Whats new?

Your asking me whats new huh? Well not too much. I found out at my job that I will be working with the Asbestos shop until I start my techschool for retraining. If you guys didn't know, im in the military (Air Force) and my current job is Structures (vertical) which is pretty much a Carpenter/Welder in CE. I am retraining into being a videographer. Thats a cool thing that I will be at the Asbestos shop because I dont wear my military uniform (BDU's) which doing that job and so far I been in that job for 5 months. So its like being in the military but not really cause I dont wear the uniform. Lately I just been hanging out at home, playing with my new still camera (Canon Digital Rebel) and watchin alot of movies with my girl. I been making alot more money lately doing album covers, flyers & websites this past month. Thats always a good thing to make more money. I know I been slacking on posting on my blog lately but I have been spending alot more time on my forum trying to get everything up to speed and also got alot going on there as far as contests go. If you guys read this blog but dont go to my forum, well I suggest it. You will find out a ton more about me on my site & forum since this blog is fairly new. Not too much more to say because right now im finally watching "The Soprano's" for the first time, im on Episode 3 right now. BTW, that reminds me, if anyone knows a good program to make DVD copies on a mac, something like 'DVDShrink' for windows. But I want one for MAC. Let me know!

Why I choose MAC

This is a perfect video reason of why I choose to be on a MAC instead of Windows : http://www.stupidvideos.com/Default.asp?VideoID=191

337 Studios Radio

We will try to get a different playlist ever week so you guys can have something new to listen to from time to time. The playlist will have mostly only 337 Studios Produced tracks or affiliates so dont think you are listening to others. Most if not all songs will be featuring me. Listen to my beats : You can find this and other stuff on my forum at : http://www.damienbenoit.com/forum/index.php

iPod 0WNz

Apple's iPod and iPod mini had a 82% market share among hard drive-based portable music players in the last year, according to August figures from market research firm NPG Group. For all types of portable music players, Apple market share was 41.9%, the company told The Mac Observer, Monday.

A published report from Bloomberg News on Monday mistakingly gave the impression the 82% share was for all players.

The figure are for the month of August and are for US retail stores only, excluding direct sales and other online sales. The numbers are calculated using a percentage of actual unit sales reported by major retailers, such as Apple's retail stores, together with consumers surveys of buying habits.

The 82% market share of hard drive-based players is up from 64% from a year ago and 33% from two years ago, NPD said.

Among hard drive-based players, Creative Technology placed far second with a 3.7% share, followed by Rio at 3.2%.

Among all portable music players - hard drive-based as well as flash-based - Apple was first with 41.9%, Rio in second with 10.0%, iRiver in third with 9.3%, and RCA in fourth with 9.0%.

iPod = Color Screen/60GB's

Why do they always seem to make something bigger and better than the thing I just bought recently. Sucks huh? Technology is so damn cool but it seems that it is always getting better too fast to keep up. You gotta either be rich or spend ALL your money on technology products. Oh well, check it out. Official Link

The New PS2

New PS2

Yep...There's a new Playstation in town...The new Playstation 2 is scheduled to be available by Nov. 1 in the U.S. Here are some pics of the new PS2: Taken from my friend EMAN!

Video Game Remakes

Very funny site. I got it from a friend named JR. He showed it to me You guys gotta see this guys remake of the video games! Link : http://www.mega64.com/

GMail FileSystem!

Turn your GMail account into a 1GB of off-site storage:

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

This is a great way to backup your important docs. The only downside is that it's limited to 10MB per file (the GMail attachement limit). Hopefully future versions will break up large files, then upload. Cool app though.. Thanks to 'Digital Wizard' for the link.

Cool Rocket Video

From BoingBoing:

In this clip (wmv), a wonderful bit of video from a camera in Peter Clay's two-staged Quantum Leap rocket. A few seconds into the flight, the fins appear to warp and distort. There's a raging debate over whether this was an optical illusion or an actual spasm in the fiberglass as the model plows through the "sound barrier."

Ohhh, this sucks.

Bad news on my side of the tracks it seems. Im having so many problems with my current forum right now since I switched from www.globat.com to www.1and1.com that I might have to start back over from scratch. I dont want to do that since my board has so many posts already. I am not getting any help from www.1and1.com or from www.invisionpower.com so whats a man to do? My forum is located at : www.damienbenoit.com/forum/ so if you guys can tell me whats wrong. Let me know. So far I changed the mySQL information to fit the new board but its not picking up. Ahhh What am I to do?

4G iPod - TransPod - Showcase Case

Ok here is the pictures I just took today of my iPod and the accessories that I got with it. I love them both also. The transpod works excellent and the quality is 10 times better than the itrip which i had before. Its perfect.

Adobe Premiere/Photoshop Elements

Adobe announces a new family of products for the home that makes telling your stories with photos, video, or both a breeze.

Tell your story with photos. The leading consumer photo-editing software now offers so much more than before. With great editing features plus intuitive organization and sharing capabilities, Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 3.0 for Windows software delivers a powerful all-in-one solution.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 for Macintosh software puts the power in your hands to perfect and transform your digital photos like a pro.

Tell your story with video. Whether you are brand-new to home movie making or a veteran, Adobe Premiere® Elements software offers the perfect combination of creative control and reliability for home video editing. It automates tedious tasks so you're free to create cool effects and transitions and easily burn your movies to DVD.

Tell your stories with photos and video together. Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 plus Adobe Premiere Elements provides the perfect solution and the best value. This powerful, intuitive combination allows you to edit photos and video and create custom DVDs.

OMG, Amazing Bomb!

This is a must see. Its like the biggest bomb explosition I ever seen with a homevideo camera taking the video. I aas amazed after I watched this and I can bet if you havent seen it already, you will be too : (right click, save target as...) http://members.cox.net/angela.stevenson/11may04jdam_wsep.mpg http://members.cox.net/angela.stevenson/11may04jdam_bda.mpg (right click, save target as...)

You must remember to clean!

National clean your PC day

After receiving these pictures from a viewer, I declare today "National clean your PC day". So grab some spray air, and get started!

+krose (got this from kevinrose.com)

Right Now

If you guys dont already have Mozilla's Firefox (which is now out of beta) then you must get it. Its probably the best browser out there for sure. You should really check it out. And the big thing is there is a race against The Screen Savers and other companies to see who gets the most people to get Firefox, The Screen Savers were winning but now they are falling behind so if you clikc that link at the top to get firefox, then it will give The Screen Savers another point besides just going to their link. Thanks alot. Its a must to check it out. It has tabbed browsing, and tons of skins & extenstions to make your browsing much more fun. Makes things faster and the best part : IT DOESN'T HAVE ALL THE SECURITY HOLES THAT IE HAS.

Yellowdog Linux 4.0 Released

From Terra Soft: Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 is a complete, Fedora, RPM-based operating system for PowerPC computers. Yellow Dog Linux version 4.0, rebuilt from Fedora source, this will be Terra Soft's most powerful offering to date. Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 will offer an intuitive, flexible graphical installer, 1300 packages on 8 CDs (4 Install, 4 Source), a unified KDE and GNOME desktop environment featuring shared menus, applications, and user interface ... and of course, support for the Apple G5 Power Macs! Based upon the 'Anaconda' installer engine, the Yellow Dog Linux Installer leverages automated, advanced hardware detection; provides on-screen help, flexible package selection, multiple install methods (CD-ROM, FTP, HTTP, NFS), creation of ext3 partitions, embedded XFree86 (video) testing, multiple ethernet and wireless port configuration, and automated partition creation. Time to bring your G5 Power Mac, G4 iBook and PowerBook, and USB-G3 to life! More:

• Terra Soft's Yellowdog website
• Yellowdog support