I have a lot of little cords all around me every day. I manage to keep most of them out of trouble. Although a few times a month I will get up from my desk and snag my headphones cord on the keyboard shelf. I think my ears have been lowered a few centimeters at this point.
Barack Obama is already being called the YouTube President because of the 1,800 YouTube videos that help propel him to win the election and have been watched more than 110 million times. So it seems fitting that Obama will continue to use YouTube to get his message out once he takes office. The weekly radio address that every president has done since FDR will be videotaped and put onto YouTube.
These “fireside chats” were started by FDR during the depression as a way to reassure Americans that everything was going to be all right. Now Obama will have some of his own reassuring to do as we grapple with the current economic crisis.
The Presidential radio address is somewhat of an anachronism that Obama hopes to reinvigorate by bringing his message on-demand to people’s computers. So the weekly chat is skipping TV entirely and going straight from radio to YouTube. The address (which will still be broadcast over the radio) is usually only about four minutes long, a perfect length for YouTube. The videos will be posted on Obama.s Change.Gov website, as well as its dedicated YouTube channel. I wonder if they will ever turn comments on.
Update 11/15: Here is Obama’s first YouTube address.
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Updated! OK, I guess this was inevitable. Two Three separate hacks are available to get some Windows 7 features working in Windows Vista. The first, for the new calculator utility, is sort of dubious, but the second two—for Aero Snaps and Aero Shake—are great ideas.
Windows 7 Calculator for Windows Vista
Aero Snap Beta - AeroSnap is a simple but powerful application that allows you to resize, arrange or maximize your desktop windows with just drag'n'drop. Simple drag a window to a side of your desktop to snap it or drag it to the top to maximize. When you drag it back to the last position, the last window size will be restored. Really easy, isn't it? It also works with multiple monitors!
Aero Shake - Free utility Aero Shake brings the Windows 7 Aero Shake feature to your pre-Windows 7 computer.
Thanks to EJ for the tip on the first two and to Robert B. for the third.
My Windows 7 Feature Focus series begins today, btw. Stay tuned…
The egnimatic company responsible for the RED One high definition digital "cinema" camera looks to leave the likes of Sony, Panasonic, Canon, and even Nikon running around looking for a clean pair of shorts.
I was excited when I got my first piggy bank. It was a traditional ceramic pig that you were supposed to fill with your childhood life savings and then smash it open to finance your first big purchase. Every time my mom would give me some change or I would find a coin on the sidewalk I would excitedly drop them into the slot on the pig’s back. After the novelty wore off I realized there was a lot of candy I was missing out on by feeding the pig all my coins. Then I discovered if I put a butter knife into the slot, turned the bank upside down and shook it, I could get the coins back out. I never saved up more than a few dollars worth after that.
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Think you can only develop for the iPhone on a Mac? Ars chats with an independent developer who has made public a free OS X/Windows hybrid framework that allows Windows developers to build iPhone applications in Visual Studio.
Via Todd Bishop comes the reminder that “Monday marked 25 years since the unveiling of Windows 1.0.” As Todd notes, it took another couple years before the product actually shipped. And of course even the most rabid fanboi has to admit that it was roughly seven years (Windows 3.0 in 1990) before Windows was really worth using on a daily basis.
I know I have shrink-wrapped boxes of Windows 3.1 here, but I am pretty sure the earlier versions long ago disappeared from my garage.
Anyway, Happy birthday, Windows
There's nothing quite like the rewriting of history and, in this case, the instant rewriting of alleged history.
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