Ramblings of a Programmer

Are you interested in lifecycle management or improving your presentation skills?  Are you interested in learning how to make better use of your Mac equipment?  Apple probably has a seminar for you.  Check out their online seminars.

I had read some information about using EQ on the iPod a while
back.  I knew that if you had set a particular EQ for a single
song in iTunes, the iPod would then use that EQ setting when playing
the song.  However, I was under the assumption that this worked
when you had EQ set as None on the iPod. 

That turns out to not be the case.  You have to set the iPod to
the Flat EQ setting and then it will play the song using the EQ setting
that you gave it in iTunes.  If you have the iPod set to EQ=None,
then it will not use any EQ settings for any songs.

It seems that Microsoft may be feeling the pinch of Linux and Apple Mac
OS X as of late.  They announced a new advertisement campaign to
do a hard push of Windows XP.  Uhh… isn't that stuff 3 years old
now?  I guess that is about all they can do since they keep
pushing their OS releases back.

See the article at redherring.com:  Microsoft Pushes Old Windows

After installing Mac OS X 10.3.9, people started having issues running
when Java applications or visiting certain web sites.  Apple
recognized this issue today and has posted an update to fix this issue.

I finally figured out how to fast-forward through or back up in a song
when using iTunes tonight.  Just click and hold the Next button to
fast-forward through the song or podcast.  To back up in the audio
file, click and hold the Previous button.

I have been making decisions on what Power Mac system to buy based on
erroneous information.  For the past week, I was under the
impression that all Apple Power Mac G5 systems used the liquid cooling
system to control heat.  I have now learned that this is not the
case.  Apparently, only the dual 2.5 GHz Power Mac G5 systems use
the liquid cooling system due to excess heat.  That is good news
for those of us who do not want to ruin our carpets.  Uhhh…
yea… my carpet.  I don't have to worry about ruining this
crap. 

See the article at detnews.com:  Apple's Power Mac is real cool

Apple has announced new software releases today.  Among the new items are Final Cut Studio, Soundtrack Pro, and Shake 4.  The new Final Cut Studio tools now have powerful HD editing capabilities.

Apple has released Mac OS X Update 10.3.9 today.  Among its enhancements, and apparently hidden
deep inside the release is Safari 1.3.  This new version of the
Mac web browser contains security, javascript, and CSS
enhancements.  Reports have it that this is the fastest version of
Safari ever released… up to 35% faster at loading pages than version
1.2.

That's right… the Tiger has been unleased and it will be on you before you know it!

Tiger is available — Friday, April 29

I really do hate my PC now!  I did a drag and drop action with a
folder full of all the pictures that I have ever taken with my digital
camera for my wife's cake business tonight.  I dropped it on the
target directory, but when I click on the directory where the cake
photos are stored, it says access is denied. 

I did used the Windows disk check utility to see if it might fix any
issues, but that did not do the trick.  Unfortunately, it looks
like these puppies are in the old bit bucket in the sky. 

I think I am going to purchase that new Mac sooner than I thought.