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Plan on waiting for it to load, that will have to be fixed before it launches!

Here’s a great blog highlighting embarrassing Photoshop or design work. Check it out.

via Kottke

I just read about this in a Shaun Inman post regarding Mail.app troubles and had to check it out. I love it!

Mail Unread Menu is a simple menu bar application which can provide you with a quick and easy way to see how many unread email messages are in Apple’s Mail.

Should be interesting to see how this plays out…

“We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.”

Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager
Internet Explorer

Chris Johnston has announced the availability of a public WordPress 2.5 demo site. I went in and played around within the admin panel and it looks sooooo nice. I’m hoping for the ability to upload any media for a post, not just images. We’ll see! Can’t wait for March!

I’ve been pretty good in iTunes lately on “New Music Tuesdays”… refraining from clicking the all to easy to use “BUY ALBUM” button. Last night I noticed that Amazon has begun to sell DRM free MP3 files on AmazonMP3 . My first instinct was to dismiss it as another one of those “iTunes killers” that wind up extinct in no time at all, but then I noticed that it actually worked with Mac and iTunes/iPod. This was something new. First thing this morning, I search around the store a bit. There is a decent selection of music, nowhere near what iTunes has, but still not bad. I found a Marc Broussard CD I didn’t have for $4.52, and I’m a sucker for live music. I downloaded the AmazonMP3 Downloader which was pretty simple, clicked “Buy MP3 Album” and in no time, I’m listening in iTunes. Sweet. AmazonMP3 is priced right, DRM-free, and is very easy to use.

This is tough to read and feel good about as a designer. Adobe is saying that Universal apps could be at least a year away, that could present a dilemma for anyone looking to purchase a new Mac between now and then.

During his keynote at Macworld Expo San Francisco, Jobs showed Photoshop running smoothly under Apple’s emulation environment called Rosetta, but noted while Photoshop was usable for a few tasks, the performance would not be adequate for professionals.

While Adobe confirmed virtually all of its applications run under Apple’s Rosetta emulation environment, it said that customers would experience a few problems as well as a noticeable performance gap.

“In general, applications that are not designed to run on Intel-based Mac computers, including current versions of Adobe’s creative professional applications, may be noticeably slower than they are running on PowerPC-based Macs. Instead of experiencing much-anticipated speed enhancements, customers are likely to see some degradation of performance.”

The company said that customers could mitigate some of these performance issues by using machines with large amounts of memory–at least one gigabyte of RAM, but recommends that professionals use PowerPC-based Macs for maximum workflow efficiency.

“Mac-based customers looking for optimal performance may prefer to run Adobe Creative Suite 2, Studio 8, and their components on PowerPC systems until we release future versions of our software as Universal applications,” the company said.

The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.

Nick Farrell, writing for The Inquirer, has an “interesting” take on Apple fans and the recent Real/Apple petition snafu. “Other people filing comments make the very good point that RealNetworks was hypocritical to demand Apple free up its iPods when its own Rhapsody song shop doesn’t support Macs,” he writes. “The petition was soon taken down and replaced with a comments box, but Apple Zombies insisted on posting joke names and saying Real sucks a lot.”

Hmmm… maybe that’s because THEY DO!!!

I’ve installed Mac OS X Server on my G4 and since then, I’ve been meaning to set up my blog again, but haven’t had any time. Besides, I wanted to read a little so I knew what I was doing. That hasn’t happened, and I still have no idea what I’m doing, but I managed to get this up and running again. Mac OS X Server is cool, but I’m jealous still of those using Movable Type. I can’t wait for Tiger and the built in Blog.