I just bought a Powerbook!

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I just bought a new model, Powerbook G4 1.67GHz, 15-inch screen with 1 GB of RAM. I’ve been stuck with an aging PC at home and an iBook I received from my parents not too long ago. I’m hoping the new laptop will replace both machines at home and increase productivity. Right now, my 1 GHz Pentium III system at home can barely run Photoshop and Illustrator at the same time.

Besides that I’ve been pretty busy with various freelance projects and I can’t wait to add some new stuff to my portfolio and get back to cover interesting things.

Now for the worst part, waiting…

Arrested Development gets the axe

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I’m very disappointed with Arrested Development being cancelled, just as I thought they had a good thing going with the new season, FOX pulls the plug. I’m sure we’ll have plenty more crappy FOX shows to watch that will bomb, some won’t even make it past the first episode, but it will be too late, the cast and crew of the Bluth residence will have moved on to new projects. I thought the acting and direction were great, everybody had chemistry, but I guess it wasn’t popular with everyone.

IBM Slows Light

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“IBM Slows Light,” not your typical headline and not something I had thought was possible, I mean I know about refraction and how light travels at different speeds through certain substances, but I hadn’t give this subject much thought before. Though this has been done before, IBM is reportedly the first company to do this by using standard materials. This could be a huge breakthrough for future hardware, companies creating components that require far less energy to run than in computers today; further paving the way for optical based CPUs.

Kansas Board of Education Rewrites Definition of Science?

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Again, evolution is challenged in Kansas, but now it they have rewritten the definition of science, which is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena. Intelligent Design will be taught alongside evolution, which seems utterly ridiculous to me.

I would hope that schools would teach science based on fact, hard evidence and years of scientific data. Now they will cop out and say, “evolution is a theory, and life here could be too complex, so there must have been a creator.” That sounds like creationism to me, God and science don’t usually mix well. Read more…

Inquisitor Instant Search Beta

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I have been using Inquisitor in Safari for quite sometime and enjoy its slick interface and ease of use. Recently, info was released regarding its next incarnation, Inquisitor 2.0 which looks very promising.

I must say that the Inquisitor Instant Search Beta is an online version of the same search interface, working on any platform. Built on the same technology that powers Google Suggest with some AJAX goodness, should prove to be an interesting experiment.

Linotype FontExplorer X

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I posted about this before on evolvefuel, but I want to devote a little more time to reviewing the product.

Linotype FontExplorer X is a new font management utility, much like Suitcase X1 or Apple’s Font book. I’ve been using Suitcase for a few years now and it usually works pretty good, though the PC version lacks some additional features that are in the OS X version.

Font Book sounded really good when it was first introduced but I found it difficult to manage a large library of fonts without my system slowing to a crawl or Font Book crashing out right.

In comes FontExplorer, a sleek interface reminiscent of iTunes brushed metal, and easy to use tools. Font organization is quick, featuring multiple preview options, auto-activation with an option to buy missing typefaces directly through the application. Searching for fonts is as easy and quick as using Spotlight.

I’d recommend this alone on the how its features are equal to or better than the competition, but the last selling point is that it is completely free, free forever, no ads or nagging, pretty generous of Linotype in my opinion.