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29th-Mar-2007 06:10 pm - GIMPing out
kittawn
The frustration joy of new software fills me with anger and satisfaction. Anger at my own lack of knowledge regarding any kind of image software, and satisfaction that I can figure it out if I just keep poking at the fucking thing. Witness my first great triumph! (It is a custom splash screen* for The GIMP software I used to make it!) Now I get to go home and figure out how to install the damn program on my Apple G4. Fun.
Tip o' the hat to the amazing blog mistress of Faux Real for giving me the final kick in the ass I needed to devote enough time and energy to actually learning an image editor thingy. She's great, go read her . . . please?


UPDATE - I got it installed , WOO7
*splash screen - the image or whatever that is displayed while a program is opening. Go wikipedia.
19th-Sep-2006 03:52 pm - The Late Monday Random Review of Something Wierd and Wonderful
Battle Royale Cute
(I know that at this point, I'm the only person who hasn't already discovered this but, hey, I'm still allowed to get excited Damnit!)
Today's Random Review Will Be...
iTunes.
I am was a hardcore Winamp fan. Even after 3.0. I admit, it took some getting used to, but once I did, Winamp was still teh awesome to me. Later versions have come with some nice features like a search engine through the shoutcast webradio network. This was how I entertained myself at  work until I started downloading songs. Winamp allows for fairly extensive song categorization (I thought anyway). Then I discovered iTunes.
Shervie got a free iPod when he purchased his new laptop through school, we had it sent to my work because we are guaranteed to recieve our packages. So I got my hands on it first, charged it and put about 50-60 songs on there for him. To do this of course I had to use iTunes. Damn the dark(mac) side and their n1nj4 powers of program design! They should really come with a warning stating,
CAUTION:NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY THOSE WITH OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER OR RELATED TENDANCIES. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
I must say it is one of the most satisfying feelings to know that your songs are all organized and ready for play in whatever manner you choose to select them. When you realize how much time you have wasted on this endeavor, that feeling usually goes away.
Anyway onto the review.
Looks -
The design is sleek with an attractive and simple to use interface (almost too simple, took me far too long to figure out how to put songs on the damn iPod, drag-and-drop) that allows for orginization to the point of pure time wasting. You will never really need to pick your songs by bit rate or composer, but you KNOW!!! So whatever your personal must-know about songs is, iTunes will be happy to display it for you.
Power -
I have had no issues with the program gimping out on me or starting to skip when the processor is busy elsewhere, it seems stable and reliable, something winamp is not so great at. The standard visualizations are decent. Nothing amazing or gripping, but nice eye candy. And I'm burning my first CD with it right now.
This may be one review that I update as I work with iTunes. I think maybe my excitement for my new compy is driving me a little nuts. It's supposed to come tomorrow (thank teh Goddess above for UPS tracking). I can't wait!
6th-Sep-2006 01:03 pm - On going over to the dark (mac) side...
Battle Royale Cute
Well it's finally happened, I'm getting a new computer. My old one died on me in the middle of my business report project for school this summer, I hated it briefly, then I realized that it was about 7 years old and had barely run XP succesfully for the past 6 months. So I planned to deal with it and when i graduated buy a new computer. Well that time has come, granted it was not a brand new computer direct from the manufacturer, but I can't afford that. So I settled with buying a refurbished one on ebay. wait, I bought a refurbished Power Mac G4 Yosemite 450MHz w/Mac OS 10.3 Panther to be specific. for $190 USD. Not too fucking shabby I think. Of course I've never had an Apple before so I'm not as skilled with troubleshooting on them, but I suppose I shall learn. I'll let everyone know how it goes once it arrives, wish me luck!

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