My new website has been live for several months now, and is doing quite well. I will no longer be using this site at all. Please visit the new site for the latest information on my art and exhibits, as well as other art related news, design articles, and technology reviews.
A7 - Andy Morris
My new art website is finally prepped and ready to go! I'm just doing final testing on it and optimizing it for Google, so it should be live within a few hours. Although it is focused on providing information about my art, I've incorporated the ByA7 blog and Free4all (now called "Friends Posts"
into the site as well.
The new site is on a new domain, and will take over all aspects of this site. This site will remain active for archiving purposes, but will no longer be used for posting any new information at this time. The Free4all will also be closed to new posts. If you would like to post, please visit the new site and sign up for an account.
For more information, please contact me at: a7mc (at) bya7.com
Thank you,
A7
No... I didn't misspell that. I now own a Hackintosh instead of a Macintosh. Since Apple went to the Intel chips a couple of years ago (using commonly found PC parts), there has been a lot of development work around getting the Apple OSX Operating System to work on non-Apple hardware. As a result, they have been able to get OSX working near perfection now with the latest Leopard system.
So this is what my new non-Mac Mac looks like. Yes, I am a geek and I did put an Apple logo on the machine. 
I still have one final glitch to work out with the motherboard, but other that that, it runs great. I sold my iMac for $1900 and this entire setup cost me under $1400 (and that's why I had the extra money on hand for the Playstation 3.. not a bad deal if I say so myself). Here's the kicker... it runs over twice as fast as my iMac did! It's a QUAD-core 3Ghz (i.e. 12 Ghz!!) machine with 4GB of ram. Sweet. 
So why am I posting this? Because it's frivolous. And also because I'm going to document how I did it so others can benefit from having a blazing fast Mac on a budget. I'll post pictures of the inside of this bad boy in a few days when I replace the motherboard.
A7
Here you go:
Now go and eat some cake.
A7
Blu-Ray movies are FRIGGEN AWESOME!
Watched Spiderman 3 and The Simpson's Movie on Blu-Ray this weekend and the quality of the image over standard DVD is simply jaw dropping.
Oh... and in case you haven't heard... the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray was is over.
For the week ending January 13th, the first full week following Warner's decision to go Blu-ray exclusive, the Blu-ray camp had its most dominating disc sales week.
Since the beginning of 2007 Blu-ray has outsold HD DVD by an average of nearly 2:1, but the week in question saw the gap get even further. Blu-ray took a dominating 85 percent share of all HD discs sold.
HomeMediaMagazine also reported that from the top ten selling discs for the week, none were HD DVD. The top selling Blu-ray Title "3:10 to Yuma" sold about ten times as many discs as the top selling HD DVD title, "The Kingdom".
A7
I just bought a
mostly so that I could use
and watch amazing high-def movies on my HDTV and HD Projector, but also so I could play
Rock Band on the PS3 kicks some MAJOR ass. I LOVE playing the (fake) drums!
Now I am
A7
I know... one day late. This is one of the reasons I decided to do the Superficial Blog. I need a place to post these silly little things. So......
