Archive for November, 2006
Preacher Coming to HBO
The Hollywood Reporter is runnig a story that HBO bringing the Preacher comics to the small screen.
From the article:
The pay cable network is developing a one-hour series based on the popular 1990s Vertigo comics series. Mark Steven Johnson, the writer-director behind comic adaptations “Daredevil” and the upcoming “Ghost Rider,” is writing the pilot, while Howard [...]
Movies Studios Want More Restrictions From Apple
It seems that one of the major reasons that the other movie studios have not lined up to get their content in the iTunes store is because they want more restrictions placed on the purchased content. Specifically they want the number of devices a movie can be downloaded to to be smaller.
An article at [...]
Encryption Using GnuPG
Encryption, it is probably something you have heard about. Something you might have wondered about. You may have even considered using it at some point but did not know where to start. Chances are, you have heard of a little program called Pretty Good Privacy (Wikipedia). Pretty Good Privacy has been [...]
What MySpace Has Proven
MySpace, chances are you have one or if you do not your friends do. For those that have been on the web for a while, you might remember a website called SixDegrees. SixDegrees was based on the concept that a person was connected to another person by no more than six degrees. [...]
Power of Information for 2006-11-26
This week on The Power of Information, Derek and I discuss ways to find new music, ways to listen to that new music, and Derek continues his tutorial on digital photography. We also talk about the gaming industry ignoring female gamers as well the XBox 360’s problems with HD.
For more information on some of [...]
Apple to Offer Blu-Ray Equipped Macs (Rumor)
With all of my talk about Sony and Blu-Ray, as well as my opinion that while Blu-Ray is the better format I think that it will lose the HD format war, Think Secret comes along and announces a rumor that, if true, could put Blu-Ray at the top of the format wars.
The good people over [...]
Five Cool Netvibes Modules
I am on the internet a lot. In fact, I have access to the internet and the web pretty much 8-12 hours a day. I get on the web first thing in the morning, on breaks at work, and at various times throughout the night after coming home from work. For the [...]
Building Better Smart Playlists in iTunes (Part 2 of 2)
Note: This article is Part 2 of a series. You can read Part 1 here.
Last week we went over Smart Playlists in iTunes and the basics of them. We learned what each checkbox does and how they can be used for simply playlist management. Our goal of this two part series was so [...]