Check out Leah taking on hordes of baddies at NextFest 2007!

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: Laugherating

Wow. Universal has reportedly declined to sign a new two year contract with Apple. Instead they are opting to go with a month-to-month and will be offering other services exclusives to some of their artists. Its clear that Universal has seen that they have made a mistake selling on iTMS and see the light shining bright and sparkly over at the Zune camp. Lord knows that Microsoft has been selling dozens of them, after all. With 1% of the market how can Universal go wrong! Having 74% of the market just isn’t enough! Dipwads.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: Bad Politics, Laugherating

To we nerds it has never been a secret. We have always known how the pointer moves on the screen when you move the mouse. What has not been known until now is what happens when the movement data is transferred to the computer and how it gets the pointer moving on the screen. There’s a lot of work being done underneath the bonnet, as it were. Check this Flash animation out as it illustrates rather clearly the inner workings of the common computer mouse. Don’t worry, you don’t need to understand Japanese at all.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: Laugherating

I had heard earlier in the day that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were going to be interviewed together by Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal at the paper’s D5 conference. I’ve now been able to watch the 8:05 outtakes reel that the WSJ put together after it happened. There are some interesting ideals being spun around. My fave being that Gates starts talking about the Zune and Jobs pops in and says we like the Zune, too since the entire Zune development staff are customers of the iPod. I’ll have a complete report on my opinions of the interview after I’ve watched it all. You can find all of it here.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: Damn Fine Idea!, Enlightening, Laugherating

Remember the heady days of The Talking Moose and Jared on the old 68k Macs? Man those were fun. There was also this one that barfed and some others which did really annoying things as a prank. In the later days of the Mac, as the PowerPC transition replaced older 68k macs, there was SimStapler from Freeverse. You can relive those heady days with a large collection of software from madman John Schilling.

Just to give you an idea of what you’ll find there’s MacBarfX which emits a barfing sound whenever you eject a volume. There’s EarthquakeX which makes your screen shake at random. There’s Conan The Librarian X which tells users to shut up when they get too loud. If you need something useful and aren’t out to torture your Mac pals there’s Smell-O-Mints, a nice looking table of Periodic Elements.

Most of these applets are Universal Binary and a lot of them run faceless so users can’t just quit them and stop the harassment. Have fun!

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: Cool Tools, Laugherating

Remember those little one-per-sandwich Buddig meat packages you could get at your grocer for $0.69? Yeah. Now they make these really big bags of the thinly sliced cuts, and I just found an incentive in one bag; music. Yeah, again. One free music download per purchase. First of all, I buy albums, not songs. Call me old school. Secondly, I drive Mac and the Puretracks service Buddig is using only supports Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, and XP. No mention of Vista and they actually say no to Linux explicitly! Wow.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: Laugherating