First, a quick summary: the movie rental experience is pretty good, even without an Apple TV. Of course the resolution is iffy— slightly above DVD standards by pixel size (933x470px for this particular film), but offset by the highly-compressed low-data-rate H.264. (I’d still like to know just why us non-Apple TV owners are snubbed on …
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I really miss Antipixel. It hasn’t been updated for over a year, but I still go back every couple of months, hoping that it will be updated. I was worried that something untoward had happened, but Jeremy is suddenly updating his flickr stream again, so I guess he’s doing all right. Hope springs eternal!
Chris Breen, Macworld writer and The Bouffant of Knowledge, as referred to by The Macalope. Buy a T-shirt or a button at CafePress! Download the desktop picture. The desktop pic is sized to fit up to the 30″ Apple Cinema HD Display. On all other displays, simply select “Fill Screen” in the Desktop preference pane, …
8 Ways to Take Control of Your Finances in 2008: > “The new year is a time for goals and resolutions. If one of your goals in 2008 is to take control of your money (instead of letting it keep control of you), this crash course in financial basics can help guide the way. Here’s …
Thanks to Sternest Meanings, I now know my name is an anagram of “Zoom irks on backlash.”
For whatever reason, I had some Red Bull sitting in my fridge, so I decided to make something palatable out of it. It’s still not all that palatable, but here’s the “Golden Bull.” The rum gives it some bite, which is balanced out by the honey sweetness of the Barenjäger: – 1 oz Jamaican Rum …
You can read my experience at the workshop in my previous post, but just wanted to post that even making it home without a copy of the instructions, I figured it out, and actually got my cube working. Well, aside from the two dead LEDs, at least. Here’s a short video of the test, where …
