I popped out my Safari and then there is was - the Apple homepage with a huge black image and a letter X in the middle. Behind the X is some sort of timeline-thingy effect. This will be the longest 8 days of my life. I have been waiting for this since I got my Macbook Pro.

Found here. A good list. I already have the essentials installed on my machine. Stuff like VLC, Firefox and Colloquy. But when I get home, I am going to download the following:

• Tofu
• iPodDisk
• Aurora
• Sixty Force
• Nestopia
• iEatBrainz
• KisMac

My sister had her iPod stolen the other day. It was brand new! A bluish-thingy 8-Gig Nano! I was searching around if there was a way to disable it by reporting to Apple that the serial number was stolen but the best advice anyone gave was to contact the local pawnshops. It might work in other countries, but here in the Philippines - no chance.

Anways, if you come by this post searching for revenge - there isn’t much anyone can do. Apple does not disable stolen iPods - maybe it would raise some privacy issues, etc. Just save up for a new one and be careful

iStat Pro is one of the best system monitoring tools I have found for Macs. Yeah I know, why use it when MacOS X has the Activity Monitor. But I use it because it looks better and it has this temperature monitoring tab which I find very useful - I live in the Philippines and it gets pretty hot here. And best of all, it is free with no strings attached.

An educational version of the iMac is now available at the Apple Store for Education.

The 17-inch 1.83 GHz iMac, for a suggested education price of $899 (US), includes:– 17-inch widescreen LCD display;
– 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor;
– 512MB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM expandable to 2GB;
– 24x Combo drive;
– Intel GMA 950 graphics;
– built-in iSight video camera;
– built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking;
– 80GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
– mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold
separately);
– built-in stereo speakers and microphone; and
– Mighty Mouse and Apple Keyboard.

Source

This is very good news! An iMac for the price of a mid-end PC. I am still a bit skeptical about Macs though. I think of them as just good looking toys that don’t do much.

Have a nice day