Already?

This might come to a surprise to some. Even I find that it came fast. Yes, it’s time for another countdown :

9 Days Until the Macworld Keynote!

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EBA to iTunes Converter

I found this simple way to convert the music from Elite Beat Agents to an iTunes and iPod compatible format. All you need to do is click on these links and click on “Buy”. Told you it was simple.

Walkie Talkie Man

Jumpin‘ Jack Flash

Y.M.C.A.

Rock This Town

Material Girl

Without a Fight

Sk8er Boi

September

Highway Star

You’re the Inspiration

Canned Heat

La La

Let’s Dance

I Was Born to Love You

Makes No Difference

The Anthem

Believe

Survivor

ABC

Insane Beats and Live Sports

If you’re looking for a challenge for the DS, Elite Beat Agents is that challenge. It can change from a breeze to a torture test in the span of a cut scene and leave your brain scared with a song for the rest of your life. I think I heard Jumpin‘ Jack Flash far too many times. Yet, somehow, it’s all fun and I’m somehow compelled to buy it on iTunes. Go figure! I’m planning to do a full review on the game soon.

Just to let you know, I’m planning also on making… wait for it… a Wii Sports video review! One of the great pluses of EyeTV is that I can record video from it. The downside of that is the fact that I see video during recordings on an about one second delay. It’s hard to show your skills with that so don’t be pissed if the gameplay footage seems like it’s from a first-time player. I already recorded all the video for the review. Now I need to organize the audio, record it and edit it all together.

How Nintendo Was Cheep with Wiimote Straps

I was playing with my DS one day and I looked at it’s strap. It looked awfully sturdy. Then that got me thinking : is it just me or is the DS strap thicker than the original Wiimote straps? Maybe it’s just because it’s black compared to white. Well, today I got a second Wiimote with what seems to be the reinforced straps. Here’s a picture for you. The top Wiimote (Player 2) has the reinforced strap, the bottom Wiimote (Player 1) has a broken launch day strap – pardon the messy condition of the strap – and at the bottom is a launch day classic DS strap. Put on top of each other, the DS strap does seem larger that the launch day Wiimote strap. Now, I’ll be the first not to only blame Nintendo for broken straps but you have to wonder : Why would they use cheaper straps for products that were going to be flung around than for products that where going to stay firmly in your hands with no movement (except when playing WarioWare : Twisted, that is).

I’m Back

I’m back from vacation. A lot happen : Someone broke my wrist strap, I traded in Rayman and got Elite Beat Agents and Excite Truck and I can play with my Wii on my Mac with my new EyeTV Hybrid.

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On Vacation

I might not be posting here because I’m off for Christmas. So Happy Holidays and see you soon! Don’t forget to share your Wiis!

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Get your YouTube Wii Fix

The (ex-)sweet thing about the new Browser for Wii was that it worked with YouTube, even in full screen mode! The utimate way to surf YouTube… until it stopped working. Seems Opera is trying to straiten things out but until then embedded video seems to still work so how about visiting stumbleupon.com (Thanks to Scobleshow for pointing it out). You can channal surf all the different video sites with it, including YouTube.

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Super Parallel-alisious

Beta 2 of the new Parallels Desktop for Mac is out and man, is there some suuuweeet stuff. Not only is seting up a Boot Camp based virtual machine easier, you can launch Windows apps strait in OS X! Each Windows app you open now gets logged in your dock (their icon appear like any other Mac app). They aren’t at the “only thing I need” level yet but Parallel’s getting there. Oh and NO MORE REACTIVATING! Woo-hoo!

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Audio Boost

My 13 or 15 inch mono-sound TV is far from the experience I was hoping to have when playing the Wii but it’s what I got for now. I am planning on getting an Elgato eyeTV Hybrid to play on my Mac but as if only having mono-sound, the speakers suck. Playing Zelda with it is far from ideal. But like I said : it’s all I got.

I was playing with a little connector today I got with my iMic. It was a Red and White audio to audio jack connector and that got me thinking. I plugged in the Wii’s audio in one end and the other in the microphone jack in my Mac. I fired up GarageBand, set it to capture the correct input, added a real instrument track and in it’s Track info panel, set Monitor to On. Voilà! My Wii was playing audio into my MacBook Pro’s speakers and it sounded great! Now, if only I could get that Wiimote speaker to sound better…

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Weather’s here and Browser’s coming

The Wii’s weather channel is up. It’s pretty nice, especially the globe. Is it useful? Might be to some. Also, the “beta” version of the browser should come on the 22nd and should go for 500 points after the free period. I’m really interested in the browser. It might not be very useful seeing how the Wii next to my Mac but it’s cool!

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The Lights Are on But There’s no One Home

The iPhone is coming… from Linksys. That wasn’t funny, Gizmodo.

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I won!

I was wondering when they were going to choose me. I won TIME’s Person of the Year. You too. Heck, everyone who blogs, posts on YouTube or plain old surfs won. Because “You” are the person of the year. Nice choice, TIME, nice choice!

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Old Firends

Earlier this week, I reinstalled RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 in my Boot Camp Win XP. I’m a big fan of the series and I own the original with it’s expansions, the sequel (no expansions) and the third version (no expansions… yet). I’m surprised at what was added to the game with the patches. Both waterfalls and underground construction have been added to the original game without the expansions (both are included in the Soaked! expansion pack). I’ll be building a park in the game and I’ll make sure to put pictures on my blog.

I’ll also be getting latter today a Wii Points card! I’m planning on downloading Soinc and Super Mario 64 and I’ll tell you how it went.

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Replace Your Straps and Save Your Electronics

Already snapped you Wiimote strap?  Maybe you haven’t yet but you don’t want to risk it. Nintendo is offering to replace it’s wimpy straps with thicker ones to prevent breakage. All you need to do is enter you Wii’s serial number and other info and they’ll send you one when they are ready (which is on the 21st). I already reserved mine. I don’t really have worries but hey, better be safe than sorry!

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Ring, Ring, Ring Goes the Telephone

Do you cross your heart and hope to die? Yes? Well, I guess it’s true then. Looks like Gizmodo swears that the one-and-only iPhone is coming, no, not at MacWorld but Monday! Apple Christmas (a.k.a. MacWorld ‘07 Keynote) is coming early! They better not be lieing or there will be hell to pay and hundreds of Apple fans to serve it up.

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Guess Who’s Back!

I have collected a rather big selection of great Apple related clips with the MacTV Podcast, which unfortunately, no longer exists. I don’t watch them too often but I had them and with MacTV gone, this is a priceless collection (in both the “valuable” and “valueless” senses). I have the full white iBook unveiling, Apple’s Final Cut Pro NAB promos and more! MacTV has been off line for a long time (ok, a couple of months but it seems long) so you can just guess my shock when I got a new episode of MacTV today! They are mostly “reruns” but you can catch Apple’s 2006 Holiday promo. I’m really glad MacTV’s back. I was scared Apple Legal got them or something!

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the alt is out! And the lawsuit is in!

I just updated the alt by adding each and every section of the main site and taking off the “Beta” from the title. Let’s hope they get filled quickly!

In other news, Nintendo get’s sued. As awful as this is, I’m not really shocked. Or worried. They probably just want some money.

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the alt (beta) is online!

The main site and the forums at the-alt.net are up and running! Although the site isn’t fully finished (thus the “beta” in the name), you can sign up and have fun!

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the alt is coming…

I’m happy to announce that I have just registered with SiteGround for hosting and soon the “the-alt.net” domain should be mine. That means the launch of the new iSwitched site, the alt, is just around the corner! I’ll be playing around with the SiteGround features and set things up in the coming days. I’d like to thank again Don McAllister from ScreenCasts Online who, with his screencast about SiteGround, got me to make the alt. By using his referral link, it seems my thanks will be heard with 3 months of free hosting. Hope you enjoy them!

I’ll keep you posted as the site get’s up and running.

Companies That Make Me Loose Hope in Humanity

It seems company these days are just looking to make idiots of themselves. I guess it’s time to start the “Companies That Make Me Loose Hope in Humanity” list.

-First up is Sony : They are able to blow up our laptops, infest us with malware and make the next-gen of gaming inaccessable to nearly everyone (not to mention the whole of Europe). I know of few companies that can screw up so many times in about a year’s time.

-Then there’s Universal : The explanation is here. I hope the door hits ‘em in the rear after Steve Jobs tell them where to put their iPod royalties.

-Finally, you have our friends at BenQ, who thought that the worst terrorist attack in the US equals an advertising opportunity. That’s just sick and wrong. And please, just like MacDailyNews says, boycot them, not just until they apologise. Keep it up forever. No company with a quarter of a brain would do something so tastless.

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Same Old, Different New

Warning : The following post contains Zelda spoilers. Just to help you, I’m beginning the third dungeon.

Zelda’s becoming rather interesting. After I cleared the second province of Twilight, I got a bit scared of impending mundane-ety when I got told to go the next dungeon… just like the last spirit of light told me. Fortunately, the story got mixed around a little and I had some other things to deal with before attacking the dungeon. I also realised that I like my game characters like my meat : Well done. I’m no master of the analog stick so Link got burnt badly and repeatedly at the beginning of the Gordon Mines. I finally go a hold of the stick and things when pretty smoothly afterwards. That’s until I got to the point where you need to bring the Zora kid back to town where the shaman is. those guys sure got grilled well, more that one, too. And what’s with this stupid “Hero’s Main Love Interest Loosing Her Memory” story twist they got going? I nearly wanted to bang my head on my desk in disgust! Another thing that kinda bothered me was the creepy cut-seen after you cleared the third province of Twilight. That was freaky! All that white eyes and cloned characters is a bit too weird, if you ask me. Anyways, I’m about to kick some ass and/or get my ass kicked in the water dungeon with my cool new clothing (The green one has nothing on this one, and I like green. That’s how cool they are.)

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Parallel-alisious

“Another major enhancement in the new version — labeled Parallels Desktop for Mac Beta Build 3036 — will allow a pre-installed Apple Boot Camp partition with Windows XP to be used as a virtual hard disk drive. Users of the software will be able to boot from that Boot Camp partition directly from within Parallels Desktop, forgoing a restart,” Lane reports.

Lane reports, “Another long awaited feature slated to make its debut is ’seamless drag-and-drop’ of files and folders between Windows and Max OS X. Along the same lines, a feature called ‘coherency,’ will display Windows applications as if they were Mac ones.”

MacDailyNews | Parallels preps major update to Desktop for Mac virtualization software with Boot Camp support

Ohhhh, man! I going to have to reinstall XP on Boot Camp. Sure, it’s work but it’s worth it for this! Daaang, thoes are nice features!

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Party like it’s Windows 95!

Woo-hoo! Windows Vista is out for businesses. After what could be summed up as possibly the longest time it took to make an OS, it’s out in about 3/4 it’s glory. After delaying past launch some features or strait out killing them, you’ll be able to get it next year in one of 309,283,271versions. In my case, I guess I’ll just have to wait a bit longer and actually experience something new.

Office also came out for businesses. Although I doubt it’s that much of a compelling upgrade from the last version when all you do it type basic stuff with it, It does have some interesting features and it’s ribbon navigation concept is worth a try.

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