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Posts from August 2007

Apple TV’s Niche Market

Last year, I predicted that Apple TV was going to fail. While I still may be right, my thoughts on the device have changed dramatically. This weekend, I was listening to the latest UIE podcast (SpoolCast Crew Episode #6) and the panel was talking about Apple TV’s failure. The group cited the obvious reasons (it’s [...]


Rocket Science

Currently playing in select art houses and independent theaters, Rocket Science is a late summer must-see. The comedy/drama was directed and written by Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound, “The Office” [US]) and stars up-and-coming teenage star Reece Thompson as Hal Hefner. Hal is a high school student with a stuttering problem. Debate team leader Ginny Ryerson (Anna [...]


Beautiful Places in HD

Out of all the podcasts that I watch and listen to, Beautiful Places in HD with Tony Farley is one of my favorites. Tony takes you on quick 5-10 minute tours of some of our country’s most amazing places in 720p HD. You may need a fast computer to play back the HD video (most [...]


Cape Wind on The Daily Show

The Cape Wind Project is a proposed offshore windfarm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod. The project has been the subject of much controversy and there are groups for and against it, a book, a documentary film, and now a hilarious Comedy Central short feature by Jason Jones on The Daily Show: [...]


iMovie ’08 Doesn’t Support Importing QuickTime Files

This really makes me scratch my head. As a proud MacBook owner, I shelled out the $71 (.edu discount) for iLife ’08 right after it was announced at the Apple Special Event last week. I really like the new iPhoto. Unfortunately, iMovie ’08 would crash every time I launched it. I discovered that this was [...]


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