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Mashable has a post called Fring Delivers the Most Impressive VoIP and IM Client for iPhone so Far. That “so far” is very important here. Fring is another “sign up for our account and sign up for your other IM and Skype accounts through us” services, so it’s not a pure Skype client. Also, it [...]

So, I saw this post this morning, noting that StumbleUpon is doing this new thing where you don’t need the toolbar. Except, I cannot find any evidence of this anywhere on StumbleUpon’s actual site, which still prominently says “Get the StumbleUpon Toolbar” and still says “Join and Download Now” when you are signing up for [...]

2 hours after a one hour long previously on Heroes clip episode… what do you think? Will it be any good?
Does anyone remember what happened last season? I remember Adam, but I’m not sure what’s going on with Sylar.
I must say though, I hope it stays in the 9 o’clock on Monday timeslot. Sarah [...]

As many of you know, a little over a month ago, I decided to do something uncharacteristic of my Mac-loving self: I decided to buy a PC. Why? Well, I needed a portable laptop, I didn’t need to spend a lot of money on it (since I’d just left Mahalo and the next steps career-wise [...]

…stretching a standard definition picture to a 16:9 aspect ratio has absolutely nothing to do with whether you’re HD or not. And it looks like crap. Please stop it now. //rant off

Congrats to the entire Mahalo Daily team on hitting your 200th episode. I enjoyed my occasional cameo on the show and wish you all continued success! Keep up the great work!

No. Steve Jobs is not dead as of my writing of this blog post.
In case you missed this yesterday, Bloomberg ran Steve Jobs obituary by mistake. Evidently, someone was updating it and accidentally clicked the publish button. Oops.
Here’s the crazy part: it’s 17 pages long. I have no doubt that he’s done amazing things [...]

A lot of people have been asking what I’m doing next. Well, I was thinking about being American Idol’s 4th judge, but Kara DioGuardi (*) beat me to it. It’s all good though. I’ve got other things planned…

It’s one of the more expensively priced items on the App Store, but BeatMaker (direct iTunes link; BeatMaker Official site) is a steal at $19.99 for anyone who has ever wanted an Akai MPC2000. I’ve just tinkered with it for a few hours, but it is by far the coolest and most engaging original application [...]

Picture by koka_sexton.
Great flick. Jonathan, who was sitting with Kristin and I, has a very positive spoiler-free write up of it over on his blog: Country Caravan: The Dark Knight. I myself don’t know if I think Ledger’s performance is a certain Oscar nomination, but it was quite good. I also don’t know which movie [...]

After work, a bunch of Mahaloans are headed to see The Dark Knight in IMAX thanks to TechCrunch and MySpace setting up this pre-screening. I’m totally stoked. Check out the trailer:
The Dark Knight Trailer
If you’re excited about the film make sure you check out our The Dark Knight (*) page and all these related pages:
Batman [...]

I’ve been a Big Brother fan since season 2; I even blogged about it for TV Squad for a while. It’s by far the best reality TV show out there, because it gets rid of all the “hey we’re trying to survive even though there’s a camera crew waiting to help us at any moment” [...]

Matt is going all out with live streaming video today promoting his latest book Brave Men Run. He’s posted details about the promotion plan here.
I just bought a copy. Matt, I expect you to autograph it, buddy.

Check it out, today’s Mahalo Daily features The Simpson’s Ride at Universal Studios:

It looks like they got a better tour than Kristin and I did when we covered the premiere for TV Squad.

Big announcement coming up tomorrow as Mahalo chooses the next host of Mahalo.
Here’s what the celebrities at the Guys Choice Awards by Spike TV had to say:

Here’s the two finalists’ (Andrea Rene (*) and Leah D’Emilio (*)) viral videos:
Girl Trains for Guitar Hero

and
Touch My Body Parody Video

Chris Anderson (*) from Wired and author of The Long Tail and the upcoming Free! came by Mahalo HQ today and talked to us about the economy of free. Very interesting.
Here’s Part One of the talk:
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And here’s part two:
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I went with Kristin yesterday to serve as her photographer for covering the premiere of The Simpson’s Ride at Universal Studios. She wrote a post for TV Squad here that tells you all about it and has several of my photos credited to me. The bad news: they didn’t let us ride the ride. Evidently, [...]

So if you’ve done all the fun stuff, like install Installer.app on your iPhone, you can now record video on it. The video tends to look and sound like this:

Bad news: the app found here isn’t freeware, so you’ll have to spend some $$$ on it if you want to keep using it. Also, the [...]

FrameByFrame is a freeware stop-motion app for OS X. I just used it to quickly make this very small test movie:
stopmotiontest.mov
Here it is embedded. Click to play: Had to cut it b/c it was crashing people’s FF3.
The little bit of music here is from NIN’s new freely downloadable album, the slip. The entire album is [...]