I finally got to upgrade to snow leopard this week. I have to say its a pretty good value for money upgrade specially if you have an older mac (imagine a technical overhaul for only 29 dollars)! It feels like Anita’s been given new life. All my apps run faster, start up and shutdown is faster as well. It’s a drastic change from what I was experiencing with the last few Leopard updates (slower and slower startup, hotter CPU), now she feels 2 months old again!

Snow Leopard

Here’s some things that I noticed that I really liked.

• Faster and shorter startup
  During the last few updates of Leopard, my startup was probably at 4 or 5 minutes already (like I never switched from windows). Now that I switched to Snow Leopard, startup and shutdown is under a minute! As the gay looking guy in the Sky broadband says “I can barely have time to finish this cup of coffee”.
• Applications run smoother and faster
  All of my applications run smoother and faster now thanks to the utilization of both processor cores sharing the load. Photoshop takes only 10 seconds to fully load and I rarely see the loading ring now. Indesign crashes less as well and even Safari runs faster.
• Regained disc space
  I regained around 6 to 7 gigs of disc spaces from the code overhaul apple did with snow leopard giving me more space for my stuff and lengthening Anita’s life.
• A better Expose
  Expose now shows windows in a more organized manner with a new grid for a less cluttered look. Also if you turned it on in the settings, Expose will hide windows you’ve clicked to be hidden in the same icons for the programs saving space on the dock. You can also now launch expose by holding down the dock icons.
• Improved Stacks
  You can now browse things in the dock if your in grid view which makes so much help to find files and to send files to specific folders!
• Improved Preview
  I don’t need Skim anymore, preview can highlight and add comments on my PDF readings for school natively

What do you like about Snow Leopard?

I don’t really know if this dancing thing is just a temporary high but I really miss dancing on the hardwood and using those 2.5 inch heeled shoes.

My friends and I went to an Anime convention yesterday afternoon. It was my first time to go to one of those since I usually think I’m above the geekness of it all but turns out im not hahahahaha. They had really great deals on Jpop/Jrock CDs, 1 CD for 50 php! Thats 1 CD for 1.04 USD! Oh just to say these are not pirated these are original Ongaku CDs! I was able to get an original Can You Keep a Secret single by Utada Hikaru for just 50 bucks! I would have gotten Sakura Drops and COLORS as well but some campers got to them first.

I found some of the cosplayers weird though… seriously if you don’t have it don’t flaunt it hahahahah (or if you have too much of it don’t show it hahaha). Some we’re really good like the Hatsumomo cosplay who could really do the fan tricks. I only stayed till around 5:30 cause my parents have been really strict on me getting home at night recently mostly because my nephew has a fever.