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Now, I know there are many photo organisation programs around, for many different platforms. There is even some really good online based ones (Flickr, and PhotoBucket spring to mind, as does Facebook’s photo application). But they all fail, in my opinion, is one feature that should be in any photo organiser.

That is, the use of virtual folders. The idea is, dump all your photos in one folder, unorganised, then use the program/virtual folders to organise them.
This eliminates copy & pasting things here and there, and allows you to organize things in many different ways, so finding what you are looking for is quick and simple. This idea of virtual folders couldn’t just be used for photos, almost any type of data can be stored and organised with them. Imagine how easy it would be if you had all your documents sorted into different categorys, but they really all saved to one “real” location? What about videos? Or music?

What about the benifits of network shares? One person might want the files organised in X way, and another who uses them files might want to do it in Y way. Now instead of them arguing over it, and changing folder structures on each other, why not have each logon see the folders/files how they would organise them? The files save to the same place, but the folder structure each person sees is different?

Ok, obviously a system like that is NOT good for big organisations and buisnesses, but in those situations, the company policies and rules would dictate how everything is organised and stored anyway, but for home users, its brilliant.

Now, the sad thing is, I’ve only seen this idea of a virtual folder implemented in two ways really well. And sadly for Windows and Linux users, who are usualy at the forfront of good ideas, and usefull things, Apple has been the first to market. Not with a re-hash of old tech, in a new shell that people will actualy use, but as their own thing.

iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie.

Yes, what they do can probably be done better in other programs, and by physicly making and naming folders your self, but then your locked into one way of doing the task, so http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfSiEsNu2iQ

If I’m wrong, prove it to me, and I’ll gladly change my ways.
But remember, for iPhoto, its gotta have: Google Maps GPS intergration, Face recognition, event organisation.
itunes replacements has to have: coverart, and iPod compatibility
iMovie’s replacement: quick, easy to use, frame-by-frame editing, custom files editable in any program, whilst still sourcing the original avi.

Government Agencies suck. Everyone who works there is incompetent.

Yes that IS a HUGE sweeping statement, but I don’t care, you wana know why? There iss IRC or MSN.

So what else has been happening? Well, for the past week, I’ve been doing JST with the ORS gourp (more acronyms than an acronym factory in this post eh?!), which will be going on for another two weeks. Its something that I’m finding absolutly boring. I mean, seirously, there has been nothing in this “profesional” course that I havn’t done at Uni, in more detail, with better help on subjects,and at a higher quality.

Yes, that’s something I never thought I would do, PRAISE Monash for something. Makes me wonder, if Monash is a bad as it is, and ORS is worse, then how bad are these other places which suposidly arn’t as good as Monash?
No wonder the general age of kids/teens/young adults is on the decline in this day and age!

Oh, everything I said about Mac before? Timse taht by 100, I’m enjoying it more and more with each day, and with CoD4 running smoothly in VMWare Fussion…

OH! and one more thing whilst I ramble here, do a Google search for EarthDesk.
Its the best wallpaper PROGRAM ever!

Over and out!

Well, as many of you may know, I bought a new laptop. And as you may or maynot have guessed (or been told), I decided to go with the MacBook.
The 13.3″ White MacBook to be precise, I even got a nice little discount on it when I bought it from the Apple Store in Chadstone.

So whats it like?

Well, first off, I didn’t relise just how small it was going to be. I’ve seen other MacBooks before, but they were all with… slightly larger screens. This one feels small in the width department, but that’s not a negative.
The touchpad is probably one of the best I’ve ever used on a laptop (Unlike the IBM ones that shit me to tears so much that I prefer using the little red nipple mouse), with swipes, and general pointing all as accurate as you can expect from a touchpad.
I should also point out that this version has the mouse button, not the “whole pad is a button” thing thats on the aluminum MacBooks
The keyboard is definitely up-there with the KeyTronic KT2001, Creative Fatal1ty, and Razer Lycosa keyboards that, in my opinion are the best keyboards money can buy. They keys are definitely laptop keys, but they feel more like a desktop keyboard with the amount of travel they have. And they have that nice ability to be both silence, and loud at the same time. You know, where you can get keyboards that are as silent as a mouse when you need them to be, but once you start typing, your ears are full of “clack clack clack”?
The screen that comes with the MacBook is also excellent, very bright, with vibrant colors, and is easily the most clear LCD that I have ever used (sadly haven’t had the chance to get a copy of Vista or XP installed to test it in games yet). And I haven’t seen any color bleeding or back light seepage yet (yes those are official terms that I’ve just made up).
The build of the case is also top-notch, with basically no flex in any part of the body (there is a little in the screen but that can be expected from most laptops), with the MagSafe power-socket being a huge bonus considering how I use a laptop when its tethered to a power cord (read not at a desk with a power-cord).

Ok, now onto the system. I’ve done my impressions on MacOS X before, and its still the same, bloody awesome OS, and I honstly think its leagues ahead of Vista in everything except game support (shut up, Vista IS the best Windows OS avalible at the moment).
Everything is very responsive, and smooth, and I have not had it lockup yet (altho its felt like it came close a few times).

Now, I’ll be back lateron, after I get VMWare Fussion installed

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2…96-2902,00.html

I look at the news stand thismorning, and what do I find making front page news?

For the issue: who cares, its good that kids are being exposed to all different areas of society today.

As for the paper: how the fuck is this front page news?

Whats the most evil, anoying company that should just stop making sound products?

Realtek. Their AC97 sound chips are the bane of my existance, theres like 4 or 5 different ones released a week, and every motherboard seems to have their own version of the chip that realtek has done for it.

Here is a BRILLANT idea, its worked in the past, lets try it now.
Lets get rid of onboard sound, and use sound chips from real companys.

I don’t care if its more expensive, I don’t care if we have to put up with more Creative. Atleast their products are easy to get working.

Down with Realtek AC97!

Seirously, when did egotistical fucks come about and decide the playing games online shouldn’t be fun?

I know this is defintly NOT a new issue, but I didn’t relise just how bad it was, almost makes me proud for being a Quake3 Snob.

As you guys know, I’ve been getting right into playing Left 4 Dead. Normaly I’m playing campaign with a bunch of mates, or verses if we can find 8 or 6 people wanting to play (just kill the suvivor bot), but I’ve also played a handfull of public games of verses, and man, I can’t believe how some people are.

For example, last night, me and rapidDazz were playing with a bunch of atmicans, 4 of them were on suvivors, me and Dazz where on the infected team (well starting infected team) with two guys we had let in from the public ’cause we felt like a big game.
Now, anyone whos playing with me, knows that I can either have moments of pure genius (Psyco M16 on the last level of Blood Harvest anyone?), but mostly I just pure suck. Yes, I’m not good at the game, but its bloody fun.
Now, on the suvivor team, for the first few rounds, yes, I DID get knocked down a few times, hell I even died in one round fairly quickly, and my score for infected was a constant 100-200 below everyone else. Now, me and Dazz were trying to work as a team, the other two we were trying to work with as well… altho they felt like doing their own thing, alerting the hord, getting boomered ’cause they wont listen, etc. Basicly things me and Dazz were doing, but without the team work. I then get verbaly assulted through my head set about how much I suck, and I’m the reason why the team lost, and its my fault that HE isn’t winning.
Ok, WTF? I can understand frustration at loosing… but I dunno, maybe its the older games I’ve played, where we… you know… HELP those who arn’t going well? Maybe give them some tips on how to play better? Maybe try to figure out a stratergy on how to win whilst using this player who isn’t so good?
It even got sugested to me that I come back and play Verses once I am better at Verses…. HELLO HOW AM I MENT TO GET BETTER WITHOUT PLAYING!
Dazz callvotes to boot the guy, and the team kicks him (after he yells into the mic “oh you guys are all fuckign retarded playing with him!”). So we play through a few more maps, then all of a sudden I get knocked down. As Dazz is running to get me back up, one of my team mates spams and kills me.
When asked why he did it, vairous responses from the guy came in raging from “Hes crap, who cares” to things like “N**** dies first always stupid idiot” (I was playing as Louis).

At this point, me and rapidDazz just quit the server. We didn’t say anything, nothing needed to be said.
We were both shocked, it was like the game wasn’t meant to be fun, and the only thing that mattered was personaly winning.

After chatting on IRC, apparently this is well spread around all modern games, and has even seeped into some clasic ones. The reason I say modern games is, I play ALOT of games pre-2003, and we never see anyone acting like this. NEVER. We get the odd person who cheats, or shows off with newbies. But we NEVER ridicule, harras, or belittle other players. And if they DO truly suck, we try and help them improve by being helpfull, not insulting (eg. Q3A, someone joins, and their aim is off, we typicaly try and help with find comfortable mousesettings, or help them formulate stratergys where theres no great aim involved [rocket use].).

I was shocked to hear that this kind of thing happens even in Counter Strike. Yes, shock horror, the worst game for kiddie-hack-accusing ever, but still, I had refused to believe that, since when I used to play upto v1.5 (I was going to purchase 1.6 or source on steam untill this was revieled), we got the odd idiot, but they were generaly put in their place, and the game continued on. Apparently now, the smacktards actualy outweigh the decent players but such a large margin that the game can become unfun!

Personally I’m GLADE that by playing only with friends, or on LAN, or sticking to older style games, that I’ve avoided all of this. Its horrible, disgusting, and people need to remember just what they are doing.

And just to complement the youtube videos

I remember a while back, that I said it would be ages before a PC game had the longetivity, and playerbase that actualy sticks with the game that Quake3 and Counter Strike have gotten. Infact I think I went as far as saying it would never happen.

Well, it hasn’t happened once, its happened twice. Three times if we include QuakeLive (but common, really thats just Quake 3).

The first game thats made the break through into, what I believe is the never ending cycle of being played, and being played because it freakin’ rocks is Call of Duty 4.
This game, is almost into its third year of being played, its still being activly supported by developers, and the players shunned the newer version of it (World At War) for this game. Thats a sure sign that the game will last, when inferior sequals are ignored in favor of the older, more polished, more fun, and just better product.
Like Quake before it that just last and last, theres nothing overly special about Call Of Duty 4, really, its just a hugly polished version of whats come before it. The gameplay mechanics really arn’t any different from the first Call of Duty, but they HAVE been polished, and perfected, and it makes a really fun game.

The next game takes a huge leaf out of Counter Strikes book. Its not a perfect sequal, it really is a mod, thats become a game of its own.
Ofcourse I’m talking about Left 4 Dead.
Left 4 Dead really came out of no-where, and has taken the multiplayer sceen by storm. The basic premisis of Verses in it, really isn’t that much different from Assult in UT99/2k4/3, but its done in a way (zombies being the major one), that keeps it fun, and compeditive, and in all honsty, it is the first game that I’ve seen voice communication used properly, AND having voice comunication working at acceptible standards.
Then theres the fact of: What other game can you mow down whords of zombies, and plan out this mowing down in a tacticly way on the fly?
And where else can you play as a zombie, and wrap an unsuspecting player in your tongue before clawing them to death?

So yeh, now theres no-longer two PC FPS games that have lasted the time, or are going to last the time, theres four: Quake 3 (Live), Counter Strike, Call of Duty 4, Left 4 Dead.

And In all the games that have lasted: Warcraft 3, Starcraft, AoE, Quake3, CS, CoD4, L4D

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