FireFly CG Models

I built several CG models for the short lived Firefly TV Show. Won an Emmy even, Hooray! If you're a fan, and want to get a glimpse, visit my new Firefly Portfolio section.

Firefly

BEAK: a New Mac Desktop Twitter Client

Beak is a new Twitter client currently in development that uses a single column for updates similar to twhirl. Tabs across the top contain sections for: Tweets, Mentions, Messages, Faves, Search and Stats. Emphasis is on retweeting, replies, favorites, URL shortening and posting. This is PRE_RELEASE software, but it is pretty solid.

Beak Download Website

Best Unarchivers for Mac OSX

The standard BOMArchiveHelper.app built into OSX's finder is ok for simple compression and decompression Zip operations. If you're looking for replacements that can handle more formats, such as Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, and others then try some of my favorite free ones:

• ZipPeg
• The Unarchiver
• UnrarX
  

If you consume much content from the usenet newsgroups, then you will definitely want a set of programs that can recover missing information by processing often used "par" and "par2" files, and recombine sets of files. The best combinations I've found for this are:

• MacPAR Deluxe
• Split&Concat
  

 Suttfit Deluxe is a good classic Mac compression utility as well, however it does sell for $80.00.

Paramount's new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Trailer

This new trailer gives us a look at the return of Megatron, Devestator and others.

Robocopy & Richcopy Utilities

I'm a huge fan of Robocopy, a command-line directory replication command originally available with the Windows Resource Kit, and more recently with Vista and Windows Server 2008. Unlike Copy and XCopy, Robocopy implements reliable copy or mirroring of entire folders of any size.

During the copying process, it ensures that all NTFS ACLS, attributes, owner information, alternate data streams, auditing information, timestamps and properties are copied. Even security information will copy if you explicitly request it using the /COPYALL switch. Additionally if there's a disruption or outage during the process, there's a resume copying feature that works locally and over network connections.

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