Clutter up your Mac Desktop! Use Grapes!

How many times have I seen those beautiful wallpapers on Macs where there is rarely any icon in sight, excluding the dock.

In reality, everyone puts everything on their desktop, mostly their downloads. It clutters up the desktop and provides fast access to all the stuff that's been downloaded, providing you can remember their position and funky names.

Now you can confuse yourself even more and waste time in a cool and fun way. A snappy little program called Grape, similar-ish to BumpTop but in 2D, exclusively for the Mac allows you to rearrange, resize and zoom in on your desktop junk!

Overloading your Computer with Information

I admire when researchers or heavy computer users, who litter their computers with everything and anything, manage to retrieve their information quickly and without fuss.

Most procrastinating web worker would spend time organizing things into pretty folders and cutting down on clutter.

What those clutter techno drones do is that they use software that allows them to add tags to their files. So searching for a particular thing brings up all the files related to their keyword.

I don't know if I should be thankful, but for me, I never ever have that much information that I need to tag things. Even on this blog, I put words into the labels, but I don't use them at all.

Internet is like a Japanese Sports Car - You Tune It.

Knowledge is power. It can also be an irritating thing. What is the world coming to when things like accessing the internet can be so irritating.

Take Microsoft Internet Explorer v7 and up. That annoying first run screen that if your lucky, goes away the first time. If your not, you have to go to the damn registry to change your 0 to 1. I hate that.

Then there is this hype of Adware, spyware and all things that everyone will have on their hard disk just by browsing the net. How many times must I scan the computer just for it to tell me that it's clean.

Getting rid of installed programs or add-ons that you don't need to get that extra juice in terms of performance is absolutely ridiculous! What if I need all of them? What if I have lots that I use? Will just getting one or two speed up anything?

Tweaking your browser with JavaScript off and using script blocking programs is a pain in the ('%&$. It does speed things up by a few seconds, but you miss out on many features that make the internet, kinda fun. The internet is not just about grabbing info, it can be a fun experience if you let it.

Ad blocking utilities are a necessary pain too. I don't like the blanking of all ads as some ads are useful and good to know. Pop ups are annoying and especially the ones that scroll across the screen asking you to press the hidden close button.

I also dislike tweaking the configs on browsers just to make them go that extra millisecond faster. Why couldn't the makers of that piece of software have optimized it in the first place. Maybe it's one of those things that they deliberately leave out so when the next new version comes out they can say it's faster than ever.

By the way, the Mac is no better.

25 Hour Battery Life - Finally a Reality!

To think that 9.5 hour netbooks wasn't enough. MSI Wind boasts that it's new netbook, MSI Wind U115, can last up to 25 hours!

Who on earth would want to use a netbook for any length of time? It's fun on the couch, as long as the screen goes back far enough, and it's great to just pick up and use it anywhere. It' cheap enough to put in the kitchen without worrying about flying sauce or other sticky things.

With netbooks increasing in size to accommodate the battery, and listening to customer feedback and boosting everything that was good and small in a netbook to notebook size, netbooks have become unexciting.

But then when I actually think about it, it's great not having to charge your netbook daily.

BumpTop your Desktop and immerse yourself in 3D!

Windows Xp, Linux and OSX will still confuse the average user. There is still enough users who will find difficulty finding where they saved their files. What better way to confuse them even more than introducing a 3D desktop!

BumpTop is a super cool application that turns your desktop into 3D. All those people who like clutter, stacks, piles and pinning things here and there will love this. Just like a real office desktop.

Barely useful features include having your most used files grow in size, zooming photos and gestures. All fun and useless. The only feature that I personally like are the themes!

But, if I had a large touchscreen computer, all these features would be incredible fun!

No Case is Too Small for the Shuffle 4G

Lovely Colors!

Wouldn't buy an Ipod Shuffle 4G.

Wouldn't buy the cases.

But if I did, just look at those colors.

Oh? They even glow in the dark!

Now, that's an old, but nice gimmick.

Made by the never heard of company Sumajin.

Apple Tax - Applecare.

Forget those ads on TV about pricing.

Why can't computers work for at least two years without breaking down?

MobileMe and .Mac Pages - You've Been Warned.

At first, I thought MobileMe was going to be taken down. But it's just the .Mac service.

Last chance to update and correct those tacky, problem prone, strange characters, slow, JavaScript problem and 'oh what the heck happened to my fonts' .Mac Pages.

After July 7 2009 you won't be able to edit them anymore! Sounds fun.

MobileMe is a really great service on the Mac.

The hiccups in the past were a bit scary, but now having used the service for a bit, the seamless syncing of all your photos,calendars and contacts with your iPhone for a pretty good price is quite dreamy. It looks pretty to boot.

Though, it would be even nice(r) to be able to use your own domain and be able to access the iDisk on the iPhone or sync the notes.

Netbooks - Size no Longer Matters.

Is it me or are Netbooks getting bigger?

Where's the gimmicky fun in that?

The Dell Inspiron Mini 12

Acer Timeline - What a Cheap name. But it's thin!

A part from the Best Buy like 'Timeline' name. This notebook sounds and looks a bit fantastic.

Thin, cheap and being Acer, it'll be packed with every feature you can throw at it. You know, the boring Core 2 Duo, the Wi-Fi, 13 inch and bigger, LED etc..

Not so interested but new'ish feature are the 'Smart Power' key which reduces power consumption. I hate power setting features. I dislike those back light dims/time outs, sluggish power saving performance features and all that. Just 'run full power and last for hours' power setting please.

I'm more interested in the gimmicks! You know, the brushed aluminum, less than an inch thick, fun touch sensitive but useless function assigned hot keys, funky but strange 1366 x 768 solution screen and the 'let it be true this time' all day computing on a single charge.

Looking forward to this.