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I was watching another great episode of HBO’s True Blood last night and during the final credits the most interesting song started playing. At first I didn’t know if I liked it, then when I backed up the DVR to confirm that Evan Rachel Wood was in fact guest starring as the Queen, I really liked the song, so I popped out the iPhone and fired up Shazam with the hopes that it would actually identify the song, and low and behold 30 seconds later it told me that the song was Frenzy by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (iTunes Link). If you didn’t stick around for the credits, check out the song, it’s amazing. I’m always surprised at the music in the shows produced by Alan Ball, he has such a dark and devious mind.

Hope you enjoy the song, and of course always remember that this is just my opinion and I could be wrong.

-Brian

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I just recieved a Blackberry Tour today. I will be giving it a hard test drive over the next week or so and will post my full review in two weeks. Being an avid iPhone user and since my full time switch to the Mac, we’ll see how this goes. I reviewed the Blackberry Storm a few months ago, and the Tour is a lot different, so we’ll see how it goes. I haven’t even turned the device on yet as it came with no charge, so tomorrow will be my first full day with the device.

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The Oregon Trail

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For a long time I was an avid windows user, and had a hard time properly tagging my videos for iTunes. I prefer to add MPAA ratings, actors, and all the data that you cannot add directly in iTunes itself. I didn’t like the fact that the videos would show up wrong, or the artwork was jacked up. Now to clarify, most of the videos you buy directly from the iTunes store or get as a digital copy off your DVD’s come properly tagged. The crisis was for downloaded content or movies that I rip from my personal DVD collection.

Now that I am a full time mac user, I heavily rely on a couple of programs for getting the job done. If you want to get your personal DVD’s into iTunes and tag them the right way, I recommend the following combination of programs. Handbrake and MetaX. Handbrake is an open source app that takes DVD’s and a variety of other video files and converts them to a host of formats, the main one being MPEG-4 which is iTunes and iPod friendly. MetaX is a meta-data tagging application capable of batch tagging MPEG-4 as well as QuickTime videos.

Both programs will make your ripping and tagging much easier, and handbrake will throw the file into MetaX if you change that in the prefrences.

It’s an easy way to make sure that all your files are properly tagged and so iTunes puts them in the right place.

The long awaited TomTom iPhone app has finally been released in the US app store at a whopping $99.99 price tag. I was hesitant to get this app as I have used G-Maps in the past and it has been fairly good to me.

I have been using the TomTom app to go to places in town that I know the way, and so far it hasn’t been wrong on the directions. The best thing about the app is that is is able to tap into your contacts and use the addresses you already have, and the POI database isn’t bad as well.

I do wish they would let you customize the way it notifies you of upcoming events, because I really don’t need to know 5 times that I am turning, but otherwise with some updates in the future it’s a strong app, and I will be using it as my main GPS app.

TomTom has been in the GPS business for awhile now, and they can only improve the app, as long as they don’t charge for maps, this will be a big contender in the GPS app family.

Links to the iTunes App Store

TomTom US & Canada

TomTom Western Europe

TomTom Australia

TomTom New Zealand

I know my posts are getting scarce, and I was posting daily for awhile, then my posts dwindled off. This isn’t because I was getting lazy, it’s because I am taking another look at my editorial calendar, and the direction of the blog, and want to give you good content, but not sacrifice the readers. So please bear with me over the next few weeks as I tweak the backend of the blog and try to decide what direction to take it.

In the meantime, I will try to follow my current editorial calendar and post a few times a week.

Thanks to the readers for sticking with me.

-Brian