Reality Bites
Frequent Facebook users get a handful of emails from the social networking service every day alerting them of new comments, but replying to these comments always required clicking over to Facebook—until now. Facebook users can now respond directly to comments via email. Handy—especially for folks whose workplaces block the 'book. [Facebook Blog]
It’s frustrating to not be able to get your DVDs onto your portable devices or media server. Last week we looked at the best tools for ripping your DVD collection and we’re back to announce the winner.
Handbrake led by a healthy margin and took home 34% of the vote and with good reason. It’s free, cross-platform, and has grown easier to use with each new release. Following Handbrake was DVD Shrink">DVD Shrink (23%) and DVD Fab">DVD Fab (15%). Rounding out the Hive Five was AnyDVD (11%) and DVD Decrypter (13%). It’s worth noting that as awesome as Handbrake is, it doesn’t include any tools for actually circumventing DVD encryption, so you’ll need to pair it with one of the other solutions in the Hive Five. Check out the full Hive for additional information about each contender.
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By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
Succinctly stated: You pay more.
Apple has a reputation for charging more for most everything, while often delivering less than competitors. Any Windows PC-to-Mac laptop pricing comparison is example enough. The Windows computer typically comes with higher-resolution display, more system memory and beefier storage than comparatively-priced Mac portable.
However, iTunes store has long been the exception to Apple higher pricing. Right from its Spring 2003 opening, iTunes store offered affordable singles and albums — hey, who could complain about 99 cents or $9.99, respectively? But recently, iTunes pricing has gotten wicked crazy, following last year’s institution of variable pricing. I got to taste the insanity early this afternoon, when finding a new album selling for about 8 bucks more for the iTunes digital download than the CD sold by Amazon.
What the frak?
Is It Rain or Shine?
It’s New Music Tuesday, when I rush online to survey the releases. O.A.R. has a new live album, “Rain or Shine,” which immediately caught my attention. But my enthusiasm skidded to a halt when looking at the iTunes price: $24.99. Yeah, there are 37 tracks, but 25 bucks — or $1.29 per track? At the per-track price, the album would cost more than $49. For the full album, per-track price savings, someone else might bow before the great Apple god in gratitude. I’m an ingrate. I looked to AmazonMP3 for a better price — and couldn’t find it. Amazon’s digital download store doesn’t list the album. But the retailer carries the CD, with all 37 songs for $16.99. That’s 5 bucks off the list price, which is still less than what iTunes charges.
Apple isn’t just charging more, it’s doing so for a comparatively inferior product. Music fans can argue the merits of AmazonMP3’s 256kbps MP3 encoding compared to Apple’s 256kbps AAC. But there’s no argument about lossless, uncompressed Compact Disc Digital Audio format and its 1,411kbps bitrate.
I’ve known for sometime that iTunes charges more than AmazonMP3 for many albums or singles, but this was my first encounter with pricing substantially above a CD. In April 2009, when Apple instituted variable pricing, I blogged: “What Apple Variable Pricing Means to You.” I did numerous pay-more comparisons between AmazonMP3 and iTunes stores. Apple pay-more pricing was already in effect for most newer or popular tracks.
I wondered if perhaps “Rain or Shine” is a fluke, which is how I came to write this post. The first question: Does Amazon offer the album for substantially less than other retailers? Answer: No. F.Y.E. lists “Rain or Shine” for $14.99, but store club members only pay $13.49. Holy Heck, Batman, not only does the music retailer charge $2 to $3.50 less than Amazon, but $10 to $11.50 less than iTunes!
Apple’s Pay-More Pricing
What about other albums? Black Eyed Peas’ “The E.N.D.” is $10.99 from iTunes. Amazon sells the CD for $9.49. However, CD buyers get a $3 AmazonMP3 store song credit, effectively lowering the price to $6.49. Whoa, Amazon’s digital download version of “The E.N.D.” is only $5.99, or four bucks less than iTunes. Apple charges $1.29 for each individual track, compared to 99 cents each from AmazonMP3.
![O.A.R. "Rain or Shine"](http://images.betanews.com/media/4404.png "O.A.R. "Rain or Shine"")
Deluxe version of Lady GaGa’s “The Fame Monster” costs $13.99 at iTunes for 24 tracks. Amazon charges $14.99 for the 22-track CD or $11.99 for the digital download album. So iTunes is the sweeter deal, right? Maybe not. People buying the CD get a $3 credit for AmazonMP3 store, effectively reducing cost of “Fame Monster” to $11.99 — two bucks and two tracks less than iTunes. Another cost difference: iTunes again charges $1.29 for each individually purchased track from “Fame Monster,” and the two additional tracks are only available with the album purchase. By comparison, AmazonMP3 charges 99 cents a track.
Owl City album “Ocean Eyes” is $9.99 from iTunes with two additional tracks available only with the album version. Amazon charges the same price for the 12-track CD, but the $3 AmazonMP3 store credit effectively reduces the price to $6.99. However, AmazonMP3 charges even less, only 6 bucks for digital download version of “Ocean Eyes.” Once again, Apple charges a buck twenty-nine for individual tracks compared to AmazonMP3’s more appealing 99 cents.
Apple’s music pricing isn’t all bad. Ke$ha’s “Animal” is $6.99 from iTunes or AmazonMP3, and both digital download stores charge $1.29 for each individual track. Amazon sells the CD for $7.99. However, Amazon offers $3 digital download credit for “Animal,” effectively lowering the price to $4.99.
Pay More, Pay Less
![Black Eyed Peas "The E.N.D."](http://images.betanews.com/media/4405.jpg "Black Eyed Peas "The E.N.D."")
I’ve long observed that Apple justifies charging more by offering a little more — and sometimes less than competing stores. It’s Marketing 101 stuff. For example, OneRepublic’s “Waking Up (Deluxe Version)” is $12.99 from iTunes for 15 tracks (the standard album has 11 songs). Amazon and F.Y.E. don’t offer this version of the CD, which Amazon partners sell for $17.99 or more. So, iTunes is the cheaper option. However, Amazon sells the “Waking Up” non-deluxe CD for $7.99, or $2 less than iTunes. Once again, Amazon’s $3 song credit applies, effectively reducing the album’s cost to $4.99. Amazon’s digital download version costs $5, with 12th track “Mercy,” which isn’t available from iTunes. Once again, Apple charges $1.29 for each individual track and Amazon just 99 cents. So the standard album or singles cost more from iTunes.
In comments, someone is sure to assert that Amazon tax and shipping raises CD-to-digital download pricing in Apple’s favor. Amazon doesn’t charge tax in most states and offers a free 3-to-5 day shipping option. However, Amazon’s Prime service, which costs $79 a year, provides free two-day shipping or one-day shipping for an extra $3.99 per item. Prime can be shared with four separate accounts, so if you’ve got roomies or family members the annual fee is effectively less. I love Prime.
There’s no point paying Apple more when there are cheaper alternatives. I regularly buy songs from iTunes store, but typically find better prices — and more aggressive daily deals — from AmazonMP3. But following today’s surprising cost comparison for “Rain or Shine,” I’ll consider more CDs compared to digital albums, particularly those sold by iTunes. I ordered the new O.A.R. CD from Amazon while writing this post but before checking F.Y.E. pricing. Even $16.99 was too much to pay, although that $3 credit helps soften the extra paid to Amazon over F.Y.E.
Should you pay more?
The Google Wave Preview has been available to one million+ people for over three months now, but questions about Wave still abound, even by the early adopters who have gotten in and taken it for a test drive.
After publishing a book on everything I know about Wave, I still get many of the same questions I heard back when I started. Even folks usually bullish about new technology still don’t understand what they can use Wave for, how to sell it to their friends and co-workers so they have someone to use it with, and how to fit it into their workday.
As much as I’d love it if everyone bought a copy of my book for every person they invite to Wave, reading 102 pages just to “get” a product is ridiculous. So, I’ve compiled some of the most frequently asked questions I’ve gotten about Wave and my best (and briefest) answers for them right here in quick-fire format.
Step inside to hear a two-word definition of Wave, what it’s useful for, why you’d choose it over similar products, and how to do the things in Wave that most often trip up new users.
Q: How do you describe what Google Wave is in the fewest words possible?
A: Two words: Google Wave is multimedia wikichat.
Ok, I cheated a little. Wikichat is my made-up word for the combination of document collaboration (wikis) and messaging (chat). Imagine a Wikipedia page that only your workgroup can access and that multiple people can change simultaneously, with live, inline chat embedded in it and the ability to add online multimedia like an image slideshow, videos, maps, polls, a Sudoku game, video conference call, and other interactive widgets. See it? That’s Wave.
Q: Why would I use Wave instead of email?
A: You'd use Wave instead of email because you can have real-time, IM-like conversations inside it, and cut out the lag time of asynchronous email communication—you know, when you send an email and have to wait for your recipients to read, reply, and send one back. In Wave, if your recipient is online, you don't have to wait. In fact, your recipient can start typing before you stop. It's wacky.
Q: Then why would I use Wave instead of IM?
A: You’d use Wave instead of instant messenger because you can edit the same text, images, captions as someone else is at the same time. During an instant messenger conversation you pass back and forth a series of single-author, uneditable messages. In Wave, anyone can edit any message (or blip, in Wave-speak). Imagine correcting someone else’s typos during a chat yourself, without pointing out to them that they mistyped.
Wave also supports conversation threads, which means that instead of one linear discussion where new messages appear on top or below old ones, you can branch off sub-chats on different topics in one wave.
But mostly you use Wave to collaborate on a single copy of a document with multiple people at the same time.
Q: Then why would I use Wave instead of Google Docs?
A: GDocs is more like collaborative/web-based Microsoft Word, where the object is to create a flat file that gets printed or emailed to someone. Wave is more like a real-time wiki, which creates pages meant to be linked and constantly revised, pages that contain web-based multimedia and interactive gadgets.
In Wave you can drop multimedia like image slide shows, YouTube videos, Google Maps, and countless other gadgets that you can’t in Google Docs. Like a wiki (and unlike Google Docs), you can link waves to each other very easily.
Wave is more like a real-time, workgroup Wikipedia than Google Docs or email.
Q: So, what would I actually use Wave for?
A: Wave works when two or more people need to co-write a document. A few common use cases include:
The following are questions I’ve gotten from people already in the Wave Preview, trying to figure out how to use the system.
Q: Now that I’ve gotten into the Preview, how do I invite other people in?
A: Search for a wave called “Invite others to Google Wave.” Enter title:"Invite others to Google Wave" into the search box, and press Enter. One wave with only you as a participant on it should turn up. In it, you can enter the email address of the folks you want to invite.
If no wave gets returned, be patient! Google may not have doled out nominations to you yet. Save your search to check back later by clicking the Save Search button on the bottom of the Search Panel.
Q: How do I use Wave if no one I know is ever online while I am?
A: To experience the real-time magic of Wave even if your friends aren’t online, search for public waves in action using the with:public search operator. Select a wave at the top of the list of results, and watch as others type into it—then jump in yourself.
Q: How do I make a wave public?
A: The easiest way is to use the Easy Public bot. Add easypublic@appspot.com to your Contact list, and then drag and drop it onto any wave to make it public.
Q: How do I see the next unread blip in a wave?
A: Press the Spacebar. In a big wave with lots of unread blips in various locations, the Spacebar will take you to the next unread blip in one press.
Q: How do I publish a wave in a blog post?
A: Right now the Madoqua Bot can give you the embed code for putting a wave on a public web page. Add Madoqua to your wave to get started.
Remember, though: the people viewing your blog post or web page will have to be logged into Wave to see the embedded wave. Otherwise they’ll just get a prompt to log into the Wave Preview, which is frustrating for people who aren’t in Wave yet.
Q: How do I remove a Wave contact?
A: To remove a contact from your Wave contacts list, you’ve got to do so in the regular Google Contacts interface. Click on the Manage contacts link at the bottom of Wave’s Contacts panel. Here’s how to remove a contact step-by-step.
Q: How do I remove a participant from a wave?
A: You can only remove bots from waves—not regular users. Yes, this is crazy and needs to be fixed stat. Here's more on the inability to remove participants from a wave.
Q: How do I link to another wave inside a wave?
A: You can create a link to a wave in another wave by simply dragging and dropping the destination wave from the search panel onto the linking wave while you’re editing it. Make sure all your participants have access to the linked wave, otherwise they won’t be able to open it.
To link to a wave outside of Google Wave, first open the wave then minimize your Search panel. Copy and paste the link in your browser's address bar—that link will open that wave with those panels minimized for anyone who clicks on it, is logged into Wave, and has access to that wave.
Q: How do I set my Google Wave icon?
A: Click on your name at the top of the Contacts panel. From the profile pop-up, click the Edit profile button. A special profile wave opens, and there you can upload an image that will appear as your icon whenever you participate in a wave or appear in others’ Contacts lists.
Q: How do I remove a gadget from a wave?
A: Hover over the gadget, and an arrow will appear on the top-right corner. Click it to view the drop-down and choose “Delete.”
Q: Since my friends and co-workers don’t use it every day, I forget to check my Wave inbox. How can I get notified when waves are updated without logging in?
The Google Wave Notifier (Windows only) is a system tray application that notifies you when you have unread blips in waves.
The Google Wave Add-on for Firefox notifies you of unread waves in Firefox’s status bar.
Now I’ve got questions for you. I’m working on the next edition of The Complete Guide to Google Wave, and I want to know: what do you want to see get added to the book? What burning questions did I miss here? How are you using Wave day-to-day—or what's stopping you from doing so? Post your thoughts in the comments, and thanks in advance for your help expanding the book.
Google users will soon be able to upload any file type to Docs (as long as it's under 250MB)—as opposed to the very limited slate of document types currently supported (like images, Word docs, PDFs, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations).
Photo from TechCrunch
Because Google Docs now supports files up to 250 MB in size, which is larger than the attachment limit on most email applications, you’ll be able to backup large graphics files, RAW photos, ZIP archives and much more to the cloud. More importantly, instead of carrying a USB drive, you can now use Google Docs as a more convenient option for accessing your files on different computers.
Tech news blog TechCrunch quotes Google Docs product manager Vijay Bangaru emphasizing that this is not the much speculated GDrive, but they appropriately point out that—regardless of what they're calling it—it sure sounds like the GDrive people were expecting. Users will get 1GB of free storage to hold whatever they want, and they can buy more storage space for $0.25 per GB.
A firmware update will bring two great features to the Zune HD this spring. The first is native XviD support, which is self-explanatory. The second requires just a tad more explanation.
The Smart DJ feature, now on the Zune's PC software, will make its way to the HD, offering on the fly track suggestions. That's OK—pretty similar to the iPod's Genius features—but what will make the feature great is that Smart DJ will also work over the Zune HD's Wi-Fi connection, allowing you to stream these suggested tracks from the cloud (instead of needing to have all that suggested music stored on the device already).
Good stuff. [CNET via SlashGear]
Windows/Linux (Firefox): Late last month, a Mozilla contributor showed us how Firefox 4.0 might look. The Strata40 theme and add-on gives your browser that same look, without having to wait or install pre-pre-alpha Firefox builds.
Strata40 and its required side add-on, StrataBuddy, offer many of the same tweaks to Firefox’s interface that Firefox 4.0 will likely offer, like moving your tabs to the top of the window or just under the address bar, consolidating the address and page loading bar, and updating the various graphical bits around the browser frame.
The top image shows off the developer’s own screenshot of his add-on in action. He’s got a nice-looking olive-type Windows theme going on; here’s how Strata40 looks installed on a stock Windows 7 copy of Firefox 3.5, with the tabs moved up top:
If you head into the StrataBuddy Options panel, you can enable the Aero Glass background style, which combined with the tabs moved to the top, and the menu bar hidden, looks like this:
The developer “requires” about three other add-ons to get Strata40 running “at its best,” like Fission, App Tabs, and Tab Progress Bar, and suggests that Firefox 3.6 is actually a better fit for his theme than 3.5. Still, with Strata40 installed, Firefox 3.5 can move forward in design time a bit without too much incompatibility risk or, seemingly, add-on drag.
Strata40 and StrataBuddy are free downloads, and StrataBuddy is an experimental add-on. Both work on Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 on Windows and Linux systems.
Holy crap. I just got home and found out the news that Sam Raimi had enough of the Sony BS and put his foot down over the whole Vulture thing. Unfortunately for Sam, that foot went down on the sidewalk outside the studio.
Raimi has quit Spider-man 4 and he took his Scategories with him.
So where does that leave Sony and Spider-Man? Do you think they will move forward without him. Nope. Instead of just picking up where Raimi left off they are going to let that stink hang. Sony is rebooting the franchise and starting over fresh with a whole new team.
Deadline Hollywood set us up the bomb
Culver City, CA (January 11, 2010) — Peter Parker is going back to high school when the next Spider-Man hits theaters in the summer of 2012. Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today they are moving forward with a film based on a script by James Vanderbilt that focuses on a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises.
The new chapter in the Spider-Man franchise produced by Columbia, Marvel Studios and Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin, will have a new cast and filmmaking team. Spider-Man 4 was to have been released in 2011, but had not yet gone into production.
Wow, I just don’t see the benefit of doing this aside from Sony having a massive pressed ham at Raimi, cleaning the slate and moving forward.
As much as Spidey3 gets torched, I have to say as a whole, the series has been great. Sure, they could have done better than Kristen Dunst as the supermodel to be, and while I didn’t hate her – they could have done better. Still, one blip hardly justifies starting over. Not this soon. It just doesn’t feel right.
But one thing I am noticing in the midst of the nerdrage and cries against Sony for this unexpected move…
They can do Venom the right way now.
American Idol judge Simon Cowell says he plans to leave the hit reality TV show after this season.
Some of these can get downright ridiculous but all in the name of good fun! I think my favorite is the second to last one, haha. Oh, and scroll all the way to the last one for our very own celebrity lookalike 😉
That’s right, ladies…tweet him up!
I am Amanda Macedo – a student, photography enthusiast, and lover of life. I eat, sleep and breathe art, and I hope to share with you some of my thoughts and findings here at Abduzeedo as I further my discovery of graphic design. You can also find me on Twitter: @amlight
Brazil is one of my favorite countries. Cool people, great music, heavenly beaches, and caipirinhas. But if you have to buy a Mac, you are screwed. And like this graphic shows, it’s the same in other places in the world.
Brazil wins, however: The price of one MacBook Pro 17″ there buys you two identical models in the US. It’s the same with other Apple products, so if you can’t live without your Apple fix, you better move to another country.
I’d take the caipirinhas and the beaches, thank you very much. [cmyplay—Thanks]
You pay good money for your DVDs, but they’re hardly the only format you need these days. These five ripping tools ensure you can back them up, keep them on your media server, and load them on your favorite portable player.
Photo by jonasj.
Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite DVD-ripping tool. We tallied up the votes, and now we’re back to highlight the five most popular tools used by Lifehacker readers to rip, backup, and encode their DVD collections.
DVD Shrink is a free and capable ripping tool that excels at, as the name would imply, shrinking DVDs. DVDs come in two common formats: DVD-5 (4.7GB) and DVD-9 (8.5GB); the Reauthor mode in DVD Shrink helps you to ditch disc extras and strip most larger DVDs down to fit into a standard (and less expensive) DVD-5 disc. DVD Shrink does a good job handling many protection schemes, but hasn’t been updated to remove some of the newest schemes.
DVD Fab is a commercial DVD ripper that supports the removal of all current DVD copy protections. In addition to being current on protection schemes, it boasts a large array of options for stripping and repacking your DVDs once the copy protection is removed. You can rip the entire disc, rip only the main movie, or split it into pieces—among other options. Like DVD Shrink, DVD Fab also supports compressing DVD-9 discs to fit on DVD-5 discs.
Handbrake is a DVD-ripping tool with a strong emphasis on not just ripping media but recoding it for playback on computers, portable devices, and other non-disc based systems. Handbrake can help you convert DVDs and other MPEG-based video into MP4 and MKV files. You can tweak settings like video frame rate and audio codec playback to your heart’s content with Handbrake, and even batch encode all your media at one time to make filling up your iPod or other device relatively painless. The one major shortcoming of Handbrake is that it doesn’t have any copy protection removal tools built in, which means you may occasionally need to use a 3rd-party stripping tool to prepare your DVD for conversion.
AnyDVD is another commercial entry in this week's Hive Five. It's not cheap, with a one year license running $60—although the multi-year discounts quickly stack up—but it can boast that it stays on top of current protection and encryption schemes to make sure you're never locked out of your own discs. In addition to stripping protections from the disc, it also has the ability to control DVD playback speed so that DVDs played on media center computers will play slower and quieter, and it allows you to remove things like forced subtitles, warning screens, and disc material you don't want.
Although DVD Decrypter hasn’t been updated since 2005, it still works on a significant number of DVDs and has a strong following resulting from both its original user base and new users who find it cuts through the copy protection on their current DVDs protected with CSS, Macrovision content protection, region codes, and other hindrances.
Now that you’ve had a chance to look over the five most popular DVD-ripping tools as nominated by Lifehacker readers, it’s time to cast your vote for the tool you like best:
Which DVD-Ripping Tool Is Best?(trends)
Have a favorite that wasn’t featured or a tip for ripping DVDs? Let’s hear about it in the comments. If you have an idea for a future Hive Five send us an email at tips @ lifehacker.com with “Hive Five” in the subject line.
The YKK stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha. In 1934 Tadao Yoshida founded Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha (translated Yoshida Industries Limited). This company is now the worlds foremost zipper manufacturer, making about 90% of all zippers in over 206 facilities in 52 countries.
Eric Tillman has resigned as general manager of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, team president Jim Hopson says.
We’re already gone hands-on with the Boxee Box and its sweet QWERTY RF remote, but now that we know there’s a dual-core Tegra 2 in there it’s time for a little interface demo with founder Avner Ronen. First things first: yes, it ran Hulu in the browser — but the network connection on the show floor was acting up, so we couldn’t demo it very well. Avner tells us the built-in browser IDs itself as essentially standard Mozilla, so we’ll have to see if Hulu goes out of its way to block it –it’s definitely still possible, but it’ll take some work. Apart from that minor drama, we’ve got to say we’re incredibly impressed — the interface was lightning fast, the remote’s keyboard felt great, and we’re liking the Facebook / Twitter integration, which mines your feeds for videos posted by your friends and displays them on the home page. Avner tells us he thinks D-Link will be “aggressive” with that under-$200 price point when the Box launches in Q2, and there’ll be tons of content partners at launch. Video after the break!
Gallery: Boxee Box interface and hardware
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He might live a Hollywood lifestyle but Dion Phaneuf says he's happy in Calgary.
And at Friday's morning skate, he dismissed any rumours floating around that he'd demanded a trade.
"I've never asked for a trade and I'm very happy here," said the 24-year-old defenceman after several reports surfaced online. "That hasn't even crossed my mind. For you to be asking these questions today, it's a huge surprise but I understand you have to report on it."
Phaneuf, who is dating Calgary-born actress Elisha Cuthbert, has been linked with a trade since he was reportedly overheard having a heated discussion with head coach Brent Sutter last month.
But Flames general manager Darryl Sutter on Thursday shot down the rumours surrounding his young defenceman.
"Whoever makes up that stuff is not doing anything," Sutter told the Herald. "We've worked really hard at building a top young defence in the league and our intention is to keep them, so that's (rumours) just from somebody who didn't have anything to do on that day.
"There are no rumours, believe me," reiterated the GM. "I don't know where that comes from."
On Friday, Phaneuf claimed he hadn't heard the rumours about a trade or him submitting a trade request.
"To be honest with you, I haven't heard anything about it until today when you brought it up to me," said Phaneuf. "Those are people sitting behind a computer and writing what they'd like to see happen with our team.
"Each and everyone has their opinion and I respect that but with regards to any talk of that, that's the first I've heard of it and I'm not going to say much about that."
Early this morning, the Flames called up Jamie Lundmark from Abbotsford to fill in for injured Craig Conroy, whom the team could re-activate on Monday according to Brent Sutter. Lundmark replaced Jason Jaffray, who was sent back to the Heat on Thursday.
Lundmark, if you recall, had joined the squad for six dates in November to take injured Rene Bourque's place. Making tonight's game, oh, about the umpteenth time he's been back.
"I don't know how many times it's been up and down but I'm definitely used to it," said Lundmark, a veteran of over 250 NHL games, 84 of which have been with Calgary. "The biggest thing is not to get away from my game, play simple. Come up here, play hard, use my skill when I can, and try and put some points on the board when I can."
Not that he's been having difficulty with point production. The Edmonton native is second in scoring with the Abbotsford Heat with nine goals, 12 assists in 32 games.
During his last stint, Lundmark was put on the top line with Jarome Iginla and Olli Jokinen. In a short time, he made a good impression and picked up three points (including a game winner at Detroit and a shoot-out winner at Columbus) in six games.
Looks like he'll take Curtis Glencross' spot on left-wing with Iginla and Daymond Langkow tonight. And with that, here are the rest of the Flames lines:
Lundmark-Langkow-Iginla
Glencross-Jokinen-Bourque
Dawes-Nystrom-Moss
Sjostrom-Boyd-Prust
And the defence:
Regehr-Phaneuf
Giorodano-Bouwmeester
Pardy-Sarich
Also, Curtis McElhinney will get the start tonight, likely to give Miikka Kiprusoff a night off to prepare for Saturday's game in Vancouver against their Northwest Division rivals, the Canucks.
– Morning skate report by Kristen Odland, Calgary Herald
The Drudge Report has an image of a woman from an airport scanner up right now. It’s scandalous enough as is, but it’s shockingly easy to make it look even more like a normal nude photograph.
Reader Sigfried discovered that by simply inverting the image in Photoshop, you restore the photo to a more realistic tint. Of course, we’re not sure where this image came from or if it’s an accurate example of what these machines produce. But if so, let me just deliver a message to all you airport security workers out there: I just got out of a cold pool, I swear.
Tablet-ed out yet? We didn’t think so. MSI has a 10-inch Android tablet on display at CES here. There aren’t many details (like price, release date and internals), but we do know it’s running one of those new Tegra 2 chips. Up front there’s a pretty nice 10-inch capacitive display, which is plenty responsive. Like other tablets we’ve been seeing, the device is a bit thicker and heavier than we’d like, but hopefully that paves the way for some substantial battery life. We might still not know the “why,” but the “how” is certainly coming together.
MSI shows off 10-inch Android tablet running new Tegra chipset originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A survey conducted by U.S. research firm Nielsen has revealed Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is currently the most played console in terms of total usage minutes, coming in at 23.1 percent. Sony’s PlayStation 2 came in second at 20.4 percent, and the Nintendo Wii at third with 19 percent.
We have been hearing about dualscreen laptops (and readers) for too long now, but it’s MSI to be the first to show off a real working unit. And it’s everything we have ever dreamed of — well kind of. Though MSI is calling this dual 10-inch screen device an e-reader, it’s really a netbook with two screens since it’s got an Atom Z Series processor and Windows 7 Home Premium. But it’s how the two screens work together that we can’t get out of our minds. Hit the break for some more impressions and to see this crazy thing on video.
Gallery: MSI dualscreen e-reader
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