Get to sleep faster

Tips for getting to sleep faster & sleeping better [To-Done]

Don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t watch TV or even so much as look at a computer screen atleast 30 minutes before you lie down. The light from both a television as well as a computer monitor mimic the same intensity of light as sunlight. This fools your body and brain into thinking it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s nowhere near time for sleep.

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OSX 10.4.4 and iLife '06 updates

There are a massive number of updates on the way for Tiger and iLife.

Updates include a flurry of new widgets. The update to iLife includes a new app called iWeb, which will allow users to easily create websites outside of .Mac.

Improvements to iPhoto include support for up to 250,000(!!) photos, something called Photocasting (which I assume will be like Flickr), and some new editing features. I hope this doesn't zork the Flickr plugin I use with iPhoto.

Garage Band has improved support resources for Podcasting and better integration with iMovie.



A lot of the new features in the iLife suite focus very intensely on letting non-professional users publish their multimedia to the web. I wouldn't say Apple is hopping on the bandwagon. They are actually trying to carjack another bandwagon that has better features.

They've been trying to get people to use their .Mac service for these types of things for years now, and while it's a pretty nice service, most people couldn't justify paying for it when there are so many free (and better) tools out there that do the same thing.


Apple designed templates for iWeb

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MacBook

These things are the hotness.

I'm envious. I'm the proud owner of a 12" PowerBook, and I still lust after these things. I am actually very surprised they managed to pull that off; I was under the (wishful) assumption that the new Intel based Mac laptops would be nothing special.


An iSight camera is built directly in to the MacBook. Sick.



The new power cord for the MacBook is magnetic, meaning if you "trip" over the cord it will unlatch without taking the MacBook with it. Classy.


There's a new logo for "Universal" apps. Something I probably don't have to worry about yet.

From a design perspective the case is nothing revolutionary, it just looks like a 15" PowerBook. It's the innards that are insane-o here.

Although, there is this sidenote from Daring Fireball:

[Sidenote: Even though they’re using the same case designs for the new Intel-based Macs, neither the iMac G5 nor 15-inch PowerBook have been discontinued — the new iMacs (which are apparently just named “iMac”, not “iMac Core Duo” or anything like that) and MacBook Pros (which name is terrible — I mean just horrible, like some crappy Mac accounting software from 1987) are being sold alongside the PowerPC models, not replacing them. Not yet, of course. My guess is that this means Rosetta is fairly slow, and that anyone who still depends on non-universal-binary apps is going to want a PowerPC machine for the time being. We’ll find out soon enough what real-world Rosetta performance is like.]

Agreed, we'll see how that goes. One thing that would stop me from picking one up (other than my newish beloved 12" PB, and cold hard cash) is that these are first-gen products. Sometimes Apple can hit it out of the park with first-gen products, and sometimes it's a miss.

Example: the first-gen iBook is invincible, while the first-gen Nano scratches if you look at it funny.

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Another Stickered PowerBook

courtneyp posted a photo of her stickered PowerBook:

With notes!

I particularly liked the Apple logo in the middle. My sad attempt does not compare.

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AChunkOutOfApple.JPG

This has been certified awesome...

The Evil Dr. Go posted this photo to his Flickr blog:

I think it speaks for itself.

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The dangerous idea of Leo M. Chalupa

Got wind of this from Boing Boing. Edge.org hosts an annual question; What is your dangerous idea?

Leo M. Chalupa's idea stood out, and it's something I may very well try one day.

My dangerous idea is that what's needed to attain optimal brain performance — with or without prior brain exercise — is a 24-hour period of absolute solitude. By absolute solitude I mean no verbal interactions of any kind (written or spoken, live or recorded) with another human being. I would venture that a significantly higher proportion of people reading these words have tried skydiving than experienced one day of absolute solitude.

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Revolution Controller Examples

Revolution Controller Examples

Very cool. It's what I'd want in a next gen console. I really do hope this is how it works. If so, the Revolution will be my next big purchase. I'm disappointed by the 360 (even though I wasn't expecting much), and I'm dubious on the PS3.

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