Jacken’s Blog

Today my friend Micke and I had a retro evening. We watched some old videos with Devo and after that we checked out the Sex Pistols documentary The Filth And the Fury. And let’s face it, Devo rocks your fuckin socks of. The reason that I needed to look at some old Devo footage [...]

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As soon as I heard that Apple is indeed moving to Intel architecture and that they would start to sell Intel based Macs within a year, I really thought that they needed to go to Intel machines faster. There’s going to be a big dip in sales the closer you get to the switchover. [...]

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Today when driving home from a walk with the family, this guy in a new Corvette convertible drew up beside our old Volvo. Long black hair, open shirt with golden medallion, typical Saturday Night Fever feeling. So naturally I started to rev the engine, just to annoy him. But when I looked to see if [...]

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My favorite text editor, SubEthaEdit is already up and running on Intel Macs.

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Today I did a photo shoot for a new book. I use Image Capture, a program for downloading pictures, that comes with Mac OS X. But when I checked the folder where the pictures should be, there was only 18, but the card contained 180. It seems that there is a bug in Image Capture [...]

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One of my favorite actors, Bruce Campbell has directed a new film called Man With The Screaming Brain. I just love a good B-movie, and this one seems to contain everything you need for a good laugh. Who can forget his over the top acting in Evil Dead II? I just which I could find [...]

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Karelia software, the makers of Watson has announced that they are working on a new program called Sandvox. There is some information to be found on their homepage. The program is a new web editor that’s supposed to make it really easy to edit web pages. The Sandvox site is done with the program and [...]

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Some thoughts about Apples decision to move Macs over to Intel processors.

Will Apple continue to make machines with low specs? Every time Apple releases machines, there’s always specifications that annoys me. It’s always a bit slower RAM chips, slow bus speed (on laptops), older cheaper versions of graphics cards and so forth. Will the switch to [...]

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So Apple has desided to move to Intel processors. Behold the Osborne effect. See the sales drop to near zero. How Apple is going to keep up sales with the PowerPC based machine is a mystery to me. Maybe they plan on surviving on iPod sales?

If Apple manage to get through this we probably [...]

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I found this little gem of a program for transferring tunes from an iPod to your computer. It’s called Senuti. Nice looking. Going to give it a try tomorrow…

Senuti [Source: Spymac]

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