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Mac mini Dissection
It was only a matter of time. Someone got their hands on one of the new Mac minis and figured out how to open it without destroying it (Slashdot). Some fellow has the video up on his blog (wonder how long he’ll survive the slashdot effect). I’ve managed to snag the video already, so if he does go down, I may make it available to interested parties. A review site has also gotten their hands on a bare motherboard.
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Mac mini
So the Macworld Expo started yesterday. The big deal as I see it is the announcement of the Mac mini. That’s actually got me kinda excited. It’s a cute, little sub-$500 Mac that’ll run OS X. The dimensions on this thing are quite impressive (6.5" x 6.5" x 2"). That’s awful tiny. Comes with a 1.25GHz G4, a 40GB ATA HDD, DVD/CD-RW, 256MB DDR RAM, 32MB Radeon 9200 DVI, and the usual plethora of I/O (10/100 ethernet, modem, audio out, Firewire, USB2).
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Firefox 1.0!
Firefox made it’s 1.0 release yesterday. If you haven’t tried this attractive alternative to IE, go do so now! It’s substantially faster than old Mozilla/Netscape, standards compliant (unlike IE), less likely to allow your machine to be filled with spyware (unlike IE), has all sorts of cool extensions to add additional functionality (even redefine existing functionality)… oh and it won’t give you the plague either (unlike IE)! ;) It’s just dripping in plague juice!
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New Dell 20" LCD
So apparently Dell is now shipping a 20" widescreen LCD ala the Apple Cinema dispay. Looks like it’s got pretty sweet specs in addition to being priced several hundred less than Apple’s. Now if only Dell would have some outrageous deal on it. :) 1680x1050 resolution 16:10 aspect ratio 16ms refresh (12ms gray-to-gray) 600:1 contrast ratio 300cd/m2 brightness analog (VGA) and digital (DVI) inputs, as well as video inputs for S-video and composite connections Picture-in-Picture and picture-by-picture support four USB2.
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MP3 Players
So I’ve been drooling over new MP3 players recently. There’s been all sorts of activity in iPod-land. You’ve got the 4th gen iPods that bump battery life up to ~12 hours per charge. You’ve got the U2 Special Edition iPod that comes in a snazzy black color scheme with a sharply contrasting red click-wheel, band member autographs engraved on the back, and a $50 iTunes coupon good toward the purchase of “The Complete U2” (I’m guessing that only partially covers the price of admission, and isn’t all that great a deal since they’ve bumped up the price of the unit by $50).
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Dual-Core CPU article
Saw an interesting CPU-related post over at /.. There’s a good article over at Anandtech summarizing what’s currently known about near-term dual-core CPUs, along with some of their predictions.
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del.icio.us
So everyone’s been raving about this del.icio.us thing. Essentially, it’s a big online, social bookmarking site. You set up an account, add your bookmarks to it, and categorize them with tags of your choosing (i.e. instead of simple folders, you can associate a link with tags “programming” and “C” so that you can access it when you click on either the programming or C categories). Social aspect comes into play when you look at who else has posted a given bookmark, or who else has posted stuff in a given category, or what the most popular links of the day are, etc etc etc.
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Firefox: SwitchProxy
Ran across SwitchProxy for Firefox. Looks pretty cool. Basically you can set it up to download a list of open anonymous proxy servers, and hop between them at a specified interval (ie every minute it looks like you’re surfing from a different IP). Good deal for anyone who’s a little concerned about anonymity.
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Die Spyware Die!
Spyware and Adware are really icky. At the moment, I’m using a three-pronged approach: Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. You fire it up and it scans your hard disk for nasty crap that has invited itself in. Been using this for a long time. Spybot Search & Destroy is pretty similar, but can catch some stuff that Ad-Aware misses (as Ad-Aware will catch some stuff that Spybot misses).
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Even more Gmail
I haven’t had much luck getting the GNOME GTray app to work under Fedora. Dug around a little bit, and came up with a Firefox extension that largely does the trick (although you should probably just go to the front page and look for the newest version). Now I have to check my browser window to see if I’ve got new Gmail as opposed to simply looking at the GNOME system tray, but at least it works.
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