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I had a great dinner at the Phillipe Starck designed-XIV last night. It’s Michael Mina’s 14th restaurant (hence the name). I’ll try to post impressions/pictures of the items I had when I get home on Monday evening.

I suffered some data loss on my 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11drive that had been acting as my media drive. My boot drive is fine and backed up with Time Machine, but I had too much data on the media drive for Time Machine to back up. Never again.

I ordered a Drobo FW800 and I should have it in my grubby paws by this weekend.

I sold and shipped my MacBook Air Rev A 1.6GHz 80GB. I’m planning on heading to the Apple Store later this week and pick out my next laptop. If I do get the Rev B Macbook Air, I’m going to spring for the SSD model. Because of the price similarity, I would also have to consider the new MacBook Pro. I know, I know, two very different computers. I’ll spend the next few days thinking about how I’m going to be using the next laptop.

As some of you may know, Mac Netflix users can opt-in to finally stream available movies using the Netflix movie player. If you haven’t yet, you can opt-in here:

http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin

The player works fine on my MacBook Air and my black MacBook. However, I had some problems getting the Silverlight installer to install on my Hackintosh. For some reason, the Silverlight installer views my Hackintosh as a PowerPC and refuses to proceed with the installation. Clearly, that’s incorrect, as I have an Intel-based processor (Quad Core Q6600). Over on the InsanelyMac forums, user critic81 found a way to bypass the installation check and user TinFoil updated the actual downloadable installer so that Silverlight can install. Unfortunately, the Netflix movie player requires a more recent version of Silverlight. I took the new installation package and modified it with critic81’s InstallationScript.

I uploaded it to rapidshare and you can download it here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/160300227/Silverlight-No_System_Check-UPDATED.zip

The original thread on InsanelyMac with my post is located here.

If you have any questions, post here or on the InsanelyMac forums.

Saw this over at TUAW. Poladroid makes Polaroid-esque pictures from your existing Photo Library. Just drag your picture onto the application and you’ll hear the old Polaroid sound and out comes your picture. You can sit there and let it develop, or you could shake it around on your screen. The shaking motion would feel much better if this were on the iPhone, rather than using your mouse. Either way, the application gives you nice Polaroid-style pictures that you can save. The finished pics obviously include the border. It’d be nice if the devs would allow you to change the develop time or select the area of the picture to be used. I’m sure those features will be upcoming. Either way, check it out. Mac only, though it looks like a Windows version is coming soon.

Link: Poladroid.net