Facebook's Best Feature

     Besides the obvious privacy settings which have and continue to get scrutinized... Facebook, one of the largest social networking sites out there currently, has a hidden to some feature. This feature is under the "hide" category, which enables you to hide a person your friends with, or just hide certain applications like Farm Land, What celebrity do you look like?, or What Toy Story Character Are You?... like I show below. You can hide these by mousing over to the top right corner of the post and find HIDE>HIDE __App__. Bam, you should nolonger see that app on the news feed by anyone. You can also hide certain people entirely, your choice. Overall, this hide feature is sweet, but wouldn't it be nice for some of us to have that "Block all app invites" button? ... Now that would be a wonderful feature.

Better than Blu-ray?

     A tale of two companies... one with the goal of producing storage needs of large companies and the other the large storage needs of the consumer. InPhase Technologies and General Electric are both researching and testing Holographic storage. Storage through disks of multiple lasers and angles, unlike the 90 degree application storage of todays media. InPhase Technologies' holographic disks boast of about 300 GB of data storage (further expansion expected), with up to 50 years shelf life once written. G.E.'s storage is said to be at 500 GB, they are also expecting storage expansion. Even though this sounds amazing, this technology is hindered by the cost of affordable consumer products that play the new format. More companies are working on this basic technology but they're each approaching it differently.

Note: G.E.'s number one goal is the consumer, but it may have to go through the hands of movie studios and other corporate companies to get to the consumer.

"Read" all about it!

     There comes a time where things change... okay things change every second in our fast paced world. A friend of mine, Cassie, has just brought to my attention a company called Americhip. This is consider a basic advertising company with above average style. They commit to the senses, all of them: Taste. Smell. Sound. Look. Feel. How you ask? Remember the greeting cards that pop out at you? or how about the ones that play music or a personal recording? These are all ideas that Americhip used to make cards more engaging.

     Now, Americhip has a new idea, infact its already in production. Its called "Video-to-Print" patented by the Los Angeles company. It uses a low cost cell phone type screen and battery to pass on a message that fits into a brochure or magazine. Take for instance Entertainment Weekly's new CBS ad for new shows... that you can watch. The special issue will be distributed only in the local area but this is just the beginning. Take a gander at the technology. Here's a couple links to give you a better feel.

Iron Man Portable Trailer 1:14
News Video with a few details 2:36
Americhip Website

"Cake" for all

     As you can see... it's Bloggers tenth birthday. Seems kinda old to me, I am very happy its here. For its birthday it's adding new features users suggested and voted on. For example a previous feature called Blog2print that effortlessly makes an actual physical book from your blog postings.

iTunes 9 Update

Quick and Clean Rundown:      iTunes 9 has come out and yes, it is a welcomed upgrade! This update features 4 main things that make this update worth while. First, we have the tabs at the top of the iTunes screen listing the areas of iTunes. For more of a easier navigation. Basic, right? thats what I thought. Second, we have the new music albums and singles listed in thumbnail view, but now you can get info any of these show with just a hover and click of your mouse on the circled "i" that appears... without leaving the window. A smaller window will appear and show all the songs and prices. You can even play a song preview from this window. Which brings us our third feature. The ability to preview any of the Top Songs by hovering your mouse near the front of the song (which will bring up a play button). Also, without leaving the page: Simple/easy feature. And last we have the Home Sharing feature. This enables sharing of video and audio throughout the network with simple setup and views. You can easily view others music and show only music you don't have. Well, there it is, rundown complete.

Slacker Equals Me

     As of recently I've had a fever and it'd kicked my ass. But I'm caught up in research of two postings, yes two one fairly old that I may just throw out... nah. The other is very tricky and in depth, without being bias that is. By the way: Snow Leopard came out today for purchase as an upgrade for 29 bucks. Time will tell how that turns out in the masses quicker than I can read about it.

Snow Leopard

     Apple is rolling out their new OS X 10.6 named Snow Leopard. It comes pre-installed in all new Macs starting this September. And the upgrade is only 29 bucks for OS X 10.5 users, but is it worth it... for me it's easy to say no. I have no problems with my current computer except for one 3rd party software called "Picasa". Good idea... wretched end product. When will it just get fixed?! Now that I thing of it, I'm just going to delete it. Anyways, Snow Leopard is not much of a difference to the average user apparently. A lot of the changes are under the radar to your basic consumer. (Like the 64 bit 'switch'). Although if one does notice some changes they may be from the boost in speed of joining a wireless network, wakeup time, and time machine backup.