Nyko's new guitars for the PS3 are now available. They work with both Rock Band and Guitar Hero III.

Tags: rock band, guitar hero, guitar, nyko

Michael Geist linked to this interesting blog entry on cellular data rates in Canada.

Tags: telecommunications, cellular, data rates

Like the Flip on steroids, Sony's new handycam, the HDR-TG1 is zexy.



As with most small form factor camcorders, you'll be faced with multiple performance compromises, not limited to 1080i, no optical viewfinder or accessory shoes/sockets.

In the end, the price you pay in expandability and capability will likely be recouped in higher usability and portability. What good is a high priced camcorder that's too clunky to take everywhere?

Tags: camcorders, sony, flip, hdr-tg1, hd

If you've got a Canon digital camera and would like to get a little more out of it, Lifehacker has a bit on how to get some open source firmware into it. One nice feature is that the firmware can add RAW mode to your camera.

If they get this firmware working cleanly on a G9, I'd seriously think about buying one.

Tags: canon, custom, firmware

Judy Greer, who was hilarious as Kitty in Arrested Development ("Spring Break... Woooo!"), appears in a new Apple ad, entitled Yoga.



Good casting... maybe now she'll get as much nerd love as Tina Fey does.

Tags: judy greer, mac, advertising

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Tags: bell, throttling, network, neutrality

There are reports that the successor to Vista will be out sometime next year.

A lot of people haven't even adopted Vista yet, and with this news, I'm sure a lot of enterprise clients will stick to XP until Vista shows up.

Seems like Vista is the new Windows ME.

Tags: vista, windows 7

There's a nice little muppet video on YouTube that you should see.

Tags: funny, video

Caught this on Daring Fireball while I was on vacation, but there's a great video on Panic Software's Cabel Sasser delivering a presentation on the development of Coda, their web editor.



While I think some of Panic's software are a little overrated (Transmit and Unison), I do like Coda... a lot. It's one of the better web editors I've used, and I don't think its price tag is too expensive. As a hand coder, I find that it is a very well rounded tool that covers a lot of the functionality that I need when writing HTML/PHP.



An interesting surprise in the presentation was that Panic originally planned to have an image editor built-into the tool as well. Talk about kitchen sink! If you can get past the ass-kissing moderator, it's a real treat to hear one of the leading independent Mac developers talk about the product development process.

Now if only Panic could do selection indents (what is with Mac apps that you can't select multiple lines of text and hit tab or shift-tab to indent/outdent?), I'd be a very happy man.

Tags: panic, coda, cabel sasser

Thanks to the recommendation of guys on TWiT, I read Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers during my vacation, and it's a totally engrossing read.

Shadow Divers tells the story of John Chatterton and Richard Kohler, two hardcore divers, who were once rivals but developed a bond after the discovery of an unidentified U-boat sunken off the coast of New Jersey. The sub was located deep in treacherous waters, and three divers perished in the exploration of the wreck.




Kurson writes in fashion that explains in great detail the experience that is deep sea diving. I highly recommend this book.

On a side note, I found a brief section on John Chatterton's "indisputable truths" with respect to life that I thought were very insightful and worth sharing:

• If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it.
  
• If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving.
  
• Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average.
  
• Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever.
  
• Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you.
  
• It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong.
  
• The guy who gets killed is often the guy who got nervous. The guy who doesn't care anymore, who has said "I'm already dead - the fact that I live or die is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the accounting I give of myself," is the most formidable force in the world.
  
• The worst possible decision is to give up.

Tags: shadow divers, robert kurson, john chatterton, richard kohler

Just getting over the jet lag from my trip (which explains why I haven't posted for the past few days), but I should be catching up with new tidbits over the next couple of days.

Tags: san francisco