This is a fun one. Recording a Poker night at my house with some mates. I do have a split screen version of this, (desktop & cam) but iMove doesn’t like the aspect ratio and won’t crop it properly, so for now it’s this, until I can find a decent video editor. (UPDATE: I worked out a way to do it, just used Quicktime Pro to make the vid, easy.)

I did a few days of web dev last week and on the Friday I recorded my desktop, and webcam as a timelapse using Gawker. I only just then found out that gawker canΒ  automatically combine both your sources and make a split screen video, oh well, next time eh. Anyhoo, here’s the vids. 1 cool thing to do is put one on mute and play them at the same time.

Not much more to say than the headline - the Australian iTunes store finally has TV downloads just like the USA and UK. There isn’t a whole lot of content up there right now, but I am sure it will grow. Episodes seem to be $2.99 ea - season prices vary from show to show. Some series are not complete and some just have the latest season.

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Coolies! Not heaps of really good content on there, a bit of South Park, my fav would be all scrubs episodes up to season 6.

The Menubar in Mac OS X can have some pretty handy apps added to it to make your day better. Here’s what I’ve got going on in my menubar:

Menuet - Control iTunes, display album art, fetch album art, scrobble to Last.fm.

Quicksilver - Must have, quicker searching, automate tasts, hotkeys for all.

FMenu - displays selected Facebook notifications.

Gmail Notifier - Show new Gmail mail.

Twitterific - for tweetin.

Caffeine - Stop backlight fading, sleeping and screensaver.

Menumeters - RAM pie chart, CPU meter, HD LEDs

Spaces - Displays current spaces desktop (just enable in the control panel)

You should know the rest.

Anyone got any other nice ones?

Since I bought the Xbox I’ve been sitting on a couch a whole lot, playing GTAIV, Uno and others, as well as watching movies streaming from a my PC to my TV, works great, all wirelessly (sucked it up and bought the AU$169 adapter). Before the Xbox I use to watch most of my TV shows and movies on my PC, along with gaming on the PC, was perfectly comfortable, in fact I seem to feel more confortable there than on the couch, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I’ve still usually got my laptop sitting next to me on the couch, so I’m not missing anything in terms of the casual browsing of the Internets, so what is it? I can only assume it’s due to the fact that I’ve spent soΒ  much time in front of the PC that I feel more at home with it. I’m also beginning to think that I get much more immersed in PC games than console games. headphones on, nice and close to the screen, it all seems more intense. Don’t get me wrong I’m loving GTAIV in front of the TV, but I’m wondering if I’d be enjoying it more if I was playing it at my computer desk. Maybe I should invest in a HDMI to DVI adapter and plug my Xbox into my PC monitor.

On another note, I’ve got a nice new widget in my sidebar that displays my Gamertag details, it’s simply called the Xbox 360 Gamercard Wordpress plugin. It doesn’t come as a widget, so I’m using another plugin to use it as a widget, that’s called the Custom Function Widget, nice!