Wow, this year wimbledon is looking very interesting. I can’t wait to see the match with the Williams sisters, and I am itching to see the mens final.

Anyways, I needed something to put tennis balls in, so I bought a Gamma Hi-Rise 75 Gold Ball Hopper (phew).

I’d say that it’s pretty good, and that if you’re looking for something to practice with and hold stuff in, it’s the best there is. Sports Authority had a GREAT deal on it, but I’m not sure if the deal is still running.

Well, I haven’t posted for a while, so I figured I’d post. Not that anybody reads this or anything

I had to get my books the other day for high school (meh): 1984, Romeo and Juliet, The Oddessy, and Their Eyes Were Watching God

Oh! Didn’t mention that I saw MARK KNOPFLER in concert at Red Rocks. He was amazing.

Finally, today I got a copy of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith - I thought it would be disappointing, but it really is a nice game. Good songs

If I don’t blog for a while, my twitter is ALWAYS up to date ( thanks ping.fm )

Recently, a friend showed me a free alternative to VMware Fusion and Parallels called VirtualBox. I’ve been using it for 2 or so days now, and have to say that it does an amazing job. It has a seamless mode to have leopard/winxp windows side by side, and fullscreen mode as well. Also, the virtual machine boots up insanely quickly (10 seconds), and everything runs perfectly.

VirtualBox is available for free at virtualbox.org.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I find it annoying when I set my iChat status to my current iTunes song. Why? I always get messages asking about what my status means. I recently had a friend help me with this, and I’m sharing the hack with all of you.

I wanted my status to say “Listening to SONG by ARTIST”, but apparently other buddies can’t see more than 42 characters of your song status, so my friend figured an eighth note would suffice.

This won’t work on some computers, and if it doesn’t, you should reset your status using the code I give at the end. What the code I’ve given does is add a little 8th note in front of the status (like what Google Talk does). It may result in some weird numbers in the status on some computers (but my leopard macbook handled it fine)

First, quit iChat. Tell your buddies brb (LOL).

Next step is to open terminal, and once you have done that type (or paste) defaults write com.apple.iChatAgent iTunesMessageFormat -string '♫ %Track - %Artist' into the window and hit enter. You can, if you want, customize the eighth note by replacing it by another character from the character palette (system preferences > international).

Now open iChat. You should be set. Enjoy the nicer looking status and non-annoying (well at least for itunes status) buddies!

If you get some weird numbers in your status, then use this code to refresh everything to normal: defaults write com.apple.iChatAgent iTunesMessageFormat -string '%Track - %Artist'

Enjoy this!

Well, I honestly can’t believe I haven’t blogged about this already. Several months ago I snagged an account at ping.fm, which is a service that lets you update all your social networking sites’ status at once.

If you’d like an invite code, use tastyping.

Well today I stumbled upon a service called Brightkite. Interesting. It’s basically twitter, but location based. You connect with people near your location. It also includes sms updating.

I have 3 invites to brightkite, as well as several invites to Jaiku, another similar service.

I’m looking for an invite to Soocial, so if you have one, please send me one using the email “rajr19 [at] jee mail [dot] kom”

So I’ve been playing around with Transmit a little and have to say that I really like how it functions. The sidebar is great, and uploading and downloading is a breeze. I moved my entire wordpress in a matter of minutes, and the editing is also very useful.

I’m not sure if it’s worth $29, but Transmit sure is one powerful little application.

Well, it’s finally here. The 3G iPhone. While everyone has been waiting for one, I haven’t. I just got a new Samsung t509, which is really nice for my needs.

I was following the entire thing on MacRumorsLive yesterday, and lucky me, I stumbled upon a secret MacHeist link which allowed me to get VoodooPad along with the bundle. Unfortuantely, the MacHeist retail bundle II isn’t for me, so I declined.

Back to the iPhone: It’s really cool. It’s got GPS, Exchange support, scientific calculator, 3G (of course), mobile me, a white version, and it’s ONLY $199!

Now, of course that proves to be too good to be true. You need a new 2 year contract to get it at that price, and the prices for service run so high that you’ll be paying $700 in two years.

Someone better hack this thing.

So tomorrow is the WWDC (WorldWideDevelopersConference), aka MacWorld. I can’t wait to see new iPhones and also a new .mac. It’s really exciting to read through all the myths and put together the puzzle of what they might put up. Hopefully, they also introduce a “mac nano” or a new iPod.

So today I tried out the application TextMate and I have to say it is wonderful. I created this website today and I personally think it came out great. TextMate does a great job of helping edit the css/html side by side and it really helps keep everything neat and clean. I still have a lot to learn about it, but I thought that you all would like to see what I made today. Colors were inspired by the ColorBurn widget. If you want the design, holler and you can have it for free.