Darren Carter: Pictures from The Ice House February 18, 2009
Posted by very in : Announcement, Comedian, Comedy, Entertainment, Humor, Media, News, Pictures, Resources, Tech , add a commentDarren Carter was recording his second CD at The Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena on February 13th, 2009. Carter performed and recorded two sold out shows that cold and rainy night. Slated for June 2009 release, the yet untitled CD is now going into post productions. In the meantime, Carter will be performing at Funny Bone in Cincinnati, Ohio this weekend.
A few pictures of Darren Carter performing at The Ice House Comedy Club:
Stay tuned for more news on Darren Carter new CD here and Darren Carter’s sites.
www.darrencarter.com
Darren Carter WordPress Blog
Darren Carter’s MySpace Page
Laugh Factory Long Beach: My Funny Valentine February 17, 2009
Posted by very in : Announcement, Comedian, Comedy, Entertainment, Humor, Media, News, Resources, Reviews, TV , add a commentFebruary 14th, 2009.
Laugh Factory Long Beach had two sold out shows on one of the most ridiculously made up day of the year, Valentine’s Day. Patrons were lining up outside the venue, waiting to be seated. Temperature was steadily dropping as the night rolled on. The first show was scheduled to go on 7:45 PM, and the host of the show didn’t get to take the stage an hour later. Darren Carter was one of the comics to perform on the first show. Having just recorded his second live CD the night before, Carter entertained the audience with his staple bits.
The audience for the second show started lining up outside the venue shortly after the first show started. The second show started close to 11:00 PM, 85 minutes later than scheduled. Last minute line-up changes took some of the fans by surprise as some of them came to the show to see certain comics. Some fans expressed their disappointments when they found out the comic they came to see were seemingly replaced at the last minute. Jill-Michele Meleán was scheduled to host the second show only to be replaced by Frazer Smith without explanations. Meleán ended up hosting Midnight Show at Laugh Factory Hollywood.
Overall, the night was a smashing success. The Valentine crowds were entertained and the venue had two huge sold out shows. There are a lot of wrinkles for Laugh Factory to iron out to make itself the destination for attraction in the Long Beach area. Laugh Factory Long Beach is no stranger to last minute line-up changes. On its grand opening show, many comics were advertised but ended up absent from the show.
Panasonic HDC-SD100: Raw AVCHD Sample February 8, 2009
Posted by very in : Announcement, Applications, Apps, AVCHD, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Leopard, Mac OS X, Media, Movies, News, Resources, Reviews, Tech , add a commentPanasonic HDC-SD100 is the third Panasonic AVCHD Camcorder that I use. The first one is Panasonic HDC-SD5 and followed by Panasonic HDC-SD9.
I am really impressed with the video quality of HDC-SD5 while I have mixed results with HDC-SD9. It is possible that I have a defective unit, and I did send it back to Panasonic for evaluation and repair. Unfortunately nothing has changed since.
My HDC-SD9 unit has a really poor low light performance even compared to the HDC-SD5 unit. I am hoping that HDC-SD100 would perform better than HDC-SD9 under the same lighting.
I tested Panasonic HDC-SD100 in-store, and recorded two videos on two different settings. The first one is recorded in 24p Digital Cinema Mode while the other is recorded in 60i mode. You can download the disk images below. Both disk images are in .iso format and zipped/compressed to save some disk space and bandwidth.
- Panasonic HDC-SD100 Raw AVCHD disk image recorded in 24p mode (58.9MB)
- Panasonic HDC-SD100 Raw AVCHD disk image recorded in 60i mode (58.0MB)
As of the date of this posting, iMovie ’09 will not import 24p AVCHD video from the camcorder or the disk.
I will be posting more videos recorded using Panasonic HDC-SD100 and some of the Raw AVCHD files.
About iPhone Carrier Update February 7, 2009
Posted by very in : Announcement, Apple, Applications, Apps, iPhone, iTunes, Leopard, Mac OS X, Media, News, Resources, Tech, Vista, Windows , 1 comment so farApple pushes “iPhone Carrier Update” through iTunes sometimes late Friday Night, Feb 06th 2009.
What is it? TUAW talks about it a little bit.
This is what’s inside the “iPhone Carrier Update” for AT&T network (ATT_US.ipcc 32KB)
From carrier.strings
The content corresponds with Carrier Services settings in the iPhone.
Content of carrier.plist
Some un-viewable PNG are also included.
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 is Released February 4, 2009
Posted by very in : Announcement, Applications, Apps, Leopard, Linux, Mac OS X, Media, News, Resources, Security, Tech, Vista, Windows , add a comment
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 is now available for download through Mozilla.org, Mozilla.com and Firefox autoupdate.
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 fixes severeal issues found in version 3.0.5, read the Release Notes here.
Mozilla Firefox is available for multiple Operating Systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
