Geek: Introducing the new Quad Xeon Mac Pro

Not even the biggest PC fanboy can argue with how finger lickin good this one looks!

Geek: DirectVobSub - DivX Subtitle viewer plugin for Windows media player

This one may have been around a while, but I have only just found it!

This plugin puts configurable subtitles for DivX and Xvid movies into windows media player. Fonts can be resized, colours changed etc.

Apart from the fact that it works flawlessly, the thing I love about this plugin is that it really nicely anti-aliases the text and puts black outlines around it. Unlike many standalone players, the subtitles look like they were always part of the movie...wicked!

Download it now here.

Rant: Lost Series 3

Ok.

So I have now watched both Lost Series 1 and 2. Once again I bow to the amazing writers on the Lost Team. It is a stroke of genius to make almost 50 episodes of a programme that while gripping in parts, manage to leave the viewer not knowing a single solid fact about what is going on.

If you have not seen Lost, then I plead with you to never ever get "into it". Imagine being a Donkey, imagine a carrot being dangled in front of you for around 48 hours straight. After the 48 hours you hear rumours that you may have to wait for at least another 72 hours to even smell that juicy vegetable. Could you really be *arsed*?

Since series 2 I couldn't even be bothered to look online at how long it will be before we are enlightened with a final episode. An episode that answers all the questions that we used to be enthused about midway through this one. According to a friend of mine, the producers are planning on making seven series in total. If this is really true, i am afraid to say that this cynic will have to call it a day and look positively forward to the next season of the Sopranos.

Geek: Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less

Following on from my previous post ,here is at least some proof that purely because one platform gets bad press, it doesn't mean that the others are infallible.

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