Caved

I managed to get a 3G iPad recently and have been doing some light work with it, and despite my initial comments about my netbook being so much better...well, I haven't been using my netbook. For most of the reasons I use a netbook, it has been replaced by the iPad. You win this round Apple!

-Trent

iPad Peek

In case you've been living under a rock the past week, the Apple iPad came out over the weekend. Roughly 300,000 iPad's were sold on Saturday. Pretty soon, you'll want to make sure your website looks good on the iPad. Fortunately a site has come out to show you how your website will look on the iPad. It's called iPad Peek. This site is worthwhile to developers and as you can see from the screen capture, this blog will need a little work. Not having an iPad myself, this is very helpful.

-Trent

Can you see this?

I'm getting glare on the screen from my illuminated keyboard. I'm wondering if this is a design flaw of the screen or the keyboard? My wife's aluminum MacBook without the illuminated keyboard never had an issue. I'm really not liking this. Previously I had a 15" MBP with a matte screen and I am starting to miss it. I wanted to downsize for portability reasons, but now I know the replacement for this computer will have a matte screen.

-Trent
Posted from my iPhone

Next MacBook? Pt. 2

Already, I may have changed my mind. I wrote about the New MacBook recently and how it was a better option than the 13" MacBook Pro. I've been wronged. I overlooked a couple things. The 13" MBP has a Firewire port which I wouldn't use often anyway, so that's not a factor, but the screen has a 60% wider color gamut and a backlit keyboard. Both things I want. I can deal without the backlit keyboard, but having the nicer screen when I'm working on video/photos on the go, kind of important. Again, the serious stuff that really rely on color correction, I'll go to my iMac, but it's nice to know that I'm at least closer to correct color. We'll see what happens.

-Trent

Next MacBook?

Yesterday Apple released a bunch of new products, including a revised white plastic MacBook. It got me thinking, my MacBook Pro is a few years old now and has it's issues. It is a 15" MBP and has served me well, but I no longer need a dedicated video card because I'll do most of the editing on my iMac. So I want something more portable. Tossed around the idea of a MacBook Air, but ultimately decided on a 13" MacBook Pro. My wife has one and I like it. However, this new MacBook came out and I'm second guessing my decision. It has the same processor and graphics card as the basic 13" MBP, larger hard drive, and is $200 cheaper. Sure it doesn't have the aluminum enclosure and no SD card slot, but I could care less. So, if I write a post about my new basic MacBook in the next couple months, you know why.

-Trent

Called it!

In a previous post, I talked about the Apple Mighty Mouse and mention the no-click thing, well, here's the new multi-touch "Magic Mouse".

It has multi-touch gestures, and yes, I am intrigued by it. Will probably test one soon.

-Trent

New iPhone

So I broke down. I bought the first iPhone the day after it came out, and got the 3G iPhone two days after it came out. However, I was able to hold out for awhile longer on this one. The thing that sealed the deal was me going to the Apple Store and comparing the speed of opening applications with my phone and the 3GS demo unit. It was significantly faster and I'm always waiting for the Mail App it seems like, so I upgraded. Stuck with a 16GB because I only have about 6GB of music on this computer and I can rotate my videos around. I'm looking forward to using the video feature here soon...maybe a vlog is in my future. The return of TFAM2000?

-Trent

Mighty Mouse

This you see here is the Apple Mighty Mouse. I hated this thing when I first used it(no right click?!?). However, I have been using Photoshop more and more and it's benefit is shining through. That trackball that allows me to side-scroll is really smooth and easy to use. It makes navigating photos that I'm zoomed in on a lot easier. There's rumors of a new Mighty Mouse after a filing hit the FCC, so we'll see if the new one will be better or worse(no click at all?!?).

-Trent
Posted from my iPhone

Upgrade Pt. 2

So as you know from reading this blog, previously I discussed my USB hub and how I was running out of room and that I needed a desktop rather than using my laptop. Well it's finally to that point. My MacBook Pro which has done all the work on the sites/video thus far is two years old now and starting to show it's age. So yesterday, I took delivery of my new 24" iMac. So far I've only been able to edit one video on it, but it goes much quicker than my laptop did. Plus I was hooking my laptop up to a 19" monitor so I have much more screen real estate to work with now too. Overall I am excited about how this will increase my productivity.
We did get a little filming done last night, but not filming on the road trip has really thrown the schedule off and I am behind in work. I'm also working on re-writing the website from scratch with Asti. I've always known it's needed work, but now I have some spare time to actually try and accomplish something. And after WYRD gets re-done, it's on to YRS, then I can work on some of the new sites I've sorely been wanting to work on. Not enough hours in the day I'm afraid.

-TFAM