The Blog of Brad
Archive for September, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-30
Sep 30th
- is loving the idea of Tivo for PC… are the guide listings free (like Windows Media Center)??? http://tinyurl.com/4aw9w2 #
- Security tomorrow with @leolaporte and Steve Gibson of http://grc.com/ watch live at http://live.twit.tv/ #
- is happy be can type 50 words per minute on this horrible laptop keyboard! (which is pretty bad, I can normally do almost double) #
- Cali Lewis has a great post about Flash for iPhone… http://tinyurl.com/3j3py6 #
- is @leolaporte ‘s stickam stream down? #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-29
Sep 29th
- back to the week tomorrow–getting close to having an office again!!
# - @leolaporte any free way to listen on iPhone? #
- is loving this… possibly the best concept for a mac laptop ever! http://tinyurl.com/4a7dep #
- oops… sorry, I’ll re twitter it http://tinyurl.com/4a7dep name the price, I’ll pay it… This could.. no is better than the MS Surface… #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-28
Sep 28th
- into Costco they had music systems… but they all were horrible except a Pioneer set-whatever technology they have, Bose needs it! #
- iPhone = ($60*12)*3=$2162… or
Band & Olufsen BeoSound 9000=$2599 ??? which would you pick? # - All about Steve Jobs… “All time favorite phrases” http://tinyurl.com/2gs6rp #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-27
Sep 27th
- Elton John was great! Will post pictures and videos to http://brad-zone.com/ soon! #
- ah, can’t upload all the pics at once… will have them up in the morning…. I’m going to bed… #
- Have the Elton John Pictures on my blog at http://brad-zone.com/post/199 and will have videos tomorrow… than you Google! #
- Have the Elton John Videos on my blog at http://brad-zone.com/post/199 #
- The videos from a Motorola Razr are pa-thet-ic! but-does any cell phone actually do good, decent video? #
- WordPress is awesome! I changed my blog from http://brad-zone.com to http://bradarsenault.com and wordpress made it work instantly!! #
- On this day in 1935, Judy Garland signed with MGM. #
- was at Costco yesterday… did you know they now sell Rolex watches??? yeah, I’ll take four Daytona’s… that’ll be $57k…. #
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Elton John Concert Photos [UPDATE] and Videos
Sep 27th
Here are some photos from the Elton John concert, yesterday.
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[UPDATE]
And here is a collection of the videos.
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-25
Sep 25th
- Has Eltin John tomorrow, iPhone looks waaay to expensive from Rogers… $15 for “extra” features: caller ID is essential!!! #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-24
Sep 24th
- Google Android was released yesterday? WOW, no headphone port!! Doesn’t T-Mobile get it??? #
- Just checked with Rogers, you can use ANY of their voice plans w/ iPhone.. $30/mo is bad for 6BG data tho.. what about 3GB for $15??? #
- My blog, http://brad-zone.com/ is requires a high school education… check yours at http://tinyurl.com/2ca3a4 #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-23
Sep 23rd
- Why doesn’t iTunes offer TV shows to Canada??? Why??? #
- Long day, why would I want any cell phone if I can’t have the iPhone? I want internet anywhere, not phone nowhere (Bell, not so great) #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-22
Sep 22nd
- VMWare 2.0 seems to compete nicely with Parallels 3, but VMWare gives free updates… http://tinyurl.com/4m89x6 #
- I love the Mac. Its true that you can find Windows equivalents to all the apps, but AppleScript(ability) is the killer app-and it’s free!!! #
- OMG, Horatio is dead… CSI: Miami Premiere NOW! #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-21
Sep 21st
Chrome: For Mac [Updated]
Sep 21st
Today CodeWeavers (makers of the popular “CrossOver Mac” which allows you to run Windows apps on Mac without Windows) released a free CrossOver for Chrom(e/ium)… it is technically “chromium, the open-sourced project for Chrome, but it’s still the same app, I haven’t yet tested it, but this should do for mac users who want to give it a try, see it in a great blog post here, you can download it here, and please comment about what you’re experience is. It’s also to note that Google will soon release a version of Chrome for mac which will be optimized for both the Mac OS, the Mac OS X graphics interface, and the Mac Hardware. But give it a try.
[UPDATE Sept 21 10:30 AM] – After many tests, I can determine that this version is very (very, very, very, very) slow. This version isn’t exactly the fastest anyone will ever see Chrome… This should a considdered a conceptual preview-if you want to see it at the best you should test it in a Windows virtual machine, either using VirtualBox, Parallels, VMWare, or on a real Windows PC.
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-20
Sep 20th
- wow… Godaddy offers great domain management… any clue what the “txt” records are for?? #
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Chrome: The “Invisible Tab”
Sep 20th
For those of you who have used Google’s (relatively) new browser, you may have experienced (what I’m calling) the “invisible tab”. It looks like this, and will move around like it was really a tab:
Well if you use the Task Mananger (, seen above) to manage your Google Chrome tabs (and processies) you can click the “stats for nerds” and it will take you to about:memory (which is seen below) , a page similar to about:config in Firefox or about:tabs in IE 7, and about:blank in most all modern browsers. These are pages made local on the system to display relavent information, or in some cases to provide a local cached page which will load quicker than any page available. Anyway, the about:memory page allows you to see the stats for memory usage for what components of Chrome. I noticed that there’s another tab, one which I don’t have open called “Tab 99 (Diagnostics)” This discovery has prompted me to share a possibly great discovery into the inners of Chrome (and this annoying glitch which can only be solved by restarting the browser).
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-19
Sep 19th
- beautiful weather… watched the sunset from the hot tub… time to catch up on Channel 9… http://channel9.msdn.com #
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Mythbuster at NVision 2008
Sep 17th
The Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters were at NVision last month, and demonstrated the difference between a CPU and a GPU via the mothods they use on the show, it does a great job demonstrating the difference between the two…
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-16
Sep 16th
- Bewitched premiered this day in 1964 #
- Leo Laporte is live: With C|Net s Buzz Out Live, with Molly Wood, and Jason Howell… http://twitlive.tv/ #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-15
Sep 15th
- yay, I get off early today! #
- I haven’t had good luck with Spore on Vista… it crashes when I click done in the creature editor, anyone else have this issue? #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-14
Sep 14th
- twitter should consider it suspicious when someone is following 2000 people within 1 hour of getting an account… #
- finally found the part 3 of building a calc app in Mac OS X http://tinyurl.com/6hkkzg #
- the music video for “Relax” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood should be the music video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-13
Sep 13th
- weekend finally, Macrumors has a great sum up of yesterdays iPhone 2.1 update http://macrumors.com/ #
- it’s Chocolate Day! Today is Hershey’s Birthday! #
- Chrome seems to work great on XP and Vista-but is pretty slow using Parallels (in my experience) #
- For Mac users who want Chrome, you can use WebKit or Safari (using the same core as chrome).. webkit is so much faster, http://webkit.org #
- Today I’m listening on my iPod 5 G 80GB… wow, I thought 3/4″ was thin??? #
- @leolaporte what happened? Tricaster down again? #
- Check out Geekbrief.tv #428 for an unboxing of the new 4G iPod Nano, see it at http://tinyurl.com/4yoqse #
- Finally caught-up on this weeks Gekkbriefs… It’s been busy week! #
- Finally caught-up on this weeks Geekbriefs… It’s been busy week #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-12
Sep 12th
- wow-can’t believe I didn’t get anything done last night-Spore and Chrome are killing me! #
- @leolaporte @twitlive is there UGM today? #
- is blogging way too much #
- wow… 60 new items since midnight…. it’s a busy day I guess–TGIF #
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Google Chrome Update: Security Now!
Sep 12th
In this weeks installment of Security Now! with Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson, covered the security (and to an extent the performance), it’s interesting that I love Chrome, And so have many others, but Steve Gibson doesn’t so much share theat opinion. Take a listen for yourself at twit.tv/sn161 and see more about security at Steve Gibson’s security site at grc.com.
Comic: Adam@Home-Comic On Computer
Sep 12th
This comic sums up everything about computers-but can be applied to anyone who has, or choses to work with a computer. People don’t seem to get it yet that computers aren’t perfect. I know that geeks and nerds can get their computers to work all of the time, but they aren’t ready for wide adoption, do I sound like I’m living in the ’90′s?
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-11
Sep 11th
- man.. played Spore for 2 hours! WOW! it’s better than the Sims… know any cheats? #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-10
Sep 10th
- is @leolaporte live today? it says 12p PDT #
- some of the best videos are from the 80′s… who knew they could make this http://tinyurl.com/2ends5 #
- Leo is live late today… about 2 hours late #
- would love a new touch, but it’s still missing GPS, camera, and a DECENT speaker… Maceorld claims the speaker is worse than a phones… #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-10
Sep 10th
- is @leolaporte live today? it says 12p PDT #
- some of the best videos are from the 80′s… who knew they could make this http://tinyurl.com/2ends5 #
- Leo is live late today… about 2 hours late #
- would love a new touch, but it’s still missing GPS, camera, and a DECENT speaker… Maceorld claims the speaker is worse than a phones… #
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Apple Keynote Video Available
Sep 10th
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-09
Sep 9th
- Apple introduced a new version of iTunes, a new iPod Nano, and a new iPod Touch… check this out at http://www.macrumors.com/ #
- Check http://apple.com for what Steve Jobs announced today… #
- You can now watch Steve Jobs keynote at http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0809dt4bs89/event/index.html #
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Steve Jobs, Apple event “Let’s Rock” [UPDATED]
Sep 9th
–> UPDATED 4:06 PM –> Macrumors.com has posted a roundup of what was introduced today by Steve Jobs and Apple-you can go to Macrumors.com to read more. Apple has updated their website to match the new products now-you can see the new iPod Touch, check about the firmware 2.1 upgrade for 2.0 users, the new Nano-and later this evening you can watch the heynote for your self, sign-up at the link below about signing up to be notified when the video is posted. <– UPDATED 4:06 PM <–
Last week an invitation was sent to the press (the invite seen below, story here). Today at 10 a PDT, 1 p EDT Steve will kickoff the next generation of products. You can see rumor roundups at Macrumors, but to sum it up, according to rumors there will be a completely new nano, an updated touch, and iTunes 8. You can signup to be notified when the keynote is viewable online here, and Macrumors will be live-blogging the event.
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-08
Sep 8th
- spore’s downloaded… The EA Download Manager saves downloaded files as they’d appear on a disc, back ‘em up! #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-07
Sep 7th
- has a lot more flooring to lay… Wow, the paint peeled away where the edge was taped.. If you use beautytone paint, prime everything… #
- “The cost of a mac is greater than the sum of the parts” #
- TWiT Today at http://live.twit.tv/ … will @kevinrose , @therealdvorak , or someone else be on? #
- Spore is available today… you can download it cheaper than buying a boxed copy… the mac version can’t be downloaded yet though…
# - yes, Ive got spore downloading, but it still has 30 mind to go… How can I installit on a second computer?? #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-06
Sep 6th
- no UGM??? phwewph… I would have missed it anyway… #
- the Magnetoshpere iTunes visualizer is great… it works with all new versions of iTunes (mac and PC)… it brings me back to the 90′s…… #
- Can you believe I bought an ABBA album? #
- Amazon may download using MP3′s, but iTunes is just so convienient #
- I’d love a way to use iTunes to get full-song samples before buying… #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-05
Sep 5th
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-03
Sep 3rd
- Long day ahead tomorrow… blogged and twittered enough today… it’s funny, Ubiquity was “WOW” a week ago, will Chrome die the same way? #
- Wow… long day… #
- Not much new today, especially about Chrome… can’t wait to hear about a mac version (ahem… ahem… nudge… nudge…) #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-02
Sep 2nd
- I’m a day early… thought I was back today… oh well and extra day’s rest won’t hurt. #
- Can’t wait for the Google Chrome beta (later today… should be available late tonight) #
- MacZOT has Parallels Desktop 3 for Mac 40% off (save $30) http://maczot.com/ #
- When will my iPod Touch be able to Wifi sync with my iTunes? #
- Lots of work to do before I’m back tomorrow–still have to finish office, pack stuff, and finish domain management… #
- walking the dog… use Godaddy codes GB1, GB2, and GB3 to support @calilewis and geekbrief.tv, and save $$ on your .com purchases… #
- Done walking… When can I get my hands on Google Chrome??? Why are they keeping us hardcore geeks from it?? WHY??? #
- The Google Chrome download should be available in 20 min, at 11 AM PDT, 1 PM EDT, 3 PM my time…. But Chrome is Windows only though #
- watching the Google Chrome debriefing at http://tinyurl.com/5ojqz2 #
- Chrome from Google today; “Let’s Rock” from Apple next Tuesday… Tuesday really is a bad day for MacBreak Weekly… Google Chrome http … #
- Google Chrome is available at http://www.google.com/chrome/ #
- Google Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome/ is only a 450kb download! #
- This is my first tweet using Chrome… it’s awesome! It’s a lot faster for GMail, iGoogle, and other google stuff get it at http://www.g … #
- This is my second tweet using Chrome… get the Windows-only version at http://www.google.com/chrome/ #
- There is no mac version at Chrome(it will be available soon) but Parallels is good for the mac (save $30 today, get Parallels at Maczot.com) #
- When you go to a site that’s down Chrome will allow you access right to the Google cached version.. !http://www.google.com/chrome/ #
- Time to fire-up Parallels… Chrome is Windows only… #
- Chrome is awesome, but Wordscraper on Facebook still doesn’t work…Will Chrome stay beta forever… we are talking about a Google Product.. #
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Google Chrome-Acid3 Test
Sep 2nd
The Acid3 test (here) tests a browsers Javascript rendering ability in terms of being standards-compliant, for a reference Webkit scores 100, Opera scores 83, Firefox 3 scores 71, IE 7 scores 12, but you just get a mess (seen here), and Google Chrome (which uses the Webkit rendering engine (don’t confuse this with the browser “WebKit“, read more about webkit here) and a new javascript engine called V8-which boasts speed to kill, produces a 73 on the Acid3 test. Not bad considdering it’s the fastest to complete the test, but clearly Opera and WebKit (the browser).
@UPDATE- 9:35P
after doing some Google searching I’ve discovred that Google Chrome has scored from 61/100 to 78, this test is supposed to be repeatable, however it seems there’s some user-biased module to Chrome. My finding was that Chrome scored 73. That’s all I can say for sure.
Google Chrome-What Browser Am I Using?
Sep 2nd
A common trick web developers use is to determine which browser you are using to assure that an incompatible browser doesn’t have a bad experience on a site, or to change the formatting to suit the browser (really common for Internet Explorer 6)… anyway I’m using the recently released Google Chrome (to download it: google “Google Chrome Download”, or go to www.google.com/chrome) and I tested Chrome against one of these scripts (the site I used is located here) and found that the script showed Chrome as Safari 525.13 on Windows. More >
Google Chrome Release [UPDATEDx3]
Sep 2nd
Yesterday, September 1st, Labour day, Google premiered it’s competition in the web browser space, the web is onfire with the discussion about the radical conceptual changes Google has made to a space that’s remained mostly unchanged since 1998.
@UPDATE – 2:40 PM
The download will start around 3PM PDT/1PM EDT/ in 20 minutes as of this post. get it here. (According to 14U here)
@UPDATE – 3:47 PM
It’s clear that Chrome is not available yet, but the above link will be activated in the next few hours. You can watch the Google Chrome debriefing here.
@UPDATE – 4:35 PM
Google Chrome has been availabe for about a half hour and you can get it here.
Triple Head 2 Go Review – by Macworld
Sep 2nd
This video demonstrates how to use a computer (mac or PC) with up to 3 displays via VGA or DVI. The computer only requires one monitor out via VGA or DVI (depending on which model you choose). How this works is that all of the monitors havve to have the same resolution across the moitors (say 1440×768)… to the computer it appears that it’s one monitor at 4320×768. This device isn’t for high-performance gaming but is great for spreadsheets, office, web, etc.. just don’t try gaming with it.
Unix Commands
Sep 2nd
Tricaster LiveSet Technology
Sep 1st
This is the Tricaster video reel from the National Association of Broadcasters. The Tricaster (as seen in a previous video post) contains an amazing Green (or blue) screening technology called LiveSet which allows amazing production value with little work. This video provides an inside look at the tricaster interface.
