iPhone Tetris from enochlai on Vimeo.

Super Monkey Ball on iPhone from enochlai on Vimeo.

I recently tried out this new firefox plugin called PicLens that allows you to do immersive 3D media browsing on websites such as Flickr and Youtube. It really lets you scroll through a large volume of media, really quickly. I’ve found it to be the best way of viewing all your contacts photos on Flickr in a really efficient and elegant manner. Try it out at, http://www.piclens.com/.

I just thought of a random idea for a new iPhone Nike+ application. Without adding any existing hardware, they can make a Nike+ Ride application for Bicyclists. When you run the application, it would track your distance and speed via GPS data over time and graph it just like Nike+ Run. Get on this Nike.

In addition to announcing the new 3G iPhone, Apple announce an upgrade to .Mac which they’re now calling “Mobile Me.” I’m actually seriously considering purchasing the service and forwarding all my email addresses to it. Right now I have 5 different email address that I check. I could consolidate it down to 2 with Mobile Me with just a work exchange account and then have all my other personal addresses forward to enoch@me.com. The only downside would be having to pay another annual fee, but I feel the service just might be worth it.

I’ve been looking around for a good HD video hosting site ever since I got my TZ5. There were some places that were charging extra in order to use their HD video service but most sites didn’t even support HD yet. Flickr’s video is pretty decent quality but the 90 second limit is a bit restrictive. Finally, today, I rediscovered Vimeo. I had used it a few years ago when it first came out but had forgotten about it since. They’re offering the HD video service free. I’ve uploaded my Snow Boarding video to test it out. So far so good. One of the best features they have is that they allow you to download the original source of the video if you want. So I uploaded the original as a 28 MB Quicktime movie file which u can download via a button on the bottom of the video page. The only problem is their servers are getting pounded now so it takes a few hours for them to process your video. If anyone else out there has a camera/camcorder capable of HD video, try it out!

I signed up for Justin.tv a while back. It started out as a proof of concept website where a guy named Justin would wear a mobile webcam on himself 24/7. People would watch him and talk in a chat room while watching. They opened it up a while back to users to stream their own webcams onto the website as “channels.” Now you can view a bunch of other people’s live webcams. I’m going to test this out for a bit and see how I like it.

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Originally uploaded by Si1very.

Google maps just released a new feature called “My Maps.” It lets you customize a map and save it. So I created one for fun called, “Places I’ve lived.” This map shows all the places I’ve lived and the years that I lived there. Check it out.

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Originally uploaded by speedye.

A new 8 core Mac Pro came out this morning. Since a lot of people ask me for advice about when to buy a Mac, I found this site to be very useful. It has the previous release dates of all the Apple hardware products and whether or not it is a favorable time to buy that product. It also has data on average days between new product releases. I’m looking to upgrade my Macbook Pro and according to the site, it’s been 162 days since the last Macbook Pro update and 182 day average between updates. Hopefully they’ll release one 20 days from now ;).

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Originally uploaded by speedye.

So The Reading Center had 4 laptops of which they thought were broker and they asked me to confirm it. Turns out that one of the powerbooks they asked me to check had a bad display and another powerbook had a bad logic board. Since they were both out of warranty, I got permission to swap the displays. It was a pretty easy process except for the fact that the airport card antennae cord wouldn’t reach to the airport card. This is the picture of the bad display and the bad logic board.