This house... is clear!..

2006-09-13 22:46:00

Well, it took me a few hours of tweaking, twisting, turning and hacking, but now I really love the whole look and feel of my iBook.

The past two days I'd been complaining about how Apple has introduced -yet-another- GUI look to OS X with iTunes 7. Mind you, I love the way it looks but it's the fact that it's the sixth GUI look in OS X! That makes for one big mess! So instead of sulking about it, I spent a bunch of hours perfecting my iBook.

* Uno, to unify all OS X apps to one window style.

* Candy Bar, to change all the app and system icons.

* A clean black/white set of icons.

* A clean light blue set of icons.

* I switched as many apps as I could to a greyish theme.

All in all, I love the clean black and white look of everything. Gone is the colourful mess of icons in my dock! This feels so much better ^_^

kilala.nl tags: ibook, apple, other tech,

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Broken iBooks will rise again!

2006-06-14 22:14:00

Phew... I can breathe again... Luckily our home insurance (which includes separate coverage for PC's) covers the damage I inflicted upon my iBook. So instead of coughing up 900 Euros or scrounging the web for a second hand LCD panel, I will now forward the bill for Apple's repairs (the aforementioned 900 euri) to my insurer. o/ I knew I had a good reason for getting that insurance!

kilala.nl tags: ibook, apple, money,

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Broken iBooks don't cry

2006-06-14 10:06:00

Sometimes I just really want to kick myself... Hard... In the nads... x_x

I had a -very- bad night with only about an hour of sleep. Starting work at 0400 by my own volition and then dozing off around 0800 I was startled and woke again around 0830... What did I do then? I stood up... Right on top of my sweet, little iBook! So now the glass in the LCD's cracked, although the screen's still working. Hopefully Apple can fix the damage -quickly- since I rely on this laptop 100% for both my work and the Anime 2006 festival. ;_;

kilala.nl tags: ibook, apple, snafu,

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Mega update!

2006-04-02 11:23:00

I don't know why, but Opera and some versions of IE keep fscking up the table layout for this news post. Sorry guys.

Jimminy Cricket! Almost a whole month has gone by without any form of updates! o_O You guys must think I'm slacking off! Well, rest assured that I'm not, but that I'm very, very busy! Work+festival+private_life+finishing_the_house=lots of work and right now that leaves me with too little time to work on the site. For now though, here's a mega-update :3

As I mentioned near the end of February I went to see 7 Seconds of love play live in Amsterdam. I loved their music as MP3's (which they offer for free download on their website), but their concerts are on a completely different level! The energy these guys generate is awesome! The second act on stage that night, The Shenanigans (from Utrecht), was also very good! Their line-up was more like the classic-style ska and was executed -very- well.

Honesty drives me to confess that this was my first concert in more than ten years, but now I understand what I've been missing! It's a rare thing indeed when I'm compelled to "dance" in public by music.

EDIT:

Holy shiznit! Thanks to the 7SoL forums I just found out that one of the band members has put three videos of the concert online! You can find them at YouTube here, here and here. Awesome! Also I just learned about a website called KeepVid which will let you download movies from YouTube (something which isn't normally possible).

I seriously want these two bands to start putting out CDs. They really deserve some recognition and could very do well with some extra income.

Last Friday I took it upon myself to -finally- do something I'd been wanting to do for a very long time: mod my iBook! It really wasn't as a big a mod as the ones I did with my old Linux box (which I've recently sold off by the way), and it was very easy to execute... But I love it nonetheless.

So, what did I do? I modified the white, glowing Apple logo in the lid to have the colours of the original nineteen-eighties Apple logo. I.e. the rainbow Apple.

As I said: this was -very- easy to do. Just get a hex-key which fits the four screw in the iBook's lid and undo them. Then snap the white part of the lid loose (don't worry, the insides are very tidy and nothing will fall out). You can now simply tape some coloured plastic or silk paper (which is what I used) behind the clear Apple logo. Presto!

I love the way it turned out (a few bright colours against the sleek white of the iBook) and will be modding a colleague's iBook at the office on Monday. She's been wanting a pink Apple logo for quite a while now :3

Yesterday was the fourth annual Dataman ISP Kart competition. Around 800 people from all manner of companies delivering Internet services come together to compete in kart races. My employer Snow was there with about twelve people. We didn't win anything, but it was a nice day nonetheless. I just loved playing with the slotrace track.

Also, I did get to meet a few new people, which is always good. *waves at Kirsten and Marjolein*. I was genuinly surprised to hear a girl giggle when I was cussing at a colleague in Japanese. That made my day Marjolein ^_^

kilala.nl tags: music, apple, ibook, snow,

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