Nintendo DS Lite Redesign Ready For Christmas

Evan Wilson, an analyst from Pacific Crest Securities believes that a redesign of the Nintendo DS is complete and ready.

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Scroogled (by Cory Doctorow)

A story of what would happen if Google gave user data to government agencies. Pretty interesting. Usually I don't like to read long posts but this one was good enough to keep me reading.

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30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows

What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.

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DefCon 15: To Catch an Undercover Dateline Reporter

This is funny. This is absolutley hilarious. I'm laughing hysterically right now. Alright, apparently NBC sent a Dateline reporter to DefCon this year. Now at DefCon you can get a pres badge and do your reporting there and everybody's happy. But this reporter decided not to. She decided to sneak in with a hidden camera and pose as one of the hackers there. First of all, at DefCon, women cannot be found. Anyway, she was discovered to be a fake and during a press conference she was ousted and then escorted out to her car by a herd of DefCon attendees who were badgering her and taking her picture the entire walk back. It is said she was undercover to catch people committing crimes there (UPDATE: She was there trying to find undercover federal agents for a Dateline special). Here's the video:

StepMania: Chocolate Rain

This is amazing. Somebody went out there and remixed Chocolate Rain into a StepMania dance game. It's really cool. But I'm getting the feeling that the creator of this watched G4's Attack of the Show the day the hosts told us about Chocolate Rain and an Internet gang called "Anonymous" as in the beginning of the video he said "I did it for the lulz" which was talked about during the part with "Anonymous." Anyway enjoy the video. It's amazing.

Chocolate Rain

If you haven't seen this already you have to. It's absolutely amazing.

Go "Green" with your PC

You all probably know about the little apps and tips to help cut down on the power your computer. From adjusting screen brightness to heavy duty tweaking with your hardware. A new application from Uniblue Labs makes protecting the environment even easier. The program's called "Local Cooling." It helps you control everything from when your monitor switches off to when your hard drives shut down.

Once you grab the executable from localcooling.com it's a quick and easy install. After installation, a small little icon for Local Cooling will sit in the tray.
Clicking it will open a small little window showing how many trees you saved, how much fuel you saved, and how many kilowatt hours you saved.

If you click the settings link it'll allow all sorts of customization options for tweaking your computer's power settings.

You can also register on the localcooling.com site and see how you rank with other users.
All in all, it seems like a cool application. It doesn't seem like it slowed down my computer much, but we'll have to see what happens when I boot up tomorrow morning. I recommend everyone to check it out at localcooling.com.

P.S. Screenshots by the new application Jing from jingproject.com.

Feedburner

Hey all! I've just subscribed to Feedburner today and started burning this blog's feeds. Now it's easier than ever to subscribe to this blog's posts. On the right hand side you should see a link to subscribe to the feed. Just click it and do whatever you need to do to get it up and running on your feed reader. Anyway, I hope everyone likes the new feeds and let me know if there's anything I can do to make this blog better.

-APer

The Benoit Tragedy

As most of you probably know, Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and his son Daniel were discovered yesterday in their home dead. The investigation regarding the while Benoit Tragedy, as I'm calling it, is still ongoing and there are many details being released and each news site I go to says something a little different. So I'm going to try and compile all the details and all the latest news here into one story. So I'll start at the beginning when we first heard of this terrible atrocity.

It all started early yesterday when friends of Chris started receiving odd and mysterious text messages. His friends became worried about this and notified the WWE. The WWE then notified local law enforcement in Fayetteville, GA. They police went to check on Benoit and his family and that's when they found the Benoit, his wife, and his son dead. They were all found in separate rooms. Nancy Benoit was found in a home office strangled with an electric cord. Daniel was found in his bedroom smothered by a bag. And Benoit was found in the weight room, hung by a pulley on an exercise machine. The authorities would not release any details at the time except to say that no one was shot. The WWE was notified of the situation and they cancelled RAW for that night and replaced it with a three hour tribute to Benoit. Mr. McMahon rose from the dead and made a statement to the public. Here's what he said:


An autopsy was done today to find the answers to what really happened. It was concluded that it was a double-murder suicide. Apparently Benoit killed his wife on Friday on Saturday and his son was killed either late Saturday or sometime Sunday. It is still being discovered when they were actually killed. On Sunday, Benoit was supposed to participate in the WWE Pay-Per-View of Vengeance. He called rather last minute saying he had a "family emergency." Then Monday afternoon Benoit committed suicide probably distraught over what he had done. Once the WWE found out about Benoit killing his family and committing suicide they pulled all tributes from their website and only had one story following the story of the Benoit Tragedy. Investigators found anabolic steroids in his home. These can cause paranoia, stress, and violent outbursts called "roid rage." It is believed he had been taking these drugs which caused him to go into "roid rage" and kill his family and himself. I'll provide more details here on this post as they become available so stay tuned.

UPDATE: I just heard that next to Nancy's and Daniel's bodies were Bibles. Also Nancy was bound at the wrists and the ankles. According to Wikipedia, Nancy was killed on Friday, Daniel on Saturday, and Benoit killed himself late Saturday or early Sunday. This is still up in the air as I'm hearing different stories of when who died from the sources I've been checking.

The Walls Are Rebuilt

After much outcry from grass-root fans and a whole lot of peanuts, CBS has brought back Jericho. I know. I couldn't believe it either. I was so excited a began sending text messages to all my friends who also enjoyed the show. Turns out that a lot of people do enjoy the show. So many that they rallied together via the Internet and organized an attack against. These grass-root fans send thousands of peanuts to the CBS offices in New York and Los Angeles. Obviously the peanuts are meant to represent the lack of sanity of the heads of CBS. All the peanuts forced CBS to give in and order seven more episodes of Jericho meant for a mid-season replacement in 2008. So now I leave you with a letter CBS released to all fans of Jericho:

__________________________________________________________________________

To The Fans of Jericho:

Wow! 

Over
the past few weeks you have put forth an impressive and probably
unprecedented display of passion in support of a prime time television
series. You got our attention; your emails and collective voice have
been heard.  

As
a result, CBS has ordered seven episodes of "Jericho" for mid-season
next year.  In success, there is the potential for more. But, for there
to be more "Jericho," we will need more viewers.

A
loyal and passionate community has clearly formed around the show. But
that community needs to grow.   It needs to grow on the CBS Television
Network, as well as on the many digital platforms where we make the
show available.

We will count on
you to rally around the show, to recruit new viewers with the same
grass-roots energy, intensity and volume you have displayed in recent
weeks.

At this time, I cannot tell
you the specific date or time period that "Jericho" will return to our
schedule.  However, in the interim, we are working on several
initiatives to help introduce the show to new audiences.  This includes
re-broadcasting "Jericho" on CBS this summer, streaming episodes and
clips from these episodes across the CBS Audience Network (online),
releasing the first season DVD on September 25 and continuing the story
of Jericho in the digital world until the new episodes return. We will
let you know specifics when we have them so you can pass them on.

On
behalf of everyone at CBS, thank you for expressing your support of
"Jericho" in such an extraordinary manner.  Your protest was creative,
sustained and very thoughtful and respectful in tone. You made a
difference. 

Sincerely,

Nina Tassler

President, CBS Entertainment

___________________________________________________________________________

-APer

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New Interface for Embedded YouTube Videos

Hey Everyone! YouTube has done some rearranging and some reprogramming and some adding and subtracting and all that and what they've come up, well I think you might be pleased. YouTube has redone the interface for embedded videos that people like me post on their websites, blogs, etc. Go check a few of them out on the page here. What do you notice? Maybe you can run your cursor across the side and the bottom and click the Menu button. Notice anything? Yes new little doodads. The first thing can be found on the sides which I have no clue what it does. Two arrow like things pop up. When I click on them while watching one of the Blaze videos it just restarts the movie. Maybe it's different for other videos.  Next thing is at the bottom. You should see little thumbnails of other videos. This is like when you finish a video on YouTube it shows other movies you might like. The other deal is with the Menu button. When you click it the video screen gets shrunk and an Embed and URL button appear allowing for you to link the vid to other places. I like this new feature from YouTube. It's very slick and hopefully soon we'll see ads. YouTube videos are plastered everywhere on the Internet. Think if Google put ads on their. The person who uploaded the video could make money and so could Google. Right now the whole revenue sharing thing like that is sort of very exclusive so it's kind of in beta but I hope to see that come to us in the near future. Anyway, until then.



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Some PSAs from All About Anything

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Ad-Aware 2007

Lavasoft has officially launched Ad-Aware 2007. It has a slick new interface with all the features it has before and it's powerful scanning capabilities. I installed it today and I'm running a scan. So far it found 59 things! 59! And if you know me I'm pretty careful about keeping my computer free of malware and the like. Anyway, go pick up your copy of Ad-Aware for free at lavasoft.com.



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Shared RSS Feeds

Hey ya'll! Just added a new little gadget to the blog here. It will have a constantly updating list of cool and interesting stories from my fave RSS feeds. Figured that this way is easier then writing a post everytime I find something cool. To read a story just click it and enjoy!

-APer

Sparks Flies

The season finale of the 2007 season of American Idol was just as the other ones. They remember weird and kooky characters from the auditions, sing a few tunes, and name the new American Idol. The only different this year was the two contestants, Jordin Sparks and Blake (I forget his last name). They performed wonderfully and it ended up with Jordin Sparks taking the title of American Idol. But do you think she was truly the American Idol? I mean Melinda Doolittle was the best in my opinion. Were sites like votefortheworst.com the cause for some of the good contestants downfall or were those who fell just not good enough? You tell me. All in all none of that matters now because now the dust has settled and Jordin Sparks emerges the winner.

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PAULA ABDUL BREAKS NOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG! OMG! OMFG! PAULA ABDUL BROKE HER NOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is indeed a shock to many that our dear Paula Abdul has broken her nose. But how could this have happened. Was she attacked a disgruntled Idol contestant? Was she playing football and took a hard hit? Well none of those happened. The real reason for her damaged little nosy was her chubby little Chihuahua "Tulip." Apparently she was walking and she tripped over Tulip. She bruised her arm, chest, waist, and all the way down her hip as well as tearing cartilage in her nose and fracturing her toe. This is no laughing matter. She is seriously injured. I mean I bet anybody would trip over their do... he... hehe.... LOLOLOLOLOL. Who the hell could ever trip over a dog and get that badly injured? HAHAHHAHAHAHA. Please tune into tonight's American Idol to see her fabulous looking patch job on her nose.



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Google 411

Ever need to look up a phone number on the fly, but don't want to pay for 411? Have no fear for there is a free solution. Google. Google really is amazing. It seems they can do anything including 411, both via regular phone call and text message. These services are both great. To use the regular calling method call 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411). It is is all automated and uses voice recognition which is usually spot on, but this method only allows you to look up businesses but residential numbers should be on the way. The other method is text message. From any cell phone text the name of the person and the city they live in to googl (46645).

Example:

John Doe Anywhere, New York



Within seconds Google will text you back with the number and address. I love both of these methods and find them quite useful. Try them out yourself.



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Picasa Slideshow

Hey ya'll! Picasa Web Images has recently released a new feature allowing you to create a slideshow out of your pictures embeddable on a blog, MySpace, etc. Check out my sample below.

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Image Mosaic Generator (v2.0)

Alright everyone, this is cool. It's called the Image Mosaic Generator (v2.0). This little site is pretty darn intriguing and it's easy to use. All you do is upload a photo and let it form a mosaic of it with other pictures from flickr.com. I recommend that you be using something other than 56k cause it takes a bit to generate it. After the mosaic has been created you can download it. See my test drive of the site to the right. Check it out and enjoy everyone!



http://imagemosaicgenerator.click42.com/



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The Blaze #2

This is the video of us throwing the second Christmas tree to the flames.

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The Blaze #1

Hey everyone! I uploaded two more vids to YouTube. I'll post both of them here. These videos ocurred at my friend's party. We started a fire in his fire pit. Later we stumbled upon two old Christmas trees. This video is of the first tree.

-APer

South Park Mac vs. PC

Check it out!



-APer

Flea Market Montgomery

Hey ya'll! I'm gonna start infecting the blog here with some of my favorite viral videos. It's your job to watch them and then pass them along. Repost them, e-mail them, whatever. I want you to infect as many people as possible. So start spreading these ITDs (Internet Transmitted Diseases) Here's one I recently discovered:



-APer

Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I just found the coolest website everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Ok, so I'm sure everyone has heard of the Nintendo Wii and I'm sure a few of you out there have one. And I'm sure that if you have one you know what a Mii. For those not in the know a Mii is a little character that you can create on the Wii's Mii Channel. You can customize name, hair, nose, mouth, eyes, etc. These little dudes can then be used in games like Wii Sports and Wii Play to be your on-screen avatars. Well, a programmer from Adobe has created his own web-based Mii creator called the Mii Editor. It very closely resembles the Wii's Mii Channel and includes all the customization options of the Wii version. Once you create your funky little avatar you can save it in four different sizes, including one size which is the perfect dimensions for an AIM buddy icon. You can check out the site at MiiEditor.com. Enjoy!

-APer

Ding Dong, Sanjaya's Gone!

Well, it's official and completely unexpected. The one supported by votefortheworst.com has been sent home. Yes, Sanjaya Malakar, possibly one of the worst singers in American Idol has been eliminated. It was predicted he would make it to the finals because of this trend of voting for the worst, but it seems people might have just gotten tired of voting of him. People were just tired of Sanjaya. Or were the results fixed? Hmmm... this is a tough question to answer. It seemed odd to me that Lakeisha and Blake joined Sanjaya in the bottom three. Hmmm... weird. Well anyway, American Idol just lost it's fun little joke. I bet somewhere, some little girl named Ashley is crying now.

-APer

Linux Ubuntu 7.o4

Linux has been in our lives forever except that most of us have never heard of Linux. Well for those who don't know, Linux is an opearting system like Windows Vista and Mac OS X. What's great about Linux is that no one actually owns Linux. Linux is completley free since it is open source. Open source means that anyone can take the original source code of Linux and make their own version. They're are many different versions like Red Hat, Gentoo, Fedora, Damn Small Linux, Knoppix. Most versions of Linux weren't user friendly and it made many people nervous to mess with Linux since they didn't know how to install it. Live CDs for some versions of Linux were created. This allows you to boot it directly from the CD. Linux Ubuntu is a Live CD and is possibly one of the most user-friendly versions of Linux out there. Thanks to it's user-friendly controls it is drawing many users away from Windows to Ubuntu. But why switch from Windows to Linux. Simple. Linux doesn't get viruses, spyware, malware, etc. A downside is that there isn't much compatible software for Linux, but there are plenty good apps out there to replace your old Windows' programs. After 6 successful versions, Canonical, is releasing Linux Ubuntu 7.04. This version is said to offer more user-friendly features. This version launches tomorrow so head on over to ubuntu.com to check it out. You can download the image or you can order a free CD of Linux. Enjoy!

-Aper

In Memoriam

Hello everyone. I'm here merely to show my sympathy to the 32 people at Virginia Tech who died on Monday April 16,2007. Shall we pray for them and their families and shall we also pray that such a tragedy never wreaks it's havoc upon anyone again.

-APer

Wii Internet Channel Finally Out of Beta!!!!!!

Yes, you read right. Finally, after many months, Opera's Internet browser for the Wii is out of beta!
I got home from school today and opened my Google Reader and scrolled down to the Webware feed from webware.com. I was surprised to see the headline "Wii Internet Channel finally out of beta." I immediately became quite excited and fired up my Wii. I immediately connected to the Wii Shop Channel which told me I had to first do a Wii System Update. I exited out of the Shopping Channel and noticed Nintendo left me a message on my Wii Message Board. I announced to me the Internet Channel was out of beta and provided me a link to update my Wii's firmware and then told me to go back to Shop Channel and access the Wii Ware section. I downloaded it with ease and immediately started it up.
As you select the channel from the Wii Menu it makes a nice little jingle sound greeting you. It loads up much faster compared to the old Internet Channel. Through the settings you can adjust the Toolbar Display either setting it to always display or auto-hide toolbar which is a nice feature if on a small TV like me. A new search feature has been implemented into the browser allowing you to search either Google or Yahoo. The zoom feature has been refined to allow more precise zooming. The Favorites menu is relatively the same with a few graphical tweaks and the addition of more of Nintendo's and Opera's links. Typing seems to be the same with the point and click functionality. Maybe some day the Wii will allow a keyboard to connect via USB or Bluetooth. One feature still missing from the new Internet browser is tabbed browsing. This is a major negative to a very promising browser. Maybe that feature will included in a later update.
All in all the the Wii Internet Channel has greatly improved over the trial version though a few key features are still absent. The Channel will be available for free on the Wii Shop Channel until June 30. Then you'll have to shell out some hard earned Wii Points to get the browser.

-APer

Another One Falls

Tonight we saw another American Idol contestant fall, Haley Scarnato. Even though her sexy attire choice for that night was spot on, her song of Maria, Maria received mixed reveiws from the judges. There are only seven contestants left. Who will be the last man/woman standing? And how long will Sanjaya last? Will he and his atrocious singing make it to the end or will people finally come to their senses and stop voting for him? Only time will tell. So we bid thee farewell Haley and we hope to soon say goodbye to COUGH! Suckjaya COUGH! excuse me Sanjaya Malakar.

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My YouTube Video

What's up guys?! I'm here to post a video I've recently uploaded to YouTube. It's of my friend being extremely stupid and spraying a hose around that was attached to a sink.
WARNING: After you watch this video you may be stupider.

-APer

South Park Studio

Hey everyone! I got a question for you. Do you like the show South Park? Well, if you do, you might also like to create your own South Park character. I've stumbled across this site: http://www.sp-studio.de/. There you can create your very own South Park character like the one I created shown to the right. Anyway, have fun with this little toy.

-APer

So Long 20GB Playstation 3, We Hardly Knew Ya

This is an article taken from http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/004082.html. It's about the death of the 20GB PS3. Enjoy!

-APer

By Matt Peckham

We knew it. They knew it. It was only a matter of time before Sony opted to axe its $499 "entry level" boat anchor. Okay, granted a really super-powerful boat anchor I wouldn't personally mind stuffing in my tiny little train wreck of an entertainment center, and that I'd never actually use to, you know, stabilize a sloop or something.But seriously, if you can drop $500 on a video game system, why not an extra hundred mazuma for bells and whistles?

Availability, to be sure, which for good or ill hasn't been one of the PS3's shortcomings. You want one, you got one, just pop out to the nearest retailer, bring your firstborn with for trade-in credit, etc.Curiously, while anecdotal evidence suggested the basic 20GB model hadstocking issues, GamePro reports the 60GB premium model was outselling its feebler sibling by 10-to-1.

I'll forever remember hunkering in my local Walmart's "footware" section for an Xbox 360 (I was lucky next to the poor fools braving arctic temperatures outside the nearby Best Buy), debating with insanely devoted (or frighteningly deferential) parents the consumerist logic of waiting in line that long for anything. My prize? A 360"Core," a hundred bucks cheaper than its big brother, and about $150 more expensive once you'd tracked down all the gizmos and whatzits you needed to bring it up to par.

At least the basic model PS3 (rest its soul) came with a hard drive.

New Wii Channel

Hey folks! I was just watching AOTS (Attack of the Show) on G4 and they just announced that G4 created a Wii Channel which can be found at g4tv.com on the Wii's web browser and g4tv.com/wii on your computer's browser. I haven't checked it out on the Wii yet but it seems more like a website specifically for the Wii like wiiminder.com. For those who don't know, wiiminder.com is actually a website that adds a tabbed browsing functionality to your Wii's browser when you visit it. Anyway, G4's Wii website allows you to watch some clips from your favorite G4 shows and a few other doodads. So, if you have a Wii with Internet access and you like G4 check it out. Talk to ya'll later.

-APer

technorati tags:G4TV, G4, Wii, Wii-Channels

Welcome!

Hey everyone! Welcome to my blog, All About Anything. Ok, the name kinda sucks, but maybe you can help me find a new one. Anyway, this is All About Anything and well, it talks all about anything. From video games to movies. From money to assortments of strange buttons. This is the blog that'll talk about anything it so pleases. So anyway, things might be a little slow since I just started it (to tell the truth, I started this like a month ago and never did anything with it until now). Anyway, enjoy the blog and feel free to drop me a message about suggestions.

-APer

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