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Friday, June 16, 2006

Notice
This blog contains material known to the State of California to be awesome.

Fixing That
televisionarie: you haven't updated your blog in a week
Michael Wyszomierski: well i guess i should fix that

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Ratatouille
Summer 2007 from Pixar: Ratatouille. Check out the trailer.

A mouse stealing food isn't exactly a new idea for the cartoon world, but I'm sure Pixar will make it amazing as usual. I plan on seeing Cars tonight after my sister's graduation. Congrats in advance, Julie.

Check out the Cars soundtrack on iTunes.

Name
As a Wyszomierski, I am used to hearing some creative pronunciations as well as seeing unique spellings of my last name. Today, our tree service left an invoice (or maybe an estimate) for Wisnersky. I could get used to that.

Sunday, June 04, 2006

MacPlumber
The MacPlumber emailed me asking for a link to his blog, which provides useful tips and info for Mac users. It looks good to me, so here's the link for all you Mac users out there.

In other news, I'm importing the audio tracks from Sonic CD into my iTunes library. And yes, the tracks were already listed on CDDB. You kids know how that thing works? It looks at the length of the CD and then the lengths of the individual tracks to figure out what's in your computer. Pretty cool.

Saturday, June 03, 2006

MS Office and PDF
In tech news right now, Adobe and Microsoft can't agree on how to offer PDF export in Office and Vista. Microsoft wants it to be a free feature, while Adobe wants it to be a paid option. I'm not sure why this is the case, but right now Mac users are stuck with having to choose from these options in every application, including Office for Mac:
screenshot of PDF export menu with options for saving, faxing, encrypting, and mailing PDF documents

And somehow we manage to get by.

Finally caught up with 2005
Yesterday I finally opened my last unread Christmas card from 2005. Amazing what you find while cleaning your desk.

This entry is kinda boring. I'm gonna get some sleep.

Friday, June 02, 2006

New Podcast Episode
It's been a while since I talked about my podcast in the blog. I have a new episode out today, so take a listen if you'd like. I used my TRV-900 instead of my iSight, so the quality should be a little better. Now that I think about it I should have taken full advantage of the equipment and worn my lav, but I'm not sure where it is right now as I'm in the middle of cleaning out my room. Maybe next time, whenever that will be.

If you need a link to the podcast feed, everything you need is on my podcast page.

Remote
I was watching TV last night and I couldn't find the TiVo remote. I watched an entire episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation with commercials. As you would expect, I spent each commercial break frantically ripping apart the couch, but I still didn't find the remote. I'll have to ask my family about it at dinner.

What time is it? DVTime! (Studios)
Ok so umm DVTime Studios is pretty awesome. I'm not gonna say why I'm writing this, but yeah, they're cool.

And full disclosure: they're my employer.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

SightSpeed
I use my iSight with iChat pretty often, and I relied on it while I was in school to talk to my family since every year my room was inevitably in a location with poor cell phone reception. But for some reason, due to network configurations that I'm not willing to figure out, it doesn't work for everyone. Usually I just talk to these people on Skype, but so far that means no video chat for Mac users.

Well, Evan has found a pretty cool solution: SightSpeed. It works with Mac and Windows, and 1-to-1 video chats are free. We tested it out and it works Mac-to-Mac, and Evan said it works just as well in a Mac-to-PC connection. So if you've been looking for an alternative, there you go.

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