<![CDATA[Comments from ollie]]> <![CDATA[Comments from ollie]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on How to Recover Deleted Files with Free Software]]> Immediately forwarding these tips to this girl Ellen. Apparently her PC went bleep-bleep-bleep and then half of her paper was gone. It devoured her paper. Poor kid.

PS: it was a really good paper.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Whatever Happened To These 7 Awesome Movie Projects?]]> Bla bla bla, but where's the David Fincher directed Logan's Run? (Apparently he is attached to that one since forever now).

Now that is classic sci-fi in badly need of a remake.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on What Do You Want to Hear from Apple Tomorrow?]]> On the iPhone front:

A new iPhone (black/red back) with a camera on the front for iChat calls that go through either wifi or 3G. Actually a bit slimmer (sort of beveled on top and bottom). With increased battery life. Only one model, 16gb, but very low price.

Then Apple announces iChat for Windows so everyone can be one happy iChat family, video-calling each other from their iPhones and computers.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on What's Scarier: The Newest Transformers, Or Ali Larter's Outfit In Heroes?]]> @Simpsons-Movie-ruled: And Pink Rooster FTW!!!!! (The Incredible Hulk clip)

I saw that cock in the end of the hulk video and thought: whoa, Fight Club.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on A Stoned Dude Names The Hulk (Clip)]]> You guys noticed a cock accidentally appears for a split-second in the frame at the end of this video, right?

How very Fight Club-ey.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Cool and Crap Awards of the Week]]> "If Neal Stephenson wrote a book about pocket lint it'd still somehow involve a helicopter."

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on The Triple-Jointed Assassin's Sexy Car Dance]]> Big NO to this new format. Why not write the whole thing in one single page but hide the individual items using javascript? Like those itemized lists you click the title and the content slides down.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Copy Music from Your iPhone or iPod to Your Computer for Free]]> Purdman, Songbird is not (!) from Mozilla (the creators of Firefox and Thunderbird). It's actually from a group called POTI, aka Pioneers of the Inevitable, most of them were formerly of Winamp, Yahoo Music and others.

Songbird is built on Mozilla's XULRunner platform, and that's probably where the confusion comes from.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Final Dollhouse Trailer Kicks 100 Percent More Ass]]> @Grey_Area: "No doubt Fox will probably put this on Friday 9pm, dopes."

Uh...

FOX PRIMETIME SCHEDULE: FALL 2008
(All Times ET/PT)

MONDAY
8:00-9:00 PM TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES
9:00-10:00 PM PRISON BREAK

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM HOUSE
9:00-10:00 PM FRINGE (...)

FOX PRIMETIME SCHEDULE: BEGINNING JANUARY 2009
(All Times ET/PT)

MONDAY
8:00-9:00 PM DOLLHOUSE
9:00-10:00 PM 24

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL
9:00-10:00 PM FRINGE

WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM HOUSE
9:00-9:30 PM AMERICAN IDOL Results Show
9:30-10:00 PM TBA Comedy (...)

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Worst Lobster Attack Sequence Ever]]> Hey, have some respect for the crustacean!
Remember, lobster sticks to magnet:
[www.i-am-bored.com]

Right claw south!

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Sex Secrets Of Hancock And Smallville's Clark Kent]]> @Log1c:

The house on Eureka is indeed called Sarah. But it's not an acronym. When it's first introduced, Fargo explains they were considering it for mass production and would feature the voice of Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar. (It's implied Fargo is a huge Buffy fan on Season 1). When the sheriff notices Sarah is actually Fargo impersonating SMG's voice, he replies nervously: we never actually closed that voice talent license deal.

Eureka is a guilty pleasure indeed.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Control and Grab Your Torrents From Anywhere with TorrentFlux]]> While TorrentFlux is great for a home server, I see absolutely no need to install LAMP and run an apache server in a desktop computer only to control a torrent application. Talk about overkill.

Besides the windows-only uTorrent, both Azureus and Deluge -- cross-platform Lin/Win/Mac -- have plugins for web interface control. I can vouch for the one on Azureus 2.5. It's very, very good. Fast, well-designed, allows you to pretty much do anything, including tweak the app's settings and speeds, download by url, via torrent file, and much more.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Gnarls Barkley To Raconteurs: Anything You Can Do We Can Do Better (Maybe)]]> I think it isn't the leaks themselves that dictate release schedule changes, but rather the reactions to leaks. If it's well received and generates a lot of blogobuzz, they keep things unchanged and let hype/word-of-mouth grow for a while, so they can later milk it. It's all about those first-week sales.

If the reaction however is somewhat lukewarm, putting it on the shelves (virtual and otherwise) quickly is better. A bizarre flawed strategy to be sure, but I've seen it time and again and it's par with the level of marketing genius we've come to expect from record companies.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES]]> Mr. Denton, why do these people still have a job?

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on BitTerrorists In "Taking Their God-Given Right To Free Music A Bit Too Seriously" Shocker]]> Slow news day, yet again?!

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Are Those Leaked Albums You Downloaded Really By Who They Claim To Be By?]]> I hope at the end of this "experiment" they release the google adsense numbers to everybody else. You know, so we can see how much money is there to be made out of coming up with blogs/sites with shocking! news! blogosphere going crazy! Idolator 60pt. headline!

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Which Scifi Drug Do You Wish You Could Take?]]> I'd go with the Accela pill, from Serial Experiments Lain. A nano-mechanical device that acts like a drug in the body, emitting a frequency that induces your brain to produce a certain hormone which then makes your mind move closer to the speed of the Wired.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on The Old Music Industry Is Dead: Apple Launching Record Label With Jay-Z]]> "Jay-Z and Jobs are both brilliant businessmen (...)"

Jay-Z is not just a businessman, he's a business... man.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Create Quick-Kill Shortcuts for Runaway Applications]]> If you're in linux and don't want to find processIDs or open the command line, the quickest kill would be to run xkill (ALT+F2, xkill, enter). Your mouse pointer will turn into either a skull or a large X, click any open window (of the app you want to kill) and you got an instant kill, presto.

Oh, and a right-click will get you out of xkill without killing anything.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Spice Up Your Desktop with Time-Lapsing Wallpaper]]> @Will

If you are in Ubuntu, or any gnome-based Linux, you can make it yourself.

1) Open a terminal and create a wallpaper command: sudo gedit /bin/wallpaper

2) Paste this [ollie.com.br] inside the file, edit the line that points to your images, and save it.
3) Now, make it executable: sudo chmod a+x /bin/wallpaper
4) There, now you have a command (wallpaper) that will change your desktop background to a random image on the directory you chose. Try running 'wallpaper' on the terminal.
5) You can also go and set a keystroke to run /bin/wallpaper so you have an instant desktop change, or you can set it to change at a certain time/interval using crontab
6) At the prompt: EDITOR="gedit" crontab -e
7) For instance, To set it for auto-change every 3-hour (12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00) on the hour, put: 0 */3 * * * /bin/wallpaper
And save the file.

Cheers.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Try Out openSUSE on a Live CD]]> In one of my hands is a can labeled "worms"; in the other, a can opener. Oh joy.

openSUSE linux is a community distribution sponsored by Novell. It's also a test ground for new technologies that eventually upstream to their commercial SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition.

Novell recently struck a much publicized deal with Microsoft in order to share interoperability and provide "patent protection" for SUSE users, further validating Microsoft's baseless claims that linux distributions breaches their IP and they (and their users) are therefore liable.

Before considering becoming openSUSE users, you should keep that in mind and ask yourself if that is a community and sponsor company you'd like to support.

There are many other community-driven and commercial linux distributions that don't pay the bully. To name a few: Fedora, Mandriva One, Debian, Knoppix, and the ubiquitous (for a reason) Ubuntu.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on A Look at Amazon MP3]]> International music lovers and those with tastes leaning towards a little more indie material should try Bleep.com -- they offer DRM free downloads for a surprising number of independent labels as both high quality MP3 and lossless FLAC.

Also, they offer the nifty feature of full length previews of any song in the store (you have to re-start playing at 30 seconds intervals), and you can navigate and check different parts of the track.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Read comic books on your computer with ComicRack and FFView]]> These files, cbr/cbz are just renamed rar/zip files. Once you extract them, you can view the files in any jpeg previewer. That however defeats the purpose of those files, which is to have the images organized in neatly packed "book" files. Linux users: the default pdf preview app for the Gnome enviroment, Evince, reads cbr and cbz files out of the box. It displays them just like a pdf file, each image inside the respective zip/rar being treated as a page. Still, Comix (available in most repositories: sudo aptitude install comix) is a lot more full featured for displaying cbr/cbz comics in my opinion.

]]> <![CDATA[ollie commented on Integrate your iPod and iTunes with Last.fm]]> For people on the linux world, if you use Amarok there's a built-in option on the settings (devices tab) that allows you to send your iPod usage to last.fm as well.

It would download play stats everytime you connect your iPod in Amarok, and submit them to last.fm the next time you play a song in the player.

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