Man this game looks bad ass!!

November has a bunch of good stuff for the xbox.. Natal aka kinect and now this!

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we all know that Apple security is tighter than a tick’s ass so how could this have happened? ill tell you how. i think this whole thing was PLANNED by Apple. they sent this guy out with a ‘prototype’ (which ive heard are always locked down and what not) to lose on purpose. why? to get the hype started in a non traditional fashion. they knew that tech blogs would blow up with info and rumors and pictures and tech blog readers would spread it all. Viral Marketing at its best. what this does for Apple is they will be able to gauge what the consumer is wanting feature wise and they’re opinion about the design with out making it seem as if they requested it. so now Apple ’sends’ a letter to gizmodo requesting the device back to make it seem like it some big bad thing happened and they are going to deal with it justly.

Good play Apple, but were not fooled.. I will be camping outside the store though come july when my AT&T contract is up and its time for a new iPhone!

Read all about the ‘leaked’ phone on MacRumors

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i dont know why but this movie looks SOOO good.. the first trailer gave me goosebumps and so did this one.. we have to wait almost a year to see it.. December 17!!

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havnt posted in a while but just got done watching the superbowl and had to post this.. this is probably one of the best commercials ive seen in a long time.. Good work google!!

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• Jeep Grand Cherokee – $30,000.
• SRT8 Rims, Colormatched Body Panels, Grill inserts and Tint – $5000.
• Wining Jeep of the Month – PRICELESS

Haha, i couldn’t help but to do that, it just seemed fitting. Now im Eligible for Jeep of the Year!! Woo! Anyway with a Landslide vote of 12 of 14 votes (probably the lowest vote count on streetjeeps.net due to a server error in the vBulliten software or something) i won. Here is the picture that i chose to use as my winning entry.

Anyway THANKS to all the people who voted!

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So you gotta watch Thriller!!

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Im kickin it old school with my iMac (G5 circa 2005). But ive never seen this video.. Its pretty cool, checkit!

Click ‘More” to watch. too much bandwidth to load everytime!

Read more…

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I’ve just realized that the fall season is strangely an expensive one. Chrismakuh is obviously the mostbut over the past few weeks ive noticed that fall is next on the list. Here is just a small list of all the stuff i have to do/renew (every year at this time).

• Registration for my truck
• Smog
• Plates (my custom ones i just got is now a returning fee)
• Xbox Live
• MobileMe (which i may or may not keep, i dont really use it that much. )
• StreetJeeps.net Premium Membership
• This site!! (Domain and Hosting)
• FlickrPro
• Starbucks Gold card

Blehh..

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Wooo!! its not 1000° outside any more! So ive done some things to get ready, bought a new jacket, Pumpkin Spice Chai!!, and gotten out my homecoming 2003 soundtrack, NFG’s Coming Home cd, and all my Yellowcard CDs as well.. And i made this video! Check it out

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So i’ve been using iTunes since back when it was version 2 and have pretty much been satisfied with the whole UI. But just recently Apple has released iTunes 9 at they’re “Its just rock and roll…” event, but too me it seems like an unnecessary update. Where should i start…

What I Dont Like..

My main quable with it is the new Store UI, it looks too much like it has been designed for a touch device, much like an iPhone or even a rumored tablet (yuck). Don’t get me wrong it looks nice, but it doesn’t flow nicely. I liked how the old store looked like part of the regular library, and everything kinda matched. Now its just too busy, there are things everywhere. It seems like a step backwards.

Look at all the extra stuff, and this is just on top, there is more if you scroll down. Also the store is WAY too processor heavy. Loading the Store main page ramps the fans on my iMac up to takeoff mode (4000rpm) and then the spinning ball shows up for a second or two. Is it all flash based now? It seems like its running as a web app and not a desktop based app.

Some other things that changed include: While in your music library, clicking the “store arrow” on a song that’s tags don’t match with iTunes, takes you directly to the store main page and not a Did you mean this? page. So you have to manually search, which then shows you everything that matches in the store, podcasts, apps (that usually have nothing to do with what you want), videos, etc.

Also if you have songs that didnt come from the store and you’re trying to tag them, you cant copy and paste the info anymore.

A BIG annoyance is that the track skip buttons dont do anything in the music store anymore. Before, i used to go to the Top Songs and click the first one to play and then click ’skip’ and go down the list. Now you cant do that. You have to click the little circle for each one. APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS!! its by far the worst thing about the update. (Well besides the miniplayer issue which since has been fixed)

[UPDATE] I just recently discovered that the “Just for you” section of the store is missing. I liked that when i was looking for music that was similar to the stuff i already like and have. It was sorta like the genius feature, but for stuff you dont own yet.  I cant seem to find it in the store now.. Hmm tsk tsk…

Here are some things that i DO like..

The tabs on the top of the store are cool, but this have been added to the old style store.

The genius mixes are pretty cool. i just wish under each one it would say what it was instead of having to rollover to find out.

And when you in the store i like how the music video previews show up on top, just like a QuickLook, saves the store from having to load another page, and a spinning ball. But, when its finished playing it stays there and you have to click out by hand.

And the iTunes LP thing is ok, im not really into all that extra stuff, they look cool and allbut i just want to listen to the music and not look at all that extra stuff. At least on the computer that is, i do like analog CD cases. Music videos are one exception, but they dont need to have a whole song and dance about them, just include them with the album, as an option that can be turned on or off at checkout, something like: “Do you want the extras for $4.99?” would be nice.

Also i like how the album QuickLook is, but the one song at a time preview is tedious..

And one thing I’ve been hoping for for a long time as the ability to scoot your iPhone apps around via iTunes, and now you can, but, it still needs some work. You can drag and drop stuff where ever you want, individual or whole pages, but its still limited by the ’spring’ action, you really cant just drop it anywhere you want, you have to fight with the spring loaded “springboard”.

Other than these few items I’ll give the new iTunes 4 stars, (down from 5) and the redesigned store a 3, of 5. What do you think? Do you like the new store? Hate it? write a comment and let me know.

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