Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Ringtones!

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Anthony Thompson
on July 31, 2008
in Apple, Cell Phones, Interesting, Music and Tips/Tricks
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So, I helped Mike with getting new ringtones for his iPhone 3G without paying the ridiculous $2 per tone.  Well, the system I showed him works just fine, but only for the Mac.  I found an easier way that as far as I can tell works.  Unfortunately, I don’t have an iPhone 3G (yet) to test this, so I’m going to show you guys the video and have you guys tell me whether or not it works.

When I followed this procedure, sure enough, I have a 30 second snippet of a Bad Religion song in my Ringtones list.  I did this on iTunes 7.7.1, but like I said, I don’t have an iPhone to put the ringtone on to, so try it out and tell me if it works for you.

Now, I’m going to try to edit a song down with Audacity and see if it works that way too.  Hold on a sec.

Yeah, I did it.  Turns out though, that Audacity won’t output to AAC, so I exported the clip in MP3.  Generally, I export the audio as the same filetype and bitrate as it was imported.  Then I used dBpoweramp Music Converter to convert it to AAC and changed the filename to m4r.  Maybe the video’s method is a bit easier, but I like to have a lot of control over my ringtones.

Good luck and let me know how it goes.

Back from Vacation

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Anthony Thompson
on July 29, 2008
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Lexy and I just got back from Gulf Shores, Alabama.  We stayed in a very nice house right on the beach. I got really sunburned the first day on the beach. There was some very harrowing adventures with the van we took down there. In fact, that van is still in Jackson, Mississippi.  Overall, the experience was a lot of fun. There was some tension, but a lot of it was misunderstandings and being tired.

Really, the thing I wanted to blog was this:

A zombie for your garden.  Isn’t that the most epic and cool thing ever? I mean, I think Mike’s Sasquatch is cool, but a zombie tops that hands down.  Interested in getting a Garden Zombie? I know I am, but it is a bit pricey. It looks like Toscano has some really cool stuff.

A whole lot of TV… in the new

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Anthony Thompson
on July 6, 2008
in Interesting, Media, Movies, Technology and Television
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Recently, I’ve been watching a lot of TV shows.  Shows like 30 Rock, Eureka, The Office.  A whole heaping helping of shows that I’ve been told are good, but just haven’t watched for one reason or another.

Turns out that I really like them.  So, I decided that instead of watching them on a TV or getting the DVDs from Netflix, I would just watch them on my HTPC.  The first three seasons of The Office, I watched on Netflix’s Instant Player and the fourth, I watched on Hulu.com.  The first season of 30 Rock, I watched on Netflix and bought and downloaded the second season from Amazon Unbox.  I got the first season of Eureka from Amazon Unbox and am working on it as I type.

So, how many of you are slowly or even quickly moving to an Internet-based television experience?

If you could pay $2 per episode for all of the shows that you watch on a regular basis, would it be more expensive or cheaper than what you are paying now for cable or satellite service?  What would you think about a system like that?  Would HD be a must?  Should HD content be more expensive or the same?

Personally, I would love a system like that and I think that it would be less expensive than what we are paying now for satellite, but truthishly, I haven’t crunched the numbers.  I think that HD content should be the same price as standard def content.  Nowadays, every major TV show is shot in HD and then conformed to the old SD standards, so there isn’t any extra work needed to produce HD.  I think there is just this feeling of “privilege” that is surrounding and staining the true, blu potential of HD content.

Yep, that missing ‘e’ was intentional.  That’s for you, Kody.  ;)

It’s been a long time

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Anthony Thompson
on July 4, 2008
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Finally, Lexy and I are on our own.  We have our own place in Lee’s Summit, MO.  We have all the essentials set up: TV, internet, and video game consoles.  Our internet is via AT&T’s 3Mbps DSL service.  We don’t have to have a landline and it’s only $30 a month.  I’m kinda digging that.

We have not at all unpacked.

My new job is not that bad.  Working and selling for Apple is fairly easy.

I also get to go to Gulf Shores, Alabama for vacation.  I’m sure it will be a lot of fun.

I want to thank all of you who helped us move.

Here is the short that won us the One Night Stand 10 hour film competition: