Madden NFL 07 Preview. “EA has with Madden NFL 07 for Wii delivered a footballer that boasts all the features of its competitors (and then some) and puts Nintendo’s new controller to use in a manner that feels neither gimmicky nor forced.”
Airbag on design ripoffs. Greg says what I wish I had the guts to say.
Top 176 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With “Pants”. Amusing to all, but hilarious to those who’ve memorized the movies.
Mac OS X Horizontal Scroll Trick. Hold down shift while using your mouse’s scroll-wheel to scroll horizontally. Fantastic!
22 gigabytes. That’s basically all you’re giving up by getting the 8GB black iPod nano (still a lowercase ‘N’, by the way). Well, there’s that and the video playback. And the games. And the bigger screen.
But besides that, you’re getting the same great music player. Right?
I’ll end my sarcasm for a moment; just long enough to point out that as of last Tuesday, you’ll pay the same price for a 30GB video iPod as you will for a nano with less than half the storage, no video functionality, smaller screen, and no color options.
Apparently they think we’re dumb, blinded consumer folk who will gladly give up all that for a fancy, anodized-aluminum, thinner-than-a-pencil, as-small-as-a-business-card case. Sure.
(Oh, man, I want one so bad.)
Anyone else notice that the show Friends was featured in the “Showtime” presentation yesterday? I couldn’t find it on the iTunes Store … is it available?
UPDATE: And where’s the NFL Network?
Join me in upgrading to iTunes 7.0.1. Follow these simple instructions (Mac only):
Happy iTunesing!
Here’s a nice little feature I didn’t know existed in OS X: Option-click in an empty scroll bar area to scroll-to-here rather than scroll page-by-page. (The behavior has been a preference in the System Preferences for some time, but I didn’t know you could use the alternate method on the fly.)
Incidentally, this feature also works with the “coverflow” view in iTunes (which is how I discovered it). Very cool!
iTunes Movies have chapter markers. I wonder how they’re accessible via the Apple Remote when using the ‘iTV’.
I just have one question regarding today’s announcements from Apple. What’s up with the iTunes 7 icon? What, did they use TimeMachine to snag iTunes 2’s icon?
DSicons.com. Custom icon templates for your Mario Kart DS kart. Freakin’ awesome!
Viral .Mac feedback. TUAW attempts a new form of grassroots petitioning to motivate Apple to action with its .Mac service(s).
“The train that Web 2.0 missed is educational software.” They don’t teach Web 2.0, so why should they get it?
Japan (gaming) hardware sales report from last week. Just under 230,000 DS Lites sold, compared to a whopping zero Xboxes!
earBuddy. An iPod headphones case that looks pretty cool. Anyone have one?
I’m not sure it’s humanly possible to go your entire life without having one of those “doh!” moments. You know, the ones where you wish you had a time machine and could go back in time to right before you said that stupid thing, or wrote that stupid sentence, or tripped while running to first base on a base-on-balls? Sure, there are some who experience these times in lesser frequency than the rest of us, but it still happens to them … right?
I bring this up only because even though I recognize this fact, I still live in an ongoing attempt to avoid such moments, yet have recently (seemingly) failed miserably. Whether I’m just being hard on myself or I am, indeed, becoming a walking, talking nincompoop is uncertain. (I’ll leave that judgement up to my wife and the rest of the world.)
Let’s just say that if I had that time machine, I’d be putting some miles on it right about now.
I’ll not go into detail (mostly because I still value what dignity I have left), but I will say that as a husband, this year I’ve basically used up the alloted grace period automatically given to my gender upon marriage … for a lifetime. Sure, I didn’t forget the anniversary — date — but did I plan anything for it? No. And of course I didn’t forget her birthday — it’s the day after mine — but did I get her anything? No. Headsmack!
At work you’d think I’d do better, and judging from the outside you could say I’ve been pretty successful this year: I launched two new websites (1, 2), a top-ranked video podcast, and have advanced the media of the church by leaps and bounds. But life at work hasn’t been all strawberries and cream. My mouth (or fingers, I should say) have landed me in trouble a couple of times, and I’ve had to apologize, clarify, straighten out and fix more than ever. Headsmack!
One of those “doh!” moments even came today as I was working on a redesign of this site. I happened upon several of my older entries and read them again. Ugh. Do you ever read what you wrote and just hate it? Honestly, if it weren’t for my commitment to keeping the past in pure form, I’d go back and rewrite half the entries on this blog! Headsmack!
Okay, I’m not having some sort of a masochistic rant-fest here. It’s not all that bad, and I’m sure some of you have better (or worse) stories to illustrate the Headsmack Effect even better than I. I’m really not too tripped up when a “doh!” moment happens, and I usually am able to laugh at myself …
I suppose that’s mostly because my wife picks up whatever slack I’ve created, though.
In a Sea of Cellphones, a Pearl. Barring any major mobile announcement from Apple next Tuesday, this new Blackberry will replace my Treo 650.
Sidepath. A web-based GUI for easy .htaccess redirection writing. Slick, but already taken care of with cPanel.