travis johnson

I am officially hooked on Zwok! I found it on delicious this evening and have wasted my whole night playing the game. Oh well, it’s fun!

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Apple just announced that in their next major OS release you will be able to run Windows natively. That’s kind of cool, but the reason I have a Mac is for the operating system, not really the hardware, so I don’t imagine I’ll be doing too much Windows on my Intel Mac (when I get one).

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Rachel and I went to Portland today and stopped by the Apple Store. I really wanted iLife ‘06 so I got it today. I don’t quite know why I wanted it… just had to have it. I got it installed and have played around with it a little so far. I might try and make an iWeb page just for fun.

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I saw today that Windows Media Components for QuickTime by Flip4Mac is now being released for free by Microsoft. I have only tried it out a little, but it works as advertised. I would recommend that anyone with a Mac download and install this program. It works better than Windows Media Player to play browser embedded videos. First thing I did after getting this installed was head over to Whoomp and watch all the WMV videos I have been missing out on.

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The annual Steve Jobs keynote address at Macworld took place today. I tried watching the recorded webcast, but I couldn’t get a good connection, maybe later. The new hardware they announced, MacBook Pro and a new iMac, isn’t all that exciting to me. I actually have the previous versions of both machines and am quite happy. I know the switch to Intel is a good one (faster computers!), but it isn’t forcing me to rush out and get another new computer.

I was really hoping for a DVR-capable computer. Something that could compete with the Windows Media Center. Maybe soon.

I will probably get the new version of iLife, iLive ‘06, sometime soon. iWeb will be a little fun to try out and the new Garageband looks pretty sweet.

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I haven’t felt much like spending time on my computer lately and thus my lack of weblog posting. Work is going well and I spend all day on the computer there, so by the time I get home I just want to sit on the couch and play Sudoku (and of course watch some television).

Since I last checked in, Rachel’s parents visited us for Thanksgiving. We did just about everything the town had to offer and had a really fun time doing it (with exception to maybe the two-plus hours spent at the holiday market).

One of the local radio stations started playing Christmas music. That’s all I listen to in the car now, of course that means I only get to hear about four Christmas songs a day, but I enjoy them while I can.

The basketball league I am in starts next Sunday with an exhibition game. We aren’t allowed to dunk during the game or warm-ups, oh well.

Back to Sudoku!

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I didn’t realize until tonight that the powerbook trackpad could be tapped to simulate a mouse click and doubleclick. I have used the trackpad-tap feature on PCs before and it came in quite handy, so tonight I spent some time searching the System Preferences and found the trackpad-tap feature.

Under ‘Keyboard & Mouse’ check the ‘Clicking’ box to enable single and double clicks by tapping (or double-tapping) the trackpad.

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First of all, Firefox RC1 was released today. Among other features, it has the ability to reorder tabs - so cool.

Second, I think just yesterday, del.icio.us introduced a new feature that allows people to create bookmarks ‘for’ other members. This means that if I found a webpage about unicorns that I know my brother-in-law Adam would just love (cause he loves unicorns), I could post the bookmark to del.icio.us ‘for Adam.’ It is a pretty cool feature that I hope doesn’t turn into Bookmark Spam.

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I just read today about Stanford on iTunes. This could be huge. I think it is great that Stanford has made some of their content available (for free) and even better that iTunes is providing the means of distribution. Sharing is great.

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I have recently started using del.icio.us on a regular basis and have come across a few really cool things on the web. Today I found an AJAX/PHP powered webmail application called RoundCube. I have installed it at http://webmail.gunnerweb.net/. Anyone that wants to use it is more than welcome to. All you need is your account name, password and IMAP server address. If I happen to host your email address all you need to enter is your email address and account password (something I set for you), don’t worry about the server, it defaults to the one you need. I think it is a really cool little app and I can’t wait to play around with it some more; give it that gunnerweb feel.

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