Trek quote of the day: “I mean, we started out with 13 million viewers on the pilot, and we somehow managed to drive 11 million of them away.” –Jolene Blalock
CherryOS, a vaporware Mac emulator that died back in November has risen from the dead. Slashdot has links. Apparently the fresh-risen zombie is still a ripoff of PearPC.
[Update] PearPC.net has a CherryOS Roundup.
I finally got around to the MacOS X 10.3.8 upgrade. It installed fine, but it disabled uControl. I just downloaded the latest version, but I need to reboot before I have my caps-lock-as-control-key back.
On the fun side, I found a link to the Perturbed Desktop movie somewhere today (probably on /.) and checked out the associated essay about new PowerBook motion sensors.
True T Tale of the day: We lost half the train at Arlington. The power went out, we sat there for a while, there was a big clunk, then the power came back and we were moving again. When the train went out of service at Park Street, only one of the two cars we’d started with were there. I wonder what happened to the people on the second car. (Cue Twilight Zone music.) It goes without saying that it was a Breda train.
Jerie forwarded me this tale of a mini-switcher. Mini-switchers think they’re only mini-switching…mwhahahahaha!
Ahem. So here are my personal software habits/recommendations, exposed for all the world to see and emulate:
I’ve heard good things about Keynote and the iLife/iPages/i-other-stuff, but I don’t need them enough to pay for them.
Everything else I use regularly either came with the OS (Mail, Safari, iChat, iTunes) and/or is standard Unix software (Emacs, LaTeX, the built-in Apache server). If you need additions to the standard unix stuff, the place to get them is from Marc Liyanage (http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/) or with fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/), in that order.
Link of the day: stuffed face-hugging Aliens.
43 Folders linked a couple of handy Quicksilver tutorials for beginners and intermediate users.
Apology of the day: The management has received counseling about her blogging habits and will no longer be apologizing for missed entries. You get what you pay for.
It’s been a while since my last lego link, so here’s a slightly belated Steve Jobs in Lego. I especially liked the itty-bitty shuffle in his plastic hand. Buy your own iPod-themed lego at PodBrix, or decorate your shuffle at shuffle art or the shuffle art archive.
It’s rare that a new newsreader comes out, since newsgroups are so 1995. But there’s a beta out of OSXnews so I’m trying it out. It’s looking very beta so far. I think I’ll stick with MT-NewsReader.
For those of you with stranger tastes (Veronica), there’s Shivering Kittens, a cross between Tetris and Hello, Kitty.
You’re getting a cheap mac link tonight: iMac Relaxation Station. It’s just a bit of over-compensation for the lack of a cool swingy arm on the new iMacs.
iPod of the day: an armored iPod
I went to the Apple Store after work today (it’s within walking distance) and lusted over the iPod Shuffles. They were out of the $100 version, or I might have achieved infinite coolness right then and there. I can’t see paying $150 for something smaller than a pack of gum, though.
Instead I got the boxed version of CandyBar 2, because the only thing prettier than a Mac is a prettier Mac.
More cool mac links, of the miniature variety:
Take a look at this pretty picture from NiXLOG. Now there’s a mac for everyone, even the cheapskates.