My domain name rhuvok.com is four years old today. I had a bit of a run in with trying to get it renewed, but it all worked out in the end. Of all the dozen plus domains that I now own, this one is the oldest so obviously has a special place in my heart.

By the looks of it, Apple has released an iPod that plays video. Also along with that is iTunes 6 which supports the new video iPod.

They have also souped up the iMac to include an iSight and a remote control to provide the ultimate in home entertainment.

All of this came out yesterday, but since I'm buried up to my eyes in C programming, I failed to notice (yes I know I need to start using my news aggregator again).

For anyone who finds himself or herself writing academic (or non-academic) papers and reports and would like a way to organize their references, I have an answer. BibDesk. Of course the catch is that it is for the Mac, but more and more of my readers are using Macs now that I figured I should share. The other catch is that it is a program for managing .bib files, which are used with the LaTeX bibliography tool — BibTeX.

Anyone undertaking a larger research paper should serious consider learning LaTeX if you want to avoid the general headaches that writing it in MS Word will bring. This is especially true if you plan to include a lot of equations, figures, tables, references, etc. and don't want to have to worry about keeping track of them all. In fact, LaTeX is particularly good with mathematical and other scientific equation typesetting — many Math Textbooks are written using LaTeX.

For those using a Mac I recommend TeXShop as a good editing environment with integrated typesetting.

This isn't for everyone. Some of the finer details of using LaTeX and BibTeX really require you to get your hands dirty, but if you are up the challenge, the results are definitely worth it.

Apple has just released a new tool that they claim is for professional photographers, but any serious amateur who can afford it will absolutely love the features of this powerful program. This isn't iPhoto folks, this is serious. $600 serious.

You can find out more at Apple's Aperture site.