Macintosh

I just canceled my order for a M-Audio Keystation 49E from the Apple store and ordered one from MacMall. Apple’s order status showed that it wouldn’t ship until Mar. 3. MacMall will get delivery next Monday and should ship right away. They’re also selling it for $79 instead of $99.

In Mac OS X, it’s NOT necessary to quit all running applications when installing an application like TurboTax, even if it does install its own private fonts. That’s just plain obnoxious. I wish software developers would get with it and stop doing things like that which annoy users.

Someone ported MacPuke to Mac OS X! For anyone who wasn’t around at the time, this was a very old hack that made a disgusting sound when a disk was ejected. It was an interesting trick to play on someone.

Until now I hadn’t bothered looking at LaunchBar, since I was satisfied with DragThing and I never liked any other launchers. I finally tried it a few days ago and loved it. I ended up buying it yesterday.

My copy of iLife just arrived. It includes both a CD (without iDVD or GarageBand) and a DVD with all applications.

I just got a notice from Apple that my iLife ’04 order shipped.

I just ordered iLife ’04 from the Apple Store. I can’t wait to get my hands on GarageBand and I’m really looking forward to iPhoto 4.

Steve’s keynote today was probably one of the least exciting ever. His Reality Distortion Field didn’t seem to be working. No new powerbooks or desktop systems, and the mini iPod costs too much. GarageBand is very cool, as well as the rest of iLife & Office 2004. No iTunes changes. Nothing that made me want to have it right now.

$250 for the iPod Mini is way too much. it should cost under $200, especially when you could buy a 15G iPod for only $50 more.

What is that device the guy in the middle is holding? They make a 2 GB mini hard drive & the style of their ad looks very familiar 😉