OK, I know it’s been a while… What can I say? I’ve been keeping myself busy. Nothing really fun outside of a couple of camping trips mind you, but busy nonetheless.

So speaking of keeping busy, here’s a little recommendation (a la Sean’s recent little recommendationathon). Keep in mind I don’t have a list of five right now, but for those of you using OS X, it’s a doozey. It’s not new - in fact, I’ve toyed around with it before when it first came out a while ago. But as I’ve been feeling guilty about not posting earlier, I figured I’d get some multitasking in tonight. Check out Trans Lucy. Now, I know what you might be thinking: “Hey, Brian lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, there’s something having to do with ‘trans’ - I’m not interested!”

Hold on there camper. It’s obviously not what your thinking. A cool little program from the guys who brought you QuicKeys (Startly Technologies, née CE Software), Trans Lucy allows you to watch a DVD (or VIDEO_TS folder on your HDD, if you prefer) on a full-screen layer over everything else on your screen. “So?”, you might be asking… Well, smart-ass, you can change the translucency of that layer. Which means you can work on something through the movie layer you’re watching. For instance, I’m watching The Italian Job while typing this very post.

While I certainly don’t recommend doing this while at work and I don’t know if you like to watch TV while toiling away at the computer, it’s certainly a handy little utility to do whatever you’d like to do at home while watching a little movie at the same time.

Try it out - the trial gives you 20 minutes at a time to make up your mind, otherwise it’s $15. Oh, and speaking of recommendations, try the 2004 Wolf Blass Yellow Label Chardonnay - it’s given me a nice buzz to work off of.