Sunday, September 09, 2007

Week In Review

It's the beginning of another week.  Back to work and all that good stuff.  This past week included a very popular post with the Fall 2007 TV Season Premier Guide, Getting free iPhone Ringtones (yes even with the latest version of iTunes), Search for sports stadiums and make your customized college football calendar.  There lots of other good stuff here so check out the links below if you missed anything.
  • DVR TV Watchers Will Be Counted With New Nielsen Ratings Method

    If you are one of those people who watches most of your television time-shifted using your DVR, then you'll be interested in this news.  For the first time in history, Nielsen Media Research - the organization relied upon by the TV networks and advertisers will be using a new ratings system…

  • Must Read: Recommended Stories I'm Reading

    It's the beginning of another weekend and time to share some of the best posts I'm reading from great blogs on the internet. First off is from iLounge.  What features are included with the last version of iTunes 7.4?  Ringtones (but don't buy the ones they have, just make your own with…

  • iPhone Hack: Free iPhone Ringtones: even with iTunes 7.4!

    Many were comlaining that they could no longer make free ringtones for their iPhone after upgrading to iTunes 7.4. Well a guy at MacRumors posted how to easily get your music into your iPhone using the new iTunes 7.4 for FREE on both Windows and Mac iTunes. Here's how: Rename the AAC track to…

  • Fall 2007 TV Season Premiers: The Ultimate Guide

    I've gathered a complete listing of all of the TV Season Premiers for Fall 2007 for you.  This is an updated list from the one I posted last month and should include all the new premiers for most of the major TV Networks (broadcast and cable) in the U.S.  There are a bunch of shows here folks…

  • DIY: Make a CD Case Photo Mural

    I know you have some great photos and now that you've digitized your CD or DVD collection you have a pile of CD/DVD cases that aren't being used so what do you do with them? Jpfaraco has posted an instructable showing us how to convert those photos into a giant wall mural using the…

  • Battlestar Galactica The Final Season - Free Downloads

    One of my favorite sci- fi shows, Battlestar Galactica is kicking off their final season beginning on November 24 th at 8pm CST on the Sci Fi channel with a two-hour special event movie called " Battlestar Galactica : Razor". The movie's storyline puts you just before the attack on the…

  • How To Rip A DVD For your PC or iPod with Handbrake

    Over at the Snapstream-BeyondTV forums someone asked what was the best way to convert a DVD over to Beyond TV to watch it. I think one of the better ways to do this is using Handbrake. The free, opensource Handbrake can do this and more. It will rip a scene from a DVD or the entire DVD to your hard…

  • Google Maps Mashups To Track the News Visually

    Here's two ways to track the news of the world visually using Googles Maps Tools: First is a mashup of streaming TV news from News networks around the world and Google Maps. This mashup brings you world news streaming TV mashup with Google Maps. Watch live world news TV from the world including…

  • Vista MCE Gets a Free WebGuide

    There was some fairly significant news today (no I'm not talking about the new iPod Touch, Classic, iPhone this time) from the author of the Media Center's Webguide. The shareware add-on to Windows MCE and Vista Media Center created by Doug Berrett is now free to all to download and use.…

  • A MediaCenter PC with Four CableCards

    CEPro has an article announcing that Microsoft is adding support for four CableCards and also announcing partners for Media Center Extender. For those of you unfamiliar with CableCard - it is a device that allows a home theater PC to record encrypted content from Cable Systems. It is extremely…

  • Flickr Hack: Hide Your Flickr Photos from Search Engines

    Opt Out of Photo Searches If you are a flickr user, you might have noticed that both Yahoo and Google search engines as well as some third party software can search for your photos. If you would prefer to exclude your photos from from public searches either on Flickr itself and/or any third party…

  • Get All NBC Pilot Episodes for Free September 10 at Amazon Unbox

    I began reading a techcrunch article announcing that NBC who was just recently kicked out of or deserted (depending on whos story you listen to) iTunes would soon be selling their shows on Amazon Unbox. I'm really not that interested in buying most TV episodes from either iTunes or Amazon since…

  • 17 Year Old Girl Turns MySpace Themes into Million Dollar Plus Business

    This is a little off-topic from my usual content, but I just couldn't get over this story. I run this my blog as a hobby where the advertising covers my expenses plus a little more - definitely not enough to cover the time I spend on it at this point anyway. Still, blogging for me isn't my…

  • Find Your Favorite Sports Stadium with StadiumHunt

    It's the peak of sports season. The Baseball pennant race is just getting exciting (unless you're a Royals fan like me), College football has begun like gangbusters, NFL football is here, golf is still going strong, Nascar, Soccer and more all in action right now. Well, if you are a sports…

  • College Football Schedule Maker - Customized for You

    If you are a college football fan, doing a google search I just stumbled upon the coolest thing since.... well since college football! It's a simple, but very useful college football schedule creator. The website tool allows you to display the football schedule customized by team, conference,…