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HandBrake Update.

HandBrake, my favorite video conversion tool for getting DVD video onto my iPod has just been revved. Now there’s even a Windows version so if you’ve been jealous of my ability to convert DVDs to iPod video for sometime, but didn’t have a Mac or Linux, this new version’s for you. Other cool features include [...]

blackberry 8800 Xbox 360 mashup

My shit is finally coming together here. Yesterday afternoon, after weeks of watching the Rogers website and pinging friends and people Who Know Stuff, I finally secured a BlackBerry 8800. As proof of it’s awesomeness, I am composing this article on it. I have yet to take it for a drive in my car to [...]

another great music service

Jacob rightly pointed out that I should drop a mention to galleryAC here, since I was talking about services that provided DRMless music. I pointed out that he could’ve left a comment to which he replied, not unexpectedly, that he doesn’t do that (unless you’re a girl). boolean is listening to: 1985 from the album [...]

EMI drops DRM, sells high quality tunes through iTunes Music Store

Kudos to EMI for being the first (major label) out of the gate to sell digital music online through the iTMS without DRM. It’s worked for other music services such as eMusic, Magnatune and Warp Records (who sell some albums in lossless FLAC!) and it’s nice to see them listening to what people actually want [...]

it did it again

I thought I’d take a moment out of my busy day to whine and moan about the three red lights on my Xbox360. This is not the first time I’ve been disappointed by this hardware. To make matters worse, this is about 14 months after the first one’s replacement arrived putting it just outside of [...]

Riders on the Storm

I sure haven’t been blogging much lately. Call it busy at work. Call it two-timing with other blogs. Call it February. I just haven’t had a lot to say here. I’ve still been playing Civ and Xbox with my homeys. Still hanging out and watching videos. Still takin’ it easy in the O-town. Just not [...]

UltraNewb??

I’ve been reading the Lifehacker blog for awhile and find it frequently informative and helpful. So it came as quite a shock this morning when I was flipping through my feeds and discovered this… this affront to myself. Clearly an infringement on my own trademarked nickname, they have mashed-up my domain name and tweaked the [...]

and while we’re on about Halo3

I saw mention in a couple of places that there would be a short Halo 3 documentary released on the Xbox Live Marketplace this morning. I dutifully turned on the ‘box and took a look, but didn’t see it. I’m betting it hasn’t been released for us northern viewers yet, the internets being slow and [...]

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