Antipresto: Deviant Magic

I’m looking for an unopened Siemens S40 mobile phone and headset. I’m also looking for advice on small digital cameras… more on that at bradtastic.com—I really need to get back to writing up my new business stuff, and now it’s even more complicated. Sorry, for any of you who’ve enjoyed anything I’ve written here, for not posting with more frequency. Writing two books and constantly trying to reinvent oneself while trying to make money while unemployed usually strains me some. I’ll try and write about obscure tech stuff more often, starting with an entry later today or tomorrow. There’s a cool toy I found on dynamism that I want to share with y’all!

I finally got around to installing and playing around with Leopard. It’s amazing. If you have an Apple computer, you really should use Leopard, and if you don’t have Mac, you should. The myth that they’re slower and more expensive than Windows PCs has been debunked all over, I’m not even going to break it down. I’m not an Apple-cult defender and they don’t pay me to endorse ‘em (though they should, damn it)… just go try out a machine at the Apple store. Surf the net, send out some emails, play around with the UI.

It’s not too far away from what computing should be like. “Using a computer” (IMO) should be the enjoyment and functionality of a 20+ finger touchscreen with full 3D, motion, speach and handwriting detection, on a slightly convex surface, smooth, and both back and frontlit. Having a “digitizer” surface with a 2048 degree of pressure WACOM pen would be nice, too.

Leopard is fun and easy to use. Time Machine will save casual users.