Monday - December 27, 2004

I did a little post holiday shopping today, I checked out the Apple store at Oak Brook center.  It was just packed, full of customers and items to sell.  It didn't look like there was any shortage of iPod's or other product.  I checked out the new iMac's, however I still like my lamp shade model.  And I spent some time on a dual 2.5Ghz system with a 30" panel display, trying out our virtual microscopy viewer on it.  I'll wait until the models come pre-installed with Tiger before I purchase my next Mac.  In the mean time I ended up buying the 250gb firewire drive I was searching for, a LaCie Porsche model that has the aluminum case.  This will keep my iMac running and backed up until I get my next Mac, I was just about out of disk space on the current one due to my music collection on iTunes, and my recent interest in video making using iMovie and iDVD.  Not to mention all the software development tools that I use.

By the way, I found ChronoSync to be a handy way to back up and synchronize my Macs using external drives.  I also have purchased their ImageCaster software, it is what I use with my iSight camera and the Java applet I developed for the web cam used on this web site.