Me and my Mac

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iPad, the funnest iPod yet…

After gawking at the ipad for a few months and a lot of reading about it i found myself at the complicated task of getting one as fast as I could.

In the past, right after the ipad got announced, I wrote it was a bit of a failboat. But it turns out the ipad is quite a neat device. As I thought a bit after writing my initial comparison. It is in fact a massive iPod touch. It has no place in the laptop market or even the netbook market. It’s a media device like the iPod and iPhone. Period. You even need a real computer to activate it. That alone doesn’t make it a replacement.

Anyway. The iPad became available here last Friday. So I bought one Saturday. 16gb wifi. T-mobile tried to lure me into the world of 3G with some expensive contract. Wouldn’t allow a dual sim on my current iPhone contract. That, combined with their super poor 3G coverage quickly had me decide against it.

So, wifi only. It’s an excellent device. I have a bunch of games on it. Synced my bookmarks and email and have been happily ipadding for the past day or so. Yay!

What i did notice… The pixel doubler to make any app work is not so nice. The iBooks offering is poor. Many developers of apps charge for their iPad version. Even if you already have the iPhone version and the iPhone chargers are not really compatible with the iPad.
They lack power output, just like a regular high powered USB 2.0 port. Charging goes super super slow.

Other than that it’s been fun so far. I’m getting into Geometry Wars. Aquired an IRC client, I’m playing with the background picker and flip through a bunch of photos. It’s fun. I’m even writing posts on my blog (this one) with it.

I found out that most of my apps are not iPad optimized and looking at the horrible pixel doubling the iPad does is not fun either. So it’s been fun plowing through the itunes store again looking for cheap and good alternatives. I hope the iBooks feature catches on and publishers get over themselves so it’s actually fun and not like DVDs are now. And of course a better offering of books. I hope comics too and magazines… *dreams*

I need a cover or sleeve too I think…

New harddisk? Well yes.

Today i swapped my harddisk in my MacBook Pro for a new one. The original one made weird noises when the laptop was moved around.

My new place of awesomeness!

Last week i’ve expanded my room a bit and made the brilliant move of buying a new desk also. One that fits. One that is pretty and one that is awesome!

Behold!

With a neat window to signal for food to the outside world… And did you see the desk? It’s awesome!

Phasing out the forum

Over the coming weeks i will be phasing out the forum.
The shortcomings and broken code in BBPress is getting on my nerves.

So, behold! Starting today AdRotate along with some small fixes will be the first plugin to point yousers to a new support platform.
If things work out it will replace the forum. This new system is a ticket system. It requires no accounts from users. And it has a Knowledgebase. Which i am very fond of. Short manuals, descriptions and general information will show up here over time.

This ticket system can be found at http://meandmymac.net/support/ and i encourage everyone to use it and provide with feedback if things are not working or should be done better or differently.

AdRotate 2.6

An update to AdRotate for WordPress bringing you more joy and features.

Also the manual has been updated to work with this version as quite some things have changed over the past year.
New screenshots and explanations of the core features.
So please, have a look at the manual also.

Changes:
[fix] Image dropdown shows the current image as intended
[change] If widget title is empty, no tags are added
[new] Unlimited widgets for sidebars (Code by Olaf)
[new] Option to fix the widget alignment issue
[fix] Media segment in the image dropdown no longer shows “no media found” all the time.
[change] Group dropdown menus now also shows the group ID
[fix] Improved, simplified the installer script
[new] Fallback ads, show ads from anther group if the group itself cannot
[change] Revamped group manager
[change] Support for fallback ads in group manager

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/adrotate/

Download:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/adrotate.2.6.zip