Section: Blogs
Feb 9, 2007 1 min.
I send myself email… which sounds more pathetic than it is. I just use it as a way to hang onto links or notes to myself (do this, watch this, etc…). I do it all the time. Every once in awhile though, right after I send something to myself I see the ‘new mail’ pop up on my computer and I click on it wondering ‘hey, what’s that…‘. And then I feel silly.
Get great video for your Zune, courtesy of Sony
Feb 7, 2007 1 min.
I stumbled upon the PSP Connect site a few weeks ago, and I’ve been really enjoying it as a source of video for my Zune. This site, since it is aimed at the PSP, has a ton of great 320×240 MP4 content, including a lot of popular viral videos, movie trailers (of all the upcoming Sony movies for sure) and even ongoing series such as the ‘Spartan’ and ‘Borg‘ series of machinima.
Feb 6, 2007 1 min.
I’m not sure if there is a tool to make these or why someone did them… but I’m still glad they did 🙂
Feb 6, 2007 1 min.
I was telling the folks at work about this one yesterday, my wife and I had been watching the Daily Show when it came on and although we never watch commercials, we silently watched this entire one. We were very impressed… and then the Vista logo came up and we were stunned. Good work on this one, Vista Marketing Team 🙂 Video: Windows Vista “Wow” ad
SportsDo – GPS based activity tracking
Feb 5, 2007 1 min.
My previous post about the Nike+ system left me searching for a similar solution for non-iPod users… without a lot of luck, but Mark let me know about http://www.sportsdo.net, which is very cool. This site/software uses any GPS enabled Windows Mobile device to produce some useful info about your activity (running, skiing, whatever). I’m interested and I’ll probably enjoy using it, but it isn’t really going to compete with the Nike+ system for two reasons: The first reason is that GPS isn’t a great solution for this type of use, especially for someone (me) who does at least half their runs on a treadmill… (hmm… the software seems to think I haven’t moved…), and secondly there is the question of the device.
Nike+ actually makes me consider an iPod
Feb 2, 2007 2 min.
If you know me, or read my blog much, you’ll probably gather that I’ve fully bought into the WMA/WMV world. I’ve always been a bit annoyed at the iPod model of things as well… I mean, seriously, you can only use iTunes with iPods and iPods with iTunes… talk about crazy… people need choice, who wants to be locked into one music player or one music store?!? Of course, I don’t get to rant about that anymore, now that we are doing the exact same thing with Zune… I don’t like it any better just because we are doing it, but I’ve decided that I must be in the minority and that most consumers must not really care about being locked into a single store/brand.
30 more hours of Oblivion coming… wow…
Jan 20, 2007 1 min.
I’m far from having used up all the gameplay in the initial release of Oblivion, and I haven’t even gotten into the expansions, and now they’ve annouced an additional expansion with a ton more gameplay that I can jump into on the 360… amazing. Even More Oblivion on the Shivering Isles Thursday, January 18 @ 11:10:00 PST Bethesda Softworks has announced The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, an official Oblivion expansion for Windows and the Xbox 360.
Speeding up your default document on an IIS web server
Jan 20, 2007 1 min.
Great little post today, something that makes perfect sense but I’ve never heard it before… How to speed up your most popular web page
Hidden Feature on Channel 10, tag based dynamic playlists
Jan 20, 2007 1 min.
While working on a certificate issue for the ‘next’ iteration of on10.net, I decided to code up a new feature that has been sitting on our feature list for quite some time. ASX files are very simple files that let you list out a series of media files and Windows Media Player will happily play them in sequence, so I wrote some code so that a URL like this: http://www.on10.net/tags/E3/asx/
Zune version of SNL’s digital short: A Dick in a Box
Jan 10, 2007 1 min.
Grab it here if you’d like, A Special Christmas