Leo says goodbye...

The Cast and some crew have shared some of their memories of working on Call-For-Help. Link here.

The final episode aired Friday... I haven't seen it yet (TiVo) but I for one will greatly miss it. I've watched it everyday for a couple years.

Read his blog entry here.

W Hotels are launching iTunes Days...

Tune into your summer Wonderland. Once a month, remix your Tuesday with iTunes® Day at W Hotels. This is your invitation to mix it up in a digital soundscape. Join other W Hotel guests and live DJs for this monthly event in select cities. Link. Shuffle in for "AppleiTini" drink specials while DJs spin music off iPods

They also have a new section on iTMs

Article Here.

The Earth is running out of oil!!

Yes, a scary thought! CNN's got an article up that explains that "...rising consumption is outpacing the discovery of new crude reserves." and "...the discovery of huge pools of oil beneath the earth's surface has hit a dry spell."

With that in mind and gas priced skyrocketing, you've gotta admit that cars like Toyota's Prius are looking more and more attractive! Although a little odd looking, it has (with options) built in Bluetooth & in dash GPS!

The Prius is a bit small for me.... I drive an SUV, a Chevy Blazer... it doesn't have great gas mileage... I think I can get 20 hwy and 13 city. I wonder if it's about time the car manufacturers start making more hybrid and alternate fuel car models.

Arm & a Leg

Article here.

Awesome Tornado Video...

Check out this video, provided the bandwidth holds up! (it's 26.5 MB)

This video is amazing... you can clearly see an entire house get sucked up into the twister!

The Bourne Supremacy Trailer Online...

I loved the first movie! The trailer looks good, so the sequel might not suck.

Check it out here.

dotmac.info announces winners of the 2004 Movie Competition

You can see the pro & amateur winners here...

http://dotmac.info/filmfest/winners

For you shutterbugs out there...

...that are either too unfortunate to own a Mac or are just plain stupid and love their PCs...

iView Multimedia finally released MediaPro for Windows today.

iView Multimedia today announced that its award winning professional media management software iView MediaPro is available for the Windows platform. iView MediaPro 2.5 now offers the same robust. highly flexible media management for both Windows and Mac users. Designed for creative professionals in film, video, photography, broadcast, education and scientific fields, iView MediaPro helps streamline workflows.

If you take a lot of digital pictures you NEED this software. I have over 15,000 pics catalogued in MediaPro for the Mac. I absolutely love this software. It's well worth the newly raised price of $199.00

You can download a demo here.

Happy Birthday To Me...

32 today... that sucks. Got a new cell phone (see new moblog link on the left), going out to Rokbonki for dinner.

Some iTunes singles pricings reportedly to rise to $1.25

MacNN is reporting that...

Apple will reportedly be raising the price of some singles on iTunes to $1.25, according to today's New York Post, which quotes unnamed sources. The move comes as all five major record labels recently resigned and apparently renegotiated some terms of their contracts with Apple. Some albums have already been subject to higher pricing for the last few months, and labels also reportedly wanted to have the option of selling only full albums, an idea that Apple rebuffed. EMI and Sony Music, which launched its own online music service, are said to have been the most aggressive on pricing. If the price of some singles does in fact rise to $1.25, it would be counter to what Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the media when the third-generation iTunes Music Store launched just ten days ago.

I can't say I'm happy about that!

Article Here.

UPDATE: Apple is denying this rumor.

"These rumors aren't true," said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Sequeira. "We have multiyear agreements with the labels and our prices remain 99 cents a track."

Article Here.

Oh, the humanity...

On this date in 1937, The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crewmembers.

Your CD/DVD-R's ain't gonna last forever...

For maximum longevity, discs should be stored vertically and only be handled by the edges. Don't stick labels on them, and in the case of write-once CDs, don't write on them with anything but soft water-based or alcohol-based markers.

Rewriteable CDs and DVDs, as opposed to write-once discs, should not be used for long-term storage because they contain a heat-sensitive layer that decays much faster than the metal layers of other discs.

Full article here.

Comcast's G4 has fired the entire staff of TechTV!

From Leo Laporte's blog...

I've just learned that G4 has fired the entire staff of TechTV.

Per the WARN Act (governing plant closings) all the employees of TechTV have been given 60 days notice. The San Francisco operation will be shuttered by July. 100 of the existing jobs will be posted for those willing to relocate to LA.

Outgoing COO, Joe Gillespie will say good-bye to the troops tomorrow. Incoming CEO Charles Hirschorn will say hello (and good-bye) on Monday.

No word on which shows G4 will keep or which hosts will be kept on.

Link here. News.Com Article Here.

I created an iMix for iTunes 4.5

Drops of Jupiter - Train
Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
Trouble - Coldplay
I Will Buy You a New Life - Everclear
Superman - Five for Fighting
Heaven - Live
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Clocks - Coldplay
Out of My Head - Fastball
Unwell (Live Acoustic) - Matchbox Twenty
Name - The Goo Goo Dolls
I Fought the Law - Green Day
Sympathy - The Goo Goo Dolls
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
My Hero - Foo Fighters
All I Need - Matchbox Twenty
Alive - P.O.D.
Overcome - Live
If You're Gone - Matchbox Twenty
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling

You can access the iMix here, if you have iTunes 4.5 installed.

Exposé in action

Here's a look at my desktop using the Exposé feature. I certainly had a lot loaded at once!

Click image to enlarge

Stupid Net Tricks

The Famous Subservient Chicken
http://www.subservientchicken.com/

Penguin Baseball
http://alec.at.tut.by/penguin.swf

Bloody Penguin Baseball
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pingu2.php

Toboggan Run
http://www.wedu.com/sledrun/tobogganrun.php

Stick Figure Penalty Chamber 1
http://www.flashplayer.com/games/stickfigurepenalty_movie.php#bottom

Stick Figure Penalty Chamber 2
http://www.flashplayer.com/games/stickfigurepenalty2_movie.php#bottom

The Skull Kid
http://www.flashplayer.com/games/skullkid_movie.php#bottom

Ray - Part 1
http://www.flashplayer.com/games/ray_movie.php#bottom

Bush Shoot-out
http://www.miniclip.com/bushshootout.htm



Other places for fun games...

http://www.candystand.com

http://www.nabiscoworld.com