The new macbook

Owning a Macbook is just a lot of fun. Its this amazing thing that you can flaunt away! But today I am jealous because Apple just went ahead and released the new Macbook which I must say is the best piece of engineering I have ever seen. So lets go over the features…

First, this time the entire body, which Apple calls “Unibody” has been made from a single block of Aluminium. Much lighter and classy.

Second, the screen this time is LCD and it looks exactly like the iphone display. Totally rocks!

Now the best part is that they got rid of the mousepad buttons and the mousepad itself is a button…Also, the macbook now has NVidia integrated graphics to for graphic rendering.

Watch the video here and be amazed. And I want to buy one of those soon!

Elisa – The Open Media Center

I’m not sure if too many people know about Elisa, quite frankly it is quite amazing that something as wonderful as Elisa is not in the limelight(as yet!). For a quick and brief introduction, Elisa is a sleek next generation media center where you can watch videos, browse pictures, manage music etc.

Read ahead for a quick list of features:

MUSIC:

Elisa finds music and arranges it by artist, by album and by folder. It includes all the album art to give you a very interesting interface to play with. Elisa has been designed in a extensible manner by which adding plugins can enhance features. It currently bundles the shoutcast radio plugin.

VIDEOS:

Elisa arranges videos and allows you to play them. It also has a youtube plugin that can be used to browse youtube videos!

PICTURES:

Elisa finds pictures from the default folders. The picasa extension allows you to browse pictures uploaded to your web album.

All locations that Elisa can look into can be defined in home/~user~/.elisa/elisa.conf. Whats better is that the file locations, network urls, anything!

Elisa works on both Windows and Linux, though on Windows its still an alpha release.

Some tips to install Elisa on Ubuntu:

Elisa is packaged with Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) To install and get it working properly with all plugins do:

$ sudo apt-get install elisa

$ sudo apt-get install elisa-plugins-bad elisa-plugins-ugly

$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-fluendo-*

$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

$ elisa

Here’s a link to install Elisa on earlier versions of Ubuntu: http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766012

The Hollow

I sense emptiness in my eyes,

When a breeze of wind hits my face…

My skin trembles as it touches me,

As a cold chill without grace…

I long for that touch to be yours,

But alas, its all just in the air…

Its not you that has made me tremble today

Its not your hand that begins to play.

I shiver… so hollow, looking straight,

Desperate, seeking a sight of you…

Staring at emptiness without a clue,

Vacuum, so dark, under the hood of a wraith.

I look harder, to find the light of your eyes,

I tell myself this darkness is just lies,

I remind myself of all those ties,

I convince myself that darkness is just passing by.

These eyes are still empty, and full in a way…

I try to stop them, they don’t stay…

Before I realize, they’re flowing away…

And making me empty, yet another day.