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iRig coming soon to shredders…

JoeVaughn — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:54:46 +0000

The iPhone now gets a little friend. Well actually a big friend but they are well paired thanks to the AmpliTube iRig. Its a software and hardware connection that enables electric guitars or bass’ into the iPhone, or iTouch. This little app lets you tweak your axes on the go. Such as a tour bus, when your not snorting illegal narcotics off the back sides of “groupies”. It comes with a plethora of effects, and amps – up to 10 stomps, 5 amps, 5 cabinets and 2 microphones. There also is an additional headphone jack so you don’t wake up your “old roommates”. Its pre-order right now for $39.99 check ikmultimedia.com for release dates.

So Long Mac Ads…

JoeVaughn — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:24:50 +0000

Its become a sad day here at mlgnn.com. As rumored apparently per Justin Long “the Mac” in the Mac ads, they are coming to an end. The 30 second TV ads were popular in 2006 when they first launched in the MAC vs PC war. Justin is quoted as saying,”You know, I think they might be done. In fact, I heard from John, I think they’re going to move on. I can’t say definitively, which is sad, because not only am I going to miss doing them, but also working with John.”

The ads have received a number of awards, and have also pissed off a number of Windows users (who probably like Star Trek as well). The ads stared Justin Long as the MAC and John Hodgman as the PC. There are currently 66 televisions commercials so far. I can only hope maybe they’ll so a farewell commercial. If you use a PC or Mac these commercial are hilarious even if they are a bit inaccurate. So long John, and Justin. You will be missed…

Oh PC...

Google Says F’ Apple! Flash is Back

JoeVaughn — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:49:13 +0000

What about Adobe? That’s what people who like flash videos, and games are screaming at Apple. Apple is openly non-supportive of any Flash types online, and feel that’s its a “dying” technology as Steve Jobs stated earlier this year. Company’s have been scrambling to conform to Apples strict standards and not using this dying technology. Videos are being re-formatted, advertisements are re-coded, and everyone’s waiting to see the iPad (that’s what all this craziness is for). The HTML5 community has been trying to get a piece of the action and I think we’ll be seeing more via Apple. However a little bug has pop its head up and yelled HEY!. That bug is called Google.

Google’s Chrome OS with not only support flash its built in. There is no need to update as its an intricate part of the platform. Google believes that Flash is a living technology and will continue to grow, and see’s no reason to kill it now. I wonder if that’s why Job and Schmidt had lunch to compare note on how there going to not have a monopoly and still dominate the industry (secretly). Steve Ballmer would have showed up but he was busy running around the block yelling about Microsoft. We’ll see how this plays out. It’s going to become a friendly version of Google vs Apple.

AT&T MicroCell

JoeVaughn — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:16:31 +0000

So AT&T has released a boost for your mobile service. Why you might ask? Shouldn’t ATT be giving you better service for what you pay? The logical answer is yes, however ATT’s answer is well, NO. Why would they give a better service to their paying customers. The ATT answer= we can charge them. Ladies and germs, may I present the AT&T MicroCell. The MicroCell is a little cell tower for your home or office. It amplifies the the cellular signal inside of you office, or home, or shack. ATT is charging $150.00 for this service enhancement and no monthly fees.

The ATT femotcell (mini cell tower) connects to your broadband connection, and amplifies the cellular signal. The MicroCell can handle up to ten phone hooked up to it, and 4 can be synced in to use it as once. Just came out, so the jury is out while we wait to hear the reliability. However if I lived in NY of SF I would have be sleeping out side ATT for a week to pick this MicroCell up. Or just pay a hooker to sleep in the line, and hold my spot.

FireHack Screen Tilt

JoeVaughn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:05:12 +0000

So Firefox, has been pretty busy with it own hacks with version 3.6/3.7. One of the newest hacks is a tilt hack API code for the web browser. If the machine has machine orientation information available, it will utilize it. What does this mean. It means if you tilt your laptop, and the machine has the capability, the website on the screen will tilt as well. This is normally reserved to laptop just because of there portability, and capability to be picked up, but a modded PC would be able to do this as well.

Using the API is very simple. All you have to do is add a simple event listener:

window.addEventListener(“MozOrientation”, function(e) {
/* 3 values: e.x, e.y, e.z */
}, true);

This was originally built to be used on mobile phones, but they ported the code to laptops, and it worked there too.
They have added support for Macs, and PC, also Linux run systems as well, so no one is in the dark with this little gem.

3 Short Articles.

JoeVaughn — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:24:18 +0000

Eve Online Robbed

So in an unexpected move yesterday a bank was robbed. How horrible that people lost all there money. Plus the FDIC did not insure the bank so this makes this even more horrific for the people involved. However this bank was virtual, along with the money. So there was a virtual heist. The guy “Ricdic” who was in control of the bank on EVE Online traded $1.2 million of fake money ISK (the fake currency) for $5,000 bucks real life cash. He used the money to pay off debts. Would you trust a banker with the word dic after his first name? I wouldn’t. I say put fake money into a fake account, and it gets fake stolen, deal with it. I never did trust that little creep from Monopoly. That’s why I keep all my Monopoly money in a safe deposit box, cause anybody with a monocle cannot be trusted. Goes for Mr. Peanut too.

Found: One mysterious iPhone
There’s a prototype 16gig iPhone 3Gs on eBay right now. It was found at an airport and it can’t be restored. An Apple Genius has looked over the phone, and did confirm it is an apple product however it was never registered in the apple database, as every product should be. The serial number apparently never made that list. It’s going for $365.00 right now on eBay. Who knows maybe its open source or even more in tune with reality plays FLASH!, which in any case would make the phone priceless . I’ll keep you posted if anything comes of this iPhone.

Lower Prices or make your own damn games
Another company jumped on Sony’s back to lower the prices of the PS3. This time it’s Tecmo Koei. Activision has already threatened to pull development for future PS3 games if the price does not drop, and Tecmo is “maybe” thinking the same thing. They are just suggesting they would like the prices to lower. These developers are not necessarily losing money, but they’re not making as much money as they are with Xbox360. I think it’s about time somebody spoke up too Sony about their outrageous prices. Also to add my cons against Sony they killed the Hulu ability of the PS3, that’s a whole other rant. However I think this is just a big ploy by Sony to make everyone happy and they’ll lower the prices in time for Christmas so they’ll be a hot seller. They move all digital crack with dust building it up on it.

Why the three articles? I’m extremely busy this 3 day weekend. So hopefully this will keep you over till I can clear more time to write a longer post.

Hottest Girls Just got Hottest(er)…

JoeVaughn — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:09:35 +0000

Update: Not available on the App Store as of now. Apparently its too adult for the iPhone. Not for me!

So now there is “porn” on the iPhone thanks to Allen Leung. Well its not exactly porn, more like topless pictures of females. The developer of Hottest Girls uploaded the pictures because Apple now lets you decide if you want adult content from the app store. Perhaps Job’s little hospital stint left him feeling a bit lonely after staring at his nurses all day. I say it’s a small step in the right direction. The iPhone 3.0 lets you filter out “adult” content, with its parental option. This is just a small step of what people can and can not view on the iPhone. I’m still waiting for open source, but I’m not holding my breath and I’ll even settle for Flash.

Being an iPhone user I’m extremely happy this has taken place. It’s my belief that no one should be censored and this important step in the Apple community. This does come with a +17 rating, but some people need to be warned. Which is fair. Ok, Ok. Now for the pictures. These are censored, I don’t need any mom’s of the little MLG’s yelling at me because I don’t know how to code a you must be +17 to view this post. Before the e-mails come in I know you could look at adult sites, or upload pictures to your iPhone, or save them on the phone. This is just about the first application to say “Hey I have daddy issue’s and Apple says its cool”. Ok, now let them roll in.

These are screen shots from my iPhone.

The Tron Guy loses…

JoeVaughn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:24:56 +0000

It’s a sad day when a your lose a game. It’s an even sadder day when you gotta sell your plane. That’s right folks, the Tron Guy has to sell his customized airplane or a we call it around here his pimp out tron plane dubbed “Sark Sailor”. It seems that Jay Maynard has been hit with a touch economic decision. To fly or ride. Tron Guy spent $140,000 (two-seater sport plane, a 2008 AMD Zodiac XLion) on the plane and had customized it with a white and blue paint just (to match his suit). Also he had the interior done to match the outside and him. Sadly he didn’t have enough money for a Super Lightcycle after the purchase. While Tron Guy has made some money from his appearances apparently they haven’t been enough to keep his plane in the sky.

Tron Guy has made a big dent on the internet. Like the lady who spells words while your forced to stare at her mammary glands, but being a computer analyst and web celebrity just doesn’t pay the plane bills like it use too. While Tron Guy has made some money from his appearances apparently they haven’t been enough to keep his plane in the sky. Jay will be auctioning off his plane on ebay coming up. While its sad to see a middle aged man in a spandex outfit, it’s even sadder to see a person lose something they love because of the economic times. We here at MLGNN salute Tron Guy for living the dream. In related news Tron Guy dreams he is killed on his LightCycle and loses the game. I just wonder what he’s smuggling under that huge cup? Probably just a bruised ego…

If by some chance you’ve never heard of the Tron Guy here’ a quick video of him. He’s a PC, perhaps if he was a Mac he could have of have kept his plane..

Click here to view the embedded video.

iPhone 3G S (S is for sold out)

JoeVaughn — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:44:48 +0000

Well I am happy and sad to report that the pre-order for the Apple iPhone 3G S is sold out. So if you were looking to avoid the lines, your a tad bit late. Even if you can find a place to do a pre-order there is a minimum of a 2 week wait. If you were looking to skip the camp out and digital file transfers then you’ll have to wait like everyone else who didn’t pre-order on time.

The AT&T customers who have placed there pre-orders in, still have to show up at the stores at 7a, to grab their phone. There pre-orders are kind of like line savers. So their covered but where does that leave you. We’ll if you like me, just playing with your iPhone 3G for an extra couple of weeks. I suspect that if you haven’t pre-ordered yet, theres probaly a reason, and you should know that the iPhone craze has happened twice already. So this shouldn’t be a shock about wait times. At least to those reading this. .. Viva la Apple.

Cool-er is the Coolest…

JoeVaughn — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:47:17 +0000

You maybe be thinking “I should read more” or “I really should get off this page and meet a real live girl/boy “, for the rest of us thinking “I don’t know which e-book reader to buy” this may be the solution your looking for. Now I love the feel of a book, almost obsessively. However with taking books here and there they get destroyed. So an e-book reader may be in my future. However which one should I buy. I already have an iPhone. I find the screen to small for adecuate reading, and if i enlarge the text in turning the page every nano second. The Kindle is just too damn expensive for my tastes. This is where the Interead’s Cool-er comes into play. At about 100 bones less than Kindle, and boasting a more open to accepting different file fomats, and 8 differerent colors. I feel they may give Amazon a run for the money.

The Cool-er is lighter, has a book store you connect too, and has the same screen size as the Kindle 2. Cool-er beats the kindle in memory space with an SD slot, and a replaceable battery for a whopping 5 dollars. This might be the e-reader of the future.