Tag Archive for 'mac'

Buying a MacBook Pro?

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on April 4, 2007
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Lots of people are “defecting” (as the masses would say it) or “converting” (as the enlightened would say it) to the Mac platform. But it kills me when people haven’t taken advantage of the pricing structure that Apple offers.

I was going to write up a full post on this, but I might as well let someone else do the talking.

The main point, however, is that if you’re a student: Regardless of your major, you should not be getting your higher end Apple products through the educational discount. Instead, you should join Apple Developer Connection (ADC) and buy it through that.

Example: My MacBook Pro. For $99 (and a little hassle of scanning in your ID and sending it to Apple), you’re saving $200 on top of the educational discount. Overall, you save $100.

Of course, what they don’t tell you… is that when you first join ADC, they send you a nice DVD for OS X. I sold it immediately on eBay for $70. Then I got yet another OS CD… not sure why, but I sold that too. In the end, I paid for an extra 1 GB of memory this way.

And I didn’t think about this one, but… try to see if you know of any friends that work for Apple. It’s even cheaper than ADC.

How to Buy an Apple Computer

Posts that Didn’t Quite Make It

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on February 27, 2007
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Here’s a quick list of posts that just didn’t make the cut in the past couple of days. It’ll be quick and painless. Skim, please.

Zooom: Increase Window Functionality in Mac OS X

Zooom: Window Stuff, “Done Right” Try it out. I think I might be purchasing this soon.

CommunityNext: Threadless.com Presentation

Yet another video I won’t be able to watch until after lent… this list is getting longer really fast.

Sitting Apparatus: Ergonomic?

In the Year 2000...

I purchased this ball in hopes to alleviate some of the back issues I’ve been having. (On second thought… it might be because of the messed up way I lift, but I’m still trying to figure this out…) That, and the table (pictured) was designed for tall(er) people: That keyboard drawer was most likely designed for a footrest, or something like that. Even with this 65 cm ball, my arms are not resting at my side as they should be.

And if all fails, I could just use it as an exercise tool at home. Hooray!

(Yeah, I know… exercise balls are kinda feminine, no?)

Future of MP3?

Seriously… patent law reform, anybody?

Apple, Samsung, Sandisk sued by Texas MP3 Technologies

Microsoft sued by Alcatel-Lucent for $1.5 billion

Current Status: Awake

It’s late. Like… freshman-year-coding-insanity late… I just ended up cleaning my bathroom for the strangest reason (at least I’ll wake up to a beautiful bathroom tomorrow morning).

Not sure why, but my schedule is off. It’s like… there is no consistency at all. While there is a consistency to what I have to get DONE in a day, the order is just all out of whack. Not sure if this is a bad thing, but it’s not making ultra-planned Josh Kim not a happy man. Maybe super-chill Josh Kim will take over, instead.

I haven’t had one of those long-drawn out personal posts in a while… and while I feel like I have one in me, I’m going to keep avoiding it like the plague. One of these days, though… it’ll just leak out, and I won’t have any control of it.

Oh, right. A new goal: For every personal post, I MUST post a web/technology related post before it. It’s not like I’m running out of web/tech posts, so I won’t be having a problem posting personal stuff.

Okay, here it comes… the brain dump.

Today was insane. I got up, only to realize I didn’t leave my dryer on as I should have. Got into work a little bit later. Skipped lunch. Went to ISR to finish up work. Met up with Mike Cho for the studying/working. Met up with small group for Bible reading. Went to WIMPE until close.

I have a feeling tomorrow is going to be just as insane. Hopefully, this time, I’ll pack a lunch.

State of my heart? HAHA. You’ll be needing to pay for a meal for that one… and a coffee afterwards… to just START talking about this one. Hopefully, I’ll be getting around to the continuation of those entries…

Think! A “Full Screen”-izer Application

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on February 5, 2007
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Think 1.0

Just in case you don’t have a TUAW feed…

I’ve been using “Think!” (Horribly named, mind you… try figuring out the right query string to find this application through Google, because I can’t… maybe the glorious google hasn’t indexed it yet…) for a little bit, now, and it seems like MenuShade for the entire desktop. I actually suggest you use both, because it seems like Think! doesn’t actually do anything to the menubar.

CrossOver for Mac… or is it UIUC’s CITES Network?

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on January 22, 2007
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You’ve got to be kidding me. I spent hours (!) on fixing a freaking IE bug, which actually seems like it might have been one of those magical bugs that I CAN’T reproduce.

I’ve had problems like this before… but I put the blame on CITES. It seems like they cache frequently accessed pages so that the network would be happy… but freaking drives people like me and the rest of the CS department doing web interface design INSANE. Or not…

So this time… I’ve been using CrossOver to load up Internet Explorer 6. Thanks to Amir (where’s your website, manji? I’d link you in a heartbeat…), I found out that there is an issue with CrossOver.

So now… I’m going to have to ask for a computer with IE 6 to my client to finish this up. Ugh… what a waste of a day…