HOLD EVERYTHING!!!
The blog of awesome is on hold for the following weeks and maybe months.
I am currently developing a new site that will have its own domain. This website will be my personal creation and will be hosted not using wordpress. Not only is the blog being developed but i have something bigger being developed that i refuse to speak of until it is complete and safely patented and trademarked and copyrighted that my ideas can not be stolen
This will most likely be one of the last few posts on this website.
Until completion of said projects, fair thee well, good bye.
awesomest drum pedal ever!
This gets the mark of awesome right away!!
Awesomest bass pedal EVER!!
I declare my position!
I declare myself the representative of all things awesome!
or the king of awesome??
or the arch duke!!!???
no, the last arch duke started a world war……
idk what shall my title be?
Pants on the Ground
Everybody knows about this now. Its pretty cool, this guy should definitely go on to hollywood, im sure they could overlook his overagedness.
Over only a couple of days it has become extremely popular on youtube and a very forwarded MMS, i got atleast 4 sent to my phone. There have been remixes made and everything! This guy is a real cool cat.
This deserves the official seal of awesomeness!
Seal of Awesome Ness
Awesome Site of the Day 1-16-10
This is truly one of the awesomer sites i have been on. It is a cool way of creating music with bouncy Balls!! You draw lines and balls fall from a little hole, they make sound as they bounce of the lines. you can adjust ball drop rate and gravity. It needs a little bit of work to make it better but it is fun and AWESOME!!!
Definitely check this out, its pretty fun to mess with and try to get something good going!
The Truth
I started this blog just for fun. But i Now see the true potential of this blog and the concept of awesomeness. So, from this point on i am going to focus on making this the coolest blog ever… actually the awesomest blog ever!
Official Logo of Awesome
Im thinking about uploading this everytime i post something awesome… should be most of the time!!
My new theme for everything is AWESOME NESS!!
For Your Entertainment
I’m obviously late on this but i missed the release of Adam Lambert’s new Album. I have been listening to it allot this past week and Adam has quite the voice! He is definitely my favorite singer now, i think he should have won american idol last year but oh well. This new album is pretty sweet, and as for him being gay, thats his choice and honestly i think gays are a-okay. So, definitely give this album a listen! My favorite song is whataya want from me!!
Awesome Background Pic
I love Music
The Beatles Box Set – AWESOME!
For those who don’t know what this is, it is a digitally remastered collection of EVERY Beatles song ever released, Plus a mini-documentary along with every album.There are a total of 226 songs in this pack. These include all albums and singles!! The Beatles Are definitely the best band ever!! Any true Beatles fan needs to buy this set. Also for a limited time they offered a green apple with a flash drive inside that held digital files for all of their music. This offer has ended, but I prefer the physical box set because it has the physical albums with album artwork and booklets that come with each album. Plus I found it enjoyable spending 3+ hours ripping music from the many CD’s included in the set.
Happy Merry Christmas Everybody!
I got lots of nice cool fun presents!! i will almost surely put a video of it on muh youtube.
What did YOU get for christmas??
HP Photosmart Premium TouchSmart Web Review
HP’s Photosmart Premium TouchSmart Web All-in-One Printer is a color inkjet multifunction printer with one truly new feature: the ability to access Web-based applications for viewing and printing items on the machine. It’s a cool concept, but it’s not quite polished: The initial apps appear tantalizing, but have some frustrating limitations.
As a traditional MFP, the TouchSmart performed competently in our tests. Using default settings, it printed plain text and graphics at better-than-average speeds of 8 pages per minute and 3.7 ppm, respectively. (HP’s specs of 33 ppm for text and 32 ppm for graphics were derived from draft mode.) Print quality was fairly smooth and realistic, just a little grainy on plain paper.
When we printed a one-page Word document wirelessly (the printer has support for 802.11b, g, and n Wi-Fi) and through a USB connection with our Mac, the TouchSmart took about 20 seconds to complete the task though either connection. A 10-page Word document took on average 1 minute and 17 seconds to print, and again the times were consistent over both the wired and wireless connections. There was a noticeable difference, however, when it came to printing a four-page PDF file; the wireless connection took about 1 minute, 34 seconds to print, while the USB connection was slightly faster, taking an average of 1 minute, 23 seconds.
Printing wirelessly from an iPhone using the free HP iPrint Photo 2.0 (
) application proved easy. Once installed, our iPhone immediately recognized the TouchSmart as the closest available printer. While printing a photo, the TouchSmart automatically detected that we loaded the photo paper incorrectly and prompted a message indicating to us that we needed to flip the paper over, with the glossy side facing downward.
The TouchSmart’s touchscreen offers a number of time-saving options for scanning, such as opening the image through software such as Preview, HP Scan, or iPhoto. Our test unit’s scanner was very fickle when it came to transferring scans through the network; sometimes it would work effortlessly and sometimes an error message would appear instructing us to plug in a connection when it was not necessary to do so. A simple reboot of the TouchSmart would usually get it working again, but it became tiring after numerous times encountering this problem. When starting a wireless scan from the Mac instead of the scanner’s touchscreen however, the process ran a lot smoother.
The TouchSmart includes a 100-sheet, letter/legal input tray and a 20-sheet photo tray, plus a 50-sheet output tray. The automatic duplexer is an especially nice feature. Connectivity is generous, including USB, ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. Slots accommodate CompactFlash, Memory Stick, SD Card, and XD-Picture Card, and the unit also has a PictBridge port.
Ink costs are average, running at 4.4 to 4.8 cents per text page and 12 to 15.5 cents per four-color page, depending on whether you use the standard or high-yield inks.
The Web-based apps are canned, limited versions of certain Web sites. For instance, in Google Maps, you can type in an address, view the location in map or satellite mode, and print the results in a few different layouts. If you want to print out directions, which we figure most people who use Google Maps intend to do anyway, you would have to download a separate application[jg1]. The USA Today application lets you select and print a type of news (such as sports or weather), but you can’t preview the contents beforehand. Considering how expensive ink and paper can be, and the fact that the same news content is available online or on its newspaper, it seems wasteful to use this feature. If you’re a Snapfish photo site user, you can view, print, and upload photos, but you can’t use the slideshow function, which would seem a natural fit for the TouchSmart’s 4.33-inch, color LCD. HP says it’s considering this feature.
Those apps and a handful of other home-oriented ones arrived preloaded on our test unit; you can download more from the HP App Studio Website. HP says that a software development kit will be available in early 2010-now, that could be fun.
Note that the Web functions do not work unless the machine is connected directly to a network with Internet access. A typical installation via USB to your Mac gets you nowhere with the Print Apps, even if your Mac has Internet access. This seems like an important point, but HP confirmed that it isn’t documented anywhere. Also, in order to install the printer drivers into your computer, the printer has to already be up and running through an Internet connection in order for your driver to “detect” what you need to be installed. If you skip this process, the installation process can get hairy and you may not be able see the TouchSmart showing up as a printer option in your Print and Fax System Preferences.
Review by: HP Photosmart Premium TouchSmart Web Review | Printers | Digital Photo | Macworld.
Japanese Gamer Weds Nintendo Character – PC World
Japanese Gamer Weds Nintendo Character
Matt Peckham
Dec 17, 2009 6:02 pm
I’m all for self-aware computers with equal rights and the possibility of human/machine interaction, you know, a couple decades down the line when such things might actually be possible. But falling in love with and marrying a video game character in 2009?
According to news site NTDTV, a 27-year-old college student nicknamed SAL9000 did just that, slipping into a white tux and marrying Nene Anegasaki, a character from Nintendo’s Japanese DS handheld dating game Love Plus. The ceremony took place with 40 attendees…and an internet audience of thousands.
Import site Play Asia describes Love Plus as a “misc” genre DS game that lets you date various girls in an attempt to get them to confess their affection for you. Once they do, you can research dating hot spots and “fantasize” about your “girlfriend” in “dreams” that generate “fantasy images” for your “private perusal.”
The game actually runs on a real-time clock, meaning the girls start their days when you do, break for lunch and dinner, and even respond to seasonal shifts–from sporting short sleeves in the summer to donning coats in the winter.
“Choose a girl to be friendly with in the start of the game,” teases the description, “and proceed toward a romantic relationship.”
Anyone else a little weirded out after reading that?
Is SAL9000′s “hope [that] one day people will be free to love whomever they want – real or virtual” a sign of things to come? Should criticizing someone for “falling in love with” a game character constitute lifestyle persecution?
Or should the legal definition of “a trifle nuts” be extended to include “falling in love with and committing to ‘love and honor’ a behaviorally shallow, intellectually vapid, fundamentally lifeless simulacrum”?
awesome site of the day – linerider
linerider is a free game where you can create simple or complicated tracks that a snowman on a sled rides on. It is pretty cool and fun, plus some of the tracks that other people come up wtih are awesomely cool!!
definitely check this out!
FireWire vs USB: Which is faster?
Most modern Macs—except for the MacBook Air and some MacBook models—offer both FireWire and USB connections. When shopping for an external hard drive, then, you have many options for something that will work with your Mac. Today, USB hard drives are more common and less expensive than FireWire or even FireWire/USB combo drives.
But ubiquity doesn’t necessarily equate to superiority. All other areas of comparison aside, what many people want to know is how the two technologies match up in terms of speed. USB 2.0 has a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 480 Mbps, versus 400 Mbps for FireWire 400 and 800 Mbps for FireWire 800. To get a sense of real-world performance, however, we ran drive tests on both a 2.4GHz 17-inch MacBook Pro with a 160GB, 5400RPM internal hard drive and a Mac Pro 3GHz 8-core system with a 250GB, 7200RPM internal drive (each with OS X 10.6.2 and 2GB of RAM installed).
Western Digital My Book Studio
When we connected the MacBook Pro to a 2TB Western Digital My Book Studio drive and copied a 1GB file to it from the internal hard drive, we found that it took 23 percent less time over FireWire 400 than over USB 2.0. Duplicating that file using FireWire 400 on the WD drive took 10 percent less time than when run over USB 2.0. To see how the different connections performed in more typical backup tasks, we copied over a 2.5GB folder containing 5000 individual files and folders. In that test, we found the FireWire 400 transfer to be 26 percent faster than USB 2.0. Using AJA’s System Test application, we found the MacBook Pro’s FireWire 400 connection to be 46 percent faster than USB in the writing tests. In the reading tests, however, the edge went to USB, which was nine percent faster than FireWire 400.
Using the same hard drive, but connected to our Mac Pro, we found the FireWire 400 connection to be 19 percent faster than the USB on the copy to the external drive, 21 percent faster on both the duplication test and the copy 5000 files test, and exactly the same in terms of performance difference on the AJA read and write tests as with the MacBook Pro.
Comparing the FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 results on the MacBook Pro with the My Book Studio showed the FireWire 800 connection to be 35 percent faster at copying the file to the external drive, 51 percent faster duplicating that file on the external drive, and 37 percent faster copying over the 5000 files and folders. The AJA write test showed the FireWire 800 connection’s throughput at almost three times faster than the USB connected WD, with 58 percent faster read scores.
The My Book tested on the Mac Pro showed the FireWire 800 connection to be 48 percent faster than USB at copying the file to the external drive, 54 percent faster duplicating the file, and 49 percent faster copying over our 5000 files and folders. The AJA write tests showed the 800 connection writing twice as many megabytes per second as the USB connection, and 49 percent faster reading.
Verbatim portable
We also tested a zippy little Verbatim portable drive, which was 23 percent faster than USB in the copy to external test on the MacBook Pro, 21 percent faster at the duplication test, 14 percent faster on the 5000 file copy test, 42 percent faster on the AJA write throughput, and 8 percent faster on the AJA read throughput.
Connected via FireWire 800, we saw FireWire speeds 42 percent faster than USB at our copy to external test, 55 percent faster on our duplication test, 32 percent faster in the 5000 files test, and two times faster in the AJA read and write scores.
On the Mac Pro, the Verbatim with a FireWire 400 connection was 13 percent faster than USB at our copy to test, 10 percent faster at our duplication test, 12 percent faster in our 5000 file copy test, 18 percent faster in AJA’s write tests and five percent faster than USB in the AJA read tests.
Connected to the FireWire 800 port, the Verbatim was 47 percent faster at our copy to test than when connected over USB. It was 49 percent faster than USB in our duplication tests, 44 percent faster in our 5000 file copy test and again, twice as fast as USB in both the read and write tests we ran using AJA’s System Test software.
via FireWire vs USB: Which is faster? | Storage | From the Lab | Macworld.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs receives salary of $1 in 2009
Steve Jobs was compensated $1 for his work as Apple’s CEO in 2009, a tradition that has existed since 1997.
Steve Jobs officially made $1 in salary in 2009, continuing a tradition started in 1997. Apple disclosed this information in a preliminary proxy statement sent to its shareholders on Wednesday.
Jobs holds nearly 5.5 million shares of Apple’s stock, a position he has held steady since 2003, making his holdings in the company worth over $1 billion. He is also the largest single shareholder in The Walt Disney Co. at 7.4 percent.
Earlier in December, Jobs was named the world’s best-performing CEO in the January-Feburary 2010 edition of Harvard Business Review. He was credited with delivering a 3,188% industry-adjusted return since he rejoined the company as CEO in 1997.
Jobs was given the title “CEO of the Decade” by Fortune for his role in turning Apple into a groundbreaking technology leader and “the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.” He was also a finalist for Time magazine’s 2009 “Person of the Year.”
Apple’s annual shareholder’s meeting is currently scheduled for February 25, 2010.
via AppleInsider | Apple CEO Steve Jobs receives salary of $1 in 2009.
Steve Jobs Apple Tablet
Apple Tablet rumors have exploded in the past few days with reports suggesting that Apple may introduce the device as early as January. A New York Times Blogpost by Nick Bilton adds a few tantalizing tidbits about the upcoming device.
As we’ve known, Bilton reports that Apple has been working on a tablet on-and-off for many years but never felt to be good enough to go to market. Some of the previous technology had already been adapted for the iPhone launch. It seems, however, that Apple has finally gotten the tablet to the point to launch to the market, and according to a current senior employee at Apple, Steve Jobs is said to be “extremely happy with the new tablet.”
Furthermore, another source told Bilton, “You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet.” No other details are offered as to what this interaction might be. Apple, of course, holds many patents on multi-touch technology and has been expected to apply it to their upcoming tablet. Implementing more advanced gestures have been considered possible, though we’re not sure if this would be considered a surprising interaction.
I am excited to see if they do release this apple tablet. I will probably consider buying one.
I got a christmas tree
no time for blogging sorry again… tomorrow i promise!
No new posts today besides this one
Awhh man, i was busy today with personal things… sorry!!
But, i plan to output a lot of new posts tomorrow, and MAYBE a new youtube video in the next couple of days.
http://www.youtube.com/steven22xy4
And send any emails for ideas to steve22xy4@gmail.com!!! thanks!
Google’s “Nexus One” test phone Confirmed; details surface
We all know about “the google phone” by now. But, for those who don’t, rumors and reports of google giving its employees a phone to test out have been surfacing the past week. Well, google has confirmed the existence of the phone, but not much else.
Look in the reflection on the phone, looks like it was taken with an iphone. Ironic
Though not confirmed yet, the google phone is going to be named “Nexus One.” However, names like passion are still rumored to be the true name of the phone. Claims are already being made that the iPhone may finally have a real run for its money. In my opinion, Android has all the potential to beat out the iPhone, but the thing that has set the iPhone apart in the past and may work out again is the hardware. The touchscreen on the iphone has not yet been matched, and I think that the touchscreen is the one thing that gives the iPhone such an advantage. So, if google can pull that off, i think they will have a pretty good chance at getting some iPhone users to switch.
Back to the google phone though. It is said that it will run on T-Mobile 3G, but google will sell it unlocked without any carrier. For those who aren’t tech-savy, unlocked means that they would be able to use any serviceprovider.
Specs
Specs are hard to come by, but based on reports byEngadget and others, this device will probably have a screen slightly longer than the iPhone’s (just under 5 inches), OLED display, trackball, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, and a microSD expansion slot. The device is also believed to be thinner than the iPhone.
Just Testing or Prelaunch?
Rumors are suggesting the device would be launched by Google in early January, but there’s also speculation the Nexus One/Google phone could just be a test device for trying out the latest Android platform. It’s also possible that Google could be developing the hardware and software, but wouldn’t produce or brand the device. Instead, the company could license its design out to other manufacturers, a very Microsoft-like move. ( I don’t like Microsofy)
In my opinion this seems to be a cool phone, it looks cool and android is a good Mobile OS. If it comes out before i get a new phone, i’ll consider buying it, but I am set on the droid at this point. But, what do you think? Is this “Google Phone” the real deal? If so, will you be buying one?
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