planned for sometime soon. In the meantime, though, hot on the heels of listing my desk on craigslist, I now have a DOD 1642 16-Channel Professional Sound Mixing Board and a Korg Wavestation EX keyboard for sale. Some people on eBay have started calling the Wavestation “vintage”. It’s always kind of scary when something that you bought new is now categorized as vintage. Alas, I’m old enough now that a fair number of things we’ve purchased over the years could qualify as vintage had I kept them. (TRS-80 Model III, anyone?)
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- 11:53 @markramm sorry I missed the Happy Doughnuts. sounds good
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- 11:54 Just made my first posting on craigslist. that’s a very frictionless UI. #
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I’ve just put a listing up on craigslist (holy cow that was easy! no wonder people use craigslist) for: Music / broadcast studio desk with rack spaces $300 obo. Though I’m hoping to have a bit more time for music in the near future, I wanted to really downsize my space. That’s why I had a bunch of gear up for sale a couple weeks ago, and now I have my desk up for sale.
Anyone who wants a nice 19″ rack desk should check it out.
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- 09:19 now coming to you live on my new MacBook Pro. Twitter was just too slow with a single core PPC. #
- 11:31 trying life without Quicksilver using just Spotlight in Leopard. #
- 13:36 oh my god. the corners of the menu bar in Leopard are square! that’s it. i’m switching to linux. jk #
- 14:08 @cleverdevil I know that the menu bar can be rounded again, but it doesn’t bother me that those few pixels in the corner are not black #
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