Mac RumorsNow that you’ve bought all that loot, get your rebates. Manufacturers lover ebates because 70% of the time, folks don’t do the work to fill it in. Even when you do, about half of mine get rejected, so here is this seasons.
SkiWashington.Com. It is very hard to see all the resorts and to know where they are in terms of snow and so forth. Plus where the webcams are as well.
Also,there is a “powder alert”
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 for PC Downloads – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Downloads – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Demos. Seems like every game these days ships with a sea of bugs. RollerCoaster Tycoon in our case just crashes out of the box on a vanilla XP machine, hope one of these updates help.
In this case, it needs a 110MB (!!!) update. At least this application has an updater built-in, others just leave you to troll sitesl
Here is data on the rest of the games that I bought for the kids this Xmas:
Cerulean blue – overview. Calvin heard this and was wondering. A very cool shade.
And another great Calvinism that I just had to share. While riding mountain bikes down a trail, I said, Alex you are doing well as are you Calvin and he says,
Alex, he’s a single track artist
Should be a bumper sticker :_)
illiminable Ogg Directshow Filters for Speex, Vorbis, Theora and FLAC. I use FLAC for lossless compression to archive music. Until now I’ve used winamp to playback FLAC files or dbPowerAmp to convert them back to WAV or MP3.
A strange thing is that Ogg has a set of DirectShow filters that will let any DirectShow capable player like Windows Media Player or BSPlayer playback not just Ogg formats like Vorbis, but also Flac. So, loading this gets rid of a reason to have winamp on my machine. Now I just need Musicmatch to do MP3 tagging and BSPlayer for Dvix and Xvid movie playback plus itunes for my ipods.
Interesting to note that FFDShow also claims to decode Flac as well in addition to a zillion other formats but I’ve not gotten that to work in either the 8-2004 buiild nor the latest 12-21-2005 build.
Here were some final picks:
San Diego Magazine has its readers choice and some of their favoriate are Hacienda de Vega 760-738-9804.
For Japanese, amazingly in the North County Mall is Onami. It is actually supposed to be a pretty good Japanese buffet.
Looking for a place to go out, well San Diego seems to be a sea of Carl’s Jr’s and King’s Table, Costco hot dogs and other fast food places. Moreover, like LA, the traffic is so bad, you can’t just go out, you’ve got to plan. Besices the San Diego local newspaper called the San Diego Reader and San Diego Restaurants seems like a good storted list of places to go. I particularly like their Top 20 list that shows where folks are really going.
What this and every big city site needs desparately is a Google Maps mashup. Judy’s Book really did get this right. For big cities, traffic is so bad and street addresses are so meanlingless, you need some way to visually see where things are. So although you can get an Inland restaurant review, there isn’t a map to tell you where things are. Good reviews though.
Some good tips for the North County Inland area:
REALtime FM MP3 Recordeing. When you load as many codecs as I do, it is often mysterious what is really going on, so there is a tool called graphedit from DirectX toolkit lets you find it.
You load the File Open and you can see what DirectX would actually load. You can load it from digital-digest.com and learn more about it. A super useful tool.that Chris has a good tutorial on.
Panning and Zooming on Photographs2. While you can create your own with a general purpose tool, About.com has some good advice about specific tools. These take a bunch of photos and does the Ken Burns thing, they then product video files that you can then stuff into a DVD.
The best way to achieve this effect is to use software specifically created for this purpose, such as Canopus’ Imaginate and Ulead’s CD and DVD PictureShow 3 Deluxe. Imaginate and Ulead are two of the best, with a truckload of prebuilt paths for panning and easy-to-use interfaces. Microsoft also offers the free Photo Story 3. (Thanks to Steve Miller in Middletown, New Jersey for clueing me in about Photo Story).
Learn to Pan/Crop in Sony Vegas. There is also a nice guide in the product, but this is a quick lesson in how to create movement in a bunch of stills.
Apparently there are products that do this automatically, so you don’t have to set a crop and path for every photo according to Bill.
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