My G4 Has Died

My G4, originally uploaded by sakraft1.

Suffering from power supply problems, I have removed the hard drives and the valkyries have taken it to valhalla. Goodbye old friend.

Yahoo Small business webhosting is down

at the moment. What is interesting is that some of my sakraft.com blogs seem to be showing content, just not background images. I guess its good to not put all of your eggs in one basket (I ♥ blogger, except when it craps out too). When I try to go through the admin site to contact them it just leads me to a site-wide message:

Open System Status Messages

System Status Message
08/01/11

06:27 AM PST: Unable to view web sites

Some Yahoo! Small Business customers may have difficulties accessing their web sites.

Customers may see a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" or "The connection has timed out" error message while trying to view their web sites.

We are aware of this issue and are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

I just hope my database info is intact. I'm kind of afraid to attempt making a backup while the front end of my site(s) are still down...

Quicktime save disabled in Safari 4?

I upgraded Safari to the version 4 beta and I looks like the little triangle at the end of the quicktime play bar is missing (which allows you to save qt files if you have QT Pro). What gives? There are ways around this (even if you don't have pro) and its still there in Firefox, but where did it go in the Safari 4 Beta?

Here is a link to an mp3 of me saying "caiparinhas.mp3" so you can test it yourself (it was from an old post about how to pronounce the word):

caiparinhas.mp3

EDIT: This post previously referred to it as the Safari 3 Beta, its actually 4, I skipped over 3.

Apple drops MacBook price

This just in: Apple dropped the price of the base MacBook to $999 from $1099. A multitouch glass trackpad was introduced to the MacBook Pro all MacBooks (except air?). Cases are now being machined out of solid aluminum. Also, new very fast Nvidia 9400M graphics. Backlit LED displays for all. Solid state drives availble as upgrades.

apple.com

Hilarious System 7 Simulator

While looking into emulating Mac OS 7 in OS X, I came across this hilarious flash-based simulation of a Performa 6116CD running OS 7.5. Its amazingly detailed. You can even empty the trash, open folders, run the screen saver and change the desktop image. [click here!]

Holy BoxOver!

This thing is awesome! Javascript tooltips, here I come!

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Cool photoshop tutorials

I found some cool (and some not as cool) photoshop tutorials on this site

Praise Be To Macintosh

This is why I really dig Macs the most. I screwed up some network permissions on my old G4, and when I went to turn it on, bad things were happening. I mean shit like I ain't never seen before in all my years of Mac ownership or my brief tenure at the Apple store. So why do I like Macs? Because when the user (me) presses buttons randomly and changes settings that they (I) have no idea what they do, messing their computer up so bad that they think they might as well bury it in the backyard and start anew (which so often happens with Windows), the savy Mac user can fix it. And I did. And you have no idea how relieving it is to be able to untinker what you tinkered wrong.

And now its time to back up the 150 gigs in my old G4 in case it ever really hits the fan.