My summer vacation’s nearly over, and college begins on Thursday. I’m going to Baruch College, to get a BA in Business Communication (graphic design, basically). I attended the orientation yesterday, got my schedule, my bill, ID Card, and a bunch of passwords. My schedule is pretty rad, school from Monday to Thursday, with Fridays off. I begin school at 9am on Mondays and Wednesdays, and at 11am on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It ends at 3:45pm every day, which is cool. I don’t have to get up too early, nor stay too late. I also have two hour breaks on nearly every day, as well as 15-minute breaks between classes. I got the wifi password, so now I can surf the internet (mostly Facebook) all day, haha. Unlike most students who groaned when they got their bills, I was like “fuckyeah!” when I saw mine, because I got a Pell grant that paid my entire tuition. All I have to pay for are books.
To celebrate this new step of my life I also ordered an iPhone 4 online on Sunday, and it’ll be here tomorrow. Life is good.
Disclaimer: This was an April Fool’s joke. Hell will freeze over before I actually switch back to Windows.
To Windows 7, that is. I’ve been debating on this issue for a while now, and I’ve made up my mind. Why? There are several reasons for this, actually. Windows 7 looks a lot nicer than Mac OS X at this point, especially with its new dock-like superbar. A lot more music software is available for Windows, and it’s much easier to obtain. Photoshop runs just as good on Windows, too.
Now I’m not completely switching over yet. I’ll be dual-booting 7 and OS X for some time before I can completely move over. I still love Apple and all of its products, it’s just that I find 7 to be a better product than OS X at this point in time.
Apple finally announced the iPad today which is great and all, but the best thing about it is the end of all those rumors that have been littering my RSS subscriptions. After looking around the blogs that were lucky enough to get a hands-on, here are my thoughts on the iPad.
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Yesterday I was at the Apple Store in Chelsea and I saw the Snow Leopard box on the shelf. “It’s been long enough,” I thought to myself as I picked it up. Fast-forward a couple hours, and I’ve already gotten it running on my MacBook Pro. The installation was a piece of cake, and since I waited a while, most of the initial bugs have been smoothed out by 10.6.2. I reclaimed a sizable portion of my HDD and my computer’s been running a bit quicker. The dashboard is actually usable now, whereas before it would lag and take a while to load. Overall, I’m happy with the upgrade— it was thirty dollars well spent.
Apple’s new Magic Mouse is quite an amazing piece of technology, with a very nice iPhone-esque scrolling feature. The trouble is that if your Mac doesn’t run Snow Leopard, momentum scrolling isn’t supported. This is a problem for those of us who do not want to upgrade just yet, or worse, for those who can’t upgrade due to no PowerPC support in Snow Leopard. Fear not, there is a solution! If you can follow instructions and are moderately tech-savvy, you can enable this useful feature. Read on to find out how.
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Today at the iPod event, Apple announced, and subsequently released, iTunes 9. The major improvements are the iTunes store and the ability to rearrange apps through iTunes. There are also some slight cosmetic changes in iTunes 9. For comparison, I have screenshots of both iTunes 8 and 9.
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