Photoshop sucks. Adobe sucks. Everyone gets a kick out of pirating Adobe software, just like how everyone does with each pirated copy of Microsoft software.
No 64-bit Photoshop for Mac till CS5? You know what, Adobe? You can keep your CS5 for yourself and your Microsoft bitches.
Photoshop will become irrelevant in 2 years. Die. Photoshop. Die Adobe. Die Lightroom. Die.
So 10.5.1 is finally out. Just installed on my iMac and am looking forward to see how it goes.
An update that the rest of the Mac sites have yet to report on so far is yet another firmware update for the 4th Gen Aluminum iMacs’ Ati Radeon HD2600 Pro Graphics. Installed it as well, and ran Openmark to see if there’s any diff in OpenGL performance.
Notch.
This sucks manz.
Here‘s the link for the update.
Sorry for the long hiatus. It will still continue for a while as I have been busy with lots of stuff.
Meanwhile here’s some updates.
Finally Leopard shipped. And I am the proud owner of a copy of Leopard, LEGALLY. Though it didn’t cost me the full 241 singapore dollars. Hehz. And you know? Leopard rocks. It’s rock solid and stuff.
One bad point: All the various cracks/hacks are broken, including my no-cd crack for Call of Duty 2!!! Darn.
Here’s a picture of my Leopard Desktop.
And I finally got my iPhone. SMS is probably the weakest phone-related app. Instead of having SMS chats appear like iChat chats, it will be a lot more functional to make them like email, having the ability to forward SMSes and to send to lots of people at the same time. Yet Apple doesn’t get this. Freaking hell irritating.
And well the typing was irritating for the first 2 to 3 days. Now I type darn fast, but still with one finger instead of two.
And damn the 3rd Party Apps. They make the OS kinda crashy from time to time. And they don’t seem as cool and powerful the hackers have made them out to be. I have had better experience IM-ing with Meebo.com and Jivetalk rather than MobileChat and Apollo. (Edit: Turns out that Summerboard was the evil causing all the crap here.)
But I love my iPhone.
Just a short update here, will try to post more stuff when I have time.
Thursday morning 0735hrs. A strange hour and day for the Apple Store to be down, as that is usually reserved for Tuesday nights.
Is Leopard coming?
Edit: Nothing again.
I am very very excited about this piece of news.
According to 9to5Mac, the same guys whom, with the help of their chinese spies, revealed to the world the shape of the new iPod Nano and the presence of the iPod Touch way before everyone else, Apple is preparing to ship brand new MacBooks in the 4th quarter of 2007, which starts in less than ten days!
The great points about these new MacBooks?
1. Aluminum Enclosure instead of the current Polycarbonate ones
2. 2 colours, Silver and Anodized Black Aluminum (Black Aluminum!!! This thing is going to be really beautiful!)
3. Priced AGGRESSIVELY (Which may mean even cheaper prices than today!!!)
4. Similar design to the current one, but with a smaller bezel and thus a smaller footprint
5. Considerably Thinner!!!
6. Lighter!!!
7. Special Touchpads!!!! (Multi Touch functions? Backlit Touchpads?)
As you can see, I have every single right to be damn hell excited about this piece of news. And according to 9to5Mac, their sources have already seen the MacBooks in physical form, which will indicate that production is already in progress, and that their sources are probably people working in the china factories.
The even more interesting thing here is, upon looking up some archives, there was a similar post by Cruchgear.com a few months back! They believed that the MacBooks are due for October. They were ready to ship them back in June together with Leopard, but now that Leopard is delayed, the MacBooks are delayed too.
So how accurate do I think this piece of news is? Extremely accurate. Looking by the products they have released in the past few months, it’s extremely clear that Apple is going to transit into using more aluminum for their production, as evident by the latest iPods and iMacs. And one does get the feeling that the iMac, the coming MacBooks and the iWork and iLife suites were actually planned to be released together with Leopard but did not managed to do so due to the delay of Leopard. iWork and iLife had to be released earlier, and to do that some code/library frameworks from Leopard actually has to be transferred into Tiger during OS X updates installation for them to actually work. Furthermore, the design focus of the recent iMac and iPod updates do prove that these new Aluminum MacBooks are coming. Remember the main points that Steve Jobs used to praise the new iPod Classics and the new iMacs (the MacBooks, iMacs, iPod always have the privilege of sharing the same design focus ever since the iMac G5 era)? “all-Aluminium construction” (okay for the iMac it was aluminum and glass, technically, but I guess you can agree with me that the glass was there to make the screen look glossy) and “they are thinner!”. Furthermore, the 2 colours of the iPod Classic fully explains the Silver and Anodized Black Aluminum colours of the new MacBooks!
Ahhh…. I can’t wait. This is so much more exciting than the iPod Touch. I totally forgot about that piece of iPhone wannabe crap already!
I should expect some of my friends will not be too pleased about the update since they have just purchased their MacBooks recently, but well, guess what? I think many girls will snap at the chance to buy what is possibly the last batch of lovely white polycarbonate MacBooks from Apple!
Life is great. And if you do remember, the first 30 years were really just the beginning. Welcome to 2007.
So yeah, we know that Leopard is now due for June. The big question everyone is asking now is exactly, are there secret features in Leopard? Developers and techies alike are both complaining that the 10.5 developers’ seed is both buggy, and have questioned the missing “secret features” that Steve Jobs promised at the WWDC keynote last year. They were puzzled as to why the secret features have yet to be seeded for testing, and many even believed that the secret features were in fact non-existant, being nothing more than Steve Jobs’ marketing ploy.
Well, I for one won’t bet on that, Leopard with the current features are just too empty to require Apple spending more than 2 years developing it. As for secret stuff, there’s definitely something being held back by Apple. Well for one thing, Leopard was (I believed) scheduled for a 1st April release. A few weeks before Apple’s twenty-first birthday, some Apple trainers were apparently notified to be on standby for a 1st April release of Leopard. Then 2 weeks later the rumours about the delay to June was everywhere, and it seemed that Apple did have a last minute delay after all. As to what caused the delay no one seems to have any ideas.
Well for one thing we do know that at one point of time, Leopard was ready. Then
All of a sudden the above does not matter anymore. Apple just announced a delay for Leopard to October due to the need to transfer manpower over to the iPhone side until it’s released in June in America.
………….
Thanks ah iPhone. Now I don’t have my new Mac, I don’t have my new iWork, I don’t have my new Leopard, and I don’t have my new iPhone, thanks to Mr. Jobs’ “Asia 2008”. ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!