The iPhone gets released on Friday, and even though I’ve paid the deposit, I don’t have heaps of confidence in getting one on the release day. A little bird recently told me that Optus and Vodafone both have 4000 units each. And Telstra only got 1000, due to them jumping on the bandwagon a bit too late. it’s going to be a long, long day. Quickest possible, Optus contracts take about 15 minutes.

My only real advantage is that I live in a regional area, with a local store that will have stock on the day, they may have less stock, but they should have less people waiting.

My Windows box was having trouble recently, automatic updates was detected as off by the security center, but it was apparently on… but it wasn’t, and also file sharing buggered up, access denied for everyone. I’m not sure whether it was spyware, or some sort of corrupt Windows update, anyway I did the regular spyware / virus scan, it found a couple of things, nothing too out of the ordinary. The only thing I needed to do was do a whole bunch of Googling to see who else had the issue. Quite a few had the Auto updates problem, so I started with that. I found a fix for it, which also fixed the file sharing problem, happy days! I found the fix right here, but here’s the basics:

Might or might not work -

Register the file wuaueng.dll:
Click Start, select Run
Type: regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
Press OK.

Pretty straight forward, worked like a charm!

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.