Linux Update Manager Functionality on Your Mac

http://tinyurl.com/a3nwue

Easily, one of my favorite parts of my (old) Ubuntu box was the Update Manager functionality.  Yes, OSS tends to update every other day (as opposed to Windows, which updates a week too late), but it is still a feature I would love to see in Windows 7, especially with the myriad of freeware I had on that thing. That is where AppFresh comes in.

When I first got my MacBook, and after being told of Skitch, I was told to check out iusethis, a nice website for finding new OSX software, as well as cataloging it.  Well, AppFresh now uses that same service to let you mass update the myriad of software, free and non, as simply as with the click of a button.

Bun.ch together all your links with LinkBun.ch

http://tinyurl.com/8rejxc

I can honestly not remember where I found this link, but I remembered seeing it and I remember favoriting it.  But then I remembered that I didn’t remember it!

LinkBun.ch is the result of another idea I had, but someone else bore into fruition.  I am damn cool.  LinkBun.ch lets you send a ‘bun.ch’ of links under one own with the generator on the front page;

For e-mail links, Twitter and IM links, the URL they give you is handy as hell, it sends you to a page with an ‘Open All’ option that, though the linkbunch.php, opens all links in seperate tabs.  But, in the case of blog posts or the like, you can copy the Open entire bunch link and past it in your a href tags, but no, it doesn’t seem to work behind TinyURLs.

15 Reasons Console gaming is killing PC gaming

http://tinyurl.com/8f55js

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15 Reasons Console gaming is killing PC gaming [LiamM's Tech Blog]

Podcasting with YouTube

http://tinyurl.com/9nbrax

For many a moon I wondered and frustrated over the fact that YouTube did not have a proper Podcasting function for use in programs like iTunes - I mean, it really is the same damn thing, except Podcasts arent streaming at the time.

How does it work?  Extremelly simple, actually.  Take the username of whatever YouTuber that you are fond of and type that into the YouTube Username form on the front of YTPodcaster website and press Get Feed;

Now, mind you, I think YTPodcasts work a bit slower than the YouTube channel, but to really bug me I found this website right during the sxephil break, so I wasnt quite sure what was going on…  Anyways, click on whatever Podcast program you are using and, at least in the case of iTunes, it just kinda works.  A little… something… like… this;

So it got me thinking, GoDaddy and Netflix and Audible are the major ad supporters of Podcasts internationally.  I mean, it makes sense, people deep in the Internet-scene are more likely to, a) have a website, b) rent movies online, or b) buy audiobooks.

YouTube just got a whole bunch more useful.

Tags: itunes, podcast, youtube

Obligatory Tech Prediction for 2009

http://tinyurl.com/7r2k9f

If not only for the attempt of looking cool, here we go;

More companies will start joining Twitter

Recent news showed Dell making a good $1M, now, compared to the rest of the income, that is not necessarily a large quantity.  But it was enough to show off, to both fan and exec’s, how useful advertising deals and the like can be.

Apple TV/ Mac Mini upgrade:

The Mac Mini has not updated in over an entire year, which at least in comparison to the iPod, looks like its death.  Apple has been treating the Apple TV as more a hobby project, but has been doing well with it.  Also, with the recent update to the HP MediaSmart to work with iTunes and Time Machine, a relative upgrade would seem appropriate, but since the Apple TV and Mac Mini are so similar, upgrading both would be redundant.

The iPod Classic won’t fit any more songs

A rule of thumb where buying an iPod, is that if its been a few months since the last update, wait a week or two and the iPod will be upgraded.  When the iPod Touch was introduced, they dubbed the next generation of the iPod Video’s as the iPod Classic.  The second generation of the Classic, if you can call it that, denoted the hard drive space from 160gb to 120gb, but what they really did was take out the 160gb hard-drive and replaced with a dual 60gb solid-state drive.  The rumors of a iPod Touch-esque, tablet-esque Apple product just prove how whole-heartedly Apple is going towards the touch interface.

Kevin Rose will re-publish Pownce

To much anger and confusion, SixApart bought Pownce and hired the devo team.  Although they did publish their plans to incorporate the Pownce software into their products like Vox, MoveableType and TypePad.  But why did they close the original website?  Well, SixApart has said that, in the new year, they will be releasing the Pownce engine for either purchase or beta.  A large portion of the Pownce community was there just for the affiliation with Kevin Rose, and he definately has the cash to pick the software back up.

SMS in Canada will come back to Twitter

Or imma beat some ass, beat some ass real bad.

More countries will be turned into more TinyURL websites

Because we dont have enough; b65.us, c-o.in, dn.vc, faceto.us, fly.ws, hurl.it, is.gd, Just.as, x.se, LNK.IN, turo,us, Twitty.ms and Xil.in, and that is just the ones that use county URLs…

Sony PS3 will team with Blockbuster (or someone like that)

With release of Microsoft’s NXE for the Xbox 360, they included a NetFlix client; letting you order and stream their entire catalog of movies for no price in addition to a normal NetFlix account service.  I dont use it for reasons that are legal in Canada, but I have heard nothing but praise from friends that do use it.  Recently, it was announced that Blockbuster was (finally) doing an online service, and besides the fact that both of their main colors are blue (OMFG COINCIDENCE?!) I would not be alone in assumption that the PS3 will follow suit, as the only thing the PS3 has over the 360 is space, and movies take space.  And people that bought a PS3 are going to be looking for cheap rentals for a while now…

Tags: 09, 360, Microsoft, pownce, prediction, ps3, six apart, sony, tinyurl, Twitter