Is Leopard really worth it over Tiger?

Been reading up on it prior to making the leap to Leopard, and there were many whose computer crashed and burned after installing it. Apparently it had something to do with certain incompatible apps loading on startup, and they had their machines stuck on the blue startup screen with the mouse pointer for.. a good few hours. Nothing they do can get the machine out of that state and even better, when running the installation DVD again, the drive could not be installed to! They apparently had to format and do a clean install of leopard, losing all their files. I'm not too keen on that, especially on my iMac where I have a lot of very precious data. With no 500gb hard drive to backup to, I can only risk my MacBook Pro, which doesn't have a lot of data, but which I can throw into my iMac for safe keeping.

Another thing is the look of leopard, I don't really fancy the way it looks. Yeah, stacks is cool, spaces will be useful, cover flow everywhere, but the overall look of Leopard is.. ew. The translucent menu bar, no more rounded corners, super FUGLY folder icons, ugly shade of blue on the selected menu items.. oh and yes.. FRONT ROW LOOKS LIKE ASS. I believe it's the exact carbon copy of the Apple TV interface, which honestly isn't very nice. The 3D effect of zooming in and out of front row is GONE, and it just fades in and out. Really sad.

So I've decided to go with Leopard only on my MBP, as I believe spaces will be productive for me, but will stick with Tiger with my iMac. Tiger just looks better, and I don't need spaces here with a 24" screen. I don't code on my iMac anyway. I would wanna come home to a pretty interface after a hard day of school or what not.

Cool app of the week!

Introducing an app I've been looking for the past few days: an app that can display the song my iTunes is playing on my menu bar, the nifty nice neatish area on the top right of all macs. It's really simple, but it's not easy to find a free one that looks good (the other I tried needed me to pay and had really crappy anti-aliasing; the words were jagged!) and I stumbled upon this today: QuickTunes. It's completely free under GPL and it does a little more than just display the song title on the menu. Check the shots out:





Pretty much explains what it can do. Not like I really need them, but it's cool to have. It has a floating window which I won't show here because I already have sizzling keys to do that for me.

More info here: http://dbachrach.com/opensoft/index.php?page=QuickTunes

for fi

http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/firiff-triac.mp3 this is your riff with my triac
http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/firiff-mix2.mp3 this is your riff mixed in with the triac
http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/firiff-mix.mp3 this is the same as mix2 but it has my normal setup mixed in as well, sounds like shit tho, dunno why

Hmm I removed the 'What My Friends are Saying' section..

Kinda takes up too much space and I don't think anyone is interested in reading them.. If you want it back just holler on my cbox and I will add it back!

I HATE CHINANESE!!!!

The feeling of being a guitar geek is coming back..

Finally the feel is back.. I wanna do stuff to my guitar setup once again. I'm planning on having my solo boost switch on my guitar, followed by a looper that switches 2 of my 3 overdrive pedals in and out so I can switch between clean and distortion easily, and cutting the body to have more pull up on my floyd. All these hopefully done by next june, wish me luck..

Thanks to all that came!!

IMG_4672.JPG, originally uploaded by sanXp.

See all the photos here:
Day 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/day2/
Day 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/day1/

Heh

IMG_4667.JPG, originally uploaded by sanXp.

Check the rest out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/day2/ !

DAY 2!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/day2/

:D

IMG_4608.JPG, originally uploaded by sanXp.

WE CAN FLY!

IMG_4609.JPG, originally uploaded by sanXp.

GIG PHOTOS UP

I too shag to type anything else

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/gig/

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

dilemma..

Been troubled recently.. About my studies. Haven't been doing too well.. Actually that's an understatement, I actually am not catching ANY ball at all. Physics and maths. My weakest subjects in secondary school, are back to haunt me now. Digital Design, a module I was quite good at during poly, is not very good now either. The only thing I can do is programming, but I'm in Electrical Engin, not Computer Engin or Computer Science. I'm basically screwed. I've been harbouring thoughts of quitting school and focusing on music but that will not go well with my folks. I'm lost.. I know if I'm gonna focus on my studies I got to stop playing music, but that's not something I will give up so easily. As an engineer my future is more or less secured, I will be able to put food on the table, live a comfortable life, make sure my baby is well taken care of..

I don't want her to suffer because of me. I know I'm thinking too far.. But I need to know if TEG will go all the way with me. Some form of assurance, somewhat. As we grow older we need to think of how we're going to survive. I'm turning 22 already. Now's not the time to sit around and see what happens in the future. That time is long over.

All these are happening because of all the constant pressure from my dad about getting a degree and shit.. But that's not what I want. I can't think straight because of all these external factors and pressure from everywhere.. Everyone's looking at me. I cannot afford to fail in life. If I become successful in music no one can say anything. But what if I don't? I can't see myself being successful in music if I have to juggle school and music.. I can't do well in both. It's either.. and my dad wants to see a degree.

I know it's my life and my choices.. but sometimes in life you live for others..

JAMMING ROCKED!

EDIT: All photos up on flickr! iPhoto has this wonderful plugin that lets me export like a shit load of photos in 1 shot (like 1 event) into flickr and it can even put all the pictures in 1 set! Hoho.. Get them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7552334@N05/sets/72157602171289920/

(you also notice i can create blog posts directly from flickr.. but i can only blog 1 pic at a time.. sad.)

Awesome. The recording was great! Aaaaaaaaanddddd... WE HAVE PICTURES!!! Baby came for jamming today and she brought her cam along.. :D:D Thanks so much bee.. *muacks*

So. Here are the various members of the toilet crew..

Jason


WAN THE DEMIGOD


Fi


Me


And the newest member of our family.. Is!


Baby took like 100+ photos so I chose some really nice ones to put up.. Hehe..

Wan so handsome..


PUNK SHY!


Maciam cool.


Our 1st picture taken together with just the 2 of us. And with fuck faces. LOL


Maciam..


Cheese!


\m/



And my favourite picture of all.. A picture my pedal board, taken by my baby... Thanks soooooo much bee... *muacks*


There you go! Haha.. Time for sleep..

GIG CONFIRMED!

Guys! My band (TEG) will be playing a gig this 29th and 30th of September at Cathay Cineleisure. The time is yet to be confirmed, but please do come down to support!! :D:D:D

RSS FEEDS OWN!

If you are not actively using RSS, you should. Like now. Like immediately. Here I demonstrate how I use RSS feeds in Safari:

Yes my dear friends, you are looking at YOUR blogs. All of you. On one page. All with a simple click on 'Blogs' on my bookmark bar. And before you complain saying Safari is only for mac, Safari 3 beta works on windows too. ;) http://www.apple.com/safari/download

Oh yes, candice, please turn on your RSS, I can't add you to my RSS feed.

Definition of a good sleep?

What's your definition of a good sleep? When you sleep till you don't want to wake up in the morning or when you sleep and wake up really fresh and awake?

What do you feel? I personally prefer the latter but that doesn't happen to me really often =\

Happy birthday baby..

I love you.. *muacks*