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.
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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?
Facebook prank backfires after hundreds of tributes pour in for ‘dead’ man who was alive and well
I honestly think this is pretty hilarious that someone was stupid enough to do this, not the actual prank though, it wasn’t that funny
Tributes: Dan Evans was forced to reassure hundreds of friends after a Facebook page said that he had died
A man who was declared dead by a friend on Facebook has been forced to reassure his hundreds of friends that he is alive and well.
Tributes to Dan Evans, 23, flooded in on an online memorial page, which claimed he had died in a freak work accident.
Daniel Kidd, also 23, invited friends to join the group, and within a few hours more than 200 people had posted heartfelt memories of Mr Evans.
His 21-year-old brother Michael, who is travelling in Australia, was forced to call home to check that his sibling was alive.
After two days the group had expanded to 600 people who left condolences to Dan’s family.
One wrote: ‘Dan RIP, you were the centre of attention at school and it was great to know you.’
Another wrote: ‘Sorry to hear the tragic news, my thoughts are with you and your family.’
Mr Evans, an electrician from Newton Abbot, Devon, was horrified to discover how far the prank had gone and forced his friend to shut down the page.
He has since been telephoning and emailing as many people as possible to reassure them that he is not dead.
He said: ‘This is completely ridiculous – I’m definitely not dead.
‘My friend is a massive practical joker but this is the worst thing he’s done to me.
‘When I first saw it and realised he had only invited a couple of friends I thought it was a bit funny but it spiralled way out of control really quickly.
Fake: Daniel Kidd set up a memorial site for his friend Dan Evans as a joke – but the prank got out of hand after hundreds of friends paid tribute
‘Soon people were writing on the wall with real memories about me and passing on their condolences to my family – it was awful.
‘My brother is travelling in Australia and he rang home as soon as he saw it to find out what was going on.
‘I kept trying to put messages on the wall saying I was not dead, but because it was Daniel’s group he could delete them straight away.
Prank: Daniel Kidd was forced to delete the web page by a furious Mr Evans, who is alive and well
‘It was weird seeing what people wrote about me but I felt terrible for them – it went much too far.
‘I told him to take the group off and eventually he agreed. I had to go round to his house and make him though, otherwise he never would have done it.’
Mr Kidd, a website designer, titled the page: ‘A memorial site dedicated to Dan Evans, or Evs, as he was affectionately known, who sadly passed away last week when he was electrocuted in a work accident.’
He was the first to add his message of condolence, writing: ‘Thanks for all the memories brother. I am sorry for causing you that asthma attack in Year Seven.
‘Safe journey mate, you are now in that church in the sky. I will never forget you.’
He said: ‘I honestly don’t even know what inspired me to do it in the first place.
‘Dan and I have been best friends for years but our friends from school have started to drift apart and we hadn’t seen some of them for ages – I just thought this would be funny.
‘I set the group up and only invited six or seven of our closest mates. I told them it was a joke and asked them to play along.
‘But they must have invited other people, because soon all these people were joining and writing on the wall.
‘I said Dan had been electrocuted at work and I suppose it sounded quite believable.
‘After a few days there were about 600 messages from people and it started to get out of hand. In the end Dan made me delete it. I’m really sorry.’
Site of the Day
Today’s Cool Site…
Skiing with Santa
Santa works hard to deliver presents to all the good little boys and girls. So, he deserves some fun in his down time.
What does Santa like to do in his time off? Given the snow at the North Pole, I’d say skiing is a safe bet.
At today’s Cool Site, you can play a skiing game with Santa. The idea behind Santa Ski Jump is simple.
You must help Santa use a ski jump to collect stars from a Christmas tree. If he gets enough, he goes on to the next level. You get several tries.
Success is more difficult than it sounds. You must set the skiing style and speed. If you’re off, Santa won’t get enough stars to advance.
I’m sure you’ll have as much fun as I did playing this game!
http://www.miniclip.com/games/santa-ski-jump/en/
Happy Biscuits!!!!!!
December 14 is National Biscuits and Gravy Day. Celebrate and enjoy your day!!!!!!!!!
Difference between Men and Women
A Man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs
A Woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need
A Woman worries about the future until she gets a husband
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend
A successful woman is one who can find such a man
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all
Married men live longer than single man, but married men are a lot more willing to die
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t
A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change but she does
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Guitar Hero Christmas Lights!
People can tend to get carried away with Christmas light decorations, but this is something else. In the clip above, you can see the home of former Disney Imagineer and special effects specialist Ric Turner, which he decked out himself for the holiday. And it appears he’s also a Guitar Hero fan, because his house actually lets you play the game by following the lights on his garage door.
Turner offered up a detailed explanation of how exactly he built this wonderment to Make Online (via Kotaku), which involved using “7 light controllers from Light-O-Rama built from kits to control 21,268 lights and LEDs. Each controller has 16 outputs and 2-3 TTL level control inputs that are used by the game system to fire different programmed light sequences depending on what happens in the game.”
And for those of us who barely understood that, here’s a more digestible explanation of how this work: “When you play, you watch only the Christmas lights, but the audio you hear is from the Wii, so your flubs are broadcast for all to hear (people in cars can tune 99.1 and crank it up as loud as they want),” Turner explained. “When we are not playing, a separate version of the program that has the audio from the recorded game plays with the lights as a loop.”
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AppleInsider | Apple to delay iMac orders, citing display issues
Graphics issues have caused Apple to delay shipments of the 27-inch iMac model until the cause of the problem can be determined.
Apple authorized resellers have reported delays in shipments of new 27-inch iMac models due to reports of display problems. Reports of flickering screens and yellow-tinged displays have become more common around the internet, so much so that a website has been created to catalog reports of issues from users.
According to the Apple iMac (Fall 2009) Issues blog, out of 678 respondents, nearly half have had problems with flickering displays. The author does note that the numbers are part of an “unscientific survey” and should not be considered representative of all iMacs sold.
The blog also reports that Apple resellers have been told of delays of 2 weeks in order to give Apple time to replace the graphics cards on the 27-inch iMacs. The iMac model in question comes in either dual-core or quad-core formats and contain the AMD ATI Radeon HD 4670 or 4850 model graphics cards.
Computerworld reported that multiple U.S. resellers report delays of anywhere from five days to two months.
AppleInsider noted in late November that users were reporting issues with the 27-inch model, with some receiving dead computers and others receiving models with cracked displays. Issues of stuttering when playing flash content were also common and were fixed for some by an update in early November.
via AppleInsider | Apple to delay iMac orders, citing display issues.
Tweeting Sex Bed
Ok, so some guy went in his friends bed and put pressure sensors in it. His buddy had just gotten married, so everytime him and his new wife get on the job, the bed will send it to twitter. It says how long it lasted, how furious the sex was, and comments on how well they did.
So basically, the bed knows what their doing, and everybody on twitter knows to. Right now they are just over 9,000 followers. I think this is pretty cooL!
you should follow to at http://twitter.com/newlywedsontjob
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