MSI Wind Details [Eee Competitor]

Everyone’s favorite ULPC (Ultra Low-cost Portable Computer), the Asus Eee PC has just found a new competitor in town - The MSI Wind. The people over at Laptop Magazine have managed to get an interview with Andy Tung, MSI’s Director of US Sales. So far the following stats for the Wind are:

• It will run a version of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise or Windows XP - buyer’s choice
• Screen options are 8.9″ or 10″ display (10″ is the only choice in the US)
• Color choices are black, white, silver, and pink
• 6 cell battery (more than 6hr of continuous use with Linux version)
• Sales begin June 3

Linux Version

• 512MB RAM
• 80GB Hard Drive
• Atom Processor
• $399

Windows Version

• 1GB RAM
• 80GB Hard Drive
• Atom Processor
• Bluetooth
• $549

Read the full interview along with a gallery at Laptop Magazine, here.

Boot Camp & Parallels Together

Recently I found myself installing my Windows Vista on Boot camp but I didn’t want to have to reboot every tome I wanted to do something simple. Through some playing around, I found a very easy way to use your Boot Camp partition in Parallels.

First install your Windows operating system through Boot Camp. Once that is completed, Open Parallels and follow this path:

File > New… > Custom > Choose your OS > Allocate RAM used > Use Boot Camp.

And that’s about it. It’s pretty straight forward after that, but if you have any trouble, feel free to comment below.

Pixelmator 1.2 Draftsman

The Pixelmator team just posted a new article today on their blog talking about the future of Pixelmator. In summary, they’re going to be working all summer on 1.3 codenamed Tempo. Their goal with Tempo is all around performance. “Our task with Tempo is to stun every single user of Pixelmator by speed (think large images) of the app as much as we did with the UI and other never-before-seen things.” They also posted a screenshot on Flickr of 1.2 - most notably, you can see the Polygonal Lasso Tool (finally), Cuves and Guides. Visually, 1.2 looks the same as the current version and the team made no reference to the UI in 1.3 - which will presumably reman the same as well. You can read the entire post on the Pixelmator web site here.

Update: Pixelmator 1.2 Draftsman has been released and includes rulers, guides, grids, snapping, curves, color balance, auto enhance, a polygonal lasso tool and a completley reworked transform tool (allows you to use it as in Photoshop Elements with the box around each layer and isn’t glitchy like the prior version).

Beautiful Wallpapers

I found this web site that has a good portion of iPhone, iPod touch, Mac and other wallpapers. I believe most of them are vector designed - which I love. Check out the site here.

Cool Mac Apps

I stumbled on to this cool web site, Donelleschi Software, that has developed some really handy little applications: Sapiens, Sticky Windows, Filegazer and DockFun!. All of the apps are Shareware, so there is a demo available, but it nicely reminds you to please purchase it. Check all of the applications out here.

Note: Filegazer and DockFun! do NOT work with Leopard.

Ubuntu 8.04 Finally Released!

Finally, Ubuntu 8.04 has come out of Beta and onto people’s computers everywhere. From what I have been hearing, the site’s being bombarded with downloads right now, so you might want to wait until the weekend to download it. You can check out my initial coverage of 8.04 here. Or if you really want to, you can download it now from the Ubuntu website.