November 2005 Archives
I've added a new wallpaper. I created the normal 1024x768 and a widescreen 1440X900 version. I used photoshop to create it. The entire wallpaper was created from scratch except for the apple logo. I used a varitey of filters to create the "brushed steel" look.
David bought X&Y by Coldplay a while back, and I found that I really enjoy it. The entire album is pretty good, something I find unusual for contemporary music. Most modern music albums have a couple of good songs and a bunch of "filler" songs, none of which stand out. X&Y is comprised of mostly slow songs that have a couple of rockin' moments. Anyway, I wrote a little review-->
Recently, an idea struck me. What to do when would-be theives and ne'er-do-wells attempt to steal my beloved iPod? How to protect it? Answer=indisguisePod. I purchased a low end cassette walkman and ripped the guts out of it. It took quite some time to chop through the plastic, but eventually I managed to completely empty the plastic shell of the cassette player. The front face of the indisguisePod is held on by ductape. This may be a bonus, though, because all those ne'er-do-wells wouldn't consider a beat up, ductape'd cassette player worthy of thievery. Check out the "sweet" pics.
I stumbled upon this list while "surfing the web." It is quite funny. I really liked this one:
I will build machines which simply fail when overloaded, rather than wipe out all nearby henchmen in an explosion or worse yet set off a chain reaction. I will do this by using devices known as "surge protectors."
There are three pages, make sure you read them all. You can see the original site by clicking the copyright notice at the bottom of page one. There's also a rather stylin' widget for all you mac users out there.
Well, I had been contmplating if I wanted to get the dock for some time now. I was surfing Amazon when I saw one for $12. I decided I'd might as well get it. It came in the mail yesterday. It matches the iPod perfectly, it's completely white except for the bottom which is gray with the apple logo indented in it. The dock has some weight to it, it needs some to keep the iPod at an angle. On the back side is the usb/firewire port and the line out. The dock doesn't really do anything special except keep the iPod off any surfaces. It certainly helps organize all my cables better, though. The only other real feature is the line out. It supposedly has a higher quality then if you were to plug your aux in or whatever into the headphone out. Its also supposed to protect the iPod from being overloaded. This would helped when I tried to plug the iPod into our dying surrond sound system. I'd say that the dock is not neccicary, but a cool thing to have if you can find it cheap.
