Archive for January, 2009

Jan
30

Doing Things to be Doing Things

Disclaimer: Being a mere eighteen years of age, I am perhaps not the most qualified person to be writing this. Further disclaimer: I’m not a very good writer. Proceed with caution.
I know I was supposed to post my iLife ‘09 review today, but as I was walking home from work, this seemed like a much [...]

 
Jan
28

NE Train Ride – Taking iMovie ‘09 for a Spin

Checking out the new version of iMovie. Trying out some new titles (which I like), video filters (which cannot be layered, which sucks), and video stabilization (which hardly works). I’ll end up posting a full review tomorrow or the day after.

 
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Jan
18

Of Genres and Tags

I have a completely tagged iTunes library. After several hours split between the previous two days, I have looked at every song in my library, every single one of the 12,332 songs that I have, and ensured that the song title, artist, album and genre are all correct. And in doing so, I have discovered that the current method of classifying albums and songs is, at best, woefully outdated. More realistically, it’s an empty and meaningless endeavor.

 
Jan
11

Train Travel

Train Travel from Nick Heer.

 
Jan
11

Flip Mino HD

I have held to a firm belief for a long time: if you’re taking candid photos, it’s about 25% more work to take a candid video, but you’ll reap 100% more rewards. Photos are fantastic little things, but it’s simply more interesting to watch a video than flick through a photo album, especially on the internet. It is with this belief that I purchased a Flip Mino HD, which isn’t actually available in Canada (see sidebar for more info). The camera arrived Monday, January 4th and I started playing with it immediately. Read on for a more in-depth review of this amazingly small camcorder.

 
Jan
9

Kanye West & Air

“Say You Will” by Kanye West sounds extremely similar (in style) to the Nomo Heroes remix of “Surfing on a Rocket” by Air.

 
Jan
8

What is Wrong With Steve Ballmer?

Snaps from today’s CES keynote, from Engadget. I have a hard time believing all of these were taken at awkward moments. Take a look at the guy controlling the company behind 90% of the world’s computers’ OSes*. Freaky!

On the plus side, at least we can see he isn’t shrinking.
* This sentence could have sounded a [...]