I hope you and yours have had a good V-Day. If you're single, you can look forward to buying tons of cheap candy tomorrow. ;)
If you're a Mac user, just run Software Update. Nothing easier. :) Now, for some thoughts:
The interface, right off the bat, struck me as "odd," but that's only because it's different. I immediately felt like I was using a PC app, but I'm sure I'll get used to it if I try it out for a while.
The parental controls in the iTMS obviously don't affect me at all, but I still think it's a great idea.
The "Smart Shuffle" feature is largely redundant, as far as I'm concerned; the shuffle has always seemed to be intelligent enough to start playing songs that are relevant to what is going on before it happens. I'm afraid that Smart Shuffle means it will only play songs that involve the words "Eric" and "Ventress," which would be quite creepy (not to mention dull; silence may be golden, but not in this case).
The feature that I'm overjoyed at finally having is the ability to organize playlists into folders. Instead of my 29 playlists, I have a whopping 7 items under the Store icon. I've got my mix CD playlists in one folder, and my one-artist's-entire-catalog smart playlists in another. I heart organization. The ability to use the organizing folders and smaller libraries is a nice touch, too.
And Synergy works with it right out of the gate. Hot diggity damn. :)
Backstroke of the West is the name of Revenge of the Sith after it's been translated into Chinese and then back into English.
Holy shit this stuff is funny. I've decided that I'm going to start saying "Everybody is good" when I walk into a room.
I also never knew that the Presbyterian Church was descended from the Jedi Order. You learn something new every day...
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/billgates.html
Oh baby...
(just had to share)
"Bladders A. Voguish"
Gah, that's just bad.
(it's been a slow week. I promise an actual blog post with some meat on it this weekend)
Wow, a slew of new things from Apple today. Where to begin...
Mac Mini. Wow. A super-small Mac at a super-low price; $499 for the low end, $599 for the high end. The 1.42GHz model is 3 times more powerful than my current G4, and considering the fact that I don't need much of the upgradability that a tower offers, the Mini is a very attractive option for a new computer for me.
iLife '05. Apple has upgraded their consumer-friendly software suite across the board, with full-version upgrades of iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, and GarageBand. iTunes got an upgrade too, to work with the...
iPod shuffle. No, it's not a dance step, it's the latest member of the iPod family (which also includes the iPod, iPod U2 Special Edition, iPod Mini, and iPod Photo). This tiny-tiny (less than 1 inch wide, and just barely over 3 inches long!) is the cheapest iPod ever made, at a cost of $99 for the 512 meg model. You use iTunes (of course) to load it up with music, and then you can switch it from ordered playing (to play your playlist as you deemed) to random playing; while that isn't especially astounding, it is a cheap and easy way of adding some additional functionality to a very low-cost item.
iWork. This odd, almost Microsoft Office-competing suite contains two programs: the formerly stand-alone Keynote program, made to compete against Microsoft's PowerPoint, and the poorly-named Pages, which is a new program meant to compete (I guess) against Microsoft Word. Keynote 2 got a significant upgrade, boasting several new and improved features, but since I'm not that familiar with Keynote 1, I couldn't tell you what those are.
...for trying to steal my battle.net account by switching my email into yours. It is fairly funny, though. :)
I don't really have anything specific to report, but that's primarily because I've been busy with working on the next updates to the various portions of the Empire. Fun stuff is on it's way!
Consider this a virtual "song and dance" routine, so that Courtney has something to entertain her briefly.
*song*
*dance*
There. :P