snowy… snowy… snowy… =P~

It’s time to upgrade. See you later!

SeisMac is a Mac OS X application that turns your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph, measure and record motions of the ground, including those of seismic waves generated by earthquakes. It access your laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs.

This make remember the recent earthquake in Indonesia. My sincere condolence for all the earthquake victim in Padang, West Sumatra. And for us all, it does no harm to read earthquake prediction;

October 2009: The ability to forecast large earthquakes, greater than M6.0, more accurately and many days in advance, has been greatly enhanced by a new finding that enabled us to forecast the approximate magnitude of the Padang, Sumatra, earthquake (30 September) two weeks in advance.

It’s a new season for Leverage. Season 2.

The Famous Five is back. Hacker, thief, hitter, grifter and the mastermind. The story is just the same, nothing so great about it. But in this season Hardison the geek, using a Mac instead of HP. It’s just usual for Hollywood movie, using Apple stuff, MacBook, iMac, iPhone. With MacBook Pro unibody 15 inch(?), he show off some cover flow on the screen. And there are some other cool gadget like usual, 6 widescreen monitor in wall, earbuds, etc. He is doing some boring job during the ‘holiday’, hack white house email. And later, together with Parker and Eliot, he just rampage into Nate apartment. Hardison ‘buy’ the builing, so he become Nate’s landlord.

One song from this premier, from the scene when Nate know Sophie has a boyfriend, “Not Sure Yet” by Andy Lange. For Lange, having his song placed in the episode happened by accident – he’s actually a sound engineer on Leverage and he passed his CD along to the show’s executive producer and director Dean Devlin.

It’s free, subtitle editor in Java actually, but I’m Mac. You can get it at jubler.org.

Here’s two useful tools for me:

1. Shift Time

If the sub start to soon or to late, use this tool. You can add / subtract how many second or minute you need. But if you watching movie with vlc, you can do this easily by press j button on keyboard for adding subtitle delay and h for subtracting subtitle delay. Keyword: delay.

2. Recode

You need this if the sub really don’t sync with the movie at all. It keep appear faster or slower even after you already shift it. It’s happened because the movie have different frame per second (fps) rate with the movie which synced with the subtitle. Different version or encode setting. It can start early but finish late. Movie runtime 1 hour, but sub runtime 1 hour 15 minutes for example.

To subtract sub runtime you need to make fps bigger, same with the opposite. Tips, watch the movie first, find the start time of first sentence and last sentence, then recode and shift the sub to match it with the movie. Keyword: runtime.

Make sure the sub just need delay or just out of sync, not a srt file with time and text on it. You’ll waste your time.

This is what happened when I encoded 478 MB HQ Google I/O 2009 – Keynote Day 1.flv to m4v

Tools: HandBrake

92% CPU Usage, CPU Temps 93°, Fans 6212 rpm

One and half hour later, my Mac can survive this struggle.

Hunch: You probably don’t need an iPhone

How about 3G S?

Hunch: Yes, you should buy an iPhone 3G S

Now I should?

(Warning – this is an illusion, too many wish with empty pocket)

[Hunch]

I just found out about kateglo, Indonesian dictionary. It’s provide definition, thesaurus, and glosary; just like its name: “kamus”, “tesaurus”, dan “glosarium”. And by the way, it was launched on May 9, exactly one month before Erin McKean launch her Wordnik.

Another fyi: Mac user, there is an English – Indonesia plugin for Mac Dictionary. You can get it at Abu Hasan Blog.

Apple known for it’s (Google search):

• ease and simplicity
• excellence in electronic devices
• phones, desktops and music players
• for having lawyers with sharp teeth and a hungry appetite
• graphics and photo/video technology
• amazing team work and sales philosophy

Overall, I think Apple is TED. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED is conference though. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Jobs (man behind Apple) never talks there, but here’s what TED says about Steve Job’s speaking techniques:

• Build up the presentation to something unexpected
• Stick to one theme per slide, and make them visually attractive;
• Vary the speed and tone at which you speak to electrify the audience
• Three things are absolutely key: rehearse, rehearse, rehearse
• If you’re passionate about the idea or the product, show it.

Steve Jobs still not appear at WWDC, still sick? Does he have any chance to speak at TED?

(Just another post from Apple fanboy)

Scrollable Stacks: This is a good one. In Leopard I must ‘Open in Finder’ to view the rest of item in my folder if they are too many.

PDF text selection: You know… for the copy paste edit ‘thing‘, this improvement is really helpful. No more mix of words from every column in pdf.

[Snow Leopard]