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In honor of Microsoft Windows Vista being released today (and all the hype that goes along with it), I wanted to show everyone a feature that really works spectacularly well – the voice recognition system. I don’t see many places talking up this feature, and I DO have to give it further testing, but so [...]

[MYPLAYLIST=0] OK. So Jim Scooped me again . . . but Word Tube has some exciting potential. I re-purposed the famous reaction shot. WordTube Info here.

I’ll reserve judgment until I actually experience it, but this announcement by Netflix has me pretty excited. It basically allows you to download stream a movie “instantly” from the Netflix website, and watch it on your computer. In my case it can be my Media Center computer. It looks like it’s Internet Explorer only, which [...]

So it turns out that Demetri Martin, who I know from The Daily Show and who appeared in Microsoft’s Soapbox video sharing site, is doing a whole series of videos for Microsoft called Clearification. You can tell after a few videos where this thing is going – how Windows Vista is going to change your [...]

Kodak – “They’re going to turn the schmaltz back up to 11″ How’s that for a tag line. This is one of those internal company videos that got released to the public, ala the “Microsoft Designs the iPod Package” and it’s gone viral. You know what they say, you can’t fix the problem until you [...]

Happy 2007! To celebrate, I did an HD screen grab of the Tournament of Roses Parade on the Discovery HD channel. Live HD parade coverage on the Pioneer PDP5070HD Plasma, and what is my son doing? Playing video games. Well, Happy New Year to all.