A Day in Paradise

Must be a slow year for products when Apple announces an awful port of a mediocre browser to another platform. Yes, I am a bit pissed at apple… they are the worst bundlers ever. I need quicktime to watch .mov files, it sucks, but I deal with it. Now when they do their update of quicktime it prompts me to install iTunes as well. I finally succumbed and installed itunes (which I now use and am fairly satisfied with). Will safari take the same route?

I don’t see how people get such a big kick out of text rendering in Safari…

If you ask me, safari is a train wreck on windows. It’s even slower and less responsive than itunes (which I am actually using on my vista machine at work). I have no idea how this (beta) product got past QA … unless it sucks as much on Mac.

No shadow, silly window handling, yuk…

I’ve always liked M.R., he’s a focused businessman whose goals line up roughly with those of the the open source community.

Yesterday linspire annouced a partnership with Canonical to use the Ubuntu OS as the new base for Linspire (a no-brainer choice as far as I am concerned), which will have the added benefit(?) of giving current Ubuntu users access to the Click n’ Run repository.

In his latest “michael’s minute” he challenged Steve Jobs to back up his latest rant against DRM by starting to distribute MP3s on iTunes Music Store. He also encouraged Apple to port iTunes to Linux and offered to do the engineering “if engineering resources were an issue”

I just discovered Songbird, which totally rocks as far as a bloated music system goes. I use foobar2000 for my daily music needs, and think directories are perfect ways to organize your files, but it does offer some nice looking features. Far better than iTunes, which I only use when I need to buy some DRM’d music of iTunes Music Store

So I’ve always been a windows fanboy. But seeing this demonstration of Quicksilver for mac makes me rethink my previous statement of jumping onto the Vista bandwagon as soon as it’s released. Quicksilver is exactly the way I work in the command line, but so much more powerful.

Vista: probably around $400 for Pro version vs. Macbook Pro: $2300

Next year I’ll probably need a new notebook anyway since my 14-month-old toshiba is hitting the dust.

Consumer-grade laptop with vista: $1500
Vista for my desktop: $400

I need to upgrade my desktop… maybe this will be a good opportunity to switch to Linux. So…

Macbook Pro: $2300
Linux for Desktop: $0

I’ll still have my current Win2k installation which I could dual boot linux. I’ll think about it later… Time to start saving up