So, now that I have a laptop I think I’d like to have a desktop application for reading RSS feeds. Upon a Google search and questioning my husband and reading comments about readers, I think the good (and free) options are Vienna, NetNewsWire Lite and Shrook. For anyone interested, there’s also an interesting looking OS […]
Archives for February 2007
Flourished
I made a new desktop for my MacBook. It’s dark, with patterns and flowers and flourishes. The background pattern is from Squidfingers, it was originally a greenish colour. The rest is an image of an iris – courtesy of Google, and custom GIMP brushes. It’s available in a mac version (without the top right pattern […]
Success… eventually
We went out for lunch at the Living Room in North Sydney for our anniversary. It was really nice; we got entrees and dessert. We both had a marscapone pannacotta in a brandy toffee bucket with raspberry coulis. Very yummy! The atmosphere was nice, clean and modern with an old-school feel; there were wooden floors, […]
The ups and downs
As I said the other day, I’ve been giving Camino a try. Camino is quite sleek, it isn’t cluttered and it renders things very nicely. Right now I’m typing from Firefox because I missed the in-line spell-checking, I missed the handy Find bar at the bottom (when you press Command+F), I missed my iFox theme. […]
What’s the opposite of disappointing?
Overall this weekend was pretty sweet. I made the orange and poppy seed cake for the wedding arvo tea. It was really yummy! Wouldn’t you know it, I doubled the recipe and had enough of everything except flour; I was exactly one cup short. I had to dash out to the supermarket on Saturday morning, […]
Yeah baby yeah
I have my MacBook! It’s hot! I’ve had it since yesterday afternoon but I wasn’t excited enough to blog because I hadn’t installed my favourite programs yet. I’m using Camino for internet at the moment, hubby says it integrates better with the Mac system than Firefox so I’m taking it for a spin. I do […]