Monthly Archives: June 2007

Jun 23 2007
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Modding GrApple (UNO)

I recently became sick of my mods (I knew this would happen), so I disabled ShapeShifter and reverted to default Aqua. This is very refreshing, but I like UNO way too much to disable it. The only thing is that Firefox isn’t unified by UNO (or I don’t think it is, I can’t open UNO any more because it claims it only works with Tiger 4.4 and up, even though I have 4.10…), so I went and looked for a unified theme, and lo and behold, I found GrApple (UNO) (scroll ot the bottom to get it). A theme specifically made to match UNO. However, upon installing it I discovered that it doesn’t really look like the picture, and doesn’t really do a good job unifying Firefox. So I did the fix he suggests, and it still didn’t look great. So I figured out how to haxx it myself.

I went into the chrome folder and looked at the toolbar.gif file it had told me to put there:

This is not enough of a gradient to blend properly, so what I did was opened a finder window, and took a screenshot of the toolbar:

And this almost completely fixed it. The main window blends until it gets to the bookmarks bar, where it turns a flat gray:

Update: I have now fixed the bookmarks bar to blend as well:

However the Tab Bar now has the same problem…so I don’t know what to do.

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Jun 23 2007
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Uru Episode 2: A New Light

So the second episode of Uru Live is to begin today. It’s entitled “A New Light”. The description of the episode (from Cyan and Gametap) is as follows:

The next episode, “A New Light, begins in June. In it, Power is shifting and new leaders begin to emerge while those from the past begin to fade. Amidst all the chaos, the Age of Er’Cana is released and Explorers are asked to help feed the darkening lake. Meanwhile, new information is revealed and more begin to fear the coming war. Er’Cana features a vast landscape with hours of unique gameplay that can be played single player or with friends.

Those who played offline Uru way back when should recognize Er’Cana from the Path of the Shell expansion pack. However, it must be different from the offline version we played because its sister age, Ahnonay, is not being released in this episode (or at least, we don’t think so, since it’s not in the released screenshots nor the description). The episode will run for 6-7 days and is supposed to start today.

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Jun 20 2007
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Best Buy Has Apple Stuff (Well, Kinda)

I visited my local Best Buy yesterday (I saw Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer, Best Buy is just around the corner from the theater), and was surprised to see that they had a beautiful 24″ iMac on display. I of course went over and started playing with it, and noticed an iPod HiFi next to it, apparently acting as the speakers for the iMac. Didn’t know you could do this. The most curious thing was an open iPod box right in front of the HiFi, with naught but the headphones left. I left it alone, and continued playing with the iMac.

An employee quickly came over and cleared away the box, and then asked me “You aren’t going to mess up the display, right?”

Now, what the hell does that mean? I’m using an iMac 24″, minding my own business, and the guy thinks I’m going to break something. I was insulted, so I said “Of course not” and walked away.

Of course, noticing the macbook display made me stop and check them out. Of course, a brand new gen. 3 macbook pro, and two macbooks next to it, one white and one black. So I played around with them as well, noticed that they had had their batteries removed…Bad move with the macbooks, since the power cords are designed to come out easily. Jostle it too much and the computer loses its only source of power, there goes the demo. Anyway, they were very snappy, as is to be expected. The MBP was right next to a hulking monstrosity of a PC laptop, an inch thick with a huge, useless, led-ridden emblem right under the fuzzy trackpad. Eew.

So at that point I was wondering if they had the Mini and Pro on display as well, and then I saw them. Not the Mini and Pro, but the cheap printouts of said computers propped up in plastic photo holders. With pricetags under them. Seriously, it looks like instead of putting one on display, they just googled it and printed out a picture. It wasn’t even photo paper. Just plain letter paper, with cheap ink. I sincerely hope that these are placeholders, not the final displays. It’s depressing to look at them.

So props for the apple displays and selling apple stuff, but minus about a million for lame displays and kleptomaniac employees

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Jun 18 2007
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I win

Hey look at me! I’m posting now and Matt isn’t! HAHAHA

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Jun 15 2007
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Windows Safari Gathers a Bajillion Users in 2 Days

(The above amount is an approximation)

Apple claims that since its release, Safari for Windows has already had 1 million downloads. In 48 hours. Wow. Plus, they released v.3.0.1 to fix the major security issues in it. Impressive, no?

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Jun 15 2007
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New Batman Suit

I posted about the new Batman movie before, Batman Begins. I loved that movie, it’s just so awesome. I watched it twice. Anyway, the sequel, The Dark Knight, is coming out next year, and they’ve already released a picture of the new, updated Bat Suit:
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It looks awesome. Shoulderpads, throwable arm blades, turnable head…Something happens to the cape…It’s going to be awesome.

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Jun 15 2007
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Record-Breaking Uniques (Again)!

Yesterday there were 205 unique views to the site. Yay!

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Jun 12 2007
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OS X Leopard

So the WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference, an annual Apple event) keynote was given yesterday by Steve Jobs. Frankly, it was kinda boring. No hardware updates for anything, no new features for the iPhone (save for the addition of custom apps, more on that later), but a lot of updates on Leopard, Apple’s next revision of OS X.

There were 10 Leopard features either announced or elaborated on at WWDC:

  • A new Desktop – with the addition of Stacks, pseudo-folders on the Dock, a new semi-transparent menu bar, and a reflective, 3D dock
  • A new Finder – with a new Sidebar and the ability to browse your other macs over the internet, plus coverflow! 😀
  • Quicklook – a pseudo-app built into Finder which lets you quickly view documents without loading any other apps, great idea since I hate Preview…
  • Complete 64-bit support – a bit more technical than the others, OS X is now completely equipped to run on 64-bit processors. Just like most applications these days are “Universal,” meaning they run on Intel or PowerPC, the same will be true with 64-bit and 32-bit apps. Everything will work on either a 32-bit (like a G3, G4, or Intel Core Duo), or 64 bit (like a G5, Intel Core 2 Duo, or Xeon) processor just fine.
  • Core Animation – again, kinda techy, but in essence this means that any app can have really shiny animation effects without lag, without much effort from the guy making the app. There’s a really impressive demo of this in the Keynote, with that apple tv intro movie, but interactive. Thousands of videos, all playing at once and moving around really fluidly, with no lag.
  • Boot Camp – Boot Camp is faster, and now it’s built-in, which means no more disc burning to get the drivers. Yay!
  • Spaces – a virtual desktop manager, lets you organize windows into different sectors to keep everything neat and clean. This is one of my most anticipated features.
  • Dashboard – of course, the Safari web widget, over 3000 widgets written, yadda yadda…
  • iChat – cool stuff here. Better audio quality for voice chat (this is mostly improvements for the video aspect of iChat), the addition of backdrops, some cool Photobooth-esque effects, and Theater, which lets you stream video files, documents, etc. over iChat.
  • Time Machine – old hat, automatically backup stuff, instantly restore it, slick interface, uses Quicklook, all that good stuff. Another of my most anticipated features.

So yeah, that’s Leopard. Some time in October release date, I’ll be buying it. 🙂 For more info and deets, check out Apple’s page on the matter. Speaking of Apple’s website, there was a complete and total redesign of the site to finally bring it out of the Panther-era tabs it had at the top. It’s very slick now…but it’s hard to find the movie trailers page, and the newest trailers section has disappeared…Too bad…

Anyway there were two other announcements. One was Safari for Windows, which from what I’ve heard, sucks. It’s got too much smoothing or something, and apparently there are already 8 serious security flaws in it. Of course, it is in beta (the beta is available for Mac as well, it is crazy-fast…), so some amount of issues are to be expected, but really, 8 holes? That’s pretty rough.

The last announcement was the inclusion of AJAX and Web 2.0 support on the iPhone, meaning that developers can write their own webapps for the iPhone and basically have custom programs like that. However, this isn’t realizing the iPhone’s full potential as a portable Unix machine (it has all of the pieces required to make OS X: Unix, cocoa, darwin, core image, all that good stuff). This means that only Apple will be able to make real apps for the iPhone, which I don’t really have a problem with, but there could be so much more. Oh well, maybe they’ll change their mind.

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Jun 09 2007
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Site Memberships Revoked

I’ve decided that since I still got someone registering as a member here, despite the fact that I removed the link to the register page, the new registrations must be spammers. Thus I have deleted all 7 of the people who registered. If your account was deleted, I sincerely apologize, but since I don’t think anyone real registered, it’s cool.

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Jun 09 2007
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Ocean's 13

I saw Ocean’s 13 today (it was released yesterday), the third in the Ocean’s trilogy about a group of 11 men (initially, one more is added in each movie, hence Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s 12, Ocean’s 13) who are criminals of the highest calibur, con men. They rig casinos in their favor, steal from the rich, all that good stuff.

Anyway, this one was pretty good. I hardly remember the first two, but this one was good. Good plot, nice jokes, I could’ve used a little more planning in there, or some explanation of how they got their hands on the Chunnel digging machines (both of them, used to simulate an earthquake in their latest target’s hotel/casino), but overall it was a fun ride.

My favorite part was (I’ll try to be vague here, it’s near the end) when the 13 fly away with a whole class case full of diamonds, with the case intact hanging from a helicopter, and the target is so stunned he just stares dumbfounded and murmurs “my diamonds…”

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