Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Three Good Things
Yesterday afternoon I took Phil to the Buck-Fifty theater to see Zathura. The movie was better than I expected, though not as good as Jumanji (and the two vulgarities from the six- and ten-year-old characters will probably keep it off our DVD shelf). Best part (other than the bicycle at the very end) was that our tickets only ran 50 cents each.
A while back I downloaded TigerLaunch to make it easier to start programs on my PowerBook. I don't like having a lot of icons on my desktop and although I can whisk open programs off-screen with a touch of the F11 key, that can be a hassle, too. TigerLaunch provides a drop-down application listing from the menu bar. It's handy, but invariably between the time I highlight a program and click on it, the highlight shifts up or down and I launch the wrong program. Last week I downloaded Quicksilver, which allows me to launch programs using the keyboard. CTRL-SPACE brings up a search window. As you start typing the name of the program you want to launch, Quicksilver starts showing you options. It does a good job of offering the most frequently run programs with the first letter typed. Typing F brings up Firefox. M is for Mail. I is for iTunes. I'm liking it.
And, in what'll probably be my last mention of the Superbowl, you can download ads from Google Video. There's an iTunes podcast that'll let you grab 'em, too. Both have the "Macgyver Returns" Mastercard ad. The podcast has "Addicted to Lost." (and my blog currently comes up #2 on MSN for "the seahawks were robbed.")
A while back I downloaded TigerLaunch to make it easier to start programs on my PowerBook. I don't like having a lot of icons on my desktop and although I can whisk open programs off-screen with a touch of the F11 key, that can be a hassle, too. TigerLaunch provides a drop-down application listing from the menu bar. It's handy, but invariably between the time I highlight a program and click on it, the highlight shifts up or down and I launch the wrong program. Last week I downloaded Quicksilver, which allows me to launch programs using the keyboard. CTRL-SPACE brings up a search window. As you start typing the name of the program you want to launch, Quicksilver starts showing you options. It does a good job of offering the most frequently run programs with the first letter typed. Typing F brings up Firefox. M is for Mail. I is for iTunes. I'm liking it.
And, in what'll probably be my last mention of the Superbowl, you can download ads from Google Video. There's an iTunes podcast that'll let you grab 'em, too. Both have the "Macgyver Returns" Mastercard ad. The podcast has "Addicted to Lost." (and my blog currently comes up #2 on MSN for "the seahawks were robbed.")
Mikesell
1 Snarky Remarks:
you can also look at the macgyver add on the mastercard website which includes a behind the scenes look at how they made it. very cool! JM :o)
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