mrgan: I mean, where to start. 1. The new version of Microsoft Visio - which, in case you’re not cursed with a sucky office job, is a very popular diagramming app - includes a rip-off of Panic’s Transmit truck. 2. They didn’t just copy the icon, of course - they first ran it through the world’s worst autotracer (check out that front grill!) 3. All the other icons in the app are of this “quality”. 4. Visio also includes a groundbreaking feedback feature called Send-A-Smile/Send-A-Frown. It is of similar quality as well. (via Cabel) HA!!(is all I have to say)

mrgan:

I mean, where to start.

1. The new version of Microsoft Visio - which, in case you’re not cursed with a sucky office job, is a very popular diagramming app - includes a rip-off of Panic’s Transmit truck.

2. They didn’t just copy the icon, of course - they first ran it through the world’s worst autotracer (check out that front grill!)

3. All the other icons in the app are of this “quality”.

4. Visio also includes a groundbreaking feedback feature called Send-A-Smile/Send-A-Frown. It is of similar quality as well.

(via Cabel)

HA!!(is all I have to say)

#Music Monday: iTunes Sprucing

I highly recommend these applications that I’ve been using for organizing my iTunes library.

CoverSutra

This is a pretty great way to get control over your iTunes library with your keyboard. You can rate songs, change songs, change playlist, search songs and even scrobble to Last.fm. Snoop around with the preferences to get your keyboard shortcuts where you want them.

Get Lyrical

Automagically add the lyrics into the meta data for each one of your iTunes tracks. (bonus: if you tap the screen on your iPhone while a song with lyrics in it is playing, it will display the lyrics over the cover art. Neat!)

Pro Tip: I’m still sorta lazy from the weekend so going to the developer websites for better descriptions would be in your best interest. CoverSutra does a lot more than what I covered here.

Anonymous asked: dear diary, ~50% of the time (yes, really) i use the generic snow leopard option to burn a disc, it fails during verification, creating more coasters and wasting my time. when i use iTunes or the Toast Titanium 10 Special Pirated Edition, everything is cool. what the hell, generic burn folder!

There are enough potential causes of this issue that I’d have to recommend just doing an archive install of your operating system. Sorry I can’t go much further than that. Also, sorry I missed this question for almost a week. I’ve been busy. I’ll try and get things going again today.

#WTF Wednesday iPad COLOCATION?!

Go here to sign up! Seriously!
My Website Sounds Weird

Put in a URL and this website will translate whatever is the content into music.

#Flip ‘The Man’ the Bird Friday

(via LifeHacker)

  • Ripit - Simple DVD ripper for Mac
  • HandBrake - encode DVDs and VIDEO_TS folders to .mov,.mpeg etc.
  • TVShows.app - The ultimate TV torrent tool. Automagically download your favorite shows in the best quality available
  • Transmission - A solid Torrent app.
  • Vuze - a bulkier but useful torrent app. I use this to share my videos to my xbox over the network. Take that Micro$oft! I don’t need your crappy media center!

    • Any Questions? Let ‘er rip! (get it? cuz I’m talking about.. nevermind).

    #Thirsty Thursday: Beer Geekery
    #Tip Tuesday: Add Weather to iCal

    Awesome tip for such a craptastic morning here in Boston. I came in sick to work this morning and I’ll be honest- I have no real work to do so I’ll probably be queuing up some post for the week. Before I do that it seemed fitting to share a little tip to collect weather updates into iCal. Here’s the step by step:

    First, go to Weather Underground and type in the city state or zip for the forecast you want in your iCal and hit Return.

    In the resulting page, there’s a link towards the top right that says “Add to Favorites” which is right next to the “ICAL” and “RSS” buttons. Right click on the “ICAL” button and choose “Copy Link” (“Copy Link Location” if you’re in FireFox).

    Next, open iCal and choose Calendar > Subscribe… from the menu bar.

    Paste the link you copied into the “Calendar URL” field provided and hit Return.

    Now, just rename the calendar “weather” or something and choose how often you’d like it to auto refresh. I set mine to every day. Once you’ve done that, click OK.

    Now you should have a suscribed calendar that lists each day’s weather as an all day event. Double clicking the events will give you the full weather description and a link to the website. It should look a little like this:

    The Millenium Falcon That Flies

    $50 FOR THIS THING?! THAT’S IT?!

    My first #toy tuesday.

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