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MyMac Article: How to Improve Hulu

Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008

A new Article posted last week at MyMac Magizine. Click for the full article, below is a preview.
NBC Universal and News Corp. invested heavily in the new online video service Hulu in an attempt to take control of their digital media. NBC pulled their media from iTunes late last year fearing Apple’s continuing dominance in [...]

Handbrake “devide by zero” error

Posted by admin on April 26th, 2008

I experienced some strange problems while trying to encode some video from a DVD with handbrake. Both in Windows XP and OSX the program would crash while attempting to scan the disk, making me unable to even begin the encoding process. No other disk had ever given me this problem and I needed to get [...]

Pakistan removed from the Internet

Posted by admin on February 24th, 2008

Cnet blogs is reporting on Youtube being down from over an hour today thanks to the actions of a Pakistan ISP.
The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan’s traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier [...]

I do whatever youtube videos tell me to do

Posted by admin on December 6th, 2007

The song told me to blog it, so
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Jesuits say take word of God to Second Life

Posted by admin on July 28th, 2007

Catholic missionaries have always trekked to dangerous parts of the Earth to spread the word of God — now they are being encouraged to go into the virtual realm of Second Life to save virtual souls.
In an article in Rome-based Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, academic Antonio Spadaro urged fellow Catholics not to be scared [...]

This is what the web looked like in 1994

Posted by admin on July 13th, 2007

Wow. We never thought about it this way before, but if the web still looked like this, you wouldn’t need an iPhone with Safari to surf the web on your phone.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1l6aBgX5UY]Remember back when the web was basically text and an occasional logo or product picture on a plain background? And remember when the idea of [...]

Linuxsucks.org is hosted on a linux server

Posted by admin on June 27th, 2007

Link
What a wonderful taste of irony

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When Internet Gaints collide

Posted by admin on June 20th, 2007

A contrite Google Inc. canceled a party that irked eBay Inc. and –
according to a source — prompted the online auction firm
to
remove all of its ads from Google’s U.S. network earlier this week.
On Monday, Google announced it would throw a party in Boston on Thursday
evening designed to attract eBay merchants who would be in town [...]

Where Fantasy Meets Architecture

Posted by admin on June 14th, 2007

 

There’s something reminiscent of an alien landscape in the towering silver whorls of architect Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project in Seattle. And, really, who doesn’t see spaceships when looking at I.M. Pei’s Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland?
What [...]

WWDC 2007 Keynote Coverage

Posted by admin on June 11th, 2007

After watching Macrumors live stream here are some of the things I find exciting about the future of the new OSX and Apple’s new hardware coming out.
* Apple has made deals with EA and ID software to port more games over to the Mac.
* A brand new GUI for OS 10.5
* Better networking
* The first [...]