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Well it has been out for a really long time now so I best write something about it. The new OS is very nice with of course search and copy paste and tethering thank god for Rogers we actually get that poor AT&T people. been playing many games and just moving along am about to embark on a trip to PEI for the first time in like 6 years so will be fun. Till later

In follow up to my old post about this messenger I have discovered it to be slow and dreadful. It takes forever to receive a message. Also all accessibility is broke as to JAWS shortcuts. In essence. Do not upgrade at all.

After seeing the press confrence about the new OS I can hardly wait. Copy and paate teethering a2dp and more I can't wait till summer. Well that is all for now am writing this on my iPhone so can not write too long bye for now

ll this is a bit of a debateable subject because there are some serious improvements in this version of Live Messenger. The biggest is the new ability to have resources just like JABBER has. This is especially cool for someone like me who has one account shared by 5 devices. Also it seems to be less RAM intensive. Also in ways JAWS reads it a little better, but here is where the problems start and I get reminded of Miranda. This is because all the JAWS shortcuts that are so loved are now so dead. This is at least the case with JAWS 9.0.2169. Although at the same time you can still use Tab and Shift+Tab to navigate just fine through the chat.

So everyone feel free to let me know how you feel about this new update to Windows Live Messenger in the Comments.

Well It has been a fair while that I have had my MacBook Pro. I still find it to be a very rliable machine. I have also just recently redone the VMWare image, so it could be nice and trimmed down. It is now a measley 20 GB. Also for those of you how are VoiceOver users or are lookinga at getting a mac and are blind or visually impaired will be very happy to hear the iWork Apple's own office suite is now accessible. Not only that many things that were a pain in Word are easy in Pages (iWork equivelant to Word) Such as Track Changes, Headers and footers, and footnotes and endnotes. Also Keynote (Apple Equivelant to PowerPoint) is accessible. in fact it seems easier to work then PowerPoint itself. Numbers (Apple's equivelant to Excel) on the other hand still has some Voice Over bugs to work out involving rows.

Wow this post has gone on way longer then Expected. In a summary go get iWork '09 if you already have a mac, if not, there is now one more reason to.

Now I know what your thonking. A machione from 2004 what the heck could it offer. Well You'd be surprised. I have with me an iBook G4 14" (Early 2004) Edition and it runs Great. It's specs are as follows:

• 1.07 GHZ Power PC G4


• 1.25 GB of Ram


• 40 GB Hard Drive


• Airport Extreme Wireless 802.11 BG

This Laptop is running Mac OS X 10.5.5 Quite well even with VoiceOver
I have found it a great addition to my army of machines.
Hope you find this helpful.

Hey All.
I Know this Journal has been kind of quiet larely. But I am hoping to change that. I will now change the focus of this blog from more personal to A Tech Blog. It will feature anything from Apple News, to Windows and even Access Technology such as VoiceOver and JAWS.
So keep your eyes peeled for news Reviews and what tech I can get my hands on to tell you about.

This is a little late but I figured I should post it. Well last weekend I got my xmas gift, I got to go to We Will Rock You. It was amazing we had a great night. Anyone who can get a chance to see this go! It is amazing, and the honor the band and Freddy so well. That is all for now but yah.

Well I thought I would make a reappearance on this thing with a cool post about my experience with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Well to put it bluntly, I couldn't be happier. I will get into more detail in a post I can cut or I will edit this one, but for now anyone considering getting anew laptop I fully recommend getting a MacBook or MacBook Pro. Even if you decide that you need Windows for some stuff you can still run it. But for Now I am out, Just wanted to post and say I'm not dead.

Well I got arid of Drop9 V3. Obviously I now have Drop9 V4. This is a gorgeous machine sporting the following Specs

Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Asus M2N SLI Deluxe
2 Gb of DDR2-667 RAM
250 GB Seagate Sata2 HDD
500GB Seagate Sata 2 HDD
Asus EN6200TC 256 MB Video Card
Asus 16x DVD-ROM
Asus 18x DVD Burner
SB Live Value

This nmchine is amazingly fast. I have most things back, still have to install some small stuff. nothing major though.

Well I finally finished the school year. Not a moment too soon, I think I was going to die if I had more work. So yah now I get to relax till September. Sweet. BTW, I am aware on how long it has been since I have posted, I have just had nothing major to write about.

Well not even a month after Thunderbird 2 RC1 was put out we have Thunderbird 2 Full. Nothing much has changed since the RC but it is still nice. The one thing I notce is it seems faster, akthough of course this is good. So yah you should go check out Thunderbird.

Well I figured I wiould get this post done before school. I don't know howgood an idea that is or not . Well Whatever I am 17 now. And just so you all can laugh, Yes I was born on a Friday the 13th. Well I am off now, school, life and such

Well There is nothing really major to report. Things are good. I just figured I would update just so you all know I am not dead. Also in less then two weeks is my Birthday which is nice. So yah This is an update through Miranda's Jabber Plugin to Frank. So here you go Frank have a Double Enter

Well Here I am again with another album. This is another album from Ayreon. It is a very weird story but I like it. It came out before The Human Equation. I will post the summary and all the lyrics. Especially now that flipthe_switch taught me how. I love this album especially the song Across the Rainbow Bridge.

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I Hope You Enjoy!

Well It is out Windows Vista is out. This is bad very bad. Vista is just a system hog. It showed be banned from existance. On another note Windows Live Messenger 8.1 has been released so go take a look it is cool. It now holds your display pic sub name and color options server side. So go get it. Now Remember Avoid Vista. I am probably going to tri-boot. Due to the fact that Some things soon will only work on Vista so I will tri-boot between XP Media Center, Vista Ultimate, and Ubuntu. That is my thing for the day.

Okay Today is cold. it is -27 C with the wind Chill which is equivalent to -16.6 F. Can we say Hello Winter

Well I finally got a mixer. It is a Yamaha MT2X Multi-track Cassette Recorder it has 1 Microphone connected and two sound cards and has 1 free mono input. I like it it is small and has issues But it is mine and allot better then what I had so yeah The Sunday Special is now cooler. I will now go away whiz.

Well I now have the new Gaim beta it fixed some issues and created a ton more it crashes allot and dosen't work with Guifications new beta which is strange. Stay with Beta 5 for now 6 is faster and fixes issues but causes more I may go back myself.