As many of you know I got a new Mac. I would like to report I love it, but there have been some problems. I have to remember its Apple + C to copy not Ctrl + C; I have to relearn my short cuts. It’s strange how your fingers think there smarter then you and still try to hit that Ctrl key. The second problem is, I know what software works well on a PC but I know nothing when it comes to Macs.
The first time I ran in to this problem was on the second day I got my computer. I was trying to find a chat program that would allow you to be invisible and work with other chat clients. iChat was not cutting. So I looked at a few Mac blogs and found what I was looking for, a fast, free, and clean looking instant massager that worked with AIM, Yahoo, and Google. The program is called Adium; it has all the features you would expect to see and a chat program and more.
Here is what make this my number one chat program. Adium has great support and help files, so you’re never lost on how to do something. They update their blog at least 3 times a week, so you know there actively working on the project. They have an Xtras page were you can customize the heck out of it. Lastly, there logo is a green duck. You can’t get any better then that. I use this program every time I start my computer.
Here are my closing comments. I do like iChat but it just doesn’t feel complete to me. Plus, I always like open source projects better anyway. Most of the time they are on the cutting edge of technology and the big guys are playing catch up. If you have a Mac give Adium a try, you will not be disappointed.
Your cubical is not a restaurant!
I have a new project I am working on; it’s called About-PittsburghPA.com. It’s a 451 Press city blog that I am freelance writing for. I know that might sound crazy since I am Dyslexic, but I do enjoy writing and I feel that I am starting to get better with it. Since, with blogging most people are not that picky about grammar and run-on sentences. I do have a ghost editor on this blog that just fixes spelling, so I know that helps out a lot.
Back to the point of this post, the new blog is going to be about places and events in and around Pittsburgh. I am going to try and get out more and really see what this city has to offer. Here is a link to my first post on the blog and it kind of gives you a better idea of why I took the opportunity.
451 Press is paying me, so it’s helping me in my goal of making money online. If you would like to write for them just check out the site and fill out an application. Remember to put my name “Jason Mosley” as the person that referred you. That way I get a little kick back from them. Check out the new blog and feel free to give me your feedback.
I was reading thought a few blogs like Ryan Shamus dot Com and found out about a great wordpress plug-in. Its call “Buy Me a Beer”, the name tells you what his plug-in is all about. In stead of having a “Please Donate” button on your site, you can ask people to buy you a beer.
I think this can work because I have seen this before. Have you ever seen a bum on the street asking for money? He might say something like this, “Hey can you give me some change? My kid is sick.” Most people respond, “No way dude, you’re just going to buy beer with it.” Then there are the ones that say, “Hey can you give me some money for a beer?” and people are more likely to replay, “Sure”! I have seen this happen many times. If it can work for bums is can work for me too.
I know you all are wondering were I have been. I post up really weird and old content, and then vanish over the weekend. Well I am now back and I have a good reason for the lack of postings. I was in Tennessee over the weekend visiting my Grandparents and Dollywood.
I know what your thinking, couldn’t you have updated while you were there? The answer is no. They live in an area were all there is around them are farms and trees. The closest Wal-Mart is a 30 min drive. So if they did have an internet connection it wouldn’t get much better then 56k. Let me just say it was nice not having to worry about work, blogs, and money.
So after four days without the internet it was hard to get back in to the swing of things. Everything and everyone is so laid back in the South so I guess some of that slowness rubbed off on me. I don’t mind, it’s nice to know that I have a place to go to when the city gets to me and I need a break.
My trip was great; I relaxed all day, ate three home cooked meals a day, and enjoy sweet tea on the back porch swing. Then to top it all off I road one of the best wooden rollercoaster while I was at Dollywood, called Thunderhead. I think it may have beaten Kennywood’s Thunderbolt for my number one wooden rollercoaster.
I wrote the fallowing feature for shinyfire.com years ago. I don’t know how I found it again but when I read it cracked me up. What was I thinking back then? These movies ideas sound crazy. But that’s the great think about blogging, you can look back and see how much you have grown and changed thought the years.
I came up with these ideas one day while eating grilled stickies alamode at Eat n’ Park with my friend Jon. Some of them were so funny or stupid that I had to share them with you. If you have your own bad movie ideas please share them in the comments.
This is a sad little story about the last ugly duck growing very old and depressed because he never had little ugly ducklings of his own. At the end of the movie, it shows the slow painful death of this hideous creature. It will almost make you cheer to see something this ugly vanish from the earth forever.
This is a fun little cartoon horror movie about a serial killer farmer that kills hoes with his trusty hoe. Never before has there been a cartoon as violent as this! Stupid parents will take their small children to this movie, not realizing what it is, and scar them for the rest of there lives. Just think, a whole generation scared of farmers and farming equipment!
This is the best movie idea that we came up with… a movie were people will randomly blow up throughout the movie! Think about it. Have big stars make cameos just to blow them up. Plus when they blow up there is no blood and guts, just bright colored paint and confetti. Just think a touching love scene where one member of the couple blows up all over the place. Or the reunion of a father and son after years of being apart, and just as they’re close enough to hug, the dad blow up all over the son. It would be great. — Shinyfire.com(2003)
I have been kicking around the idea to get a Mac for months and just never had the money to get it. Even though my work gives me a zero interest lone to buy a computer I still need to pay for it first then they cut me a check. I guess it’s so they know that you are using 100% of the money to buy a computer and not a flat screen. So it make is hard because you have to front the money first.
Well that all changed. If you remember, at the end of last month I went to Vegas to work a conference. While I was there I had to work about six 12 hour days, so my overtime was sky high. Well yesterday was pay day and I got the big overtime check.
On my lunch brake I ran to an Authorized Apple dealer to get a Macbook. To my surprise the new faster Macbooks were announced that day, but I was told they didn’t have them in. I asked if the older models were discounted. They told me only $100 bucks I really wanted a computer that day so I said I will take it.
When the Apple guy returned he had a big smile on his face. He leans over to me and whispers, “The new ones are back there, do you want one?” I take one step back (I hate close talkers), and say, “Hell yeah!”
When I get to the checkout the computer is so new that it’s not even in the system, the manger had to work his magic. Then unknown to me I had raise the daily amount I can put on my card. After I tried paying the first time, I got a phone call from American Express. After I proved it was me buying the computer everything was fine. After all that I got the New Faster Macbook.
