These babies are the best money can buy in the world of head phones. This is a 6.1 surround sound system for your ear canal with 3 separate drivers per headphone it is the best and clearest sound you are going to be able to get without splurging for live concert grade headphones.


What can I say about this? It is the best movie trilogy out there and although it does not do the books justice (what movie really ever does that?) it is on my list of top movies of the film industry.

And of course talking about the books… here they are.

Here is a series, get all of them at the same time please. Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series:

The following is a three book series so please if you are getting this… get all three of them.
   
   

Ok here is one more book series that I would like to have. Again please if you are buying me this get all three books:

And now the second trilogy in the same series:

Ok so I don’t think I need to say much about this… I want it to have my children that should just about sum it all up.

Well I do not own a digital camera, and this one is the best out there from the low end (read - higher probability of someone buying it for me) cameras.

Well this is pretty much it folks. Get me everything on the list PLEASEEEE with a cherry on top.

This baby comes LOADED, I am talking: 17" alloy wheels, mp3 player, power everything, ipod hookup. The only gripe I have with it is the miles per gallon 23/30 is not that great, but for the nice ride you get out of that 5 valve 2.5 liter engine with 170 lbs of torque is not that big of a gripe :). The coolest thing though: I am the only owner of a Black 5 Speed Rabbit in the Southeast USA :).
Also, I got my most prized Christmas Wishlist item the BFG 7800GS AGP video card, so now I have everything from Antialiasing to Antistrophic filtering turned to the max and no games (not that I play many) have looked better. One last big thing is that Marshall finally got me on WoW and I am currently playing on Skywall as a Undead Enchanter Mage (all of level 7 :), started playing two nights ago). If you do not want to pay the 15$ a month for WoW I would strongly recommend you get Dungeon Siege II and the expansion Broken World. Its pretty close to the WoW gameplay.

Oh yeah and I am headed to Auburn, Alabama on Friday on a water polo tournament so wish me luck, I am probably gonna post some pictures Monday or Sunday night (if I am not dead tired). But for right now you can check out the pictures from New Years Eve: Photo Album

These babies are the best money can buy in the world of head phones. This is a 6.1 surround sound system for your ear canal with 3 separate drivers per headphone it is the best and clearest sound you are going to be able to get without splurging for live concert grade headphones.


So this is a nice shirt that I want in order to promote my favourite show out there: Nip/Tuck. If you are getting this please get the Black in Small/Medium (I am going to have to take my measurements in order to tell you better).

What can I say about this? It is the best movie trilogy out there and although it does not do the books justice (what movie really ever does that?) it is on my list of top movies of the film industry.

And of course talking about the books… here they are.

Here is a series, get all of them at the same time please. Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series:

The following is a three book series so please if you are getting this… get all three of them.
   
   

Ok here is one more book series that I would like to have. Again please if you are buying me this get all three books:

And now the second trilogy in the same series:

Ok so I don’t think I need to say much about this… I want it to have my children that should just about sum it all up.

Well I do not own a digital camera, and this one is the best out there from the low end (read - higher probability of someone buying it for me) cameras.

Well this is pretty much it folks. Get me everything on the list PLEASEEEE with a cherry on top.

Adium - mac software for download at iusethis

Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won’t look back. Adium is currently translated into Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.

Firefox - mac software for download at iusethis

The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It’s easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Download Firefox now and get the most out of the Web.

Thunderbird - mac software for download at iusethis

Email, NNTP, RSS reader.

X-Chat Aqua - mac software for download at iusethis

X-Chat Aqua is a MacOS X IRC client. If you are familiar with XChat for UNIX/GTK+/X Windows, then you will be at home with X-Chat Aqua. X-Chat Aqua uses the IRC engine from XChat and has been designed to look and feel like XChat.

Transmission - mac software for download at iusethis

Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end. NOTE: I would recommend you go to the website and download the latest nightly build.

CoRD - mac software for download at iusethis

CoRD is a remote desktop client for Mac OS X ported from the UNIX program rdesktop. It is a Universal Binary, and allows you to connect to multiple servers concurrently.

Transmit - mac software for download at iusethis

Transmit is an excellent FTP (file transfer protocol), SFTP, and iDisk/WebDAV client that allows you to upload, download, and delete files over the internet. With the most Mac-like interface available, Transmit makes FTP as simple, fun, and easy as it can possibly be.

KisMAC - mac software for download at iusethis

KisMAC is a free network stumbler that operates in passive mode, allowing the program to run completely invisibly without sending any probe requests (unlike active scanners). In addition to standard stumbler logging and graphing features, KisMAC reveals cloaked SSIDs and can perform deauthentication, packet injection, and several other attacks against WEP/WPA encrypted packets. GPS mapping is also included. KisMAC is the only stumbler to support Apple’s Airport Extreme card in passive mode. It is also compatible with original Airport cards and several third party cards (see website).

SSH Tunnel Manager - mac software for download at iusethis

SSH Tunnel Manager is a tool to manage SSH Tunnels (commonly invoked with -L and -R arguments in the console). With SSH Tunnel Manager you can setup many tunnels as you wish, each one containing many port redirections as you wish. Once tunnels are configured, all you have to do is Start, or Stop the tunnels.

Shimo - mac software for download at iusethis

The initial reason for the development of Shimo was the lousy software-implementation of the Cisco-VPN-Client for MacOS. Shimo wants to do it the MacOS-way: That means to reduce the interface to the important features and integrate it right into the user-interface of the OS. Thus the interaction with this piece of software is absolutely intuitive and self explanatory.

System Tools:

Onyx - mac software for download at iusethis

OnyX is a maintenance, optimization, and personalization utility for Mac OS X. It also makes it possible to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, and Safari, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, and more. OnyX is Freeware, gratis and freely usable; you may copy and distribute it at will. You can use it for as long a time as you want.

HimmelBar - mac software for download at iusethis

HimmelBar provides an icon in the menu bar to quickly access your installed applications by scanning standard locations such as local, user, network and developer applications. You can also add a custom location such as the Classic Applications folder, or any other folder of your hard disk that contains applications.

iTerm - mac software for download at iusethis

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support.

Growl - mac software for download at iusethis

Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.

PTHPasteboard - mac software for download at iusethis

Tracks last 20 (or less by preference) cut/copies. Kinda like Klipper from KDE.

You Control: Tunes - mac software for download at iusethis

A menubar iTunes controller like Menuet, but free. You have to get a free serial number at youfotware.com to register it.

HexEdit - mac software for download at iusethis

HexEdit is a hexadecimal file editor for the Macintosh. The most widely used editor of its kind on the platform, HexEdit can handle file sizes of up to four gigabytes with ease, yet has memory requirements of less than a megabyte (with colour turned off). It can also compare files for similarities or differences.

Liquid CD - mac software for download at iusethis

LiquidCD is a freeware for burning CDs and DVDs built for Mac OS X.

VirtueDesktops » About

“VirtueDesktops” is a virtual desktop manager for Apple’s Mac OS. It offers features, eye candy and configurable options that no other desktop manager on the mac has added yet, and is under active development.

Drive Genius - mac software for download at iusethis

Drive genius is a wonderful utility app that can perform a multitude of maintenance tasks on a harddrive. It can scan for bad blocks (a feature difficult to find), repair directory damage, defragement, edit sectors, and non-destructively repartition. Absolutely critical for someone trying to support Macs as bad blocks on drives can cause all sorts of issues.

Chamonix - mac software for download at iusethis

Chamonix is a CHM viewer. It has read every CHM I’ve thrown at it, but it still needs support for exporting an entire CHM to PDF, printing an entire CHM, and customizable toolbar. What it does so far though, it does very well.

Media Tools:

Corripio - mac software for download at iusethis

Corripio is the premier tool for gathering album artwork. By searching four sources: the iTunes Music Store, Coveralia, Best Buy, and Walmart, Corripio enables the user to get the best artwork available for their iTunes libraries with the click of a button. The user now has the ability to search for song lyrics. The lyrics will automatically be added to each songs’ ID3 tag.

Handbrake - mac software for download at iusethis

HandBrake is a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.

iEatBrainz - mac software for download at iusethis

iEatBrainz is a MusicBrainz client for MacOS X. MusicBrianz is a song/album/artist catalog, that unlike CDDB and friends computes an audio-bound hash for each track, and matches that to the database.

MPlayer OSX - mac software for download at iusethis

MPlayer is a multi-platform movie player supporting many formats and A/V codecs. MPlayer OSX is the GUI frontend with precompiled binaries optimized for PowerPC and AltiVec

VLC - mac software for download at iusethis

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

TriTag - mac software for download at iusethis

TriTag helps you to get a clear MP3 collection by either creating a new filename out of the ID3Tag or filling the metatags using the information found in the filename using a user defined pattern - easy due to a pattern builder. The first mode also allows to create a unique directory structure (artist/album/) similar to the one generated by iTunes “Consolidate library”. Search the FreeDB database if neither the filename nor the tag contains correct information.

Senuti - mac software for download at iusethis

There are many good reasons that someone would have to transfer music from her iPod back to her computer. There are many good ways to do it, too. Senuti is the only alternative that will give you the power and convenience that you need, wrapped in an interface that is extremely easy to use, at a cost that you can’t complain about.

Productivity Tools:

Smultron - mac software for download at iusethis

Smultron is an open-source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X with many of the features that you need. You can easily work with many documents and select one quickly in a list.

Taco HTML Edit - mac software for download at iusethis

Taco HTML Edit is a full-featured HTML editor and PHP editor. Taco HTML Edit empowers its users to rapidly create their own web sites. It is designed exclusively for Mac OS X and has many advanced features including spell checking, live browser previewing, PHP previewing, syntax checking, and much more.

NeoOffice - mac software for download at iusethis

NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality) for Mac OS X. It can import, edit, and exchange documents with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office. NeoOffice is focused on making OpenOffice.org a better Mac OS X citizen, with dozens of standard Mac features not found in OpenOffice.org. NeoOffice does NOT require the X11 windowing system.

WriteRoom - mac software for download at iusethis

For Mac users who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, WriteRoom is just about you and your text. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Voodoo Pad - mac software for download at iusethis

VoodooPad is a new kind of notepad. It’s like having your own digital junk drawer where you can jot down notes, web addresses, to-do lists… Anything on your mind. VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web, on your desktop! Anybody familiar with the WikiWikiWeb will feel right at home with VoodooPad.

Non-Productivity Tools (read addictive as hell):

Quinn - mac software for download at iusethis

Quinn is an implementation of a popular falling-blocks game. Written specifically for Mac OS X, it features a neat user interface, perfectly integrated with Aqua, and a smooth look and feel for best user enjoyment. The goal was not to reinvent falling-blocks games with yet another modification of the rules, but to preserve the simplicity of the original idea. Still there’s everything you might expect—including a two-player mode, network play with Bonjour support, an online server list and highscore database, and five different multiplayer rules.

Frozen-Bubble - mac software for download at iusethis

Frozen Bubble is a popular free puzzle game. User controls a small canon, shooting bubbles and tries to hit other bubbles so to create groups of 3 or more bubbles of the same color. Whenever this is accomplished these bubbles go away. The purpose of the game is to eliminate all bubbles from stage.

Solitaire XL - Freeware Solitaire for Mac OSX

Solitaire XL is a stunning version of the well known one-person card game, Klondike Solitaire. It builds on the power of Cocoa and OpenGL to provide integrated 3D effects during gameplay. Download this freeware version of Solitaire for Mac OS X now.

Random Software:

CandyBar - mac software for download at iusethis

CandyBar is the easiest, quickest and by far, the safest way to customize the icons found in the system and application toolbars of Mac OS X. CandyBar also lets you customize apps, folders, clipping icons, locations and even the OS X Trash icon!

Magic Number Machine - mac software for download at iusethis

A free, full-featured, graphically laid out, high-precision, scientific calculator.

Longhand - mac software for download at iusethis

A revolutionary calculator. And yet extremely easy to grasp. The way it should have been from the beginning.

• Water Polo - just a little info on the only sport I am really passionate about
• Swimming - a page with my swimming workouts that I use to keep my self in shape in order to be able to play WP.
• Working Out - something I like to do… well like to do most of the time anyway :).

And finally I decided that although Flikr was a great service the whole 30$ a year was not worth it. So now I am officially starting up my own photo hosting :). Based on Gallery. So far I am really pleased with it, although I am having a bit of a difficult time getting to customize the code for some of the themes… but thats because I am not really familiar with the code base. Any way:

• My Photo Gallery

• Fasterfox - performance and networking tweaks that make your webbrowsing experience a hell of a lot faster :).

Here is the one and only extension for Thunderbird that I have ever used:

• Enigmail - allows you to use PGP/GPG along with your e-mails. I am not sure I can survive without  this thing running in the background for me…

• It is Open Source
• It is expendable
• It is fast in every aspect
• If it crashes it does not bring the entire OS to its knees (biggest selling point for me)

So here is a list of extensions that I use with it on a daily bases:

1. Cingular Minutes Minder Firefox Extension - A small extension thats sole job is to log into my Cingular GSM account and check my SMS/Minute quota for the month so I can make sure that I do not go over my plan’s coverage
2. Adblock - As the name says this extension allows you to block ads and other content (Flash) from webpages.
3. dutchblock - A companion extension for Adblock which goes out and downloads the latest blacklists that will block virtually all ads out there.
4. ErrorZilla - This little gem replaces the default Firefox site not found error page with a new one, allowing you to do a few extra checks of the site: ping, traceroute, whois, along with checking Google Cache, Wayback Machine and Coralize. Overall a really nice extension that lets you see why you can’t get your favorite spots.
5. Tab Mix Plus - After installing this you will be presented with numerous new options for your tabbed browsing needs. Things like where to locate new tabs after they are opened, if you want to have a multi row tab bar instead of having to scroll through 50 tabs to find what you need, coloring of tabs that are still loading and my personal favorite: alternate location of the close button.
6. Performancing - This is the most useful of all extensions. It allows you to connect to just about any blogging platform out there and publish content straight out of the browser while whatever you are talking about is sitting infront of you. It allows you integrate pieces of information easily (quotations for example) and makes using your blog a lot more enjoyable overall.
7. GrApple (Eos) - This is a Theme for Firefox and it is only useful to Mac users since its main goal is to make Firefox integrate nicely (looks wise) with OS X’s Look & Feel. This theme is by far the best one that I have found so far.
8. Page Saver - This is something I forgot about so I had to add to the end of the list. It is an extension that allows you to take a screenshot of a webpage… no matter how long it is, in one go. So you have a site that spans 3 pages no problem it will take a screenshot of the entire 3 pages for you.

That is it. I hope some of these are going to be as useful to you as they are to me.

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