SCTV came back today with a new comic featuring MegaNice9’s very own character creation (and one of my personal favs), Snee! I absolutely love the “Merl” banner, and would kill for a wallpaper styled this way.
I am going to ask everyone a favor who heads on over to SCTV, if you enjoy this comic, please…Please…PLEASE…leave MegaNice9 tons of comments. I have been feeling lost without her very distinct humor. So, if you are like me, just flood her damn site.
It’s funny what things you find when randomly surfing around “the net.” I was recently on MacUpdate looking through various bookmarking apps (mainly for posting or managing delicious bookmarks) and for some reason went to the developer’s site of one and happened to click on the link to their blog. As I was rummaging around I found a little tip on how to clean out your Might Mouse’s scroll ball when it happens to get stuck. I have been taking Apple’s advice and just using a damp cloth and rolling the ball around for a bit, but it takes some serious elbow grease to unlock the little guy. So the best cleaning solution seems to be grabbing a piece of clean printer paper and rolling the scroll ball around on it.
If anyone has tried this technique lemme know, I recently cleaned my scroll ball, but will give this a shot as soon as it happens again (which should be soon). I swear I remember doing something like this during the days of scroll ball mice…you know, before the optical mouse was invented.
I am a little late to the party on this one, but I just had to air out my frustration and joy that the Wii finally has some DVD playback abilities. Last week one of the hot topics around the console news machine was the homebrew scene surrounding the Wii finally got the console to play DVDs using the open source media player “MPlayer.” The process is extremely easy getting the code up and running on your Wii and Nintendo Wii Fan Boy as a nice photo tutorial on the process.
While I am super excited that the Wii finally has a way to playback DVDs, I am super annoyed at Nintendo for leaving this extremely nice feature out. It is now apparent that adding DVD functionality is simple a software “update” rather than an actual hardware ability. While I might not have a source to quote on this, I remember Nintendo stating that adding DVD playback to the console originally would boost the price because of hardware needed. I can now confidently say “Bull shit.” Nintendo, please just give us official playback, I mean it can come in a firmware update and we can all be happy campers.
I am sure a huge question on your mind right now is if Polyvector and I will hack our Wii. The answer is: Not exactly sure yet. We don’t currently have a SD card the Wii can read. I have an SDHC card for my Casio Exlim, and unfortunately the Wii cannot read those yet. Nintendo has thought about adding support for reading these and I would rather not have to buy another SD card (I know they are cheap), just to hack my Wii for a functionality it should already have. If we do happen to take on this hack, I will post a tutorial or some kind of followup on how it went.
Last year the web saw its first “Blog Action Day” which Atomac of course participated in. The topic was the environment. This year we are going to do it all again on October 15th, and the topic will be poverty.
If you are running a blog, no matter how big or small, I highly urge you to participate. You can register your blog and come October you will be one more of the thousands who will help raise awareness. BlogActionDay.org has plenty of resources and charities you and your readers can support. There are plenty of ways to bring this topic up no matter what kind of blog/site you run.
Join me (and all the other more popular/important bloggers) in addressing one of the worlds most important issues.
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