October seemed to go by quickly despite all the rough things that happened to us. So here it is November and Leopard is released and it is time for me to give up my newest Desktop shots.
No Dashboard shot this month. It is in all honest very boring right now. I can’t seem to decide what I feel like putting there. I think these screenshots came out nice though. So here is what we got, the first screenshot is how I normally have it before running all my goodies for the day. The list of names on left is my Adium buddy list. The second shot is a look at my desktop with some apps I use and of course showing off some Leopard Finder gorgeousness. The running apps are iTunes, NetNewsWire, and in the very front there is Finder with th awesome Cover Flow view of my Applications folder. And now the regular run down:
OS: Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”
Wallpaper: Brown Sugar by psychopulse
Docked Apps: Finder, Dashboard, Mail, Safari, NetNewsWire, Yummy FTP, SubEthaEdit, Adium, ecto, iTunes, iPhoto, VoodooPad, Transmission, Trash
Any questions, feel free and ask.
We have never really gotten into a lot of politics here on Atomac. just little tid bits of news around the gadget aspect of things and of course the Internet. For those of you that know PolyVector and myself and have been disgusted by the current state of electronic voting this might just be fore you.
Ars Technica is reporting on the new guidelines for the security of the next voting machine software and hardware. While this doesn’t save us from voting fraud or election stealing this is a giant leap forward to the ultimate goal of having a fair (or at least seemingly fair) elections of the future.
The federal Election Assistance Commission has posted a major update to its recommended guidelines for state and local electronic voting systems, bringing us much closer to the kind of proper national standard that we should have had before the e-voting debacles of the previous two election cycles. To read the new Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) is to marvel that the world’s largest modern democracy didn’t have these in place before the first electronic voting machine was ever authorized for use in an election.
[From After years of use, e-voting gets first real federal testing guidelines]
When you first opened up your shiny new Mac box and booted up your Mac you are greeting by tons of friendly applications. one of these is a text editor called TextEdit. If you have ever wondered what that little piece of paper for the icon says, than this is definitely for you. it seems MacDailyNews had a very sharp eyed reader that got them a nice shot of what that icon says. This is going by the icon of TextEdit in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, but I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
On October 31st Time Magazine named the iPhone the invention of the year! That’s right, Lev Grossman sat down and wrote an article explaining why he thinks the iPhone has earned this honor.
The five reasons are:
- The iPhone is Pretty
- It’s touchy-feely
- It will make other phones better
- it’s not a phone, it’s a platform
- It is but the ghost of iPhones yet to come
To find out exactly what this guy is talking about you’ll have to check out the article. I admit the iPhone is the first cell I have ever wanted to purchase. PolyVector and I have only owned cell phones once and that was during a time when PolyVector’s parents got a family plan for their family to help with worth and other things. The phones were nothing special, but they suited their purpose, basic calling apparatuses for on the go. This phone might actually be our breaking point.
