- Sun Mar 30 21:04:19 2008 macbook air – 1st week impressions – http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=28
- Sun Mar 30 20:25:38 2008 GTD on RTM – http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=26
- Fri Mar 28 23:36:47 2008 AAPL – bucking the trend – http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=24
- Mon Mar 24 04:50:32 2008 New blog post: time machine
- Mon Mar 24 04:30:03 2008 installing SugarSync to keep my Air in sync with my MBP. http://tinyurl.com/3867qt
- Fri Mar 21 23:09:15 2008 ugh…moving back from Safari 3.1 to FF2 so I can use Google Gears with RTM and Google Reader…we need Gears for Safari! soon, i know…
- Fri Mar 21 04:43:10 2008 New blog post: got a macbook air (craigslist deal o’ the century) http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=17
- Tue Mar 11 06:47:56 2008 New blog post: i ♥ helvetica http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=14
- Sat Mar 08 00:19:28 2008 made fluid.app SSB’s for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Remember the Milk.
- Thu Mar 06 22:36:53 2008 New blog post: decent, cheap iPhone replacement headset http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=11
- Wed Mar 05 07:03:12 2008 inner nerd, part deux – http://uninteresting.org/rich/2008/03/04/inner-nerd-part-deux/
- Wed Mar 05 02:20:56 2008 my fico score – http://tinyurl.com/2qdmyn
- Wed Mar 05 01:45:27 2008 apple is most admired – http://tinyurl.com/2km9oa
- Tue Mar 04 16:50:27 2008 hbo: in treatment – http://tinyurl.com/3acgjr
i’ve had my Air for a week now, enough to have some pretty solid impressions. i don’t use it 100% as my primary machine – i switch back and forth with my work machine (a 17″ Macbook Pro, 2.33). the goal is to be able to move between machines transparently – both environments completely in sync – and it’s mostly working.
- though it’s technically the slowest mac available, i find it plenty peppy. it is still a dual-core processor with 2GB of ram…so OS X runs really well on it for most basic tasks. it won’t play high-end games or do serious video editing, but for everything else it’s great.
- the screen is amazing. when waking from sleep it comes to full brightness immediately (thanks to the new LED technology). and it’s super-sharp. it’s my preferred screen to use when compared against my 17″ MBP, Dell 2405FPW, and 24″ Apple Cinema Display.
- the keyboard is full-sized and has a great feel.
- i’m using a free beta account of SugarSync to keep things in sync with my MBP. so far, it’s working really well. when i make a change on one machine, it’s immediately uploaded to their servers and sync’d down to the other machine. it also means i have a backup of everything online, accessible from any browser. unless another solution comes around before my beta runs out (dropbox is getting a lot of hype), i’ll be signing up .
- .mac sync keeps a bunch of other things in sync: bookmarks, address book, dashboard widgets, mail accounts, keychain, and textexpander shortcuts.
- i’ve used 30gb out of 75gb avail. i have all the files i need on it, except 2 big space hogs that i keep separately: my iPhoto and iTunes library.
- storage expansion options are pretty cheap, though i’m not sure i even need them:
- usb flash drives (16GB is down to $80)
- usb-powered hard drives (250GB for about $130)
- my one gripe is that the battery doesn’t last long when the screen is at full brightness and wifi is on – probably about 2-2.5 hrs. but if you turn the screen down and use wifi intermittently, it’s easily 3-4 hours. this isn’t such a big deal since 95% of the time i’m near a power outlet and the a/c adapter is really small.
overall, it’s amazing. usually when i see a new product announced, i can tell right away how useful it would be to me. when the Air was announced i thought, ‘eh, it’s cool but i don’t really need one.’ fast forward 2 months after seeing it in person and thinking about what the form factor and portability offer, and i was lusting after it. fast forward another week after owning it, and now i couldn’t go back. i used it on the toilet today…that should give an impression of how portable it is.
i’ve tried tons of online todo list managers. my current fav is Remember the Milk. it’s made by these 2 guys in australia, and it basically integrates with everything. there’s a plugin for quicksilver, it publishes to iCal, you can email it with your todos, and it every has a great iPhone interface.
perhaps most importantly, it has a really active community in their forums that help each other. this guy put together a great way of using RTM’s Smart Lists as a GTD system, and even made an easy-to-understand screencast. i just set up my RTM like his. exciting.
our high school class has a website now – tzhs1988.com. it’s both hilarious and frightening at the same time. i honestly can’t remember most of the people (and i distinctly remember thinking, in my 20′s, that i could remember every detail of high school). our 20th reunion is coming up this fall! (not going)
i just saw this pic for the first time. it rulez.
left to right: me, danny goldenberg, paul henneman, joey forbes, matt henneman, and rob ryan. i’m in touch with all of them.
howard’s been preaching it for years, but i just got around to actually trying it. it was…refreshing. oddly pleasant. i’m officially joining him in the movement to make them standard issue in all toilets.
get older → clean my ass with baby wipes. the irony isn’t lost on me.
