Happy 21st Birthday, Macintosh!

iTunes Music Store Downloads Top a Quarter Billion Songs

Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 250 million songs from the iTunes Music Store.

'Call for Help in the USA

From Leo Leporte's blog. And a official form on G4TechTV Canada. Please go and fill the form out and let's get Call for Help back in the USA. Go here. (This form is for the USA)

Picasa 2

Picasa 2 is now available. Download it

What new features does Picasa 2 have?

Make instant backups to CD (or to other hard drives) of your photo collections.

Edit your photos, with basic fixes, and 12 lighting and color effects.

Organize your photos using labels and stars, just like Gmail.

Write captions for all pictures.

Instantly order photo prints from various websites.

RAW file support.

Super-powerful undo button: Come back weeks later and undo any changes.

Organizes videos as well as pictures.

Free iPod Shuffle

Hey-

Check out this great site that is giving away totally FREE iPod Shuffles!

I've joined and I think you should as well.

It's a completely legitimate offer, and this company has already given away $4 million in FREE stuff!

All you have to do is join, complete an online offer, and refer friends to do the same. That's it!

Here is my referral link. To help me get my iPod Shuffle, click this exact link to join, or copy and paste it into a browser:
http://www.FreeiPodShuffle.com/?r=13913131

The Keynote Stream

The Macworld keynote is now avaible for viewing from Apple.

Apple Announces Mac Mini, iPod shuffle, iLife '05, iWork '05

iPod shuffle

Mac mini

iLife '05

iWork '05

iTunes 4.7.1
iTunes 4.7.1 Released With Important Security Update

24

24 was awesome. Great storyline and good actors. It is going to be a good season.

Streamload

Streamload - Freedom for Your Digital Lifestyle. They offer a free account with 10 GB of storage. You can download up to 100Mb. They offer from free 10 GB to 15 Terabytes.

w.blogger 4.00

W.blogger 4.00 has be released. This new version supports MovableType advanced post options and also support some new tools: Wordpress, SquareSpace, b2evolution, Blog:CMS, UBlog, .Text, BlogWare and Xaraya.

CES 2005

Google on 60 Minutes

If you missed the 60 Minutes story on the past, present, and future of Google, then here's your chance to watch it. The file weighs in at almost 59M and requires DivX.

Blog reading explodes in America

Blog readership has shot up by 58% in 2004

Eight million have created a blog

27% of online Americans have read a blog

5% use RSS aggregators to get news and other information

12% of online Americans have posted comments on blogs

Only 38% of online Americans have heard about blogs

Source: BBC News

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

New Year 2005

Happy New Year everyone.

Digital Life

My Canon Powershot A70 is working now. I guess it was the batteries that I was using. They are the Rayovac Rechargeable Nimh. They worked fine until vacation. That or my camera got wet from the cold weather. I don't know what happened. I am just glad it is working. I almost went to Office Depot and bought the Powershot A75. I am glad I don't have too.

New Drive

I bought a DVD recorder drive today. I can't use it until my firewire cable comes in the mail. I think I have been scammed on ebay again. My Canon Powershot digital camera stopped working today. The LCD screen won't come on.

Merry Christmas

I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas today. I am in Louisana visiting family. You probably are wondering what I got for Christmas. I got a MiniDV camera. I really like it.

Podcast

This is a test. Thanks to feedburner.com I can now podcast. Here is the feed for the podcast.

Post video to your moblog without a camera phone

Send video to your textamerica moblog with your digital camera. Download the Nokia Multimedia Converter. Here is how you do it. It works.

I win

I made a bid on ebay for a Microsoft Fingerprint reader and won. After 11 days I had not received my item. I sent emails and even tried to call the seller. Nothing. When I made the bid the guy had 100% positive feedback. After 11 days that went down. So I got scammed on ebay. I felt cheated and robbed. Which I was. I alerted paypal on what happen. And after 30 days of not getting a response from the seller I got my money back. So I guess I won.

iTunes Music Store downloads top 200 million

Apple said today that more than 200 million songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Music Store.

Home-Brew IPod Ad Opens Eyes

School teacher George Masters has the marketing world abuzz with a homemade ad for Apple Computer's iPod that is rapidly "going viral." (video in article)

MSN joins desktop search fray

The Web portal introduced its MSN Toolbar Suite in a beta, or test version, on Monday. The software lets people search the contents of their hard drive, including Microsoft Outlook e-mail, calendar items, contacts and Office documents.

Josh, I did not loose my blog because of the google ads. Matter afact I did not loose my blog. The host zipped all of it up. I have it. I am looking for a new host. I will back and better than ever. It will just take some time.

iTunes Music Store now accepting PayPal

Apple and PayPal announced that the US iTunes Music Store now accepts PayPal for purchases of music, audiobooks and gift certificates.

iPod my photo

Transform your photos into colorful and exciting iPod ads. iPod My Photo will customize any photo (.JPG and less than 1 MB in size) and once you've seen the amazing results, you can print your own unique iPodified photo on t-shirts, greeting cards and much more. iPod your photo - give it a try!

Thunderbird 1.0

Mozilla.org today released Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0, a standalone e-mail client.

Leo with Regis & Kelly

Heres a divx file of the show. Also here.

Free WordPress Blogs

Blogsome is a new free blogging hosting service based on WordPress. I wish I would have known about this before setting up mine to test.
Another free one based on WordPress is Blogthing.

Listen

When I send an email to you I want a reply. You got that!

Apple launches Canadian iTunes Music Store

Apple has now opened the much-anticipated Canadian version of the iTunes Music Store.

MSN Spaces Launches

MSN Spaces has just been launched.

'Blog' Tops Dictionary's Words of the Year

A four-letter term that came to symbolize the difference between old and new media during this year's presidential campaign tops U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's list of the 10 words of the year.

I Won

I just won $25 dollars from ebay's "Just What You Wished For" sweepstakes. How cool is that. (Must be a ebay member)

Desktop Search

Forget about Google's desktop search program. Use Copernic desktop search.

TSS

The new Screen Savers sucks.

Yankee or Dixie?

68% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! I don't agree. I was born in Illinois. But I have lived in Arkansas and Louisiana. I'm in Texas now. Take the quiz here.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving.

WinPlosion

WiinPlosion - Exploded view of your open Windows. It is almost like Apple's Exposé.

The New TSS

This is terrible. The new host for The Screen Savers is Kevin Pereira, and Chi-Lan Lieu. Kevin Rose was given a choice either host the new show, or create content. He decided to go back to what he loves, which is create content. Sarah Lane will remain
where she is. The new TSS will kick off on Monday 29th. I just don't know if I am happy about this.

Grouper Beta 1.0

It's a peer-to-peer app. But not the kind you're thinking of. Grouper isn't like Kazaa or Morpheus, a way of sharing files (often illegal versions of copyrighted material) with millions of strangers across the Internet. [PC Magazine]

Newsmap

Yet another cool way to read the news.

Great movie

Just got back from seeing the movie National Treasure. That movie was great. Go see it.

Crash

Yesterday there was a bad wreck in the church parking lot next to my house. I did not see it because I was asleep. What happen was a truck lost control flipped over and skidded across the church parking lot. I wish I could have seen it. No word on if the person is ok or not.

Amazon Wishlist

Christmas is almost here. I have updated my Amazon Wishlist. And yes there is alot of cheap stuff.

Crap

Konfabulator is not free! I got a pop-up reminder box saying that my copy is unregistered and may only be used for a limited period for evalution purposes. They did not say anything about having to purchase this when I went to download it.

10x10

100 words and pictures that define the time. A different way to get your daily news.

Tech Headlines

- Free E-Mail Inboxes Get Fatter [Wired News]

- New IE Bugs Open Up XP SP2 To Attack [TechConnect Magazine]

Locked

Go to where you registered your domain and lock it down.

TSS is being revamped

G4TechTV today canceled the tv show The Screen Savers and fired all the staff and crew.
Update: According to Sarah's blog the TSS has not been canceled. They are busy regrouping, reorganizing, and relaunching.
Update 2: Here is what Kevin Rose has to say about it.
Update 3: Some good news. Unscrewed has been canceled for sure.

Gmail offers free POPs

Google has turned on POP3 (Post Office Protocol) access for their free beta gmail.

Konfabulator

Konfabulator for Windows now available.

Make your own FavIcon.ico

At chami.com there is a favicon.ico generator for your web site that will let you generate a FavIcon from any image.

Go Vote

I just got back from voting. I had no problems and did not wait in line long. My county is still using optical scan ballots. I wish they where using the touch screen ballots. Well until tonight.

DSL

I got DSL!

Gmail Signature Generator

Gmail Signature Generator. Check it out.

Apple News

- Apple Introduces iPod Photo
- Apple Introduces the U2 iPod
- Apple Launches EU iTunes Music Store
- Apple has posted a QuickTime stream of today's special music event
- Apple to offer iPod Socks (available starting in mid-November, $29)
- Apple releases QuickTime 6.5.2
- Apple launches iPod Store
- iPod Updater 2004-10-20 posted

Someone keeps stealing my letters...

Someone keeps stealing my letters

Today's News

- Shatner aims for real 'Star Trek' [CNN.com]

What OS Are You?

Which OS are You?

Gmail Invites

I have 0 Gmail invites left. If you want one leave your name and email. updated

Tech News

- Looks like Google's Desktop Search program might be a security threat.

- iTunes Downloads Hit 150-Million Mark

- Halo 2 has been pirated and leaked onto the internet.

The Friday Four!

Which browser do you use on which operating system? Firefox 1.0 PR on Windows XP Home Edition

How many hours per day do you use the computer? All day I guess.

What would you say is your most vital program on your computer? FeedDemon. My RSS Aggregator.

Toss up: CNN.com or FOX News.com? Google or Yahoo? AccuWeather or Weather.com? Fox News, Google is best, and weather.com but I like Intellicast.com for rader images.

Google Desktop Search

Google has released a tool that lets people search documents, e-mails or spreadsheets stored on a PC.

Todays News

- Jeanne damages NASA shuttle building [MSNBC.com]

- Microsoft Adds New Hotmail Fee [PCWorld.com]

- Virgin Launches New Digital Music Service [Yahoo News]

- Griffin Announces iBeam [More info]

- Halo Client Response Off-By-One Denial of Service Vulnerability [Secunia.com]

How to Start Each Day With a Positive Outlook

Found this on the internet and thought it was funny.

1. Open a new file in your PC.
2. Name it “John Kerry.”
3. Send it to the trash.
4. Empty the trash.
5. Your PC will ask you, “Do you really want to get rid of John Kerry?”
6. Answer calmly, “yes,” and press the mouse button firmly.
7. Feel better?…

Todays Tech Headlines

Bloggers keep eye on the news [USAToday.com]

Black 4G iPod [Engadge.com]

Bloglines aims for simplicity [Yahoo News]

NASA pumps $400m into nuclear space probe [The Register]

Todays Tech Headlines

The Secret Behind the iPod's Scrollwheel [MP3.com]

It's Official! Nintendo DS Launch Date 11/21/04 and Price $149. [Portagame.com]

Sony Shows Smaller PlayStation 2 [Yahoo News]

Open Office has released OpenOffice.org 1.1.3rc [OpenOffice.org]

Gates, Ballmer pay holds at about $900,000 [Cnet News]

Microsoft mimics local radio, serving as wake-up call [USAToday.com]

Adobe beta tests Acrobat Reader 7.0 [The Register]

Fahrenheit 1 Million: The temp at which the web explodes

In just under 100 hours, we have smashed through our one million download campaign--with 6 days still to go! [SpreadFirefox.com]

Tech News

PlaylistMag.com launched this week as a resource for digital music enthusisasts using a Mac or Windows operating systems.

Microsoft issues patch for 'critical' JPEG-handling flaw
It also patched software that converts WordPerfect files in Microsoft Office

Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0

Bush Requests NASA Storm Aid

Support Firefox

Rangers, fans scuffle in Oakland

As many of you know there was a fight between the fans and a Texas Ranger in Oakland at the baseball game last night. Frank Francisco hoisted a folding chair into the stands, striking a woman and breaking her nose. He was arrested on a charge of aggravated battery. As a fan of the Texas Rangers this conduct saddens me. I think he should be suspended. The bullpen is very close to the fans. So virbal abuse is probably very high. This is a problem at Oakland and in Finway. It is sad. Because it was really a shocker of a game. It is sad that this has happened. A Statement from Tom Hicks. (Link includes video)

Tech News

Rob Glaser Responds, Talks Up Real Networks

Yahoo to buy digital music company Musicmatch

Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8

News

Talk host celebrates start of 19th season with Pontiac giveaway

New Sims Game Takes Leaps in AI Technology

New Modem

I got a new modem for my computer. And I am not connecting at my normal speed either. Which I don't like.

We will never forget.

Have You Forgotten?

There She Stands

You Are My Hope Via: Passageway.com






God Bless The U.S.A.

-The September 11 Digital Archive

-New York Times' Portraits of Grief

-The full 9/11 Commission Report


-Nova: Why the Towers Fell

-9-11 Final Report Executive Summary (7-22-04) opens iTunes

Gmail Invites

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Halo Online

I am having so much fun playing Halo Online. It works pretty good over dial-up.

Lan Party

I'm at my friends house having a lan party. And we finally got our computers connected. It was not working. But after reading the troubleshooting guides it is working now. We are going to be playing Halo, half life etc.

GMail Invites

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Scanners

I have a job interview today at 8 pm. I hope I get this job. I am also looking at getting a new scanner. My HP Scanjet 4400c light has gone out. I am thinking about getting the HP Scanjet 4600. Does anyone out there have this scanner? Is it a good one?

The New iMac G5

From the creators of iPod

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Font Name

Where can I find a font that looks like the T below? Update: The name of the font that I am looking for is called Thunderbird. Please if you don't mind look in your fonts folder in your Windows directory and see if you have it. Please send it to me or send me a link. Thanks.
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Texas Rangers Win

The Rangers game was great fun. I forgot how much fun going to a baseball game was. The last time I went to a Rangers game was on August 23, 1997. I sat in section 332 row 22 seat 18. They played against the Chicogo White Sox. I can't remember if they won or not. I wonder if there is a way to find out? I took some pictures that are on my moblog. I took two panorama pictures which you can click on below. The Rangers played against the Baltimore Orioles. The final score was 6-4.

Picture 1
Picture 2

Pocket PC Themes

I have made some new pocket pc themes. Go check them out here.

Baseball

I am going to a Texas Rangers game tomorrow. They are playing against the Orioles. I'll try to take some pictures for my moblog.

Around The Web

Sims 2 has 'gone gold'

Sony reveals a little more about the PlayStation Portable

Microsoft to Debut Store

Microsoft Updates Tablet PC OS

RIAA files 896 new file-trading lawsuits

Microsoft Service Pack 2 CD

It is available to order on CD now..

Free McAfee VirusScan

McAfee VirusScan 8.0 2004 - FREE (w/rebate)

Around the web

Students crazy about iPod follow the music to Apple laptops - I want an ibook too.

"Alias" director lands Mission Impossible III gig - I don't think they are ever going to be happy with a director.

Making the grade: MP3 players top students' must-have lists

Bad Storm

We just had a really bad storm. There was alot of lighting. I got my digital camera out and started to take some video and then it happened. Click here to see the video.

Gmail Notifier

The Gmail Notifier is a downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser. [Download]

Photoshop

Does anyone out there know how to create buttons that look like glass in Photoshop?

Free iPod

Do you want a Free iPod? Sure you do and so do I. Please join and complete one of the offers. You can sign up for a number of them and cancel within the trial period with no harm to you or your credit. People this is for real. This is not a scam. I know people that have completed everything and they are getting their iPod.

Tech Headlines

Hoping to keep up with Apple's iTunes digital music downloading service in Europe, a Dutch record company has launched a Web site offering 250,000 tracks from five major record labels.

A Minnesota high school senior pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to unleashing a variant of the "Blaster" Internet worm, which crippled more than a million computers last summer.

Griffin Technology today announced the RoadTrip, an all-in-one iPod charger, FM transmitter, and cradle in one compact unit.

The Norwegian hacker famed for developing DVD encryption-cracking software has apparently struck again — this time breaking the locks on Apple Computer Inc.'s wireless music streaming technology.

Tech Headlines

Microsoft will begin distribution of Windows XP Service Pack 2 to individual PCs through the Automatic Update feature of Windows Update on Aug. 16, company executives said Wednesday.

Microsoft announced Wednesday it would offer a low-cost starter edition of its Windows XP operating system in Asia starting in October.

Sony has officially announced that their next game console, referred to as the Playstation 3, will use Blu-ray Disc technology.

The U.S. space agency says it will move ahead with plans to have a robot fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope.

Get 25 free digital prints from target

Tech Headlines

Apple today announced that the iTunes Music Store now has over one million songs available for download in the US, becoming the first and only online digital music service to offer consumers a million song catalog.

Roxio has announced the sale of its consumer software division, which allows the company to focus on its Napster online music store.

Alex Gruzen, the head of Hewlett-Packard's notebook computing effort, has left the company to join rival Dell.

Just Another Day

Not that anyone cares but it is my birthday.

New video card

My new video card is installed and running great. I am already seeing better performance on some programs and in Windows. I am going to ask to borrow my friends copy of Halo now that I have a graphics card that can handle it. I hooked my computer up to the tv. It worked but I won't be doing anything with it. You could not make out anything on the screen. Video and pictures worked fine. I tried to play a dvd. It worked on my monitor but not on the tv. Does anyone know how to fix that? I have InterVideo WinDVD Platinum.