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Killer iPhone app: I take a picture of something in a dream, and the next day those photos are imported to iPhoto with the real ones.

Upgrading Parallels. Hoping it has a TARDIS feature, making the three Windows test VMs mooch drive space in a entirely different dimension.

RT @Brogen Up late rebooting servers…my poor 568 day uptime.

I just installed my favorite WordPress plug-in ever: Shockingly Big IE6 Warning http://bit.ly/15mEI4

Virtual machine update: √. M$IE6-XPSP3 dl’d: √. VirtualPC install: fail. Parallels conversion of .vhd: processing. Fiery furnaces: NEARING

OSX update: √. Parallels upgrade: √. Virtual machine update: processing. Rower direction: unknown. Way river’s flowing: unknown.

“When writers write, they discover what they actually think. When developers develop, they discover what the customer actually needed. Both conclusions happen near the end of the process, and invariably require going back and starting all over again. Nobody knows what the program should do until it doesn’t do it.”

researching live video streaming, and not jumping up and down

Downloading it now… This gives me hope for the Wii.
via BoingBoing

Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape. Run it on an emulator or a replica… …or just as a nerdy ringer for your iPhone.
via slashdot

We don’t have a digital video camera yet (apart from the built-in function of the Fuji 5000), but it’s getting more and more tempting. There’s a bunch of Flips in the office, and here’s some easy way to roll your own macro- and micro- lenses for them.

I would love to make one of these passive-agressive anger management vending machines. If I put it in the office, though, I’d also need to rig up a robot arm so Jim could use it remotely.

OH now this is danged handy.

No, you can’t have a pony.

- rearrangeable icons + web clips: better weather info fast
- e-mail: Still can’t turn sideways…
- new maps: Neat. The way the pin looks like it’s stuck through a piece of paper is a satisfying touch
- video rental: sweet! Here’s hoping you can bookmark things so you can make a to-rent list.
- AppleTV update: glad it’s a software update. Two weeks? now now now.

Get your cards ready!
MacWorld, Torchwood, Packers vs. Giants… this is an exciting week, people.
via CzelticGirl

I like Leopard’s 3D dock, but those glowing blue dots are gonna annoy the crap out of me; here’s how to change them back to triangles.

The Leopard intro movie’s music is totally wrong, it really needs to be this.

Unconfirmed, since I can’t upgrade yet (I’ll be doing a double happy dance at that point, because it will mean finally being done with that Perl/Catalyst/TemplateToolKit nightmare), but this is awesome.

Make your own Atari 2600 labels.

For all the iPhone hoopla, and all the whinging about that it’s exclusively available with AT&T, it seems like nobody’s mentioning Steve Jobs’ shared past with them.

I definitely want want want one… but yesterday, for a very little while, my Treo 650 was still cooler than the iPhone when I ssh‘d into the server with it. update: Other cool people agree on that point. The Treo was also nice, because when the router went down, I never dropped my IM conversation.

Related:
DVD Jon cracks the iPhone to work without activation
put your iPhone into field-test mode

I finally just saw Pirates of Silicon Valley. Yick! But it’s too bad that it ended when it did, because I’d love to see John DiMaggio freaking out on Ballmer’s Developers Dance.

Did anyone else notice the white ericophon that’s all over the Apple set in Pirates?

Looks like it’s been on deck for years. Probably better timing with the rest of technology to wait until now.

We got our new toy from Apple last week — the Apple TV. It’s sleek and pretty and very, very cool. Now, all of our iTunes media is available in the living room. In anticipation, I’ve started burning all of the CDs to a hard drive. Goodbye, clutter! Goodbye, scratched discs!

A week into it, here are some things I’d like it to do:

• support for more video formats
• coverflow!!
• iTunes’ visualizer!!
• iTunes’ visualizer as a screensaver
• sleep mode (it’s pretty hot)
• create playlists from the TV
• stream photos
• iTunes store – probably coming soon
• download podcasts directly (see above)
• work with the Sony Location Free base station* **
• it has a hard time remembering my laptop*
• the YouTube thing is great – but where are my playlists and subscriptions?
• include free iPhone with purchase

Some of that can be accomplished by hacking it — video formats, weather, internet radio, wake up remote drives and sleep are all on the to-do list, and given that Leopard’s going to be all about the coverflow, that’ll probably show up on the Apple TV before long. Aside for my minor whinges, the Apple TV is really awesome — and it’s only barely a 1.1 product. I’m really looking forward to more.

*these may have to do with our network configuration?
** for that matter, I’d like a whole new user interface for the Location Free Player, it’s terrible. The new case design is sweet — very early-eighties, Trinitron sleek — why can’t the UI be, too?

A nice collection of John Cleese ads for Compaq. Computers Often Make People Quite Angry!
via Mefi

live every week like it’s shark week
by Wesley Willis

You are my special working hard bish.
You are the best in the long run.
You really whoop a snow leopard’s ass.
You really whoop a snow leopard’s ass.

LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!

Every week that’s like shark week is very special to me.
Shoutlet is the best in the long run.
I like you a lot in the long run.
You really whoop Saddam Hussein’s ass.

LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!

You can really rock your ass off.
I like you well.
You really whoop a llama’s ass.
You can really rock it out.

Rock over London,
Rock on Chicago.

Shoutlet – we build excitement.

send beer.

WTF is up with PERL.

Nifty! Not only is IE7’s File/Edit/View/Etc. menu in a really stupid place below the toolbar*, the Edit menu doesn’t work. If you select a URL from the address bar and then try to copy it from the Edit menu, it loses focus on the address and you can’t copy it. Paste is similarly fucked up. The right-click contextual menu works, so why not this? Click to watch:

You’ll notice that I took this movie on my Mac through Remote Desktop. I tried the copy/paste maneuvering directly on the Windows (XP) box, with the same results. I also tried it in Internet Explorers 5-6 and it worked just fine.

Geeks Are Sexy posted a registry hack to move the File/Edit/View/Etc. menu back to the top. I did this and it worked, in terms of moving the menu bar back to where it belongs, but it didn’t fix the copy/paste issue. Swell!

*”Reload” and “stop” are in the extra-stupid place of after the address bar, and no, they can’t be rearranged.

Here’s an awesome little app that will make a really great Star Wars opening title sequence. I made this with maybe four minutes of farting-around time, but be warned that it was a jillion million CPU cycles — this clip was generated from 2818 rendered stills. (Proofread!) It will render for PAL, NTSC, and all kinds of stuff. Fancy.
also via a.wholelottanothing