Alvin Lai

Finally its here!

Remember playing quake or counterstrike and having to pull out the cool console/terminal ingame to type in some commands to change a game level or something?

Something like this.

Now there’s Visor that brings that to the Mac desktop! Check out my screenshot!

Sweet!

You can bind a shortcut key to call it up with a nice transition effect with customizable delay.

The nice thing is Visor automatically hides when u click on another application, so it doesn’t get in your way.

And of course it retains the session/remembers what you typed even after it hides so you can resume work after recalling it.

Get rocking with Visor here!

Was thinking of getting a cat, but after this, I realise it can get a little heart breaking..

What’s with Safari these days? It’s been pissing me off with the ever frequent beachball (Mac OSX’s equivalent of the busy hour glass).

The last straw came when I had to forcefully terminate whilst working on some AJAX scripts.

I turned to Camino, a mac specific browser based on the same Gecko rendering engine that made Firefox famous for its accuracy in rendering webpages.

Specially created for the Mac, Camino is tightly integrated using native Cocoa.

The only thing that you might miss from Safari is probably Sogudi, a plugin that allows you to do instant wikipedia searches like “wikip manhattan project” or google searches with “g steve yang”.

A quick google search provided the answer.

Here’s it:

Just open Show All Bookmarks, add a new Bookmark, for instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

and assign a keyword. Like “wp”. Then, type
wp Camino
in the location bar, et voila!

Enjoy!

Whenever I recommend the Mac or OSX as a replacement for Windows for their workstations, friends would undoubtedly agree that it is way better in many aspects, right up till they come to the point of gaming.

While I agree that it doesn’t support the full plethora of game titles Windows does, it certainly sports the more popular titles like Warcraft fav

With the introduction of the Apple Macbook, the replacement for the iBook (don’t confuse this with the Macbook Pro, the Powerbook replacement), you would probably have heard that it is one of the fastest laptops you can get right now for $1.7k (education price).

Very much like its elder brother the Macbook Pro, it just falls short of graphics with an Intel integrated graphics chip which borrows heavily from the main system RAM, inevitably hindering gaming performance in graphic intensive games.

But there seems to be a glimmer of hope for you folks out here content with playing slightly older games like Warcraft and Quake 3 – just by increasing RAM.

Check out this Macworld article MacBook gaming: A graphics concer, and maybe A maximum look at a mini Mac, part two while you’re at it too.

Oh yea! It feels good to work in the middle of 2 monitors again!

No more neck cocking