Shorty’s Fun Facts #5 - How Do I change Icons and Folders etc. in my Start Menu?

It’s easy! Right click your start menu and then click Explore All Users. The window that opens up will display the Start Menu’s directory. Any changes you make here will be displayed in the Start Menu.

Shorty’s Fun Facts #4 – Moving Menulets

To rearrange your Menulets in Mac OS X

(these things….)

Yeah, they’re called Menulets. So if you want to rearrange them, simply hold down the Command Key, and then click and drag. It’s that easy!

Apple refresh...sort of.

Yesterday Apple refreshed a lot of it's products.  In fact the list of un-refreshed items is probably shorter.  Lets take a quick look at the updates, which will be filled with my own subjective opinions.

 In brief there were 4 "major" hardware updates with updates to the Mini, iMac, Mac Pro, and Airport/Time Capsule.

The Mini's biggest change is the new GeForce 9400M integrated graphics, the same used in the new Macbooks.  A Mini DisplayPort and 5 USB ports.  Two models with the base being $599, and the high end at $799.  I think that the low end model is decently priced, but the high end?  $200 for an extra 200GB of storage and another gig of ram!  Come on Apple we're in a recession.  Stop hurting your uninformed naive customers.

The iMac.  Wait...something changed?  4 models with the lowest 2 having the same integrated graphics as the Mini and Macbook?  I think I'll take my last gen aluminum iMac thank you.

The Mac Pro.  Well I'm glad that my little over a year old Mac Pro is still worth holding on too.  I think that the overall hardware refresh is good for the Mac Pro.  Now sporting the Nehalem Xeon Processor, and allowing DDR3 ram.  Video card upgrades as well, but it looks like they will be available for the older models.  Now lets talk about the Pro price.  If you go to http://www.apple.com/macpro/ and click on buy now and configure, there is a difference of $2,600 from the low end 8 core and the high end 8 core.  That's a $2,600 difference for just the processor and nothing else.  HEY APPLE RECESSION!?!?

The Airport and Timecapsule.  They both have dual-band support sporting g/b and n, which means your iPhone and Apple TV won't slow down your connection anymore.  Guest networking creates a secondary network with a separate password if you wish to share with friends, family or your neighbor.  You can also access files from a drive connected to these devices if you have a MobileMe account, essentially making it a NAS.

I'm glad I know longer drink the kool ade.  It allows me to make decisions using my brain instead of my wallet.  Keep it up Apple, I think that is the sound of Windows 7 whispering my name.

Introducing fa.

We spoke a little bit about it in the podcast a couple of weeks ago, but allow me to introduce EGO 360's resident clan, Fatal Attraction.  With a record of 11 wins and 5 losses, we are doing pretty well.  Our current game of choice is Call of Duty:World at War.  Playing at least 5 match's a week, in the short time we've been playing as a team, we've moved up the ranks from 6,000+ to 600+.

In order for us to move on to the semi finals for the winter season, we need to be in the top 64.  At this rate it seems somewhat possible.  We are using this really as a way to get ready for the spring season.

Our roster is diverse.  Many of us from right here at EGO, and a few we've picked up online.  We've developed a great group to play with and our teamwork is growing daily.  Check out the new fa. page on EGO 360 to get to know everyone.

I'll be giving you weekly updates as the season finish's off.  If you would like to be a part of fa. but don't have or play COD:WaW, let us know.  We can have many squads for many games...cough...Killzone 2...cough

See you online and in our sights.