Safari 4 just came out of beta. I gave it a try at my work computer (a Windows XP machine) just to go back to Chrome shortly after. Now I’m back with Safari. The main reason? Text rendering. See, in Safari you can configure the browser to render its text like Mac OS X does. In my opinion, text looks a lot better in Mac OS X than it does in Windows. Sure, it’s a matter of taste; my excellent taste versus other people’s terrible taste.
To illustrate my point, I took a screenshot of the Facebook homepage. Why? Because it shows text in the English, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabet. You’ll see how Safari’s text looks much better. From left to right: Apple Safari 4, Google Chrome 2.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.0,and MS Internet Explorer 7.0:
Web browser comparison on Windows XP: Safari 4, Google Chrome 2.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, and MS Internet Explorer 7.0 (click to zoom)
In a bout of corporate arm-wrestling and a defeat to all coffee-loving humans, the Coffice must be vacated by the end of the week. It seems like people in places higher than me think that the space can be better used to accommodate an engineer as opposed to an electrical stove, a pot, and some coffee and sweets. It is a sad day.
Now I need to find somebody else’s office to cram all this junk in. I have just the guy in mind…
Fanboys Jacobo, Marcos, and Moi with superstar Yael Sandler from the hit TV show "Glam Girls".
Shameless plug: In case you missed the world premiere of Glam Girls on TeleHit last Thursday, you can go to the official website and watch the full first episode. That’s right: no need to panic anymore.
On the photo, my brothers and I posing with Glam Girls villain Fernanda de la Vega (Yael Sandler). Mark my word: She’s going to make other Glam Girls cry… she’s sooo evil.
We had a little get-together on Saturday at my place. Unfortunately I lost all the photos in a timely hard drive crash. Fortunately I was able to recover the pictures from the camera’s memory card. It was a great time. Thanks to anyone who made it, especially those who came from out of town and those who helped clean afterwards!
If you have any photos, please let me know through the comments and I’ll link to them from here (or upload them myself). Read more for links and more photos.
I started having computer problems a few days ago. They coincidentally started right after I applied the Mac OS X 10.5.7 update. So I blamed that and decided to deal with it whenever I get a chance. The symptoms: my Mac mini would lock up after I use iTunes or iPhoto for a little bit. I didn’t really think it was a problem with iTunes or iPhoto themselves nor their files since they happen to be the applications I use the most on that machine – so I assumed the computer would lock up regardless of what program I’m using.
Turns out I was wrong. What happened is that the external hard drive that I use to hold (surprise!) all of my music collection, videos, and over 8000 photos was dying. It finally stopped functioning altogether tonight. None of my computers can even see it, much less mount it or extract any data from it.
In Spain, they translate EVERYTHING, even movie titles. Oddly enough, I distinctly remember Wolverine was called “Guerpardo” in the Spanish-dubbed X-Men cartoons.
18. This is a The MKX® original. Using data from the World Health Organization I put together a little Google Docs spreadsheet with all the confirmed cases of A(H1N1) influenza infection. Interesting to see the trends. Feel free to link to this post to share. To see the latest version of the spreadsheet, click here.
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Chart of A(H1N1) Influenza (Swine Flu) Infections by country
No longer missing iPhone features
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Eminem nice to meet you
Glam Girls
I started having computer problems a few days ago. They coincidentally started right after I applied the 
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