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Blogroll Dive: 12/19/05

Filed in Blogs on December 19, 2005 at 12:13 am

Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:

Bryan discusses the possibility of using a clever desktop picture, combined with folders or text files, as a day-to-day organizer.
Bonnie discovers extraterrestrial life in her local post office.
Michael Heilemann reviews King Kong.
Brian looses track of time on Yahoo! Answers.
Khaled introduces “Autumnal”, his first Broken Kode Original.
Michael Hampton discusses [...]

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Review: TuneTech for iPod

Filed in MacMerc, Review, Technology on December 17, 2005 at 10:52 pm

TuneTech is essentially an iPod-specific version of Drive Genius. Prosoft Engineering claims that TuneTech is “the only comprehensive software utility geared specifically toward iPod users,” but is it really necessary? Read the review to learn more about TuneTech.

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Favored Freeware: Celestia

Filed in Freeware on at 10:24 am

Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the [...]

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Review: iPod Video

Filed in MacMerc, Review, Technology on December 16, 2005 at 12:04 am

When Apple announced the fifth-generation iPod with video playback features, I could do nothing but laugh about the concept of viewing television shows and music videos on its tiny screen. Why would I want to watch videos on my iPod? An iPod is for listening to music while you drive and read. You can’t watch [...]

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Adium Update v0.87

Filed in Freeware, Technology on December 15, 2005 at 4:24 pm

Adium has been updated to v0.87. This update adds more localizations, improved encryption, and “a slew of tasty bug fixes”. The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Adium here.

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VLC Update v0.8.4a

Filed in Freeware, Technology on December 13, 2005 at 11:04 am

VLC has been updated to v0.8.4a. “This minor update to VLC v0.8.4 fixes a few annoying bugs. OSX S/PDIF has been fixed (thanks to the donations we got for the G5), and so has A/52 over S/PDIF in Linux ALSA. MusePack is also now enabled in Windows version.” The release notes are available [...]

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Sarah Completes a Musical Portrayal of Christ

Filed in Colleagues, Music on December 12, 2005 at 6:56 pm

I am pleased to announce the completion of Sarah’s latest compositional project, Three Images of Christ’s Final Hours.
This is a fifteen minute collection of three individual pieces that, when performed as a set, depict the Garden of Gethsemane (including Christ’s prayer, arrest, and trial), the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.
The completion of this collection has been [...]

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Blogroll Dive: 12/12/05

Filed in Blogs on at 12:19 am

Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:

Bonnie discovers an incredibly thick protein shake.
Michael reviews Symphony, a new blogging platform.
Khaled is looking for a good distributer for his upcoming line of Broken Kode t-shirts.
Kafkaesquí posts an intriguing question of a technical nature.
Rick offers a rather thoughtful New Year’s resolution.
Jim releases a long-awaited update to Cache [...]