A new addition to our family

Well, we did it. We've been talking about it for some time and we finally did it. We are pleased to announce the latest addition to our family. Her name is Molly. And she is a magnetic little bundle of technological joy. Weighing in at just 5.2 lbs, she has a 13.3 inch diagonal widescreen, a beautiful black matte finish, and the most quiet keys ever created by humankind. She is fantastically fast and jam packed with good stuff, including Photo Booth which Darr and I got one hell of an ab workout using.

Yes, my love of all things Apple overwhelmed me today whilst we were shopping at Bridgeport Village so we stopped by the Apple store and decided the time had come to upgrade Marty (my old G4 PowerBook). One swipe of the credit card and a signature later, we were on our way out, me carrying the case of a brand spanking new MacBook. Why not MacBook Pro, you ask? I don't need that much of a machine for the blogging, photo snapping, web site creation and maintenance, and occasional writing that I do. I'm not a gamer, although with two friends working in the gaming industry you'd think I would be. And Molly has all of the goodies I need to keep me happy for at least the next three years. She's perfect. Of course, now there is no excuse, except for pure lack of talent, to keep me from writing the Pulitzer Prize winning piece of literature that will have fame and a modest fortune knocking at my door.

And the cool tool we bought shortly after booting up Molly? Delicious Library. Delicious Library is an outstanding $40 piece of software, working in conjunction with Apple and Amazon to get you all the info you'd ever need for your movie, book, music, or game. Scan the title (an easy task with Apple's iSight - just hold the barcode in front of the built-in camera) or type the title, select the item, and it is added to your library. So now, when we feel like settling down for a good romantic comedy, all I've got to do is run a search for "Hugh Grant" and wait for the almost limitless possibilities to present themselves. (We do have an extraordinarily high volume of Hugh Grant movies.) Beyond this level of absolute awesomitude is the layout of the library - wooden shelves where the title for each item is placed. The pane on the right displays all of the information about the item. Click My Info and you can rate the item (a five-star system) and write your own review. Click Similar and the kind peoples at Amazon will provide you with a list of similar items - so it's not just a clever name - that you can then easily access and purchase if you so desire. It's really incredible. And fairly easy to use as I've already uploaded most of our dvds and it only took an hour or so at the dining room table.