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Tutorial: Making Celebrity Miis for the Nintendo Wii
Have you tried making a celebrity Mii on your Nintendo Wii yet? Instead of being some generic character in a game, you can be a celebrity like Oprah, Borat (pictured above), Charlie Brown or even Dwight Schrute from the American TV show The Office. This tutorial will give you plenty of celebrity Mii ideas and …
The iTunes App store is thriving
Charles Teague over at DragonStyle has done some interesting research on the iTunes app store which highlights the tremendous growh the iTunes app store is experiencing. The following charts are reproduced with permission, and encapsulate all applications currently available in the iTunes app store. There are currently over 9000 apps available for sale in the …
Five Best Media Converters
We’ve all been there: you’ve downloaded an episode of your favorite TV show to watch on your commute or stream to your living room, but the file you downloaded isn’t supported on the device you want to use it with. Once a significant obstacle to enjoying your media anywhere, this problem is easily solved by …
Don LaFontaine, voice of the Hollywood film trailer, dies
Don LaFontaine, the king of Hollywood trailer voiceovers, died Monday following complications from an ongoing illness. He recorded nearly 5,000 movie trailers and 350,000 commercials, programs, files and other presentations. Endlessly impersonated and parodied, his pronouncements became part of film folk law: many have passed into cliché. He and his collaborators coined the phrase: “Nowhere …
Worlds Smallest Burger, Fries & Soda Meal
… burger contents in close-up. Check out the mini pickles, onions and tomato! The burger is a little over one inch tall and about an inch wide. Enjoy! [Learn: dailycognition]
Prehistoric land under the sea
It’s a landscape no human has even seen. And those who live right beside it had no idea it even existed. Deep below the sea, off the north coast of Northern Ireland, a dramatic geological mystery has been discovered. Huge cliffs, vast basins and plateaus, a lake and even rivers have been found. But so …
Video: Stellar Movie Trailer Birth Announcements
With the kind of multimedia software and gadgets available these days, it’s easy to believe the traditional baby birth announcements of Hallmark card and photo has gone the way of the Dodo bird. Here’s a birth announcement service that will transform those snap shots into a stellar looking movie trailer birth announcement. This video demo …
World’s biggest aircraft model unveiled at Heathrow
The world’s biggest aircraft model – a replica Airbus A380 – has been unveiled at the approach to Heathrow. Weighing in at 45 tonnes, the plane is taking the place of the British Airways model Concorde, which greeted passengers as they arrived at the airport for 16 years, and has been moved to the Brooklands …
The Vegetable Orchestra
The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe. The Vegetable Orchestra was founded in 1998. It consists of 11 musicians, a sound engineer and a video artist. Based in Vienna, the Vegetable Orchestra plays concerts in Europe and Asia. From time to time workshops are given – …
NBC to use TAMi to measure Olympic audience
NBC hopes to demonstrate the might of its cross-platform Olympics coverage with a new Total Audience Measurement Index (TAMi), combining data from Nielsen Media Research, Omniture and Rentrak. TAMi will identify total viewers, unique users and time spent on individual sections of nbcolympics.com to measure viewers' total exposure to the games each day. NBC has …
House hunting in the age of $4 gas
Analysts say commuters may move closer to work Gas cost just over $2 a gallon in October 2006 when Derek Benoit bought his condominium in Amesbury in the far northeastern corner of the state. Now he’s trying to sell the unit, even though he just finished renovating it. With gas now $4 a gallon, the …
CNBC to Provide Real-Time Stock Quotes
CNBC.com and CNBC Mobile introduced a new service providing real-time quotes for stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. NASDAQ quotes became available on both platforms earlier this month.
A Flashy Facebook Page, at a Cost to Privacy
Add-Ons to Online Social Profiles Expose Personal Data to Strangers Facebook fanatics who have covered their profiles on the popular social networking site with silly games and quirky trivia quizzes may be unknowingly giving a host of strangers an intimate peek at their lives. Those mini-programs, called widgets or applications, allow users to personalize their …
Atomic Extremeophiles Thrive Where the Life-Giving Energy of the Sun Never Reaches
“Life finds a way.” Thanks to a research time involving Princeton, Indiana University, and others, that isn’t just a sappy Disney quote – it’s an incredible fact. They found extremophile bacteria buried over two miles into solid rock, where the life-giving energy of the sun never reaches – the energy every other species on Earth …
News Videos Directly on your Desktop!
Want to stay up-to-date on the latest headlines from around the world but don’t have time to “tune in”? You can finally stop refreshing those news sites – tap into the pulse of the day with blinkx beat. blinkx beat plays up-to-the-minute news, entertainment, business and sports videos in full-screen right on your desktop. No …
Hating DRM
Fewer than 5% of users who download movies and TV shows legally from the internet ever manage to port them over for viewing on a larger screen television set, according to a new Harris Interactive study commissioned by DRM management provider Macrovision. Some 43% of the 2,254 surveyed said they downloaded media legitimately from the …
