New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

newton postulated you can't keep drinks cool on a quake server, inspired by drunken match between him and leibniz.

full screen mode helps, wish chrome would hurry up and implement it natively.

Chrome Canary does it

i boosted my terminal font to 11pt a couple of months ago. so sad. menlo is great though.

They've scrapped resolution independence on the old model. The new model is the same as the iPhone's -- double or nothing.

If you have the latest Xcode you can flick the MBA into hires mode. Looks great, but it's basically 800x400 like some Toshiba palmtop of yore

caek what % of your time on a mac is spent in terminal

#! %

nah when i'm working (not the same thing as when i'm at work!), i guess it's about 60% if you count vi (the rest is email).

3yo ipod battery (classic 120 Gb) is starting to fade. Hoping against hope that Apple releases a 128 Gb nano or something similar. Perhaps I should just jump now and buy a 160 Gb classic.

caek i thought you did astronomy?

aa, it's pretty easy to change the battery on an ipod classic. you can get them on ebay or whatevs.

yeah, i do astronomy. it's all unix all the time.

p.s. version control for people who do not do "To look at page I
send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.
It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time."

http://www.layervault.com/

I guess that's a good thing until programs support Apple's Versions API, right?

right: what's the advantage over Versions? I use TexShop, whose latest version supports Versions.

Can it help with collaborators who aren't on Lion or don't use (the latest) TexShop or who don't have LayerVault installed?

what's the best way to throw content (potentially w/HD and subtitles) from a computer in one room to my main TV? is this what apple TV does? does it have limitations wrt file types (AVI, divx etc)? slingbox? boxee? cheap acer revo?

apple tv is great but it's mp4/m4v/mov only - basically the iTunes formats. if you're torrenting, you'll usually need to convert them or use something else, but idk what the other options are like.

Ps3...

coz, use PS3 Media Server on your PC, it'll transcode the videos to your xbox/ps3

^^^^^ yes

I've heard good things about the recently-upgraded Roku 2, which is cheaper and arguably better than Apple TV. 1080p, USB input, and Bluetooth remote on top-of-range model; microSD slot and TV remote compatible on all versions.

Doesn't work well outside of North America though, too much content region-locked to US/Canada and Netflix, Hulu+, and Amazon channels haven't crossed the big pond yet from what I've read, but hopefully they're working on this.

right: what's the advantage over Versions? I use TexShop, whose latest version supports Versions.

pass. never actually used either!

what's the best way to throw content (potentially w/HD and subtitles) from a computer in one room to my main TV? is this what apple TV does? does it have limitations wrt file types (AVI, divx etc)? slingbox? boxee? cheap acer revo?

i use popcorn hour, which plays everything. you can map a networked drive (or your computer) to it, or plug in a USB drive, or even install an HD in the case and copy video to it over a network. the nice thing about that is that my computer doesn't have to be on. it is a bit nerdy though - requires a bit of fiddling.

i boosted my terminal font to 11pt a couple of months ago. so sad. menlo is great though.

― caek, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

went back to monaco after ~3 months. still haven't found a fixed with font that aliases well. :-(

stet what do you use?

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/style/Monospaced

i've been using Anonymous lately

do macs have fixedsys (ah, mIRC)

iirc fixedsys is not a truetype font

I've been using Panic Sans and Consolas intermittently, but I always end up back at Monaco. Monaco 10 is unreadably tiny on MBA tho

http://shrineofapple.com/

http://shrineofapple.com/emate-300/

so lol

that website is creepy

lol why do you think it's creepy

well for starters the logo is a butt lighting a fart on fire

lol gbx

inconsolata for text editing, proggy clean for terminal, the latter of which is like a more open and readable monaco

my favorite thing about the emate is that it wouldn't have looked out of place in any of the Aliens movies

as ALIEN tech

my beef with proggy clean is that it is one size only!

well technically you can have any size you want, as long as it's that one

bitmapped fonts always look EXACTLY like they're supposed to

true, but 11 is just a wee bit wee for me

that's not what she said

http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_designer_apple_logo

http://gawker.com/5838855/cbs-freaks-out-the-internet-with-steve-jobs-death-tweet

http://gizmodo.com/5838845/why-everyone-just-thought-steve-jobs-died-updated

who knew Apple owners were lusting for death tweets

https://twitter.com/#!/Adrianchen/status/112256737557491713

i'm beginning to think he's wrong

hmm

http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Apple-Founder-Ronald-Wayne/dp/0615517420/

I'm not feeling much lust right now for Ronald Wayne

here we go: http://allthingsd.com/20110921/apple-to-hold-special-event-on-october-4/