Sigh. I hate iChat. Damn reliance on routers. Anyway, had Vonage move to port 5061 (they said they were at 10,000? no, they are clueless, was probably 5060) and then changed router to use these settings: We’ll see.
Google Video test with YMCA
I uploaded my YMCA video to Google as a test. Wow the quality is cruddy, but at least it is not my bandwidth!
SteveCast 0002 2006-06-12
Hey its time for another SteveCast! A short update on what is going on in my life including a shout out to a dear friend… P.S. The restaurant was the Clark Lewis 🙂
New Weird Al song – You’re Pitiful!
Yay! As a gift because the new album is late, my hero Weird Al has released a spoof of “You’re Beauitful” on his web site for free!
I’m in a Haunted Mansion book!
My mom bought Chef Mayhem’s “The Secrets of Disney’s Haunted Mansion” from Doombuggies.com. How cool is this to find the fan section and see myself! Can you spot me? (I gave a huge clue in the comments hehe)
Chip, are you just happy to see me?
Someone in charge of the artwork for the Disneyland Grand Californian Hotel’s penny press machine took a little freedom in designing the package, so to speak. Have a look if you are not offended by rodent genitalia.
Template Manager 1.1.8 ships!
I’ve shipped 1.1.8 of BetterHTMLExport’s Template Manager. New this version: Fix for templates exploding into main template directory, and thus overwriting bits of other templates. This happened on multiple processor machines. Fix for crash while packaging templates Universal Binary for PPC and Intel Macintosh computers Template Manager
GeoCaching
Elizabeth bought a Garmin eTrix Legend GPS unit and we did our first GeoCache tonight. GeoCaching is a fun adventure where people hide stuff and then post the GPS coordinates. When you find the cache, you put the date, time and any other note in the log book, look through the goodies and if you… Continue reading GeoCaching
SteveCast 0001 2006-06-02
Welcome to the inaugural Geeks R Us SteveCast! I’ve broken my podcast into smaller chunks. For now I have the SteveCast and more will come later! You can continue to subscribe to The Geeks R Us Podcast Aggregate RSS Feed, which will get you everyone of my podcasts, or if you just want to subscribe… Continue reading SteveCast 0001 2006-06-02
BetterHTMLExport Universal 2.2 Ships!
June 1, 2006 – Geeks R Us has shipped version 2.2 of BetterHTMLExport, a popular plugin for iPhoto 5 or iPhoto 6. This new version represents the first version from Geeks R Us and brings Universal support for both PPC and Intel Macintosh computers. BetterHTMLExport 2.2 can be downloaded from the BetterHTMLExport Downloads page.
Amazing Lego Carrier
Just have to see
Haunted Mansion Blog
A very cool Haunted Mansion Blog
Creative loses MP3 wars, sues Apple
How Creative is that? Welcome to the SCO scum pond, Creative Labs. Yes, Apple ripped off your user interface. That is why people love the Apple UI and hate your piece of crap design.
Be sure to vote!
Tomorrow is primary election day, as well as tax initiatives here in Washington County. Be sure to vote!
Ryan vs. Dorkman
An excellent homemade lightsabre battle! Ryan vs. Dorkman
Evolution of Dance
Thanks to Carren for this hilarious link! Evolution of Dance!
Things you can’t live without if trapped in a mine
Two Australian miners were trapped for 2 weeks. For 5 days they survived on one cereal bar and licked water seeping in. Then they were found by thermal imaging 3,000 feet down and rescuers drilled enough to get them items to live on until they could clear the blockage, some 9 days later. The items… Continue reading Things you can’t live without if trapped in a mine
How easily people give up their identity
KGW (local news) and the Better Business Bureau made a fake “Office of Spam Control” and made a form, went down to PSU and offered people $5 to sign up for spam blocking. The form asked for email address, passowrd, SSN #, address, name. And it even said at the bottom “For the lure of… Continue reading How easily people give up their identity
Game Consoles are a dying breed
With Sony announcing a $599 price for a HD ready PS 3, and MS charging upwards of $500 for theirs, I’m sorry, games are officially too expensive.
Nah, nah, nah, nah nah nah….
Nah, nah, nah, nah nah nah… Nah nah nah nah, hey you sued, so pay Apple 2 million pounds in court fees. Nah, nah, nah, nah nah nah… Nah nah nah nah, hey you were rude, Now put our music on iTunes to recoop your loss. Nah, nah, nah, nah nah nah… Nah nah nah… Continue reading Nah, nah, nah, nah nah nah….