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October 26, 2008.
I did mention this in a Twitter entry already, but I will say it again: I’m crazy about Poladroid right now. See, I wasn’t allowed to watch TV when I was a kid. So what do I do now? Watch a lot of TV. And one thing I always wanted to have as a kid was my own Polaroid camera, but my parents kept telling me that I should save my pocket money for something more worthwhile instead of wasting it on these silly expensive cartridges. Which of course means that I have a terrible spending habit now, and can’t even remember what I did with my pocket money back then. As soon as I laid eyes on Polaroid, however, I knew that those childhood deprivations would finally be put to rest. It is an emulator that will add a Polaroid-effect to any of your pictures. And it’s really cute!
After installation, a lovely-looking Polaroid camera will be sitting on your desktop:
Drag one of your pictures onto the application, wait a few seconds, and like a real Polaroid camera it will chuck out the unprocessed photo, accompanied by authentic sound effects. You can then shake the picture, or just wait – a sound effect will let you know when it’s done. And just like the original, you only get ten images out of one cartridge session.
Over the course of two years I have taken many pictures with my mobile phone’s camera but they simply aren’t good enough to be posted anywhere, yet at the same time they hold many fond or not-so-fond memories and therefore are in a way testament to my life. Turns out they look tolerable after running through Poladroid.
This weekend’s bounty:
I went overboard and uploaded them all to Flickr so my account would get some action. Now I can revert to not uploading anything for a month or two without feeling bad about it. Oh the pressures of “Web 2.0″ 
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August 30, 2008.
I was reading the Freeware Friday: Anti-Productivity Edition entry on MacApper last night when one of the featured applications caught my eye: iStache lets you add mustaches to pictures – just the sort of brainless fun I enjoy, so I downloaded it. I knew I was going to love it when I saw the disk image’s background picture:
And because we know that a well-known metal band is in dire need of a makeover, I took the liberty. So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I present you with the “stache-ified” Metallica:
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August 25, 2005.
Since my life is pretty uneventful and boring at the moment, I would like to recommend this excellent piece of freeware.
From the creators’ website (emphasis mine):
Clutter is a small Mac OS X application that lets you put music CDs on your desktop. You can drag them anywhere — they’re really windows. Line them up neatly or put them in piles, it’s your choice. Each one looks like the real CD’s cover, and double-clicking it tells iTunes — or your SqueezeBox or SoundBridge — to play that CD.
Think of Clutter as an alternate user interface to your music collection. When deciding what to play next, instead of searching through a huge alphabetical list, let your eye roam over the covers of your favorite CDs and those you’ve been listening to recently.
There’s a main window that shows the CD you’re now playing — the cover picture is looked up automatically from Amazon.com or from iTunes 4, or you can paste in your own. (You can also export pictures to iTunes 4.) To keep a CD around for easy access, just drag the picture out of the window onto your desktop. Then double-click it whenever you want to play it.
I totally love it, I have been looking for something that automatically looks up artwork for iTunes for ages, and this application both does a great job and looks very cool – it’s almost like dealing with actual CDs.
Get it here: Clutter
