Jason Crowther’s Blog

Slickr, by cellar door software gives you a photo screen saver that scrolls through your (or everybody’s) flickr photos.  Cool pan/zoom/fade effects kinda like the similar screen saver on OSX.  Bonus, if you have a dual monitor rig, it shows different slide shows on each screen.  Check it out.

Some great spoofs of the recent Apple marketing campaign; you know, the Mac and PC guys. Get ready to make Linux and BSD. It’ll make you giggle for sure. (Via)

When you’re not using your MacBook Pro for productivity, it makes a fine cat amusement. Aw, how cute. Cute, until that screen gets all clawed up, anyway…

Way cool, someone has hacked the motion sensor in the new Macbooks so you can use it to swap desktops. Give your Mac a little tap on the side to go from OSX to Windows. Ha! See it in action. (Via)

The Unofficial Apple Weblog had a link to a slick video demo of fast operating system switching with Parallels on a new MacBook. They start off in OSX, flip over to Windows XP (where they download and install Firefox, hehe), and then bump over to Ubuntu. I can’t tell if the emulation/virtualization itself is fast or just that the MacBook is smokin’. Parallels is in beta now, but you can pre-order for a reasonable $39. Apple Boot Camp is cool (and free) but quick switching is something I’d probably pay for.

In my ongoing effort to get off of XP as my primary OS, I’ve been goofing around with QEMU on my Fedora Core 5 box. It seems to work pretty well and wasn’t too hard to set up. Unfortunately, the hardware on my test rig is pretty slow (400Mhz), so its a little too pokey to be useful. My current side project is to repartition my XP machine at home and install Fedora Core 5 and mess around with QEMU s’more on hardware that’s a lot more capable (2.8Ghz, 1Gb RAM, etc.) I also see that the Parallels folks have a version for linux, I’m downloading it now, hehe.

Update: Parallels for Linux doesn’t work on Fedora Core 5 out of the box. Nuts. Gonna have to Google around some to see if there’s a work around.