A Series of Tubes

Ok I’ve been using Adium X for a day now and I already hate it. You can’t nest folders, you can’t rename buddies, some buddies refuse to be moved to other folders, and it doesn’t have any extra emotes. On the plus side, it supports Gtalk. Other than that, Trillian beats it by far.

Does anyone know of another app that’s Mac-compatable and has those features? (Or at least supports renaming buddies?)

Update: Thank you to Justin who suggested that I try Fire, I love it so far. It lacks substantial emotes, but aliasing works fine and buddies stay where I put ’em. Nesting folders doesn’t work, but I’m ok without them. Thanks, Justin!

Eve is now a fully operatable machine. She’s been configured correctly, I’ve installed all my instant messengers (for all its features, Adium X lacks sufficient emoticons, it (like my arch-nemisis, GAIM) uses the standard for whatever client you’re messaging in. Oh well, I only use 😛 anyway.

My friend DI left me in charge of his computer while he’s away, and that includes his monitor. I did what any geek with an extra monitor would do, and rigged a dual-monitor setup. It’s great, except for a few hitches. One is placement. The monitor can only go as low as about 3 inches off the ground, so I turned it on its side to match better. Also, the monitor is actually smaller than my laptop screen (the laptop being 15.4 inches diagonally and the monitor only being 14), and has a lower resolution (my laptop screen is 1440×900 and the monitor is only 768×1024 (turned on its side)), resulting in strangely enlarged windows. Oh well, it’s still great.

As for the overheating problems with MacBooks of the Professional variety, so far I’ve only experienced minor overheating, nothing that makes it unusable, though. The caps lock key is annoying, though. It’s larger than is standard, I think, resulting in a lot of capital letters when I want A’s. Oh well, I’ll get used to it.

A few things I like about the computer are FrontRow and GarageBand. GB is one of the reasons I bought a mac, I love the ability to write music with little loops and clips of other instruments. I haven’t done anything phenominal yet, but I’m working. FrontRow was an added treat. It’s like going to the movie trailers page on Apple.com, but without all the frivilous stuff. I haven’t tried watching any real movies yet or looking at photos, but I bet they’ll be just as good. The remote is awesome, I love it 🙂

The tiny camera at the top is remarkably high quality, and comes with some effects that are very nice, the distorts especially. Comic Life (which I hadn’t even heard of before) is very fun, it allows you to make comics and stuff, providing you with the boxes as well as speech bubbles that stretch and that kind of thing. Very nice.

That pretty much sums up everything I’ve done up to this point. Overall, a great buy. Well worth the money. 🙂

My new MacBook Pro (which I’ve named Eve, keep reading) 15.4 inch is here. After travelling through China, Alaska, and Indiana (not to mention Western Massachusetts), it is finally where it belongs.

Why the name? Two reasons. One: Adam and Eve? Eve is the one that takes the apple? Apple computer? Get it? Har. Two: AppleGeeks. In the comic, Hawk (the protagonist), created a robot girlfriend powered by an iPod named Eve, and since Eve kicks 4$$, I figured that the name fit. 😛

TO GARAGE BAND!

I’m watching the shipping page on FedEx (practically 24/7…Look, I graduated. What do you want for nothing?!), and my MacBook (still no name yet, but someone suggested a good one…Now if only I could remember it) has officially been to more cool places than I have. It came from China (I’ve never left North America), and is now in Anchorage, Alaska (which is more Northern than I have ever been). To get here, it will have to cross the Canadian Border…That’s so cool. I envy my laptop now 😛

I have a feeling I’m going to get it on Tuesday the 27th 🙂