‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’

This is too funny…

via @justinkeller

Dave Olson hangs with Leo

In quite possibly one of my favorite Lab with Leo segments ever, Dave Olson chats with Leo about his multimedia publishing empire that started back in the 80’s and how now with the internet, it’s all coming back around, except this time, you don’t have to pay for copies on his parents ditto machine.

Dave, we have to hang out again soon….it’s been too long!
 

Social Media in Plain English

Lee and Sachi are at it again…this time with ice cream!

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

Guitar Hero: On Tour - WTF?

I was really looking forward to this until I saw the commercial:

[Via Kotaku]

My AppleTV just got a lot more useful

I’ve had my AppleTV for awhile now and it’s great at doing a few things: playing back anything I have in my iTunes libraries on any Mac in my house (I have 4), renting and downloading movies from iTunes, viewing photos off Flickr and playing Youtube videos.

The only thing really missing from it, that I’m able to do with my Xbox 360 is play back divx video, ideally over my network as I have a large media server - I could even do this on my original Xbox using the Xbox Media Center. So close yet so far….until now.

There has been a number of ways to hack the AppleTV to make it more useful. Some are free and others cost money.

One friend tried the free way….but there is a lot of reading and gathering of files to do it. He was never able to get it working properly so he gave up and just restored the Apple TV to it’s factory state and went on his divx-less way.

Then one company got a lot of press because they were selling a usb thumb drive with all the files needed to just plug-in and go. While reading up on this company, I was directed to a site that had a members only forum ($15/year) where all the same software could be found as well as installation guides. Both of these for-pay options have been criticized for charging for work created by others and offered freely. I’ll let you decide what’s right or wrong in this case, after all you are hacking something. It was just easier for me to get a packaged download that was tested than to wade through endless forum/wiki posts trying to track down all that was needed.

Watching this video is what finally sold me (it’s long):

Needless to say if you watched the whole video, I am now able to easily watch nearly any format of video on my AppleTV while still being able to revert it back to factory should I need to. I’m able to stream anything over my local network and so far the playback has been pretty much flawless. I have run into a couple of bad videos but they are flaky on other machines as well so I’m not too concerned about it. The software is a little on the beta side but there are updates available from within the tools installed which will hopefully stabilize things even more.

There are a number of other plugins available for installation on the AppleTV once this hack is up and running and I’m just starting to explore them - like the Couch Surfer web browser (webkit) shown above. You have full ftp/ssh access to the AppleTV. It reminds me of the early days of hacking the iPhone and is just as fun.

I can’t help but think how many more AppleTV’s would be sold if Apple at least offered divx playback natively on it. After all, Microsoft and Sony both allow it on their game consoles (for free), but of course this would crash head-on into their digital media strategy with the iTunes store.

Muto

This is another amazing video I came across….”a wall-painted animation”.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Fucking amazing…I can’t imagine the amount of work that went into this short film.

Again & Again

Here’s a really creative music video done on a Mac:

I love stuff like this.

Via the big noob.

ps. check out the PC version as well

Update: TUAW has an interview with the director that made this video

MacBook - Thin Enough

The parodies keep on coming…

Via @Veronica

Family Guy Enters the Matrix

Too awesome not to post:

via Gizmodo

Batman: Gotham Knight

This looks pretty cool in the same vein as the Animatrix:

Straight to dvd….seems like it would be a cool thing to see in the theatre.