There's a sticker!

We had what we hope to be the last open house for the unit today. Only people that came through were the buyers and some real estate agents that were dragged along to give a rental appraisal. Building and Pest inspection was done yesterday and went off without a hitch apparently. In fact, our agent is so confident she's actually put a (somewhat tentatively phrased) "SOLD" sticker on the sign at the front.



Probably more for her benefit really but I must say it's a bit of a high to see that we're pretty much home and hosed. Just another week until the contract goes unconditional.

Braeburn just got a boost

Thought I'd use what little luxury money I had lying around to give myself a little treat and picked up some RAM for the MacBook. I've been toying around with XCode lately and have noticed Braeburn chugging along with all my normal apps open at the same time. Worse yet, if I don't close some of them down things just slow to a crawl when running Parallels for the odd Windows program that I still need to use.

Grabbed four gig of "Mac compatible" memory from UMart and have noticed an improvement in responsiveness already. Even now I've got pretty much everything I'd ever want open and my little Mac is handling it with nary a Page Out.



Ahhh... look at all that free space. Yes, Quicksilver is a memory hog but I just can't live without it anymore.

Speaking of apps that I can't do without, I've recently developed an unhealthy attachment to a nifty note taking program called Evernote. I started using it at work to take notes for jobs and processes but have since been using it at home and on the move for everything from receipts to project ideas for the new house. It has great support for tags and searching (it even searches for text inside photos!) which means that your notes are easily recalled when you need them.

The brilliant thing about the app is that it's cross platform and (get this) it syncs your notes between your computers! If installing an application on a computer isn't possible then there's also a web client available, though it's obviously not as responsive as a local installation. You do have to create an Evernote account to sync but this is a painless process and it's ABSOLUTELY FREE if you only need to sync 40MB worth of notes a month. They even have an iPhone version which would provide you with access to your notes regardless of wherever you are. Shame I don't have an iPhone yet... *grumble*

My "art" spreads to the iPhone

For a change, here's something that's not house related. I was asked a while back to contribute one of my food snaps to Schmap, an online guide that wanted something that represented Chinese New Year in Brisbane. Apparently they've just jumped on the Apple bandwagon and released a new iPhone application to view their guide online, and were kind enough to send me a link to see what it looks like.

Pretty nifty... now if only I had an iPhone to check it out for real. ;)