I loved Oceans 11 and went to Oceans 12 for my 12th birthday. As you can see, I really like the Oceans movies. I am really physiqued (that how you spell it?) about Oceans 13. I know that they filmed 13 when they were filming 12 because that group of actors is so hard to get together they have to do it at the same time. I just saw the trailer on apple.com and it looks great. Check it out here.
As I said in the post below, I spent the past weekend in Atla, Utah. I took my D50 with one day and snapped about 100 pictures. Someone elses camera caught all of us going off a cliff, which I will post as soon as they email me the movie. Here is the link to the pictures.
This website/blog is my home on the internet, right? My home has to be the way I want it. It has to look nice, it has to feel nice, and it has to have the right stuff in it. Thats way I updated my blog theme yet again.
Why do this? The old theme didn’t feel right, which means my home didn’t feel right, and that is bad. So I went on over to themes.wordpress.net and found this theme. I think it is a little better then the other one. I will keep tweeking the site unti it is just right.
Currently I am in Alta, Utah skiing. So I didn’t bring my big computer, just my small MacBook. That means I can’t do powerful things on it, because it just doesn’t have the horsepower. But I can try :)
I am planning on updating the front page of the website later today with pictures and videos. Well see what happens. On another note: I have a piece coming up about NetNewsWire and what I like about the new beta. Stay tuned…
Its been a little while since we have had a video of the week, but it is back. This weeks video is possibly my favorite ad from the superbowl. The video of the week is sponsored by Tubular, see what’s on.
After Christmas I had a decent amount of money in my account. When the Pilot of Dirt went on iTMS I downloaded it, I liked it, so I bought the season pass. The first couple episode I received an email saying there was a new episode online. So I would click the link in the email and the newest episode would download. But today I noticed there was a new episode of Dirt available on the iTMS store.
I have only downloaded up to “What To Expect When You’re Expecting”. I check my email, junk box, and checked for download in iTunes. Nothing. Here is proof that I have actually bought the season pass:
iTunes took my money and stopped giving me episodes when it felt like it. I am not sure if this problem is only with Dirt. I also hold a season pass for Scrubs. Everything has worked fine so far with Scrubs. I will write another entry if it happens with Scrubs. Have any of you had this problem?
The iPod video, as most of you know, is the only iPod you can play purchased games on. I have a 30GB iPod video, but don’t want to waste $5 on an iPod game. But know I don’t have to. Today I noticed that Apple is offering a free demo of the iPod game Vertex. The download size is 22.6MB (wow) and includes two fully playable levels. As of writing this I have not played the game, however it is sitting in my games library waiting to be synced to my iPod. This is the game that looks the coolest from the selection Apple offers on the iTunes Store. I can’t wait to try it out. I will post some thoughts about the game once I play it later tonight.
Mondays nights is one of the best nights for TV shows. Prison Break, Heros, 24, Studio 60. Usually Prison Break gets added to the iTunes Store first thing after it is aired, so it is ready to download the next morning. But that is not the case today. This weeks episode is Season Only! If I want to watch it right now, I must pay $39.99 for the season pass. I normally would do this, because season passes are a great deal. But it is late in the season and there are already 14 episodes that I have already seen. Last season there were 22 episodes. That means if they are going to keep the same amount of episodes, there are 7 left in this season. Thats about $14. If I got the season pass I would be paying $40 for $14 worth of episodes. I am really made the episode ‘The Message’ is ‘Season Only’. I really hope I can buy it as a single soon.
UPDATE: You can now buy the episode alone.
This weeks Video of the Week video won because it is just weird. Also, I have to say this guy has some guts. I would never do this in public. The Video of the Week is sponsored by Tubular, See What’s On. Be sure go check it out, it is a great app for browsing Youtube.
While cruising the show floor at Macworld out in San Fran, I ran into a little booth for the app MacScan. I gave the booth a fair chance, like every other booth I go to. That way I will find little gems. That is just what happened. I was wearing both of my badges (Media and Super Pass) and one of the reps saw that I was media so gave me a handout with a free copy of MacScan on it. Being polite and giving the booth a chance I took the CD in the black case. I didn’t want to be rude, so I went over to look at the small but well designed booth. I am glad I did. Once I was at the booth and looking around, the VP of Marketing approached me with a full copy of MacScan in his hand. He said he would give me MacScan if I wrote about it on my blog. Always liking free software, and in need of a anti-virus program I took the offer. I am sure glad I did.
I didn’t have time to install the program while out there, but once I got home I did. Still not having time to check it out, I couldn’t play around with it. I finally got some time this afternoon and looked very throughly through the app. I tested to make sure it worked, ran some scans, and went through the menu bar and preferences. I have concluded that the program works, because it came back with no virus’s on my computer.
What the program does is simple, it scans your hard drive for virus’s. You can run scans in ‘Quick Scan’, ‘Full Scan’, and ‘Custom Scan’ modes. If you want to take full advantage of the program, you can run it in authorized mode. When you do this, it prompts you for an Admin password. Once you enter it correctly, it will scan every file on your hard drive. I have not tried this yet, but it seems very powerful. I have only tried the ‘Quick Scan’ feature. It took less than a minute to scan my entire home folder. I am the only user on the computer so that is where all my files are, and there are a lot of files. It scanned at lightning fast speeds. It was done with my ENTIRE home folder in about 45 seconds. I was also exporting a 7-minute full HD clip from FCP which was limiting the CPU. So even with that, MacScan is still fast.
While the virus scanning modes are powerful, there is more. You can ‘Clean’ web files. The program uses ‘Clean’ as an elegant word for erase. When you clean your web files, you erase them. From now on, ‘Clean’ will be referred to as Erase. When you Erase your web files, you don’t have to Erase them all, you can choose from:
Cookies
Downloaded File List
History
Temporary Cache Files
I have also concluded that this feature also, works. It successfully Erased all of my Safari files. If you don’t know, I use OmniWeb. This Erase feature would not be useful to me. The reason being MacScan can only Erase web files for the following programs:
Camino
Firefox
iCab
Internet Explorer
Netscape
Opera
Safari
SeaMonkey
Shiira
While reading the list, I thought ‘wha?’ on a couple of them. iCab? SeaMonkey? I have NEVER heard of those browsers. I certainly don’t need those in the list. My suggestion: MacScan should do a scan of your HD for web browsers, then displays a list of the browsers that you have on your machine. This feature would be much better designed that way. Even though my web browser is not supported in the list of browsers, I will still use the feature because I sometimes use Safari to surf the web.
To sum this looooooonnnnngggg post up: MacScan is a GREAT application to scan you entire hard drive and Erase all of your web files. Most anti-virus programs are big and heavy duty-meaning they have a big window, so many options, and take a long time to scan your HD. MacScan is a little, light, but powerful program that packs a big scan. I do wish it had the option to scan on a schedule, so I can have it scan every night at 4 or something. I highly suggest this app. Although Macs don’t get many virus’s, its good to have a program just incase. You can get it here and it costs $24.99. That is a very small price to pay for having a great anti-virus program.
This weeks Video of the Week is some pretty sweet skiing. There are also some pretty bone breaking wipe outs. The Video of the Week is sponsored by Tubular, See What’s On. Be sure go check it out, it is a great app for browsing Youtube.