Ahh...what can I say...it's been a year since that awful break up on the tuesday of my first o-week. I'm just really happy that this year it was quite the opposite and extremely fun and enjoyable ^__^ thanks to everyone for making it awesome!! wooo!!! I'm pumped for uni now!!! BRING IT!! new friends, new year of uni, new adventures await!
You leave a comment on this post, and I’ll assign you a letter. You write about ten things you love that begin with your assigned letter, and post it at your place. When people comment on your list, you give them a letter, and the chain continues on and on.
the letter A.
1. A for Apple iMac, my beautiful computer =D
2. A for Apple iPod Touch, my wonderful music/gaming gadget
3. A for Apple iPhone, oh how I desire you so~
4. A for Apples, one a day keeps the doctor away =D also helped Newton discover gravity ...and tastes mighty good ^__^
5. A for Apple Inc., one of the greatest and most innovative companies out there!
6. A for Angel on Earth...someone who I'm hoping to meet someday
7. A for Aiyaaaaaa!!! a convenient form of exclamation =D
8. A for Adrenalin Rushes...from sport, singing on stage, or just feeling alive =D
9. A for Asian Pride!!! WOOO!!! (not yelling my last name here =])
10. A for Adulthood...must try to embrace with open arms =/
and that's the end of the game.
This is a dream come true for every mac user frustated with the lack of support for windows live messenger on Mac operating systems.
In the picture above, you can see Windows Live Messenger (Fully functional and lag-free!) working seamlessly and flawlessly with my other mac applications. To this day, WLM was the only app I missed on Windows but now, thanks to VMware's very nice Fusion software, I was able to create a virtual machine of my windows partition and run any applications natively straight from OSX.
Truly the best of both worlds =]
I've been enjoying Saints Row 2, COD4 and Red Alert 3 on this baby too ^__^
Why Microsoft....why must you make reformatting a sony vaio laptop so damn troublesome...
For the past few days...i've been sitting at home bored as crap, so I turned to my tech babies for entertainment. My vaio, which was purchased in Taiwan, was shipped with Vista and although everything was working fine, I wanted to downgrade it to XP (included DVD as a downgrade option) for zippier performance since after a year of use, it was starting to get sluggish (especially when compared to my mac).
Sooo...simple routine procedure yes? for a normal run of the mill desktop pc...yes. But since vaio's have lots of integrated little features such as a custom keyboard with special volume/brightness functions, extra AV mode features, webcam, microphone, and a suite of vaio applications to manage them all, a clean install simply does not cut it. Let's break down the reformat process.
1. Insert the recovery disc and reboot the computer.
Simple enough...until you realise the XP recovery disc you got is in chinese and XP doesn't offer language changes unlike Vista. . .
Ended up torrenting up an english Vaio Recovery dvd which was a good 3.5gigs. Damn your stupid rigid language settings Microsoft!
2. Once XP is installed, continue to install all your drivers and vaio applications.
So I've now got a fresh CLEAN copy of XP on my vaio...with absolute minimal driver support (generic sound, audio, keyboard/mouse and display). I get spammed with "new hardware found" windows which want to help me install my drivers which I just so happen to magically have! Luckily, the torrents instructions were to go to a sony support site to download the neccesary drivers for XP. However...my wireless wasn't even working, so there was no way to do that unless I had both another computer with access to the net, and some form of external device to transfer these files.
Now these drivers are split into different categories and there's one setup for each individual driver, so I had to double click and wait for about 14 different drivers to install and reboot. THEN wash, rinse and repeat for all the vaio programs -.-
It's taken me all day to get this far and I've come to realise yet another shortcoming of Microsoft. Yes...it is the most widely used and supported operating system. But it's just that. You have to find those programs to make things work. Think adobe flash, acrobat reader, even a different internet browser! All those little programs you had to download when you first got your computer to make things open or to play some videos. It's all such a big hassle.
With a Mac, everything in that list mentioned above is pre-installed right out of the box....
You can surf right away on safari without a worry or need for anti-virus software
You can view pdf's without installing additonal software
you can youtube right out of the box! (no flash plugins needed)
You can burn isos out of the box (no need for nero)
the list goes on...
Even installing a dual boot windows OS onto a mac is so simple because all the drivers are included in the Mac OSX recovery DVD!
That's another beauty of Apple. Apple makes both the hardware and the software, so you won't be clamouring the internet for ages looking through dodgy support sites. It's just so much damn easier.
Alright let me sum up that picture. Granted, Windows has the vast support of many programs, but out of the box, it is complete rubbish.
Mac's on the other hand...don't have as much software support (despite support increasing everyday and still being enough for the long run!), but they work extremely well right out of the box! and especially after a format. No fuss!
I just can't imagine any newbie trying to do this to their laptop without asking a computer nerd...but then again they probably would never reformat or know the flaws of Vista =P
