The new Xbox live experience is launching today, and I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be shooting a video tomorrow when I get home from work, with all the details and how it looks! I have it all setup now, I’m just waiting till I get a chance to shoot and upload it to youtube! Right now it’s 2AM CST and it’s still not up, so I guess I’ll have to wait! Oh well. Check this post regularly for the updated video. I’ll add it right here down below!
We were playing some cash flow tonight, and I shot a video using qik! Figured I would posted it up on the blog. This video features, Richie, Courtney, and April! Not sure where Sheri was… I love that game!
So, I bought some Zune headphones for my iPhone (I know, I know, Sue me) and was wondering what this little pink cord was that came with them. I wasn’t sure at first, but I figured it was to wrap the headphones up. I wasn’t sure how it actually worked, so I looked it up online and found a tutourial.
Now some of you may ask why I bought these for an iPhone, well from what I heard they were good headphones, and they fit very well with my recessed head phone jack on my iPhone 2G. The first time I saw them they caught my eye and since my dog chewed up my only 2 pairs I had, I figured I would try that. So I had two Circuit City gift cards from previous game purchases, so I got them for about $4 after my discount. Pretty sweet I would have to say! Well check out the video below!
Now I only played this game for about an hour, so this isn’t a full out review. The game play though, is very similar to Call of Duty 4. Multiplayer is cool, I just hate starting over with no weapons. I need to get ahead and get some experience! I haven’t played the story, but I heard from a few others that it was good. The controls are exactly like COD4. Instead of airstrikes you call out the dogs. Instead of UAV you do some kind of attack, which I haven’t quite figured out. The cool thing is now you can drive vehicles. The only one I drove was a tank. You get to shoot a missile out of it too! That’s pretty sweet.
I’ve been looking at the flips for a very long time now. Of course I see them everyday at work. They are now rolling out the Flip Video HD! YES!!! I really think I might just get one of these. None the less, here’s the description from CNET:
With Kodak and RCA putting out so-called HD versions of their YouTube-friendly mini camcorders, we knew it was only a matter of time before Pure Digital Technologies, the maker of Flip Video mini camcorders, put out an HD model of its own.
Calling it the “world’s smallest HD camcorder,” the $229 Flip Mino HD looks identical to the standard-definition Flip Mino. It weighs just over 3 ounces, boasts 720p resolution, and has 4GB of memory that allows for 60 minutes of recording time. The release also says that the Flip Mino HD features “all-new built-in FlipShare software for easy saving, organizing and sharing of video from your computer.” We’re not sure how it’s different from the software on the existing Mino, but when we get more details, we’ll let you know.
Like the standard Mino, you’ll be able to customize the look of the Mino HD at theflip.com/store. I did an earlier post on the whole customization thing, and the one drawback is that while the service is free, you do pay the full $229 list price for the product. Most likely, the Mino HD will retail for less on Amazon and other online stores–I’d guess $199.
We’ll be getting a review unit in the next few days and have a review up soon. Naturally, we’re curious to see just how good the video quality is. In reviewing Kodak’s Zi6, we had this to say: “The Kodak Zi6 is technically an HD camcorder the way a tomato is technically a fruit: it meets the definition, but doesn’t deliver the experience. True, the Zi6 records video in 1,280×720-pixel resolution at both 30 frames per second and 60fps–720p resolution–which technically qualifies it as an HD camcorder, but a lot of factors go into creating an image, not just a CMOS sensor capable of capturing an image at a certain resolution and frame rate.” We expect to have a similar experience with the Mino HD, but Pure Digital Technologies has managed to keep the video quality of its mini camcorders slightly ahead of the pack, so maybe the same will prove true here.
Yes that’s right! I have a new layout for my website again. The other one was up for quite a while, so I thought it was time for a change. This is a very customizable, wigetized theme, that I feel in love with. There are so many cool things about it, that I couldn’t resist getting it and using it on my website. It has a lifestream on the left, a place to put games, music, and movies in one section (not totally done). It has a featured story, with an image to show what it is about. There are just to many things to list.
I added my webcam stream in there, incorporate a link to my full lifestream, and added a few more things on there. Let me know what you guys think. I believe it turned out pretty cool!
Picture taken on November 5, 2008 in Paris of several international newspapers’ frontpages, the day after the victory of Democrat Barack Obama in US presidential election. Obama, 47, will be inaugurated the 44th US president on January 20, 2009, and inherit an economy mired in the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a nuclear showdown with Iran. AFP PHOTO JACQUES DEMARTHON
People take photographs of a sand sculpture of U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at Prui beach in eastern Indian November 5, 2008. India hailed the election of Obama as the next U.S. president on Wednesday, saying his “extraordinary journey” to the White House would inspire people not only in his country but around the world. REUTERS/Sanjib Mukherjee (INDA)
A traditional Russian wooden Matryoshka doll with a picture of US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama is displayed for sale in central Moscow on November 5, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama swept to victory in a historic presidential election by trouncing adversary John McCain in key battlegrounds and poaching states long-considered Republican bastions. AFP PHOTO / DMITRY KOSTYUKOV
The thinking is similar across Europe: In London, the cover of the Times of London reads, “The new world.” GETTY IMAGES
US Barack Obama’s supporters pose in front of the Eiffel Tower during an official reception on election night on November 4, 2008 in Paris. Millions of US voters flooded polling stations Tuesday, looking to elect front-running Democrat Barack Obama the first black president or hand Republican John McCain a shock comeback win in their historic clash. AFP PHOTO PATRICK KOVARIK
Residents cycle past “I Love Obama’” poster in support US Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama in Obama city, western Japan on November 4, 2008. It may not quite be the party planned by Barack Obama’s home city of Chicago, but a Japanese town named Obama is pulling out the stops in the hope its adopted son will win the White House next week. This ancient fishing town of 32,000 people — Obama means “small shore” in Japanese — has been rooting for the Democratic senator from Illinois ever since he became a viable candidate for the American presidency. Voting started in the US presidential election on November 4 when polls opened in the northeastern state of Vermont, a local electoral official told AFP by telephone. AFP PHOTO/Toru YAMANAKA
Local residents and US citizens visiting the city celebrate in front of a map of the United States as Senator Barack Obama advances to win the US Presidential election on 05 November 2008 in Obama city, a fishing port town in Fukui prefecture (state), Japan. City of Obama and its residents are celebrating the Senator Barack Obama’s victory in US Presidential election. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
Obama Girls dance the Hula to celebrate as it is announced on television that Barack Obama has been elected the President of the United States in Obama, western Japan, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
A man celebrates the victory of US presidential candidate Barack Obama in a bar in Moscow early on November 5, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama swept to victory in a historic presidential election by trouncing adversary John McCain in key battlegrounds and poaching states long-considered Republican bastions. AFP PHOTO / MICHAEL ECKELS
Supporters of U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) cheer as they monitor the results of the U.S. presidential election in a bar in Jerusalem November 5, 2008. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM)
People celebrate U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama’s (D-IL) historic White House victory in Mombasa November 5, 2008. Kenyans in Obama’s ancestral homeland sang and danced with joy on Wednesday as the Illinois senator they see as one of their own became the first black U.S. president. REUTERS/Joseph Okanga (KENYA)
Now this is really cool! Technology is moving fast. This is a news report with Jessica Yellin, who was actually in Chicago when the filming was happening. Check this out! It’s remarkable!
