August 18th, 2004

I use PulpFiction Lite, and for most things its great. However, is it just me or is it buggy??

Take a look at this screenshot and see if you can see anything weird.

Your back? Ok, heres whats wrong:

1) Notice how next to the inbox there is no number – representing that there are no unread feeds even though you can clearly see that the MacSlash feed hasnt been read.

2) Notice how ive clicked on the top feed, but nothing comes up in the bottom section?

Now go look at this screenshot.

Back again?
In that one i clicked on the MacSlash feed. Notice 2 things.

1) Still nothing comes up in the bottom section.

2) See how ive now got -1 unread feeds. -1 unread feeds? what the?

Ill admit though that after clicking around for a while the feeds did suddenly appear, however no matter what i did i still had -1 unread feeds.

Wish i could find that last -1 unread feed, might be somthing important.

Finding a fan for my video card wasnt as easy as i first though…

I went to all the local computer places and none of them had anything even close to what i needed. One shop said no straight up.

At another i walked in with my card and the following dialog occured:
Shop attendant: “Is that a return?”
me: “no”
Shop attendant: “Thats good, i dont like doing those”
me: stunned in amazement

I go on to explain that i need a fan, the guy is puzzled, says he has nothing but could look around for me, probably take about 3-4 weeks before it came in.

Needless to say – i left there, vowing never to return.

Another shop, another person, they sit behind the desk for 5 mins looking at a webpage and talking to themselves. They then turn to me and say ‘no, sorry, we cant get any”. He then proceeds to write down the webpage he was just looking at and hands me the paper saying “Have a look here if you want”.

I leave that shop as well, giving up all hope of getting local service, i go home to find a fan online to buy. Not sure where to look, i typed in the site on the piece of paper the dude gave me. Up popped a site with cooling stuff. I look under the VGA cooler section and low and behold i find a fan to suit my card (lord knows that the other guys was looking at).

So i order the fan/heatsink – $18- bargain. I get confirmation about 10mins later that my order had been recieved. A further 5 mins later i get another email stating that the order had been shipped. – Great service!

*sigh* So after ordering a new fan for my video card yesterday, and getting confirmation that it was sent at around 12:20pm, today it didnt show up and there is no record of the tracking number in the system

Whats the deal? Is someone trying to tell me something with all these delivery problems??

So once again, im left waiting for a package in the mail. What should have been a single day job has turned into a 3 / 4 / 5 day job.

Who wants to bet that it will arrive during the one hour tomorrow when i have to be at uni, which means ill get home around 1 and find a nice “we missed you, but you can pick it up after 4pm” card in the mailbox. Then i get the joy of going to the post office

OR

I could get home just in time and get it.

Anyone want to make a bet on what actually happens? – feel free to type in any other likely outcomes. The first person with the correct answer wins a prize…..

Whats in the dock, in the dock. Whats in the dock today?

Following on from the previous post… heres a screenshot of my current dock.

From left to right – Finder (duh), SubethaEdit, Terminal, XCode, PulpFiction Lite, Safari, Netscape, OmniWeb, Firefox, Launchbar, Mail, MSN, iChat, Grab, iPhoto.

Usually my dock doesnt have all the browsers in it, it only cause im trying them all out that they are there.

I use Launchbar exclusively for launching apps, its so much faster and quicker, and sure beats having 500 icons in the dock.

With the recent release of Omniweb 5 and Netscape 7.2, heres my thoughts…

OmniWeb 5 – Looks nice and funky, has some good features, BUT lags like an ant walking through honey on my 12inch powerbook. Example – i was downloading the new netscape in the background through safari, and Omniweb was extremely slow at responding to my mouse clicks. When i tried the same page in safari it worked ok. SO either OmniWeb is slow, or safari is hogging the CPU

Netscape – Looks very firefox (duh!), and is actually pretty damn fast! Ive got to use it a bit more over the next few days before i make a final decision.

Firefox – My default browser on my PeeCee, not on OS X though. Its jsut not as fast and responsive on my Mac as it is on me PeeCee, i dont know why.

Safari – My default on OS X, its fast, its responsive, it does what i want.

Ill continuet o try them all out in the coming weeks. At this stage it stands like this:

1 – Safari
2 – Firefox (cause ive used it more the netscape currently)
3 – Netscape 7.2
4 – OmniWeb 5 (looks great like all omni apps – but needs fixing up)

They do look pretty sitting in my dock though