My Saturn was dying, so I finally got a replacement car end of last week– a 1990 BMW 525i. It’s a little beat up on the exterior, but the engine seems in good shape and aside from a bit of peeling paint and a little parking lot accident crunch in the front right side, it’s…
AntiPixel
I’ve been wondering lately— whever happened to Jeremy Hedley’s AntiPixel? It’s been a full year now since his last post, without so much as a how-do-you-do. I hope he’s okay.
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
This The Digital Bits reader writes in with a letter that almost exactly mimics my own take on this, only I happen to have sided with HD-DVD — not because I think it’s a better format, but the players were much cheaper, and I felt one was as good as another at this point, and…
Netflix, GreenCine and RedBox Video Rental Trends
I was looking at my Netflix history earlier, and was wondering how my rental frequency was trending. So, in the interest of being complete, I went over my entire history, including my GreenCine subscription (which I have because they carry some rare movies that Netflix doesn’t) and RedBox rentals (which I use every once in…
Ch-ch-check it out
Things that I’m looking forward to, or checking out right now: Fictionplane: Band fronted by Joe Summer, Sting’s son. Saw them last night, opening for The Police. Quite possibly the best opening band I’ve ever seen. The Simpsons Movie Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man (he’s become one of my favorite actors after 2005’s Kiss…
Getting RubyCocoa running once you install Safari 3 Beta
If, like me, you were foolish enough to install the Safari 3 beta, and are now wondering why the heck RubyCocoa won’t work (or worse yet, why the install keeps failing), check out the article Safari 2, Safari 3, Adium & forcing WebKit Frameworks from SubtleGradient.com. Once I went through the steps outlined here, things…
HowTube 006 – iPhone Tips, Part 1
Last week, I posted a video full of iPhone tips [No longer online —Ed. 2015-08-13] on HowTube. More tips to come soon.