My new "stack" icons

Aren't they sexy?

I got them from here. There aren't that many to choose form, but they beat having to make them on your own ;-)

I don't normally keep the dock that large, but I did it for the purpose of the screen shot.

iWeb - my review on it

Today I decided to test out "iWeb".

You can see the page I made using iWeb on this test site:
http://dig.knight47.com/iWeb/Testing_iWeb.html

Give that page a read for my short and simple review on iWeb.

Got Game

"Got Game" is a great read for anyone that is either into video games or knows someone that is, or if you just want to know more about the benefits video games have on the work force.
If you haven't already read it, I'd recommend you do. You can probably find a copy to borrow at the library, but if not you could get it at most book stores.

I'd check the library first; that way if you don't like it, you didn't waste any money.

PCs are not only Windows!

Since when has the term "PC" become associated with the Windows operating system?
PC stands for "Personal Computer", any computer that qualifies as a PC is a PC.
A Macintosh is a PC.

To qualify as a PC, the following three conditions must be met:

1, small enough to fit inside your home.
2, affordable enough for the general public to buy.
3, easy enough for the average population to use.

Years ago, a computer was too large to fit in the home, they were very expensive, and they were so complicated that only someone in the field of computer science could use them.

A PC is what everyone uses today. It doesn't matter the manufacture or operating system!

Windows is SOFTWARE. A PC is HARDWARE.

Mac is both software and hardware. The software is the operating system (such as Mac OS X). The hardware is the PC (iMac, Macbook, Mac Mini, etc.)

I'm tired of people saying "Do you use a PC or a Mac". THEY ARE BOTH PCs YOU MORON!

The "Mac vs. PC" commercials don't really help, they feed into the publics stupidity by actually associated the term "PC" with the Windows operating system.

The creation of the PC started in 1971. with Palo Alto and Xerox.

Some would say the first PC was the Xerox Alto in 1973, but it never sold. Kept tucked away in a storage room, it had the potential to be a PC if it had only went into the market.

Apple actually had the FIRST (affordable) PC with the Mac. Xerox created the GUI and came up with a pointer device, Steve Jobs was invited to Xerox PARC and saw these things going on and put them into a computer he was working on, which was code-named "Lisa". (Being a paper copy company, Xerox didn't understand what they had. They thought the GUI wasn't going to sell. If they had only understood, they might have been the Apple or Microsoft of today).

The Mac came out on Jan. 24, 1984. There were computers in the 1970's which met two of the three requirements to be PCs (they were small and inexpensive), such as the Apple II and the Commadore64. But you still needed to know some command lines to take full advantage of them.

The Macintosh was undoubtedly the first affordable personal computer (PC).

Windows on Mac

Well I finally got around to installing Windows on my Macbook Pro via "Boot Camp". Now I don't need my Dell desktop at all, I can run all my Windows applications and test code in IE7 via my Mac.

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On a side note: I just noticed that I've blogged more than double the amount I did last year.



Last year I thought blogging was just a fad, so I wasn't really into it. But blogging is actually a great way to get your voice "out there".

Internet Explorer on Linux

After some tweeking with the terminal in Linux, I was able to install four different versions of Internet Explorer. I then searched for various colors of the IE icon online, to help tell at a glance which version was which. Here is a screen shot of my desktop on my Linux computer.

The four versions I installed are: IE5, IE5.5, IE6, and IE7

Other than testing purposes of websites, there really is no reason to ever use Internet Explorer. It is a horrid browser. But as long as people continue to use it, I'll continue to test my various sites in it. IE7 on Linux is a little buggy, but the other three versions of IE that I have installed all work the same way they do on a computer running Windows.

Dell sucks!

So after ONLY ONE YEAR, the graphics card in my Dell XPS computer breaks. So for a few days I was without my Windows machine. I bought a new graphics card and installed it just a few minutes ago, and now the computers works again.

Here is a picture of the old graphics card that came installed on my Dell, the one that died after only one year.

I can't sleep

It's 1:40 AM and I can't sleep, so I'm going to do something different this time. Normally I blog about my opinions to various things, such as my Highlander movie review, and my reasons why a certain distributor on Amazon is evil. But this time, I'm going to blog about what I've been up to lately.

For the couple of weeks, I've been editing a movie I shot with a group of people for a film class I'm taking. I have used a mix of different computer applications to do this, but the one I've used the most is Final Cut Pro. I also bought a MacBook Pro recently just so I could use FCP.

This was also my first time experiencing Macintosh computers. Though I've used one of those semi-bulky, colorful "eMacs" before at a library several years ago, I've never actually owned one until now. My MacBook Pro came pre-installed with Tiger, but with a Leopard upgrade disc. Leopard has many amazing features, one of which looks cool but I haven't tried it yet since I don't have a standalone Windows disc. The feature is called "bootcamp" that let's you run Windows and thus Windows applications on the Mac. It seems cool in theory, but as I haven't tried it, I can't comment.

So besides editing the video, I've also looked for some music to add to the soundtrack. I've added some already, and someone in the group I'm working with is supposed to be getting me some more audio clips to add.

The most recent aspect of the video I've been working on are the closing credits. First I tried LiveType and then Motion (both applications that come bundled in with the Final Cut Studio package. But neither had what I wanted for the credits, they were both too "fancy", and I wanted basic, simple-looking credits. So I ended up making the credits in Final Cut Pro. The credits scroll a little too fast, so either tomorrow or the day after I'll most likely try to slow them down a bit. After all, if credits go by too fast to read, there's no point in having them. And people should be recognized for their talents in a film.

So with that all said, I'm going to try to get some sleep now. Or at least lay down in my bed, in the hopes that I fall asleep. But chances are I'll probably be up all night. I'm not really sure why I can't sleep, all I know is that it's really frustrating.