Archive for August, 2005

Google Talk Released

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

The tiny Google Talk app is out. Its very basic, just does IMs and talk between two people. Looks like it might be time for a new IM overview to see how close they are to my dream app. Looks to me like Skype is the only one offering conference calling, making it the only [...]

New Sirius Lineup Thursday

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

I already knew Thursday would be a big day for Sirius with the introduction of the new G3 radios. Now it seems they will be lineup will be unveiled. There are all sorts of rumors about what is coming, my hope that is likely to come true is a 90s channel and unlikely hope is [...]

Xbox 360 Pre-Order

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

ebgames.com has Xbox 360 up for pre-order. Of course its not just the console. You get the console, 4 games, and extra controller and some other stuff. How much? $600 or $700. I plan on getting the premium version of the console which will be $400 on its own and is the version in the [...]

Google Talk

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Google Talk is supposed to launch tomorrow. Turns out there the server is already running and you can login using either GAIM or iChat. If you want to try it out, first look at the instructions, then IM me, my GTSN is michael.janke.
My settings for GAIM:
Add an account
Protocol: Jabber
Screen Name: Your gmail id, whatver comes [...]

Sports!

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

During my free time last week I put together a little web site for sports news. It works like this: users submit stories they find on the web about their team (right now Baseball and Football work). The most recent stories all appear on the front page. There are also pages for each team that [...]

Need to Waste Some Time?

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

I finally downloaded Google Earth, I actually thought it was just online but you have to download. For something so simple you can waste a lot of time playing with it. Its just a map of the globe and you can zoom in pretty close and it shows satellite photos. Then you can add all [...]

HBO Friday Night

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

I’ve been waiting for this new HBO Friday Night for a few weeks. First with Bill Mahr coming back after most of the summer off and then the return, after a few years I guess, of One Night Stand.
Real Time was a little below average. Cindy Sheehan was supposed to be a guest but her [...]

TO Cartoon

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Parts are somewhat funny. Other parts are pretty weird. Check it out though. Don’t worry that you are watching the wrong one if there is an odd Tom Cruise opening, I don’t understand it.