Fleeting Thoughts

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“The Pew Research Center’s annual poll on religion and politics, released last week, shows that while 85 percent of voters say religion is important to them, only 26 percent of Americans think the Democratic Party is “friendly” to religion.”

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I live about 20 min from the Airport and from what I’ve heard it sounds like the plane took off on the wrong strip and wasn’t able to clear the tree tops which they clipped causing them to crash. They have said there are “significant fatalities” but they did say at least one person was transported to a local hospital and it’s believed to have been one of the pilots, but say they are still searching for more survivors.

Very tragic and may God bless those people and their families.

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“MSI is fastest off the blocks to offer the world’s first HDMI-certified graphics processing unit. You can now use the NX7600GT Diamond Plus to transmit audio/video signals from the PC to a LCD or Plasma display effortlessly.”

Very cool.

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For even more coverage got to Engadget.

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Over the past year I have slowly moved away from TV, for several reasons. The big one was the loss of my favorite channel TechTV and the other was the advent of Podcasting. Very quickly my afternoons after school included less TV and more quality podcast time, and by the end of the summer all I watched really was live Auto Races.

Audio and Video Podcasting have very quickly changed the way I consume media. I have come to realize that I don’t need TV really besides for live events and I can only imagine that changing relativly soon.

I subscribe to roughly 60 podcasts audio and video. And all told they put out roughly 4-8 hours of content each day. Some is world news(War News Radio), some is tech(TWiT), other is comedic(Ask a Ninja). Combined though they produce all the entertainment and information media that I need. I don’t need G4 for video game shows I have Gaming Steve(and the one good G4 show X-Play is availible in podcast form).If I want punditry God knows I don’t need Bill O’Riely, instead I have Zefrank. It’s great!

But let’s be honest we al have to have The Daily Show and for that we have iTunes. The iTunes Music Store has allowed to watch almost all of our favorite TV shows anytime, anywhere. Yes it is too exxpensive but for now that’s a penalty I’m willing to pay. For those not willing to pay networks like ABC put out their top shows online for free. The downside being the ads and the lack of portbility. CNN has released it’s online only Pipeline channel that has very strong news content for those who have to have their CNN.

I no longer have to go to three record stores to find that indie rock cd I hve to have. I can go to eMusic for DRM free tunes or for convience I still have iTunes that has not only indie bands but all of the top record labels.

It’s interesting to see how fast this landscape has changed over a period of slightly more than a year. From a dictatorship to a Democracy, from static to portable. It’s all very empowering stuff and in the coming months it’s only going to continue.

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Trust the government and live your life in complete, uncontrollable fear.

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This is just awsome! Get back at the those fickle diggers who took Calacanis’s bait to switch to Netscape. This Page lists the three switchers and the stories that they submitted to Netscape and a link to submit it to digg.

To contribute to digg by undermining Netscape visit Savedigg.com .

And to digg the site go here.

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Digg won’t allow you to link directly to savedigg.com because it thinks you are directly linking to digg.com.

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Like just about every other person I was glued to Engadget yesterday waiting to see what his Highness Steve Jobs would unveil to us. And while the new Mac Pros are astoundingly fast machines, I must say I’m somewhat let down. Of the 10 Leopard features shown off only two caught my eye. First is of course “Time Machine” which looks awesome and the second being “Spaces“, not so much for it’s innovation but mainly because it’s about time OS X had virtual desktops.

Another feature not shown in the keynote that caught my attention is that Mail will now also be a RSS reader. Though I doubt anyone will be using it to replace NetNewsWire it’s about time Apple add this feature too.

The one thing that I kept waiting for was the announcement, or lack thereof, a new revised Finder. So I can only really hope that it’s one of the things Apple’s keeping a secret for now.

To see all of this yourself go check out the Keynote here.

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The other day as I was organizing my iTunes library before I left on vacation I was struggling to find a way to organize my TV shows the same way as the ones bought off of ITunes Music Store. After a few failed attempts to add the tags Show, Season, and a description I turned to trusty Google and came across a little app called Lostify.

Lostify is very simple app that allows you to access all of iTunes’ different tags. All you do is drag the file or files to the icon and it will pop-up a screen showing all of the meta-data. I will say it’s not the cleanest or most straightforward app. There is no real batch processing though you can lock certain tags so that they don’t change fro file to file but each one is still individually done.

This functionality really should be in iTunes and I don’t know why it’s not but until then Lostify is Universal Binary that gets the job done and is a good tool to keep in the arsenal for organizing all of those iTunes TV shows.

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