everything like such as blah

• 1 month ago

  #jump #youtube #fail

• 1 month ago

  toy story 3 has the best storyline of all pixar movies. genius!

• 1 month ago

  #rant #media #drm

  The third stupidest thing in the world is... →

  mnmal:

  DVD region encoding.

  Of course I could have bought the American DVDs, but when what? My DVD player will reject them (thanks to that specially added piece of code! Thanks!) At that stage, I had three options:

  • Hack my DVD player to remove the region-checking code. This is of course a circumvention measure, and hence illegal.
  • Make region-free copies of the DVDs and play them on my UK DVD player. This is of course a circumvention measure, and hence illegal.
  • Download ripped copies of the show. This is NOT a circumvention measure, and paradoxically may not even be illegal. I am not 100% sure on this point.

  so I downloaded a set of Season 1 videos and loved the show to bits. (I won’t go into the reasons right now, as that would take me way off topic, but one day I will.)

  But! Please! Come on, Warner Home Video, I am trying to give you my money! In exchange for watching your show! Isn’t that, oh, I don’t know, YOUR BUSINESS MODEL?

  Just had a similar experience with Top Gear. They offer the show on television (on BBC which isn’t available in Germany and I want a bloody digital version in iTunes), on the BBC iPlayer, the UK iTunes Store and a ruined synchronised version in german TV. Watching the ruined synchronised version, which by the way is 4 weeks behind, is not an option. Watching the BBC iPlayer in Germany (or any country outside of the UK) is pretty much impossible. You can get UK iTunes Store gift cards and buy the show* from there, but each episode comes out a week after it first aired. Honestly? I would more than love to buy this show from somewhere - but BBC gives me absolutely no proper way to do it. These media companies are so lost in their ridiculous digital rights management system that they don’t reach the customer at all. 

  Same applies for theatre films. They release the film in the U.S. and 2 months later in the rest of the world. And then they complain about it being pirated. Pardon? It can’t be that hard to release films everywhere at once. Get the subtitles for non-english countries ready before hand. It surely won’t solve the pirating problem but it will get the rest of the world in the theatre before a film download shows up as the number 1 Google suggestion when typing, ie. Inception.

  Not making media available to customers that are willing to pay is probably the worst (or third) thing in the world. Directly financing piracy…

  * I did buy the HD version on iTunes.

• #

  #apple #magic trackpad

  Apple Magic Trackpad

  Apple introduced* the Magic Trackpad a few days ago. For rather obvious reasons the computer mouse is bound to be dead. There is no way to properly add multitouch capabilities to standard mouses without flexing and bending your fingers into the most awkward positions. Wrists are wrecked because optical lasers fail to work on the smoothest and most expensive gaming trackpad. Scroll wheels clog up within a week (and because mouses are glued and not screwed, the dust is not removable and so the mouse ends up being hammered into pieces). Besides only having one button and constantly getting dirty, Apple’s mouses are the perfect example for these unmistakable mishaps.

  With trackpads on the other hand, you get the most fluent finger movements, lighting fast scrolling and responsive precision. Apple’s laptop trackpads provide that. Other trackpads tend to be a mixture of friction-rich rubber fitted into a tiny rectangle lowered several inches into the laptop with half of the already tiny surface reserved for scrolling - take a look at Dell laptops. Nevertheless, trackpads are the future. Mouses were perfectly fine at a time where you placed cursors in Word documents and played Minesweeper. Nowadays things need to be handled with your fingers as if they were on your desk.

  It is a late and long overdue movement in the right direction and not a genius strike in bringing the laptop trackpad to the desktop computer.

  Verdict: Order it if have a desktop.

  * Apple doesn’t really introduce things anymore. It just places the produce somewhere on the website without mentioning it on the front page and the Hot News. 

• 1 month ago

  #music #trentmoller #franz ferdinand

  

  The Trentmøller remix of No You Girls is absolutely mind-boggling.

• 1 month ago

  “i think i like it” by fake blood. how on earth did i miss that song in 2009? best song ever. ever!

• 1 month ago

  #youtube #fail

  paulscheer:

  My dad’s threatening Vlogs are better than your dad’s threatening Vlog.

  (via VIDEOGUM)

  Cyber police … and the state police. Guess what consequences. I can’t eat.

  Update: Remix is genius.

• 1 month ago

  #apple #privacy

  

  mnmal:

  I felt I needed to repost this

• 1 month ago

  #DJ #gute laune

• 1 month ago

  #iphone #dev

  jayrobinson:

  Ten One Design is planning to release a free software library that adds pressure sensitive and palm rejection recognition for Cocoa Touch applications.

• 1 month ago

  #m.i.a. #music #electronic

  

  Provocative as expected. 

• 1 month ago

  in snow leopard you can type the first few letters and the finder will scroll to the matching items-not like in tiger where it jumped around