October 2007

29/10/2023

Purr!

Am running the new Mac OS Leopard at the moment. Nik wanted to camp Machines at 6pm on Saturday but we got there late en route to dinner. After playing with it for 24 hours, all I can say is that it hits all the right spots with me. Especially how it affects my work. Features I am crazy about:

Coverflow/Quicklook

Previews almost all files ala iTunes coverflow in good quality thumbnails. Opens a multipage, browsable file (if the file, like a PDF, has more than one page) in Quicklook with a space bar tap. Previews video files. What I am loving about this is that it’s previewing my 100MB files as fast as the 80KB ones. This means I no longer have to wait for the proper app to load it to preview, especially say when I’m working on a 10 page 1GB-sized spread mostly consisting of 100MB TIFFs. It’s taking me so much faster to find things without having to wait for the load, at any one time I have over 1000 image files in my ‘Pending’ directory. I don’t even need to launch Preview now.

Mail

Forget the fun new templates, the highlight is that Quicklook has been integrated into Mail as well, making previewing attachments too easy.

Time Machine

Great for heavy users. Working on 10 magazines me and my team go through a gazillion files a week. Some times we have up to 10 different versions on client work. Everyone has horror stories of overwriting a file by accident, deleting important things without knowing etc - being able to access something saved yesterday, or last hour would be ultra-indispensable. Especially with a network backup utility, if we set this up in the office it means we will never lose any work again. Not just our files but the entire state of the machine, including mail. Time Machine is nuts. It’s great how Apple is encouraging backup.

Spaces/Expose

Have been previously using Desktop Manager, which is essentially the exact same thing as Spaces with a different UI. Can’t live without Desktop Manager, and now that Spaces is OS integrated, can’t live without it either. I’m likely to have Mail, Safari, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Adium, iTunes, Word, Excel, Transmit and a bunch of finder windows open at the same time. If I didn’t have Expose and virtual desktops it would kill me to find anything. Expose works with Spaces as well, the drag and drop utility is too awesome.

iChat is pretty awesome, especially how you can take over someone’s screen and work remotely. Don’t foresee me using this much though when the need arises it is definitely handy. Spotlight has been reworked as well. The best part is that my Mac is running faster now post-Leopard. Unbelievable.

What my desktop now looks like:


Yes, I really don’t have anything on there :)

In the best possible way, of course :)

Grats Merv and Vivien, good to see you finally ‘officially’ settling down.. since you guys have been practically married forever.. tee hee! Wedding dinner was lovely and was a great opportunity to catch up with old friends from #bangsar. A suave looking Eugene flew down from Brissie to give his best man speech for the occasion.

Eugene you should wear suits more often!


One big happy


The #bangsar crew


Two munkys

I love happy-ever-afters :)

24/10/2023

Asdfg

10am. One soy latte. A million things to do. Zero e-mails. Asdfg.

I hate it when the mail server goes down first thing in the morning and it happens too often.

24/10/2023

Prison Break

I concede, this series is indeed awesome. I’ve been hooked on it since I saw the first episode, thanks to Nik, and have been steadily powering through the first two seasons. Admittedly I sat through the first one because Wentworth Miller is hot but the cliffhangers got me. I’m not one for much TV to begin with, following Heroes, Prison Break and Bionic Woman all at once is starting to confuse me! Am half expecting Scofield to wield some superpowers when he runs around. Bionic Woman is zzz so far.. am not sure why I’m watching it. I do suppose its infinitely better than doing absolutely nothing, which I’m also good at, especially on Sundays.

I need somewhere to go. End of the year. A beach, some sun, lots of lazing around doing nothing afternoons. Exploring new places. Finding a new soundtrack. Cold beer. I wonder how many days I can take off.. my own prison break.. LOL. Why can’t I stay still for long? Haven’t been up North for ages.

12/10/2024

In Rainbows

Pre-ordered the new Radiohead album online before it was released for download on the 10th this week. In Rainbows is only available from one source for now - been listening to it a few times since. Love track 3 especially: a classic Radiohead ballad, Nude, which has been in the works for a decade. A nice selection of the different facets of their music thus far, one or two previously unheard tracks with most having made an appearance on tours/live performances prior, and a few new favourites for me. Videotape, Reckoner, Jigsaw falling into place. Such a genius way to make a comeback. I lub Radiohead!

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