Songbird alpha downloads available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
Posted on | June 27, 2006 | No Comments
Songbird is to music players as Firefox is to web browsers for a very simple reason: they’re built on the same code base. Because of that, it addresses one of my main complaints with iTunes, which was the web browser. The one in Songbird doesn’t suck. While Songbird isn’t quite ready to replace your iTunes installation just yet, it will be soon, because of one thing. Extensions. All the extensions you could dream of, and a bunch that you can’t. Go download the alpha and check it out.
Because there weren’t enough sites for this already…
Posted on | June 24, 2006 | No Comments
Go ahead and go over to WikiWalkthrough, the latest project to spring from what I will generously call my mind. It’s meant to be a Wikipedia-like site for game walkthroughs, but it’s pretty empty at the moment, so it’s just a blank page. Hopefully I can get this fixed soon.
Windows Vista Beta 2: My first look
Posted on | June 12, 2006 | 1 Comment
Well, I’ve downloaded and installed Vista Beta 2, and I’ve had a chance to play around with it a little. Admittadly, I have only spent about 15 minutes with the OS, but it was long enough to leave one distinct impression, which was:
It has taken Microsoft the last four years to develop this?
Don’t get me wrong. The eye candy is nice, and the installer is great. I mean really, really, totally awesome, compared to what we had to work with in the past. But overall, it feels like Windows XP on steroids. And not even good steriods, either. Just kinda run-of-the mill stuff. I know this is still a beta, and we should expect improvement, but I’m not holding my breath. The sidebar (or deskbar, or whatever the hell they’re calling it) is totally useless. The default desklets are an analog clock, a slideshow of stock photos (featuring open fields, babbling brooks, and blooming flowers, which are all things I associate software with), and the one useful item of the bunch, an RSS reader. Which really only opens IE.
It’s a competent operating system. I’m sure that it will perpetuate Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop market. But as far as I can tell, there is absolutly zero reason for any user to upgrade from XP.
Hello World!
Posted on | January 12, 2006 | No Comments
Welcome back, gentle readers. After a long haitus, I’m back and looking for ideas. I’m going to turn this space into something, but I’m not quite sure what yet. It’ll be tech-related. For the meantime, I’m going to focus on documenting some things I’ve been doing, like getting linux to run on my notebook. And my MythTv box. And so on and so forth.
So keep an eye out. Don’t expect daily updates, or even weekly, but new content is coming. It’ll be… something.
tinyFragments is moving
Posted on | October 9, 2005 | No Comments
Well, kinda. My personal blog is moving soon to binarydreaming.com, and this space will be something new and exciting. At least it’s exciting to me and the people who know about it. Suffice to say, this is the new home of tinyFragments Application Development. Check out tinyTracking for a look at our first public project.
Articles: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User’s Notes, by Lucy A. Snyder
Posted on | August 25, 2005 | No Comments
OK, getting Mac OS 10.4 to run on an Intel box is cool and all, but it’s peanuts to this. Articles: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User’s Notes, by Lucy A. Snyder Go forth, and install.
Good luck finding the badger.
Mac OS 10.4 Rules… on an Intel D915GLC PC
Posted on | August 13, 2005 | No Comments
So I’m posting this from a shiny new installation of Mac OS X 10.4, but there’s no Mac in sight. A guy we all need to give props to called “deadmoo” has managed to post an .iso to the world which allows running Mac OS on an Intel box. I’m currently typing this from a PPC build of FireFox running under Rosetta emulation. It’s extremely cool. Now, before anybody goes and accuses me of being cheap, or stealing someone else’s work, let me stress that the only reason most people (myself included) do this is to say that we can. Yes, it runs great, but don’t expect to see me post from this OS again, at least not on this computer. I’d love to buy a copy of OS X to run on it, but until I can, I’ll be saving my pennies for a trip to the local Apple store.
Anyway, in a year, when 10.5 is out, complete with Red Box (which they still swear doesn’t exist, but mark my words), I’ll be buying a PowerBook. I’ll sell my car if nessecary.
Switching formats again
Posted on | August 12, 2005 | No Comments
Ok, now I’m running WordPress, and the comments are back. I’ll be sticking with the deafult theme for a while, because I’m lazy, but I may change it later. I’m sure you’re all excited. So sign up and comment already.
Happy Birthday to Joan
Posted on | July 13, 2005 | No Comments
It’s my Mom’s birthday today, so I want to wish her a happy one. Especially because I forgot last year.
So happy birthday, Mom.
My notebook finally works (with linux)
Posted on | July 12, 2005 | No Comments
That’s right, everything finally works right. Battery status, suspend, USB, WiFi, everything. I’m amazed.
It’s an ASUS M6BNe, for those who care.
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