I own a Flip video camera and for what it is meant to do I like it. However once I get my videos off the camera I can not hear the audio anymore. I still haven’t found a solution on the internets and even their own website admits the problem, but their solution of “update your software” does not work for me nor does it seem to work for a number of others. The odd thing is, if I upload the video to YouTube or Flickr the audio track comes back.

What a pain!

update, after some more searching around I found this solution, which if you read the comments the author recommends removing old QuickTime video codecs and only leaving Perian installed. Worked for me!

I had my 2004 Toyota Matrix inspected today and the only things it needed was a wiper blade and a pair of tires to replace the flat I had. I have a feeling I will own this car for a long time to come. It has never given me a single problem outside of standard wear and tear on the brakes, it gets good gas mileage and I can jam all if my stuff into the back of it.

I made a payment online to our credit card through Chase Online but it turned out it wasn’t enough so I went back to edit the payment. Well I can’t edit, cancel or add another payment for another three days. So I call their customer service line and they confirmed the same thing. I can’t make another payment for another three days! I asked the customer service agent if there were any other options for payment and the only other way was for me to make the payment from another checking account or to call back when I get the finance charge.

What a scam, prevent people from making their payments and get them with a finance charge. I love this world.

Glad I am not the only one disappointed with the performance after the 2.0 update.

I’ve been using the phone every day for about a week now and it just isn’t up to the great expectations set by the first version. Everything feels so incredibly fragile. iPhone 2.0: The glory wore off in wash – (37signals)

I can’t be the only gamer who doesn’t understand all the high praise and perfect scores this game is getting. 10/10?, A+? Since when did game reviewers becomes such fan boys that they can over look so many frustrating flaws?

First let me say that I respect the game and the series immensely. I get it. Its fun to be in a living, breathing city that is this life like and be able to wreck shit. In GTA4 the city is even more believable. Its really an amazing world. What I don’t get is how gamers can suffer through such terrible gameplay in order to experience it.

I want to play this game so badly that I throw fits in anger trying to get past missions. Why bother I keep asking myself. Tonight was the last straw, I think I am going to stop bothering and trade it in.

The basic reason is the same reason I never got very far into the other GTA titles. The control sucks!

Tonight sent me over the edge during a mission for X. I pick him up. Drive five minutes across town. Get some guns in an alley. Go up a huge elevator. Snipe some guys on a construction site. Raid the construction site and kill some more guys only to die because I got stuck behind the wrong cover point or couldn’t run fast enough to somewhere I could get away.

I went through this sequence three times, each time dying because of the awful controls. Not because of any reason I could control myself but because the game just doesn’t work.

This is a common problem because the cover system, aiming and running just don’t work. Yes I said the running. Have you never heard of analog control Rockstar? Where if you push harder on the stick your character runs harder? Or how about not forcing the camera to snap back when I try to get a better view of who is shooting at me?

Back to tonight. The straw that broke the camels back was when I was chasing down the last guy I had to kill. I tried climbing down a ladder but fell instead, next I tried to climb up another ladder but couldn’t. All this with just a tiny bit of life bar left. Nikko just would not climb the ladder. After fumbling with the ladder the enemies I left behind came behind me and killed me. All this cause the game wouldn’t work.

The funny thing is I had way more fun with Saint’s Row than this game. I put in more than 40 hours into it and loved almost every second of it. The game suffers from the same repetitive gameplay, but the control actually works.

I love that people with blogs call those who use Twitter attention whores. I don’t see the difference between Joe Schmo with a blog and a Jane Doe with Twitter account.

Twitter is good for a number of things, if they are attention whoring so be it.

• keeping up with friends you don’t see every day
• meeting up with friends
• posting quick thoughts that are on your mind that don’t warrant a blog post
• sharing a cool thing you saw while walking
• keeping up with news sites, products etc

Sure you can send a text message, but Twitter is for something completely different.

Its true and it seems to work perfectly. This makes my life a little easier until June when Exchange support is added to the iPhone. Now I can sync my work calendar to GCal, suck it down to iCal at home, then sync it on to my iPhone so I can be in the know when not in front of Outlook in the office. I like to wake up and know what is on my agenda for the day.

Thanks Google!

I recently bought an iPhone, so recent that it was just three days before Apple released the 16 gb version.

When I first approached AT&T about exchanging it for the new version they they told me there was a 10% restocking fee. I waited so long to buy it…more on that some other day. Well I took it back today, ready to pay the 10% and the luck of the draw gave me a salesperson who did not charge me the fee! I don’t know if she just didn’t know any better or if she felt my pain. Regardless, I am a happy customer.

I love my iPhone, in fact this was posted from it… While I was pooping. Sweet.

One of the greatest things to me about using OSX is the integration between Mail, Address Book and iCal. I can hover my mouse over an address, date, phone number, etc and add it to Address Book, or iCal right from Mail. It saves a lot of fumbling around, looking for your contact or the right calendar. Its brilliant.