Review: GelaSkins 15" MacBook Pro skin- February 24, 2008 My house may be full of junk, but the stuff that's actually mine is mostly just books and bits of computer. I'll admit that I often choose one product over another for aesthetic reasons (blinkenlights!), but I can't think of anything I own that has fundamentally decorative purpose.Until, that is, the GelaSkin I bought to cover my work MacBook Pro. This really is a product that doesn't do anything but change the appearance of your laptop. I'm a fan, though.I'd read about these things ages ago in.http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2008/02/review-gelaskins-15-macbook-pro-skin.html Review: "A Theory of Fun for Game Design"- February 18, 2008 I'm not much of a gamer. As a kid, I'd play a game until I felt like I knew how you'd go about writing it, and then I'd lose interest. I didn't even care to apply that knowledge, either in using it to "beat" the game (many games in those days just kept getting harder until you failed, and thus only really offered you failure), or in using it to write a clone. I knew I wouldn't play the clone, so I had no motivation to write it.Before games even progressed to 3D, I had too much other stuff to...http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2008/02/review-theory-of-fun-for-game-design.html Mac OS 10.5.2- February 15, 2008 Anyone who cares probably already knows, but Mac OS 10.5.2 is out, and it adds an option (in "Desktop & Screen Saver", rather than "Appearance") to make the menu bar non-translucent, but it doesn't make it look like the 10.4 menu bar; it's a metallic color like the 10.5 title bars, which an ugly hard black bottom edge to it. Honestly, you're better off leaving it translucent. There doesn't seem to be an option to do anything about the transparency of menus themselves, though Apple has somewhat..http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2008/02/mac-os-1052.html Rhythmbox- February 15, 2008 I've been in process of "switching" to Linux for roughly forever. Well, since 1998, anyway. I'd been a happy user of Plan 9, IRIX, and Solaris before then (in decreasing order of happiness), as well as being a rather unhappy AIX and SunOS user. I'd seen Linux, but hadn't seen the point. And then in 1998, I found myself with a Sun Ultra 10 on my desk. For reasons that escape me now but which doubtless involved some Solaris decrepitude, I experimented with LinuxSPARC. I remember being shocked at..http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2008/02/rhythmbox.html Things your parents probably don't know about their MacBook- February 4, 2008 I recently had the opportunity to see my parents using their computers. They've been "Mac users" since I gave them a dual G4 and a 23" display. They bought their own MacBook after seeing what a refreshingly unpunishing exercise Mac OS compared to the Windows laptop they'd bought themselves against my advice, before I'd given them the dual G4.Mac OS has multiple trashesIf you implement reversible deletion, you're faced with a fundamental problem: where does the deleted data go Apple's simple...http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2008/01/things-your-parents-probably-dont-know.html |