Funnily enough, as I own a mac, I get to brag about how purty they are. Even windoze users who hate macs can’t deny that they just are prettier than PCs, even if you cant go ferreting around its insides on the great safari, hunting virus’s!

The first wonderful thing I’m going to talk about is Disco. Its a small app that burns CD’s and DVD’s but the best thing about it, is it smokes whilst burning a CD!

Yes, its gimicky but its so damn cool! So I suggest you all buy it! (I got mine through the macbundle through macheist, which has unfortunately ended, leaving behind it a wave of doubt as to whether the developers actually benefitted from the whole shebang.)

I’ve also decided to start using apple’s mail facility, don’t get me wrong, I love gmail, but mail is so satisfying and it actually has folders, the one thing I hate about gmail is the lack of folders, its incrediby annoying!, So here is a screenshot of my new colour coded inbox. You’ll notice all the accounts….I have all those feeding into gmail atm shame about my hotmail account, but I only use that for spamming because the main features on hotmail are a joke!

Whist working on my programming project (convert roman numerals to arabic numbers) I was testing out the #define. I got myself all confused, however, from the looks of things the command prompt likes my work. It quite surprising, I’ve been learning C for 11/12 weeks now, and although I cant personally think of any instance where it would be of any use to me, what I have found is that I now, for some bizarre reason understand PHP much better! I actually understand the gibberish in wordpress themes and I understand ‘the loop’ and all that jazz.

I’ve also been having lectures for the past 3 weeks on javascript, in which they successfully succeeded in teaching us no javascript, then they wanted us to write a program to generate two random numbers, multiply them and see if a users answer was the right answer. Basically a site to teach kids how to multiply. Which was rather unfair as we dont know any javascript. Although my multiplication has improved dramatically at university and I’m getting really into the maths! (yes, multimedia technology and design includes maths! – but its easy)

All I need now is sleep.

For those who havn’t had the privilege of ever using a mac, theres a cool feature called Expose. Basically it sets up ‘hot points’ on your laptop, so that if I move my cursor to the top left of the screen all the windows i have open align themselves in a neat and orderly fashion, like so:

If I go to the top right, if I had say photoshop and 50 images open it’d organise just the images in photoshop in a nice fashion so I can click whichever one I need. The bottom left hides all the windows so I can get to the desktop and finally the bottom right goes to the ‘dashboard’ where I have lots of cool ‘widgets’:

I’ve gotten so used to this piece of software it actually makes me angry whenever I go on a pc, move my mouse to the top left corner and it doesn’t do anything! When I went home the otherday, I found iEx. Which does what expose does with open windows, on windows! Its not as smooth and you need .NET and other things installed, but once the nitty grittys done, press f9 and you’ll be in organisational heaven!

You can download it here.