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New Macs

Small Note: I’m sabaw atm so forgive my bad grammar. No. I’m not drunk.

Oh how I love new Macs… Steve Jobs is god. What would we do without him? But somehow I don’t like the new design of the latest Macbook and Macbook Pro. They keep on looking more and more like PCs. I liked it better when every part of the computer was the same color. I especially dislike the keyboards being black while the rest of it is aluminum silver. But I guess it just takes some time getting used to. Although I still find the old iMac cute, I finally got used to the newer design bec I see one everyday at home. I definitely need time to get used to this “iMacbooks”.

I’m quite interested and sad about the new graphics card. Interested bec I wish I had one of those. Sad because my Macbook is totally outdated now. I can’t even play Spore on my Macbook bec my graphic card suxs. Fee, my bf and resident high priest of Apple in ID (Information Design) @ AdMU, was telling me before how surprised he was that Apple was focusing on gaming. He told me they didn’t care before. I told him I wasn’t surprised bec the gaming market is huge and would make them a lot of profit. But he told me that they didn’t want to focus on that market before and was wondering why they were doing so now. Something like that. Maybe they all got addicted to Super Monkey Ball on the iPhone. 

I’m also curious as to how that ‘glass trackpad’ feels like. That’s gotta be interesting. But looking at the pictures, it still looks like the old one. Fee, who stayed up for the announcements, also tells me that the whole thing is one giant button now. Not a separate button like the old Macbooks. (I’ll just use the term Macbooks for both the Macbooks and the Pros cuz I’m lazy.) I haven’t watched the Keynote yet so I’m also wondering what’s that like. I was having a hard time imagining how that worked.

But all in all… I seriously want that Macbook… actually I want the Macbook Pro… mostly for the graphics card and the multi touch trackpad. I’m having a hard time with my Macbook bec I can’t play games… (More like I can’t play Spore), and it’s so hard to do graphic work bec it keeps lagging. Well… I guess it’s also because I only have 1GB of RAM, but I want a nice graphics card in preparation for Adobe CS4.

2008
10/16
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Fads, Links, and Opinions

Here are some things I’ve tried out and their current status.

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Friendster. It was cool at first. I even made accounts of anime characters and wrote profiles on them. Lots of people added my characters then. I also had my own personal account… but I guess I’m not really one of the popular ones, also because I opened an account much later than everyone else, but I never got to make a 2nd or 3rd personal account. Right now, I don’t think anyone uses Friendster anymore. Maybe because there were a lot of Trojans on it. As of now, my Friendster accounts still exist because I still get email from them, but I never open my accounts anymore.

Facebook. I honestly didn’t want to make one. Based on past experiences, once the fad’s done, it really is a hassle. I don’t like to make accounts I don’t use. It annoys me. However I do have a lot of them. But in the end, I gave in because Facebook was a way to connect with my cousins from Australia. At first it was a bit fun, especially the Heroes game. I got a bit addicted to that one, and I also became OC with the layout of my profile. However just a few days ago, I decided to deactivate my account. I didn’t delete it, just deactivated it.

I never had and never will have a MySpace, Hi5, or any of those other social networking sites accounts.

Plurk. I dislike the idea of Plurk. It’s a stalking machine. Why do people have to know what you are doing everyday? All the time? It’s weird. Although honestly I’ve stalked people on friendster and multiply as well… but I don’t think I’ll create a Plurk account unless I give in to peer pressure bec people keep sending me invites and I just keep on ignoring them. Twitter had the same concept but I think I liked it more than Plurk although I did not have an account there. But my mom has both.

PHOTOS

Flickr. I have a Flickr but I don’t update it anymore. I use my… Multiply account instead. It’s Friends Only though. Or at least most of it is. At first I didn’t want to use Multiply for the same reason I gave a while ago, but I gave in because it was useful to me. Everyone posts their photos on their Multiply account and in order for me to view…well…pics of me, I have to have an account. It is also an efficient way to show people pictures I’ve taken of them.

I have a Photobucket account. In fact I have two but it’s for personal use. Although I only use one now. I created a new one because I became OC about my folders and blah, but I was too lazy to fix it.

BLOGS

I once had a Livejournal account under the name carauy. I stopped. I moved to Xanga under the name carauy. I stopped. I moved back to LJ under carauy. I stopped. I created a new one hirika. I stopped. I had another one called paradisiad. I stopped. I have a DEVIANTART and MULTIPLY blog. But I rarely use them. I had a paradisiad wordpress account. I think I have a hirika one too. I actually can’t say how accurate this is bec I created many accounts and lost track already. And this is my latest blog hosted by my significant other who probably never reads this bec he is too lazy.

Other accounts:

I have a lot of other accounts for many different things like forums and such across the net, but a lot of them are inactive. It makes me really sad. Maybe one of these days I’ll hunt down my accounts and delete them one by one.

2008
10/09
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Some Tech Updates – iPhone, D90, Alarm Clocks

Fee got an iPhone a while ago :3 I got to touch it second! It was a white iPhone although he wanted a black one. There weren’t any available anymore and he couldn’t wait any longer so he just got it. It was kinda hard to text though. I guess you have to get used to it. I’m just annoyed about the useless bluetooth and the no forwarding of text messages. As well as the 3G but no video call thing.

I guess I’ll wait until a better and cheaper version comes out. :)

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Nikon’s going to have a dSLR with video! The D90! This was one of the reasons I didn’t want to get an dSLR. I wanted a camera that could do video. But now that Nikon will release one… well… This would be one of my target cameras if I had the money. It’s 12MP and at around 60k. 60k is a lot of money… but for what you’re getting… It’s definitely worth it. :D

http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/digitalcamera/slr/d90/index.htm

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I want an alarm clock. One that is hard to turn off the alarm bec I really don’t get up in the morning. I found quite a few I’m interested in.

1. Puzzle Clock

When the alarm goes off, it ejects the puzzle pieces on top and you have to find them and place them back on the alarm clock before the alarm stops. This is my last choice bec I think the pieces would not fly off too far and it would not take much time to put the pieces back on the clock.

2. Sfera

This is my target alarm clock bec I’m located on the top bunk of a double decker bed. It seems a bit scary if I had a normal alarm clock. I might kick it off and break it so this seems like the right alarm clock for me. It also works as a radio and as a dim light bulb. You lightly shake it to set the alarm and the music will fade as you sleep. When it alarms, you have to tap it to make it go into snooze mode. BUT! It would retract higher until you can’t reach it anymore and you’d have to get up and pull it down to shut the alarm off. The radio mode works by twisting the sphere.

3. Flying Alarm Clock

This is my third choice. As the name suggests, when the alarm goes off, the sphere on top flies around the room while making sounds. You have to catch it and put it back in its base to turn off the alarm. This scares me a bit. What if the propellers hit someone in the room? I share a room with all 3 of my siblings. It would be bad if the thing lands on someone or something.

4. Clocky

This is my second choice because it sounds safer than the flying alarm clock but basically works under the same principle. When the alam goes off, the clock will roll off the stand and ‘find a spot’ for it to hide in. You’d then have to find it and turn off the alarm. It supposedly finds a different spot everyday.

2008
09/01
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File Hosting

Sometimes email isn’t enough. I use Gmail and Yahoo! and they both limit how much you can send in an email. I don’t know the term for it. I’m not very techy but here is a list of some hosts I’m familiar with, along with some comments.

YouSendIt
YouSendIt used to be the best way to send large files over the net. However, perhaps because of it’s popularity, they require you to pay now, although they have free trials. I don’t use this anymore.

FileDropper
Although it can go up to 5GB of file hosting, and it’s a clean site, I don’t really like it much. The last time I used it, it was quite slow. But the first time I used it was okay.

MediaFire
I actually like MediaFire. It’s easy to use, and they even have folders and such. Although it only goes until a 100MB.

PhotoBucket
I’ve been using this for how many years now. I like the old Photobucket. The new Photobucket doesn’t like me and takes time to recognize my uploads. What I do is choose the old uploader option. :p You can upload photos and videos on photobucket.

2008
08/24
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