lots of new toys
so I’ve given in to the dark side. I’ve recently purchased a Macbook in order to help facilitate me being a stage manager for synchronicity theater group.now I know that in the past I’ve been rather critical of Macs, but they have slowly grown on me. Especially since I found out that they are very good looking boxes that are really designed for developers. Since all Macs come with PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, TCL/TK, bash, SSH, and all sorts of other cool UNIX tools, I have been able to use Macs pretty well over at 7 Stages.
I’ve also started using iTunes since it came with my Mac, and I have purchased the entire season three of Battle Star Galactica, which is delivered to me weekly through iTunes. I can then watch it whenever I feel like it. It’s freaking awesome.
Thirdly, I bought Dragon Systems NaturallySpeaking version 9 today. That is how I’m currently making this post. Version 9 is way better than previous versions they have made. I quite literally installed this less than an hour ago, trained at once, and I am able to make this entire post with only three mistakes so far. Okay make that four. I am very impressed with how well it works with certain programs, such as X-Chat, trillian, and Firefox. I have not yet tried it with Word, or any form of e-mail program. I think my next test is to try it out with Gmail. Wow this is capitalizing everything right.
If this continues to work out I might actually blog a bit more frequently. I know some of you would be eager for me to be doing that. Hopefully I will find this ex-ordinarily useful, as I use it to write up reports, make conversation, and see what limits I can push with this software.
This is freaking amazing.
Posted: Saturday, October 28th, 2006 @ 11:23 pm
Categories: Blog.
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