This years WWDC was not all that great.  They spent a little too long on all the new apps that are coming out for the iPhone.  While this was happening you could watch the Apple stock drop.  They did recover when they introduced the new iPhone 3G, which sucks…. mainly because now I have to find money to buy one on July 11th.

I came across this post, I gave it a try. Seems alright so far, though most of my friends dont update that often so its a little bare. Give it a try.

I really had nothing to write about so I thought I would post a few links that I came across.  Sean pointed out this article about how working night shift is a cause for cancer, then again that is no surprise since everything leads to cancer these days.  I forwarded it off to my boss, he responded with “Hilarious this coming from a smoker”.   I have been using a mac for the past couple of years and with the release of Automator one might have taken note… but I didn’t until now.  I came across this script that seems pretty nice and it working just fine, I suggest installing it on your system if you use Mail.app.

So the other day I went and dropped $7 to get the adapter to play my iPhone through my car stereo.  It sucks because I already have the cable in my car and have for sometime, but with the iPhone it has a recessed jack on it so you need an adapter.  Anyways this was my first time really using the iPod features of the iPhone… And I guess there is a bug in the system, sometimes when you unplug the connection on the phone the audio sometimes stops working.  As you guessed it, this happened with my phone today.  Thankfully with the help of Google I was able to find the fix, and here it is.

Plugging in and out the headphones several times until the audio starts working

Simple as that.

I decided that when after getting my iPhone and making the upgrade to Leopard I would do away with Firefox. I had a couple of reasons for doing so.

1. Safari loads a lot faster than Firefox does
2. I can sync my Safari bookmarks with my iPhone
3. Less 3rd party apps to bog stuff down

So I took the jump and haven’t looked back, though I was missing the extensive plugins that Firefox had to offer, not to mention that I have a Linux machine at work that I am on way to much so its weird switching browsers. I have been able to over come the switching of browsers but have not been able to get back all the plugins I was using except for a few.
The main plugin that I was missing was AdBlock, I really don’t know how people can live with out it. After some Googling I came across Safari AdBlock which doesn’t work as well as the Firefox version but does a damn good job so I can deal with that. I also came across a really nice search addon which is much like Spotlight on OSX its called Inquisitor, so far that seems to be working really well right now. For the other Mac people out there what addons are you using in Safari if you are using it?

So my upgrade was a success and didn’t encounter any issues.  I have since taken it upon myself to do a fresh install.  Mainly because if you know me I install a lot of crap all the time, and well I figured a new OS called for a clean slate.  I spent the last couple of hours backing up and restoring everything.   I even decided that maybe it was time I make a switch to Safari as Firefox is a tad slower on the mac.  While I am sad to see firefox go at this time I think the switch is for the best.  I also decided to steer away from Desktop Manager and make the switch to Spaces, only for the fact that spaces comes pre-installed, and I figure if it is already installed might as well use that as the overhead cant be much more than Desktop Manager.  I am sure there is a follow up post to this in the very near future once I mess around with the OS more.  I can say that the coverflow aspect in Finder is nice…. but in most cases just flashy and not as functional as you would think