Most recent incarnation of my home made protectors

Following up on my “Do It Yourself Laptop Wrist Rug” post, I’ve added protection for the other parts of my MacBook Pro.

As I stated in the picture’s Flickr page, there have been quite a few nice additions:

  1. The wrist rugs now go all the way; flush to the edge of the keyboard.
  2. Trackpad and button are now protected as well
  3. Apple logo is now protected as well.

Images are level adjusted (and sharpened) to exaggerate the contrast of the texture and edges of the vinyl. On normal usage, they’re not that noticeable.

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Virtual insanity

True to Jamiroquai’s lyrics, it seems that I’ve been on an OS installation frenzy.

Virtualization has made it so easy to test different OSes. Right now I got 2 variations of each of the three OSes – namely Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu. Each having a working image, and an image from when I first installed them (base installation). This should make it easier for when I bollocks any of them up and need to “reformat.”

Add the default OS (OSX) and that’s seven OS variations to play with all in all. Here’s what my Parallels folder looks like as of the moment.

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