I’ve been sitting on many of the things I should have put in this blog while I was finding a name for it & then setting it up, so here’s a jumble of things I jotted down on a notebook.
* The otherwise lovely aluminium unibody heats up, which I knew from my friend John. What I didn’t know / foresee, though, is how sharp the inner edge is. I find that resting my wrists as I type kind of hurts because it digs too sharply in. :(
* I struggle with the keyboard a bit. I love that the @ is right there next to the 1/&, available without the need to press Shift, but I always forget where the – and _ are (on the same key, end of the numbers row right before the backspace key), and I desperately miss the backslash and the pipe. Thankfully, I’ve been given some cheat codes. Unfortunately, I haven’t quite memorized them yet.
* Installed and in use, so far:
- VLC
- Twitter (official app, from the Mac store)
- IStatPro (dashboard widget/app)
- Skitch
- Adium
- Xmarks for Safari (it’s an app and not a plugin, hence why I’m listing it)
- Firefox
* Installed but not used yet:
- Audacity
- Skype
- Chrome
- F.Lux
* Downloaded but not installed yet:
- Tinkertool
- Handbrake
- Transmission
- Evernote
I intended to add links to all those when I started this entry but I’m in a rush to get more podfic editing done, so that will be for later (if ever).
The big step forward in terms of “feeling at home” for today is that I have installed Firefox and the necessary minimum extensions (for the record: Xmarks to immediately sync my bookmarks; Adblock Plus; TabMixPlus, Session Manager; and Read It Later). I’m sure I could tame Safari properly and come to like it, and perhaps someday I will. But since (several) friends have validated Firefox use, I feel content with my choice.
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