Just as I was done writing the post below, I noticed that the Hanselman’s tools page had been updated ! There is a wealth of tools mentioned on the site, plenty to keep you busy for some time. Colibri is one of them actually ;). Didn’t know he used that as well. Anyway check it out at Hanselman’s Ultimate Developer and Power User tools page.
Category: General
Quicksilver on windows
One of the things you really miss, once you have also used a mac, on windows is Quicksilver. It’s a program that lets you start programs and open documents incredibly fast. Just hit ctrl-space, type a few letters and usually the right program boots up. This would be especially handy on windows, when you’re like me and install and try a lot of programs and your startup menu is totally cluttered and you cant find anything anymore ;).
Looks like Colibri does about the same thing, just recently started using it and seems to work fine, this blog post mentions some more programs that I am definately going to try.
Colibri can be found at colibri.leetspeak.org
swanWithFootInAir
Went for a stroll today in between the rain showers and took some pretty good pictures. Unfortunetely I had been fooling around with the settings and apparently had enabled the ‘date tag’. Why there is even such a stupid option I dont know, but now these photos have the date embedded in them :(. Oh well, you learn something everyday ;).
There are also more photos on
http://ewschone.zoto.com
Mrs Peepers
One of my first good pictures using my new camera :). Mrs Peepers is curious what I am up to and takes a good long look in the lens !
Have to to a lot of practising, since it’s not so easy to get the focus stuff right. But I am sure I’ll get the hang of it eventually.
Spam driving me nuts
It seems one intelligent spammer has found a very clever way to circumvent my filters (and I have quite a few of ’em) and get his insane message to ***ALL STOCKBROKERS AND INVESTORS*** through :(. Think I already received a few thousand of these (I have a quite few email addresses and one is a domain box that gets A LOT of spam). Extremely annoying. Misery Loves Company though :).
Battlestar Gallactica Season 3
Looks like it’s gonna be a good one, judging from the trailer that appeared on YouTube. The soundtrack is different from what we heard so far from BG.
Podshow Plus
Last week on the 4th of july Podshow Plus went open beta. I was already part of the beta, got a golden ticket to access it through their devcast. And I only logged in twice. It’s layout and how things work is very cumbersome. They implemented some Ajax stuff on the site, but it was riddled with bugs at the time. I logged in again once it went live to the public and the bugs seems to have diminished, but the cumbersome interface remains :(. What is also very annoying is when you go to the podshow home page loud music starts blasting through your speakers and a truckload of commercials start flashing :(. Especially the Casino ones make it look like a cheap site (you know the ones you stumble upon when you mistype www.yahoo.com ;)).
Basically I am missing the whole point of podshow plus. I dont need their media player (which doesnt work properly on 2 of my systems btw) since I already have iTunes (or any other mp3 player will do just as well, probably better, their player ofcourse has an annoying ad on the bottom). And I certainly dont need the channel of your favourite podcasts, since not all podcasts are in there and I dont want one big feed making a mess of things.
Apparently I am not the only one who thinks this, got some nice reviews below.
http://kiwibloke.wordpress.com/2006/07/08/10-things-why-podshow-is-lame/
http://www.podcastnyc.net/blog/
There are a lot more, just do a technoratti search and a lot of posts will show up ;).
Tim Hildebrandt
For millions of fans around the world, the Star Wars poster that Tim and Greg Hildebrandt created in 1977 became the definitive illustration of that galaxy far, far away. It’s an exciting, vibrant and unforgettable image that is even more astonishing when you realize that it was created in just 36 hours. While it’s only one of countless beautiful pieces of art that Tim created in his life — including hundreds of other inspired Star Wars illustrations — the Star Wars poster is truly iconic and will always loom large in the imagination. We will miss Tim’s artistry and talents tremendously.
— George Lucas
http://starwars.com/community/news/family/f20060629/index.html