Yahoo! has been in the news a lot lately. The most recent news is of a possible alliance with rival Google in part to avoid a buyout by the likes of Microsoft. So billionaire investor Carl Icahn has been throwing a hissy fit because he was unable to make more money selling Yahoo to Microsoft, […]
RRRRRRrrrrrrrr! My Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard is back from the dead, for now at least. After reading on the net numerous reports of key issues, and hating hating hating the replacement spare I was using, I figured I had nothing to lose by trying to fix my malfunctioning keyboard. So I opened it up […]
Arrrrrrgh! The R key has died on my keyboard (Microsoft Comfort Curve)! *expletive deleted* Now I must make do with the uber crappy spare… Not a happy camper!>_>
Yesterday I discovered that my oldest son was farther along the digital media curve than I thought. I was passing by him as he worked on the kids PC and caught a glimpse of what was clearly his art work on a YouTube channel, before he could cover it up! We’re pretty liberal around here, […]
One of the downsides of a big family is having to share everything with a lot of people, of course that’s one of the upsides too! But in this case it meant not being able to watch the Battlestar Galactica premiere last night on the living room TV, in part because I don’t feel like […]
YouTube has just made more detailed video stats available to all users of the service. Now any YouTube user can see where their viewers are and how popular their videos are in a particular geographic region. It was pretty cool to see that my most popular anime music video has been seen in 31 countries […]
I’m sure it probably means nothing, but the juxtapositioning of a gamesindustry.biz article concerning the next Xbox Live and a now hiring ad for Second Life gave me pause for thought. As a fan of the concept of virtual worlds, such as Second Life, or the upcoming Home for Playstation 3, I’d really like it […]
Now that HD DVD is dead and Blu-ray lifts its fists in triumph, my first thoughts were about how long it would take HDTVs to come down to a price I could afford, but now I’m not so sure. In my house old tech usually ends up serving in the bedroom until it dies or […]
The last few weeks have certainly been dramatic in the high definition format battle between Sony Blu-ray and Toshiba HD DVD. But after some high profile defections, HD DVD has made the Engadget Deathwatch. This is all interesting, but honestly I don’t really care. DVD’s work just fine for now and I don’t have an […]
IBM says that Lotus Notes for iPhone is not ready yet, but I’m rather surprised that the product is coming at all. Ok, not really too surprised. Many analysts have written that the iPhone is not going to be adopted by businesses for this that and the other reasons. But business people are not immune […]
After much frustration with the limitations inherent in Windows Movie Maker, I downloaded and subsequently bought MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 12. It wasn’t very expensive and allows one to do a lot more than WMM, but it is not itself without some limitations in the making of anime music videos. Specifically, I could not get […]
Over the last year I’ve been playing an increasing number of videos on either the TiVo or the Xbox 360. I’ve really enjoyed having a lot more control over what I watch and how I watch it, but there still remains one huge omission on both of these platforms. Where the f*ck is my video […]
Well, it’s official, in my home at least, fear of Windows Vista has resulted in a Mac sale. For the first time in over 10 years, I have a Mac in the house! Our new family member is a black Mac Book with 2GB of memory and a 160GB hard drive.
It’s actually a present […]
After all of the trouble I’d had with Windows Movie Maker during my last project, I decided to upgrade my tools. In addition to this, I’m planning to save my videos primarily in H.264 mp4 format which is higher quality than wmv and is compatible with my PSP and iPod.
Unfortunately, despite what the fall update […]
When all of the talk about this box or that box taking over your living room and being the mother of all multimedia got started, I could only greet with yawns of indifference at best. I really didn’t want everything ending up in one box (including my PC), and hooked up to the living room […]
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