Back in school (elementary, middle, high school, and freshman year of college) I played the flute in band, so I have great appreciation for this video where someone uses a flute to "sing" in Rock Band.  Very cool!

An indie film called Ink got a lot of free marketing when it became a popular torrented movie.
It caused interest about the movie on IMDB to skyrocket, and
supposedly interest in the movie’s release on disc is high as a
result. Instead of the filmmakers whining about this and crying,
“Piracy!” they are grateful for the attention torrenting has built up.
I’ve never heard of this movie before reading this article, but I’m
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Last night I posted about the Asus T91MT, already tempted by such an inexpensive convertible Tablet PC device.  Well, earlier this morning, a Twitter buddy, Rodfather, just posted a link to an intro video for the Asus device that makes the T91MT even more tempting.  Even though the video is clearly a simulation and doesn’t show how things actually work on the T91MT, I was impressed by two things in the video: 1) it seems that Asus has implemented palm rejection, which I didn’t think they would do in a netbook, and 2) there’s multitouch, and Asus has a kiosk-y UI and built-in apps that seem to make good use of multitouch.  I like this trend of manufacturers putting a “skin” over the device’s OS to make things easier to use, or faster to boot up.  Since the T91MT is going to be a Windows 7 netbook (the first one, IIRC), you will have both the ease of use of the “kiosk OS”, and the power of a full Windows OS (or Linux if you decide to change things up) for when you’re not just browsing or checking e-mail.  Perhaps now I will finally get a netbook of my own.  I’ll be watching the T91MT with great interest!

Last night I posted about the Asus T91MT, already tempted by such an inexpensive convertible Tablet PC device.  Well, earlier this morning, a Twitter buddy, Rodfather, just posted a link to an intro video for the Asus device that makes the T91MT even more tempting.  Even though the video is clearly a simulation and doesn’t show how things actually work on the T91MT, I was impressed by two things in the video: 1) it seems that Asus has implemented palm rejection, which I didn’t think they would do in a netbook, and 2) there’s multitouch, and Asus has a kiosk-y UI and built-in apps that seem to make good use of multitouch.  I like this trend of manufacturers putting a “skin” over the device’s OS to make things easier to use, or faster to boot up.  Since the T91MT is going to be a Windows 7 netbook (the first one, IIRC), you will have both the ease of use of the “kiosk OS”, and the power of a full Windows OS (or Linux if you decide to change things up) for when you’re not just browsing or checking e-mail.  Perhaps now I will finally get a netbook of my own.  I’ll be watching the T91MT with great interest!

The Kindle PC app (beta) is finally here.  I had to load it immediately on my Toshiba M200 to test it out, and for a version 1.0 app, it's not too bad.  There's a lot of wasted space on the screen with those gray margins on the left and right, but you can tap in those areas to go forward or back a page.  Luckily for me, I can also use the M200's little joystick to turn the pages.  This is going to be fun to use on a large and high-res screen (though the M200's screen seems so dim compared to my MacBook).  Can't wait for the app to drop for the Mac.  This app is another reason why a Mac tablet form factor would be an awesome thing to have.