If you follow Apple, you already know that there is a new campaign out there. I love these spots. It seems to piss a lot of people off, but damn are they funny. I come from the advertising industry and they are pure genious in both the explicit and the subliminal messages.
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
Over at Ctr+Alt+Del they have posted a great spoof on the campaign. I laughed out loud in the middle of our quiet little office when I read the last frame.
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Some baseless comments made by a child who is sick of his friends buying Macs.
Now, I use both windows and mac almost every day at my job. I find OS X and Mac hardware extremely elegant and of the highest quality, right down to the shipped packaging. I also find Windows does some things better. So I’m not exactly on one side of the fence or the other. But I really can’t stand mindless propaganda. So, let me go through their bullshit, point by point.
We ate Chinese last night. I cracked open my fortune cookie to read:
A four wheeled adventure will bring you great happiness.
No shit!? Thanks, General Tsao!
For the longest time, I have offered my friends phatness.com email addresses. Everyone wanted one. No one kept one. The problem is that the webmail applications offered by hosting providers have never been able to compete with any of the free webmail providers out there. Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. The closest we ever got was Horde. While it is light years ahead of what was out there, it just didn’t come close to the established providers.
Now, we have our answer. Round Cube is a webmail system that even in its pre-release, blows the doors off of everyone else. I’ve been using it now for a month and find it heavenly. There are a few bugs and missing features but I still use it. That’s how good it is.
As with any programmer, I have a set of tools I use on a frequent basis. Coming from a Windows background, you need a powerful text editor for basic tasks. It needs the ability to read files coming in from Unix as well as Windows, hopefully has the capability to run external programs, an easy interface for working with large file sets, and maybe syntax highlighting.
If I’m on a *nix machine and coming in over a terminal, I will be using Vim. When I’m on Windows, I used to use EditPlus. Now, I’m finding myself more and more on different operating systems but working with the same set of files. So I decided to see what was available that was cross platform and didn’t run in a terminal window.
jEdit rose to the top. However, I had a few issues to get past. The first and foremost being the non-native look and feel of a Java Swing application. Not a java application, but a Swing application… Important distinction.
It seems ridiculous that although Windows will burn cds from within Explorer, it doesn’t know how to handle ISO files. What a crock of shit! You mean I am going to have to pay to burn this ISO of Linux I just downloaded?!
Well, luckily, there is a relatively new and free program released that does one thing only and does it well. ISO Recorder integrates seamlessly with Explorer and doesn’t install any extra crap that you don’t care about.
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
I have been using Perforce for over 4 years now. The one task I find myself having to do infrequently enough that I forget it is adding an entire directory tree of files at once. There is no easy way to do this in P4Win. And P4V just doesn’t perform and doesn’t look right. In Windows, open up a command prompt and type in:
dir /b /s /a-d | p4 -x - add
Now why can’t I remember that?
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