Seems Apple has a hard time deciding if your movies should go in your Movies folder in your home directory, stored in iPhoto (since they were retrieved from your digicam), or in iTunes. I guess once everyone is able to use Front Row it won't really matter since it will pull data from all sources and cobble it together in a nice GUI.
Hallowe’en Goodies
Looking for some ways to spice up your halloween? Here are a couple of items for you. Useful Widget Alert: VideoSpace
For all of the video editors out there that have ever wondered how much space 2.5 hours of of DVCPro 50 video will take up or how many hours 50 GB will buy you, fear not.
Link. Thanks Russ!
Adblock Fix for Firefox 1.5 Beta
If you use the Adblock extension for Firefox and have updated to the 1.5 beta version you've probably noticed that it hasn't worked quite right. The flash overlay is broken and prevents flash content from being displayed (sometimes this is a good thing!) while images that are supposed to be blocked/removed show as broken images.
Follow this thread for a vigilante-fixed version of Adblock.
Eagerly Awaiting Depeche Mode’s New Album
Depeche Mode is by far my favorite band. I was so happy to hear they were getting back together for another album because I thought their solo projects were, well, “It's No Good.” The new album is called Playing The Angel and will be available on October 18, 2005.
The concert series Touring the Angel begins on November 2nd with a D.C. date of December 9 at the Partiot Center. Tickets for the show go on sale tomorrow morning at 10am.
Peering Dispute Standoff Ends– For at Least a Month
Level 3 and Cogent are seeing eye to eye again, exchange traffic between their networks, bringing the feud to a close– for now. Level 3 has a temporary agreement to continue it's peering with Cogent though November 9, 2005.
This Content has been Reformated to Fit Your TV
I've been following a project that is almost nine months old called CenterStage. It's aim is to become a media hub of your home entertainment system, tying together all of the different types of media that your Mac already plays so well but making it more presentable for your set. I first tried it as a way of playing content on our Mac Mini– it was a very early version and it worked, sorta. It's an ambitious project and I'm eager to see it mature into another open source project.
Feuding Internet Backbone Providers Cripple Portions of the World
I began noticing something was fishy a couple of days ago. While at work I was trying to visit certain sites, such as RealNetworks, they were not reachable. Oddly enough, the same sites that were unreachable at work were perfectly fine from home. Turns out Level 3 and Cogent have had a falling out.
On Wednesday, network company Level 3 Communications cut off its direct “peering” connections to another big network company called Cogent Communications. That technical action means that some customers on each company's network now will find it impossible, or slower, to get to Web sites on the other company's network.
I’m Falling!
I've seen a version of this before on Boing Boing some while back– instead it was more of a mannequin. It's just as hypnotizing at it was the first time.
“Lost” Numbers: Earth Coordinates?
There seems to be a never ending search for answers to the television series “Lost.” Even more so, the meaning of the mysterious numbers. Someone has plunked the numbers into Google maps, adjusting a couple of decimals around and came up with this. You decide.