QuickTime Sans iTunes

 

Want QuickTime without the iTunes bagage? I did. QuickTime Standalone Installer.

TemplateMonster.com

 

Wow, TemplateMonster.com is sporting a very slick collection of templates for websites, flash applications, and a lot more. Pimp your WordPress powered site. Didn't see any templates for MovableType powered sites. I like how every template has a "Unique Price" - a price, that if paid, yanks the template off the site.

coComment

I registered at coComment tonight. coComment, short story, is designed to help you track the comments you post in the blogosphere. Sounds useful. I've lost track of most of the comments I've posted in the blogosphere and typically I loose track of any conversations I was following within a day or two. Maybe coComment can help me do a better job of staying involved in the conversation. We'll see.

I added a coComment widget over in the right-side column. Comments I make in the blogosphere, from this point forward, should start showing up.

Conversations are an important part of blogging. I'm glad to see the recent activity in this space. coComment has some competition - co.mments and Commentful.

Ted Stevens' - Tubes

It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. - Ted Steven's - Internet famous.

Transcript of his now historical Internet "Tubes" speach.

The Internet is a Series of Tubes song - temporarily pulled by MySpace.

and it continues ...

and it continues ... Flickr's Error Page

Virtual PC 2004 Now Free!

Virtual PC 2004 is now free. Go download it now. Or, take a look at the DEMO.

You can use Virtual PC to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same computer. I use Virtual PC at the office to test our software on multiple operating systems. I can be in my work environment and have a test environment running in a separate window. It's pretty slick - I love being able to install all kinds of software without messing up my main work environment.

Why is Microsoft giving Virtual PC away?

Microsoft views virtualization as a tool.  Virtual PC is used for a number of reasons, but the primary reasons are for development and test scenarios and application compatibility.  We already provide Virtual PC as part of MSDN for development and test users, and given that all our other application compatibility tools are free - charging for Virtual PC did not make much sense. - Virtual PC Guy's Weblog MSDN

The Lost MAC Ads

Firefox Gains Market Share

TechCrunch - Firefox Surges to 16% Market Share in U.S.

Good for Firefox.

I use Firefox, and not because I've sworn some crazy oath to never use Microsoft software or anything like that - I use and love a lot of Microsoft's products, but because it's better software. The competition in this space is good for us (users) - it's going to force all the browser publishers to innovate and produce better browsers. Keep it up Mozilla. Get moving Microsoft. Competition is a good thing - always - unless you're loosing.

Goatse

I was just shocked, visually accosted, and I think I'm going to need to see my Dr. for burned retnas. A set of stickers from goatsesticker.com was part of my May ValleySchwag schwag bag and I just found out what the whole Goatse thing is all about. Find out for yourself. Start and goatsesticker.com, you'll end up at Wikepedia and if you follow the rabbit down the rabbit hole you'll end up shocked and wishing you had a delete key for the .jpgs in your head - like me. Yuck! I can't believe ValleySchwag put this in my schwag bag - classy.

Canon A620

I recently newegged a Canon A620 and I'm oh so glad I did. I'm the proud owner a Canon SLR as well and I love it but I don't always feel like taking it with me everywhere I go - sometimes it's just difficult, sometimes I don't want to risk breaking the thing. I needed something smaller and less expensive. It's a lot easier to grab and go with the A620 and for less than $250 it's feature packed. Highlights include: 7.1 MP, movie (with sound) recording that's pretty slick, tons of built-in family friendly (like Kids and Pets) automatic shooting modes, a flip out LCD screen, zoom, it goes on and on. Read the detailed DP Review of the A620 if you really want to get into the details. Great value - hard to believe what you get for less than $250 - oh and that included a 2GB SD card - took advantage of a NewEgg combo deal.

Surf Report

Surf Report: Rides I want to remember and share.

the show with zefrank, witty, informative, hardly work safe - amazed he can do it as often as he does.

short-run t-shirts came back into my attention space this week - a random link to deezteez.com got me started and a threadless shirt graphics competition my brothers are participating kept me rolling. original t-shirts are a cool way to express yourself - I have a few.

jumpcut (create and share short movies on-line) caught my interest for oh about five minutes thanks to a jumpcut shirt that came in my schwag bag this month. my wife wants me to cancel the subscription - I like the shirts - she'll win.

RocketBoom.com Flame-out

I'm not going to say a whole lot about the RocketBoom.com soap opera (he said, she said) that's unfolding in front of the entire blogoshere because everybody else (scoble, techcrunch) has more interesting things to say about it. The part that interests me the most about it are Jason Calcanis' efforts to get Amanda Congdon (RocketBoom.com hostess) signed on to the Netscape employee list. Interesting because I thought Jason and Andrew Baron (owns 51% of RocketBoom.com) really went after each other during a recent TWIT (#57) session. Jason has got to be loving the way this is playing out.

Update: and it keeps getting better - now with cool comic from blaugh.com