• Leopard users who want to change task/process priorities like you can in Windows, use http://frozenheads.com/page/benicer #

• Trying this Time Machine Editor which allows you to change Leopard’s Time Machine scheduling http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ #

• Free voicmail and fax service http://www.k7.net/ #

This is a very interesting video that explains several techniques for image stabilization on your still camera or camcorder. They are all very inexpensive and their effectiveness varies.

The water bottle technique would be best if you are on the go (walking) but if you’re doing stationary shots, the string technique would best. Enjoy!

Here is another DIY camera stabilization solution that is a bit more involved.  It is a very inexpensive version of the Glidecam 2000, which is what we use for X7 Media for our videos using our Canon GL2 camcorder.

• Some amazing free Photoshop brushes. Check it, peeps! http://www.psbrushes.net/ #

I’m not sure what the whole point of this exercise was. My brain sometimes goes off on wild tangents and it must know the answer before I can move on to my next task.

I wondered tonight how many letter o’s I had to add to Google.com in order to register a domain name. Maybe there’s some trickle web traffic that can be gained by someone who fell asleep while at their keyboard, pressed the letter “o” for a while, wakes up, then presses “gle.com”.

Turns out the answer is a bit scary. In fact, I don’t know the answer because GoDaddy limits the # of domain name characters to 63, so the longest I could check is gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com and guess what? All of the domain names from gooogle.com up to that one are taken. It’s a strange world out there… and now my mind can rest.

• IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5 http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ #
• New Telecaster guitar controller for Wii Guitar Hero 3 http://wl.to/d8e0f8 #

• http://wl.to/db21f9 Free XM satellite radio through AOL (requires FF browser) #

Boston Dynamics has just released a brand new video of their DARPA-funded Big Dog robot.

This robot must be seen to believe… watch it all the way as it is kicked (and recovers), slips on ice (and recovers), jumps, climbs, and does all sorts of eerie things.  It’s so cool!

• Frozen in Grand Central Station — freaky! http://tinyurl.com/22ynm9 #

• Apple iPhone Developers Program says: Keep Waiting! http://wl.to/45943c #
• Congrats to Mike for launching mikeTHIS! based on chrisTHIS! http://wl.to/62db1f #
• Preview summer blockbuster movies! http://wl.to/3f2f91 #

Last week when Apple announced its iPhone SDK, I immediately downloaded it and began playing around with it, even though I don’t know how to develop a single line of code in XCode. It was still worth the time because it is actually very cool, especially with the iPhone emulator. At the same time last week Apple announced their iPhone Developer Program. Again, I immediately applied–which was a simple process of filling out a form and waiting for a response. Today I was excited to receive and saddened to read this:

Dear Registered iPhone Developer,

Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is available to a limited number of developers and we plan to expand during the beta period. We will contact you again regarding your enrollment status at the appropriate time.

Thank you for applying.

Best regards,

iPhone Developer Program

Looks like the response was so overwhelming, even during the first few hours, that a lot of people will have to wait, including me!

• If you want a great way to hide and unhide hidden files and folders on Mac Leopard, try this–it works great! http://tinyurl.com/2caw94 #

WTH! I was following some referral links the other day and found this complete chrisTHIS ripoff blog, mikeTHIS! Call me crazy, but this sure looks exactly the same as my blog, right down to the name! Time to open up a can of whoop-ass on this guy. I mean, seriously… what huevos!

Actually, mikeTHIS.com was originally registered by my friend, Mike, in Texas. He didn’t use it, so he gave it up to my other friend, Mike, in New York. mikeTHIS was the Houston Mike’s idea, and I thought it was so cool that I had to register chrisTHIS. My site went up immediately, his didn’t! NY Mike wanted a cool theme so he grabbed the same one I’m using, created by Chris Harrison, and I made him a “mikeTHIS” logo just like mine for his site’s header.

Congrats, Mike, for getting your new blog up and running. Y’all can bugger on over to chrismikeTHIS.com and give that boy a talkin’ to! Be sure to also check out his Islesblogger blog.