A Geekish View of Life

iPhone.
It’s coming.
It’s coming soon!
It’s coming June 11th! w00t!
The only bad news is that at currenty pay rates … I won’t beable to get on till like 2040. Okay so that’s a little exaggeration. But seriously it’s a ways off for me. ::sniff:: Oh well. As long as I can get a better phone to hold me over till I can get one of those I’ll be happy. My current phone is well … not so good. It ain’t a bad phone … it’s just not a good one either. It’s really really functional. But I’m after more function than it can give right now. ::sigh:: Oh well good things come to those who wait right?

I am always on the quest for cool, neat, and or fun/funtional.  So here’s some more of that stuff:

http://typetester.maratz.com/ - This handy dandy shiny cool little app will make your websites look much better and be easier to read.  Why?  Less of the annoying guessing that can be typesetting on the web.  In desktop apps you can see the text change right on the screen or make a ton of copies and then mess when them till you like the look.  And that all happens in real time.  With web type, it’s input parameters, save, reload.  Unless you use a WYSIWYG {What You See Is What You Get} editor like Dreamweaver or iWeb, in which case you’ll be seeing the changes in real time.  But even then this will help shorten the time to ‘print’ because you can preview several options all at once.

http://www.csstype.com/ - a tool similar in function to typetester, but not quite as many views.  Still kinda neat way to maybe go deeper on one style.

http://stikkit.com/ - This is an amazing app.  It is digital postits that you can send to others or use to collaborate on or just keep yourself “on target” even if you’re away from your iCal!  And it’s free!

In this crazy complex world it is reassuring that there are things that are still so simple that they are amazing.  Example.  There is a cat that lives around my apartment building.  He has been abandoned by his owner.  And basically all of us in our building are ‘cat people’, so we’ve started taking care of him.  Last night, I was sitting on the bottom step, and he came over and crawled up into my lap, where he happily purred for several minutes, till I got kinda cramped and had to stand up.  What’s so special about that?  Well when this cat’s owner was still here this cat was rather stand offish, and skittish.  Now he actually quite sociable.  He’s not as friendly as one of the other cats around here, but he’s warmed up by a lot.  He’s now even brave enough to wander into my apartment.  It is so nice to find things that are easy to enjoy.

Vader Sessions {youtube}

All right. So you are in touch with your inner Star Wars nerd. Let’s say you have a fondness for film and an editing program on your computer. What would you do? Make “Vader Sessions”. Duh.

The link above goes to an astonishingly funny video I found on YouTube. The person using the handle Akjak has made a video where he replaced the Darth Vader dialog with audio clips from other James Earl Jones movies. It is HI-larious! It is about 10 min long, but it’s very good and worth the time put in. Give it a look!