It's not a "Southern thang" anymore

Finding a great place to get away from work for an hour can be more difficult than it seems. We learned that the hard way. For us, Town Fryer was a rare find that offered a great place for out of the ordinary food and a fun time. Friday lunch at the Fryer became our lunch tradition. Unfortunately it was short lived once we found out the Fryer will be closing. Clevelanders who have had the opportunity to eat there will be losing more then just a restaurant, they're losing a great time in a fun and welcoming environment. It will not be easy to find a replacement for the Fryer, we will miss you :(

If you haven't had a chance to experience The Town Fryer, visit http://www.thetownfryer.com/ and stop in before they close for good.

Windows Vista. . . It's nice!

The RTM version of Windows Vista was released to business users about a month ago and I had high hopes. I've always liked exploring different operating systems, and in the past few years I've found at least a few things I've really liked in most. When I saw the first build of Vista, I knew that this OS would be huge. I write this post under Vista Business Edition running on my Mac and the look and feel of the OS is just as appealing as the hardware it's running on !(MacBook) Since the release of OS X, Macintosh had the eye candy that Windows lacked. Apple became more of a style than anything, and the Ipod was the perfect companion. It looks like Microsoft is finally catching up with their latest operating system. If your hardware supports it, Vista's Aero Glass gives your windows theme a transparent look,(shown in screen shot above) and the start menu has a sort of Gnome look to it. Many Mac fanatics will argue that Vista is a carbon copy of OS X. I do admit the argument can be made, but my rebuttal would be that Mac stole ideas from Xerox from the beginning. In my personal opinion, if every OS stole what's good in another, users like us win.

In a nutshell:
Vista looks and runs nice even if they stole from Apple. Let's hope they market it better then the Zune.
It will get bombarded with hack attempts to highlight any security holes hackers might find, but Windows users are used to the patch your OS everyday thing anyways.

Asia scrambles to restore communications after quake

Hate to always link to articles but it's hard to find time to add content to this blog, here's the article!

Converting DVD movies for the iPod using Mac OSX

Found a very nice piece of software called Handbrake that allows you to convert a dvd to Ipod format. Handbrake is completely free and can be downloaded here

Anders.com has a full tutorial for both Mac and Windows users!

Fantastic Four: Rise of Silver Surfer

You can view the trailer Here.

View the Solar System with Stellarium!

Stellarium is an awesome open source program that allows you to view the solar system! Stellarium is packed with features and is unbelievably accurate. Check it out @ www.stellarium.org

Asia wakes up to life without technology

BANGKOK: It was a tsunami for the digital age, a collapse of the virtual world that radiated through much of Asia and beyond after an undersea earthquake late Tuesday off the coast of Taiwan.

People woke Wednesday to find themselves without e-mail or the Internet and, in some cases, without telephone connections, cut off from the real world around them.

The earthquake, which triggered a tsunami alert and some physical damage, ruptured two of the undersea cables that are part of a communications fretwork that circles the globe.

Coming on the second anniversary of the Asian tsunami that killed 230,000 people, it was a reminder of the world's increasing dependence on communications technology.

Financial companies and technology services suffered most directly, with banking services and securities trading all but crippled. Operations from travel agencies to newspapers to schools were struggling to maintain their routines.

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