I found this cool plugin called QuickTime Embed and I’m testing it out. It basically makes it easier to embed QuickTime movies. No more messy codes and I can now have the video come with a “poster.” It’s a clickable movie image that starts off the movie. Really cool.
This commercial was made last summer when Apple Co. and Apple Inc. sort of stopped fighting, finally allowing solo Beatles material available on the iTunes Store. It was also the same time Paul McCartney released his latest album, Memory Almost Full. The song used in the ad was the first song released from that album. It’s really great and I love the mandolin that he’s playing. I remember just feeling happy every time it came on TV. The colors, the music, and Paul skipping. Beautiful.
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Co., delivered his annual January Macworld keynote today announcing great new products and updates for the millions of fans and soon to be fans of Apple and the Mac software. It really is a global love affair with this company.
Of those products was the MacBook Air, the thinest notebook in the world, which is 0.76 inches thick. It looks stunning and as usual, I quickly developed a lust. The cheapest one comes standard at $1699 (I get a $100 student discount) and I thought that I was definitely going to get it by May. But when I went to the Apple Online Store, I found a few things about it that turned me off.
No disc drive.
I use the CD/DVD drive a lot because I burn DVDs occasionally and I make CDs for my friends too. I’m also currently working on a project at home transferring all our home videos from VHS onto the computer and then onto DVDs. Apple has made an external drive to go with the MacBook Air and I don’t know how I feel about it. I don’t usually burn DVDs outside the house (because it takes a long time) but I do make the CDs when I’m out. Apparently it’s very portable and easy to carry around. So I’m kind of neutral about this.
No ethernet port.
I was really surprised with this. There are a total of three ports on this notebook: audio out, one USB 2.0, and micro-DVI. Ethernet is very important! Not everyone has access to wireless internet. Example: I wouldn’t be able to use it at my dorm here since for some reason, wireless access to the university network is not available on the resident floors, only on the main floor and the basement. I have it back at home but what if the wireless is down? With my iBook all I have to do is plug in the ethernet cable. Again, there is an external ethernet adapter available to those who want it.
They have compromised a lot to make the thinest notebook in the world. I’m not impressed. The external options are good enough to please others, but it’s not enough for me to go ahead and get it. I was waiting on getting a new Mac this year but I had to see what was about to be released. It’s a phenomenal design and I’m sure the new trackpad features are amazing as well. However, it looks like the MacBook will still remain on my shopping list for this year. After my custom add-ons and student discount, the total comes to $1450. That is a pretty decent price for all the things I want in a new notebook.
Hopefully many people feel the same way I do and request that the next line of notebooks to include the basic features that are essential.
I was reading USA Today Monday while eating lunch between classes and came across an interesting article. I tore it out incase it wasn’t on their website but I found the article.
Some people are seriously crazy in the head. Fitness magazine surveyed 1,000 women asking them what would they do to instantly be their ideal weight.
Nearly a quarter (23%) would spend a week in jail; 23% would shave their head; 22% would wear a bikini on TV; and 21% would trade 10 years of life, according to the survey of 1,000 women 18 and older. Most (85%) would rather have an extra toe than 50 extra pounds.
I wonder what the results would be like if the survey was for men. Most men don’t care if they’re a bit chunky. And if they did, I don’t think they would go as far as trading 10 years of life. So why is it only women who put what they physically look like as a high priority or importance? Some say that they care about their image because they want to be desired by men (or women). Well don’t men want that too? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
I’m a big girl and have been one for all my life. Up until I was about 19 or 20, my weight has been a big issue for me because I was constantly pressured by my mother. But after numerous losses and gains she finally gave up. She still has hopes though. My attitude has changed since then, I am more relaxed and comfortable with myself and enjoy making fun of and laughing at myself with others. This doesn’t mean I have totally accepted my fatassness, I definitely do want to lose weight. And when I do, it will be because I feel that it is time to do it for myself, and not because my mother is forcing me to.
However, that time has come and hopefully I have enough discipline. My brother got engaged over Winter break (to his longtime friend, and mine!) and they will be getting married, inshalla, after I graduate in the summer I want to look decent for the party. I have a cool six months.
But for the sake of that article, I guess I would be willing to completely pluck my eyebrows and eyelashes to be the ideal weight. That’s as far as I’d go.
