Archive for November, 2007
November 4, 2007 at 12:33 am · Filed under Personal, Uncategorized
So here’s my obligatory desktop screenshot, where I share with the world all the bits and bobs I use on a daily basis. First up let’s start with the Dock. It’s on the left side. That’s crazy talk! I put my Dock on the left side so I can get more screen real estate for web browsing. It also seems a bit more natural. In my Dock I have the typical Finder and Dashboard icons. Then we have Camino, Skype, Transmission, World of Warcraft, Adium, Pownce (which I use for my miniblog feed on the right side of the page–>), Q (OS X port of Qemu), Cyberduck (horrible name, great ftp client). Then we have some Stacks of Documents and Downloads. The rest are minimized main windows of the previous programs I mentioned. The big grey window in the center of the screen is Overflow, sort of a hotkey-able dock that I put my less frequently used programs. Multiple browsers for testing web pages, IRC apps, a few development programs. At the top of my screen the only thing of note is Meteorologist, a sort of Mac Weatherbug without all the crap. Then we have a Webdav mount, a Samba share, my Firewire drive and my main internal. Exciting no? My desktop is from Desktopology, the only one that really struck me. I usually have my background change about once an hour though. I’m an impatient sort. That’s about it.
November 2, 2007 at 8:05 pm · Filed under General Tech
Via Gizmodo
Microsoft’s HD Photo standard is now officially tapped to become JPEG’s successor by the Joint Photographic Experts Group, but it’ll be known as JPEG XR. XR stands for extended range, given the wider color palette and finer gradations it can show. Other benefits include in-camera imaging processing support and, supposedly, better compression. Besides losing its Windows-y name (in a former life, it was Windows Media Photo) it’s dropping proprietary control by Microsoft to become as neutral as JPEG is now. Though support’s already built-in to Windows Vista, it’ll take a year to get standardized, at which point large-scale adoption will probably start picking up steam. [Cnet via Electronista]
November 2, 2007 at 7:53 pm · Filed under Personal, Video
So I’ve been wrapped up in a few new television series. Believe it or not, this geek does not consume all of his content on the inter-tubez alone. The first series, well not many catch my attention. This one had me hook line and sinker with the first episode. Californication. David Duchovny stars in this Showtime series, and it seriously rocks my face. The writing while a little staged is phenomenal and well executed. The show has no amount of predictability, and Duchovny’s slightly tarnished knight character is someone that while I know is flawed, I can still admire and look up to. Check it out as soon as you can.
The other series, is quite a bit more nerdy. Ergo Proxy is an anime that was released in February of 2006 by Geneon that is like a mash up of Logan’s Run, Waterworld and Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Astoundingly well done animation, with a story that rivals that of most cult classics such as Akira or Ghost in the Shell. It has a very dark atmosphere the plumbs the depths of identity, and mankind’s future.
I wholeheartedly recommend both of these, excellent writing, both visually rich series.
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