Well I spent most of Saturday morning trying to backup the XP partition on my MacBook Pro with Winclone, which was like pulling your eyebrows out with a pair of industrial sized pliers.

Winclone : Is a very useful program I came across this evening. It allows you to clone the NTFS partition of your Boot Camp, so you can restore it onto an external drive or another machine.

So today I bought another piece of code, and this time its written by a student. Albeit a talented one. It really is so easy to find great applications on the mac.

Went out today and bought the JBL Creature II 2.1 speakers and the new ultra thin Apple Keyboard, which is REALLY nice to type on. As good as typing on the laptop keys. The speakers are pretty special too. Bass is nice once you balance it out with the treble.

So I saw Prince tonight for the 2nd time. First time was back in August with Nikki (my fiancee). Tonight I went with a couple of the girls from the office.

So there’s this new blogging tool for both Mac and PC, called Qumana. If you’re tired of going to your weblog and typing in a browser, this is what you’re looking for. It allows you to type up your post, or posts, add your images, tags and even your Ads, then add your Categories. You can do this in both WYSIWYG or Source View. Might want to try it, see how you like it.

I don’t know man, I really have nothing to say about this. Just enjoy!

I’m so tired of the silly weather we’re having in London. I can’t wait for the cold air to come. I don’t want heat anymore. Sick and tired of sweating like a pig in the tube, and needing another shower when I get to my destination.

So I purchased a couple more small applications today.

Hazel : Is a file automation program / preferences, which automates actions depending on file types and / or extensions. So for example, if you download a lot of jpgs, and you manually have to move them to your photo/images folder, you can set Hazel to constantly check the desktop or any other folder for jpgs, and as soon as you drop one there, it moves it to where you want.

It’s a lot more than just that. But that’s what I am using it for. Torrent / Rar and zip files. Great app.

Mars Edit : is a great application for blogging. Instead of using the clunky web based UI of WordPress, I just use a very pretty (as all OS X apps are) user interface to communicate with WordPress and do my typing, organisation, editing etc. etc.

So now, I can blog from work, if I so wish. It’ll also entice me into doing more blogging.

Trisfe Pornografia

Since I bought my MacBook Pro a couple of months ago, I’ve been busy looking for good software, for everyday use as well as robust applications that help keep the Mac run clean and healthy.

I’m speechless…

I took a photo about 2years ago, on the Chinese new year in London Soho, and Schmap asked me if they could use it on there site and printed work. So I said yeah, go for it. And they did.

They saw it originally on Flickr

You can see it on the link below.

http://www.schmap.com/london/events_sohoandwestend/p=317612/i=317612_2.jpg

I just sat through and watched the interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at AllThings Digital Conference, talking about the past, present and their thoughts on the future. I am not sure this is for everyone, but I’ve more or less grown up with these guys inventions and products, so it was very interesting to watch. Mostly because you get to see how different each one thinks

The other night, I was thinking about the old days, the pre-mp3 player days, when people used to walk on the Underground with their ghetto blasters, and play their music, annoy the crap out of you with their crappy music, loudly.

I laughed so hard, I think I tore something…

Tonight I managed to finally get the damn thing to work on my Intel based motherboard. Not only that, but I have a dual system running, which means I can run either OS X, or Windows-XP. All controlled from the Bios.

PHEW!!!!!! Finally!

More later.