My video is up on CNET! Hooray! I’m so nervous I might die. Anyhow, if you’d like to view it, go to CNET and scroll through the images in the middle (not the video player section, the thing in the middle) until you see my mug. Then click.

I’m not supposed to give out the static link until it’s off the front page. We like to track that kind of thing. It’s my first time in front of the camera (except for the vampire thing), so don’t bash me too hard!
Oh, the horror! Thanks to Eric for taking this screenshot.

Yes. I know. Apple is letting us boot Windows on the new Intel-based Macs. I’m ok with it, really. In fact, I think it’s a good thing. It means someday I can play my PC games I’ve been saving on my Mac! I can’t wait to see how it works.

Andy from the BOL forums posted this link to Super OS X Menubar Items. So, I thought I’d post what I’ve got, and ask what you guys can’t live without in your menubar.

1. Gizmo Project - Keep those cell phone bills down! Better than Skype, imho.

2. Adium - Since I use both Yahoo! Messenger (for work) and AIM/iChat for personal, it helps to have them combined into one happy program. Trust me, you’ll want to go with the default iChat options for sound… not the Adium sounds. Seriously.

3. WoW Status - This is an unlimited trial version that lets you know how crowded your favorite WoW server is. For a small fee, you can watch as many servers as you want, and also have it tell you when the wait time is low, or if the server is down, etc. Very nerdy (and useful!).

4. SMARTReporter - Make sure your hard drive is running all happy-like.

5. Gmail Notifier - Probably my favorite and most used item.

6. Synergy - I love this. Control iTunes from the menubar, so you never have to switch around applications to change tracks. Also displays what artist/track/album is playing as the songs change, in a semi-transparent window that pops up in the lower left of the screen. Worth the $15.

Of course, the little VPN icon is there for those days when I’ve got to phone it in. Missing from the group shot is the iScrobbler icon for Last.fm.

Pardon the pun, but it was absolutely necessary. I’m posting right now from within Flock, the new browser that is an offshoot of the Mozilla browser code. Right off the bat, I can say a few things about it in the 5 minutes I’ve been using it:

1. I really like the blog integration. In fact, I like it better than the actual Blogger interface. Plus, all my Flickr pictures load at the top of the screen when I change a little button called “Topbar” to Flickr. Then I can simply drag them into my post! Fabulous.

2. The use of del.icio.us in place of a favorites list. Who doesn’t like social networking services?? Now everyone can see the bookmarks that you create and want to share. And if you’re not at home, you can log into your account to show someone your favorite page (which, assumably, you can’t remember the address for…).

3. The interface is cute, and I haven’t yet gone around looking for alternate skins. I’m guessing they exist, although it’s probably too early in the game for people to develop their own. Well, it has been a full day… must be some somewhere.

4. Firefox crashes my Mac. I’m not sure why, or how, but I’m not the only one this happens to. Even though it’s based on the same code, maybe I’ll have better luck using something other than Safari at home.

5. There are easy RSS reader capabilites built right in, but I already use Bloglines. I’ve been happy with that web based reader, and have no desire to change as of yet, but maybe I’m missing something.

Overall, as Tom said on the podcast today, there’s nothing here that you can’t already get somewhere else. But it’s definitely a step in the right direction.

UPDATE! After I wrote all that, the Publish tool didn’t work. Soooo… thats to be expected. They’ll work the bugs out soon enough, I’m sure. Still happy with it!