Ordered a new Mac and the UPS guy delivered it this afternoon. It's been probably seven years since the last new one and things have changed a little bit. All of this firewire, USB, and translucentness (?).
The G4 is a nice machine, but what's REALLY sweet is the 17" Apple LCD monitor. I went back and forth on getting this...will it be big enough (I had a 19" on the old Mac), should I really spend the extra money, will it be big enough...blah, blah, blah, as my nephew Garrett would say.
Right choice. It has almost the exact same physical dimensions as the 19" monitor with a resolution of 1280x1024. The picture is rock solid, crisp, and clean. I find myself visiting graphics web sites just to see how nice they look.
Wonderful.
I'd even given consideration to the new LCD iMac, but was sure that a 15" monitor wouldn't do. Maybe it would...maybe, but I'm not giving up this sweet screen.
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A semi-transparent whitish substance consisting of a very pure form of gelatin, produced from the sounds (swimming bladders) of the sturgeon (Acipenser huso, and other species of Acipenser), found in the Caspian and Black Seas. After removal, the bladders are cut open, soaked in water, spread out and the outer silvery membrane removed by rubbing. The isinglass contains about 80o collagen. It is used as a clarifying agent, in the manufacture of fish glue, and as a size for handmade paper. Its use in recent years has greatly diminished, due to the rise in use of synthetic materials and gelatin.
(jh: also used as a clarifying agent in making wine)
Some OS X stuff:
- Print your own book using iPhoto (rather than pay Apple).
- Some iTunes scripts, including one to speak the name of the currently playing song.
- SlashDock headlines tool for docking bar. Allows seeing new headlines/articles from sites which support RSS feeds (like this one...click the XML logo in lower right corner)
- You can drag your hard drive(s) icon into the dock. Then, when you click down on the new dock HD icon you get a heirarchical interface to your folders.
- You can also shift-click on your dock to move it to other edges of the screen.