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Month: October 2006

Widescreen, Letterbox, etc.

It’s all about square pegs and round – whoops, I mean rectangular holes. If you’ve got a friend or relative who still just doens’t get the whole widescreen / letterbox / pan-and-scan thing, despite you waving your hands and drawing pictures on napkins, here’s a great resource: Stop by VideoGrunt and have them watch episodes […]

Decisions, decisions, decisions

Ah, it’s not even Halloween yet and the run-up to Christmas has begun — with so many new games either just now available or coming very soon. That means it’s time for gamers to be looking at game videos, demos and reviews as well at getting together with their friends to decide what the next […]

Learning Matters?

Every few weeks the local school system has a “Learning Matters” day. I guess I don’t think that “learning matters” means the same thing that the school systems do, since the way they show that “learning matters” is to send the students home early. Huh?

We All Own Our Copyrights

This is getting ridiculous. I’ve heard it now from Leo and the others on This Week in Tech, Emory and Alex on This Week In Media, and now even the Buzz Out Loud crew. Almost every time they get to talking about Google’s purchase of YouTube and the ever-present possibility of video-hosting sites being sued, […]

XBox Live is dead, Long Live XBox Live

Actualmente Xbox.com está en proceso de actualización. Estaremos de regreso próximamente con toda la información que necesitas sobre Xbox, Xbox 360, y tus juegos favoritos. No, no, no… definately not dead, just resting and recharging for bigger and better community gaming action starting soon.

Spyware Cleanup

Mike McB’s Spyware Cleanup is a good series to read through, to learn just how messed up a Windows system can get and some of the tools to use when (not if) you’re in the same situation. Mike, you’ve got more patience than I do. When I was shown the family PC in similar condition […]

GooTube

Yesterday on TWIT: Vista ship dates, Windows Genuine disadvantage, and why Google will never buy YouTube. [emphasis mine] Today’s press release, from google.com: Google buys YouTube. John C. Dvorak has a cow, Film at 11 (or earlier if you check the website, of course) Purely by coincidence, as they were posting their press release, I […]

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