DeepAurelia

I purchased Weather HD for Mac. It’s a great app with room for improvements. Adding location isn’t a walk in the park but you get used to it once you know what to do. I’ve read some reviews that suggest it doesn’t work for Australia as the data it is pulling is incorrect. This isn’t true. You need to go to Preferences and add a new location then delete the default location that was already in there. The interface isn’t that intuitive as people get confused by the fact that you can’t change a location once you have added it (except changing the location display name). The animation is beautiful except it isn’t HD.

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m proud to introduce the 15-inch MacBook Pro to the family. I was slightly embarrassed while walking out of the Apple store whilst everyone in the store, including customers, applauded as if I was Steve Jobs himself at one of his Keynotes.

I can’t express how much I’m in love with the recent release of Steam on Mac. Portal and Half-Life 2 look pretty sweet and I can’t wait for Counter-Strike: Source.

I was struggling to resize a disk image in Mac OS X and I stumbled across this post.

hdiutil resize -size xx{m or g} filename.dmg

Example: hdiutil resize -size 1g mydiskimage.dmg

First of all, Happy New Year! I’m looking forward to 2010 as I feel a stronger shift in my life is about to happen. I’m half way through my graduate role at the Department of Communities (formerly Department of Housing due to machinery-of-government changes). I have met and grown into a dedicated team and will be taking on a lot of work in the near future.

As for New Year’s Eve, I slept right through it due to a massive headache.

Anyway, getting on to the subject. I’ve come across a little app called Stattoo by Panic for the Mac OS X. It allows you to place certain status icons such as time, weather, hard drive capacity, iTunes current song and etc right on the Mac OS X desktop. At a price tag of US$12.95, it is well designed but not perfect. It does seem to have a couple of small bugs (icons disappear when shifting them into different places). Also, I would like the Mail capsule to display latest email first rather than last however, there seems to be no way to change this.

Tip of the day: To resize/reset an application window in Mac OS X, hold down the Option key while clicking on the Zoom button (Green circle button).

My unibody MacBook has crashed on several occasions for no freaking reason whatsoever! The laptop was just sitting there running Mail and Adium and then goes into a kernel panic. Not happy Jen!

The long anticipated iPhone OS 3.0 has arrived. However, to my disappointment the update is quite buggy, forcing a couple of native apps to crash occasionally. MMS still does not work on the iPhone. It kept producing “Message send failure”. I called up Optus technical support but they couldn’t find what the problem is and now I have to take my iPhone into a store to look at the possibility of a defective phone.

I’m really beginning to dislike the iPhone.

EDIT: 25/06/09

I went into the Optus store at Australia Fair and after many trial and error, the sales rep called Optus technical support and after many tweaking (supposedly the MMS profile was changed on their end), MMS finally works!

Here’s something cool. PolarClock is a cool screensaver for Windows and Mac. There is also a version for the iPhone and dashboard widget.

I’m using my MacBook as my primary computer now after hooking it up to my 26″ widescreen monitor with external keyboard and mouse. One of the “issues” I came across is taking screenshots on my MacBook. After some digging I found this article explaining the various keyboard shortcuts used in Mac OS X.

Command+Shift+3 to capture the entire screen.

Command+Shift+4 to capture a portion of the screen. If you want to capture a specific application window, press the spacebar to change the cursor to a camera icon, then click on the desired application window.