Someone made a “visualizer for iTunes”:http://www.tuaw.com/2006/06/21/backlight-visualizer-for-itunes/ that flashes the backlight of the keyboard on Powerbook and Macbook Pros that have this feature, completely useless but cool none-the-less. Or visit the “actual home”:http://www.stewreo.de/keyboarddisco.html of the plugin.
Now someone just needs to make a plugin for Adium or Growl to flash the keyboard when I get a new IM, that’d be neat.
Ok so I’m not as bothered by the MacBook Pro after getting my Powerbook only a couple months ago, because it appears the MacBook Pro is lacking a few things. Some things you can get by buying an accessory.
So I don’t feel as bad for having a outdated-in-3-months Powerbook anymore. They seem to have left some things out. We’ll see how they are with issues too later on, since first revisions can sometimes be rocky.
I know it was rumored to be true, but part of me didn’t expect them to get a “Powerbook” or what’s now a “MacBook Pro” out until maybe Summer ‘06. But they now have a MacBook Pro which they claim is 4x faster than my current PowerBook.
I wonder how smooth they’ll be since Apple has had problems often with first revision of a lot of hardware. I don’t think it’s been too often though so this could easily probably go well. I do kind of wish I could upgrade to the new one, built-in iSight, possibly less crappy power cord, 4x faster, etc. My current machine is great, but always feel like you want the better one, specially if it’s only been 3 months since mine came out.
Also wondering if I should get iLife ‘06 when all I use is iPhoto and not all that frequently.