Looks like they came out with a second episode for the Meet the Beckers Audi car commercials.  Love how Audi is coming directly after their competitors!

In using the Discover feature of Google Reader I ran across another photoblog. This one does not update as frequent as the other one I have found in the past but still he has some amazing photography.

Check it out: Justin Gaynor Photography

This website allows you to test you typing speed and will help you learn to become a better typer. I thought this was funny because it reminded me of my keyboarding class where we would have a sheet of paper blocking the keyboard and we had to type. Of course I started the class with about 65 words per minute with about 80% accuracy. According to this site I am about 55 words per minute 99% accuracy. Sort of a fun little test.

Keybr.com

PlayOn TV is an application that you download for your PC and basically it allows your computer to stream from Hulu and Netflix watch it now.  It then takes that video and passes it on to your PS3 so you can watch everything on your TV. 

Verdict: IT WORKS!! REALLY WELL!! after watching new episodes of Family Guy and the Office, I was very impressed with the Hulu functionality.  Then I decided to try and stream Netflix.  I added some videos to my watch now queue and then looked it up through PlayOn.  It works, no codec’s no error messages it just works!  The only thing with the Netflix streaming I noticed is the buffer rate has not been perfected so you can catch up to your download while watching, this means that the video becomes a little jerky.  that is something to expect from Beta version software.  I found out when this happens just pause it for about 5 mins and then start again and it should be fine.

I actually think that this software would be worth buying because finally they bridged the gap between my computer and my TV.  Although it is not hard to plug in my laptop to the VGA port on my TV this makes things a whole lot easier.

PlayOn by the MediaMall

This is a new Audi commercial that they just started releasing and it is hilarious. I love the fact that Audi has decided to go straight after their competition and show just how old school and outdated they are. Made me laugh out loud when I saw it!

Wordpress has a functionality that I have never used before that allows you to create pages rather than just posts. I never really found a reason for this until recently where I decided to change my landing page to go to this new page in my blog I created. After creating the page I didn’t like the fact it had a post date, a category classification, and the comments section. Looking into Wordpress.org I found out how I can attach a specific template file to a specific page. This was pretty easy but I figured I would write it down so I wouldn’t have to search for it again.

1. Copy the page.php file from the current theme
2. Create a new file with the copied contents from page.php
3. Add the following code snippet to the new file

<?php /* Template Name: About */ ?>

4. Edit the file to be how you want it, and upload to your template directory
5. In Wordpress when editing or creating the page you should see a new dropdown that allows you to choose the page template (see image for post)

That’s it now you have a new customized page template for whatever you want to do!

This is a nice little program.  The other day I was getting tired of looking at the same car picture in the background of my desktop.  With this handy little application you can set it to look at folders, Flickr, Picasa, FaceBook, Yahoo and a few other applications for images.  Then you can set your image rotation time to hours or days or just every time you log on.

It also allows you to set a different background for each monitor and you can also have it create collages on the fly.  This is a lightweight application and the price is just right (Free)!

Check out their site for the latest version and as always I have attached a version to this post as well.

Background Switcher

Process Explorer is basically Task Manager on steroids. It actually makes managing process more intuitive and easier to manage.  It allows you to see the process trees and see how much each process is taking up graphically.

Below is the most current file and of course the link to the software site.  I think one of the reasons this software is so good is Microsoft didn’t write it but they did end up buying the company that did originally product the software.

Link to Process Explorer

For the 100th time I was looking around the internet for an application that would let me sync my Outlook calendar from work with my calendar on my cell phone. This time I actually found something that will do that and much more.

BitPim is a free open source application that allows you to manage every aspect of your phone and then upload back to your phone. You can edit/save your contacts, calendar, pictures, ring tones, T9 settings, SMS just about everything your phone does. This is great because I do not have to pay Verizon for the service. You just plug in your phone via USB and sync it is very helpful.

I have attached the file to this post but you should probably get the latest version from the website:  BitPim I just attached the file in case the application disappears as sometimes they tend to do.  And since this is working currently with my LG Dare I might as well post the working version.

Every time I see this video I just laugh. I can only imagine what they jumped off of to do this to her!