Megadeth “United Abominations”: Three New Song Titles are Revealed

Dave Mustaine in Megadeth Official Forums posting, has revealed three more song titles from the upcoming Megadeth album “United Abominations”:

  • Amerikhastan
  • Blessed Are The Dead
  • Never Walk Alone

Mustaine also mentions that “United Abominations” will have 11 songs for US release, and 1 additional song for Japanese release. He also reserves 2 extra songs for later use as “B-Sides”.

Other known and confirmed song titles from “United Abominations”:

  • United Abominations
  • Washington is Next
  • Gears of War
  • Out on The Tiles (cover of Led Zeppelin song)

“United Abominations” is tentatively scheduled for release in March 2007.

http://forums.megadeth.com/showthread.php?p=7574234 (free registration required)

I Need More RAM to Run Windows Vista

I have been using Windows Vista on my HP notebook. I only have 768MB of RAM. Running Vista on this moderately powerful computer is not a walk in the park. The weakest link is the integrated Radeon Mobility XPress 200 with 128MB shared RAM. It got the experience rating of 2, while the other components got 3 to 3.5 rating.

Anyone wants to donate 2x1GB PC2700 SO-DIMM? It’s for HP L2005US

Just a shot in the dark.

Links for MacWorld Live Coverage

UPDATE:
Thanks to slower-than-modem Wi-Fi connection I had been unable to add the links on time.
I have added more links after Steve Jobs’ Keynote ends. The coverage provided great insight on the Keynote.

Watch the Keynote webcast
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/keynote/
or
http://www.apple.com/iphone/keynote/

Many Mac-sites will be providing live coverage on Steve Jobs’ Keynote on Macworld San Francisco. More links will be added as they post their links to MacWorld Live Coverage.

MacScoophttp://keynote.macscoop.com/

LoopRumors – http://www.looprumors.com/keynote.php

Mac Rumorshttp://www.macrumors.com/events/mwsf2007.html

Mac OS Rumorshttp://specialevent.macosrumors.com:17530/

Think Secrethttp://www.thinksecret.com/news/0701mwsflive.html

The Mac Observerhttp://live.macobserver.com/article/2007/01/mwsfkeynote.shtml

Macsimum Newshttp://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/todays_the_day_steve_jobs_mwsf_keynote/

MacDailyNewshttp://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/12203/

I will be posting updates from MacWorld.

WordPress Tag Surfer Time Machine

I use the “Tag Surfer” feature often enough, and just now for some reasons it shows much older postings from 7 months and 7 years ago. What is going on???

WordPress Admins, this must be a glitch.

Click on the pictures for actual size.

WordPress Tag Surfer - Top Page, posts from 6 monhts ago. WordPress Tag Surfer - Middle of Page, posts from 7 years ago.

Yahoo! Hostings and WordPress 2.0.6

I have been using Yahoo! for my personal web-hosting for almost a year now. I also manage a few other sites hosted by Yahoo! and they have been relatively problem-free (not including the database crash I had a few months back).

When I started a blog on my personal site, I chose WordPress based on recommendations, reviews, and personal experience. One thing that I thought was great was that Yahoo! offers automatic WordPress software upgrade, and I chose that option. Currently my blog is still running WordPress 2.0.2 while version 2.0.6 was just released. I had contacted Yahoo! customer and technical support regarding the WordPress version. Unfortunately Yahoo! deems that there is no need to upgrade WorPress automatically, nor offers an easy to upgrade it manually.

Honestly I am a little bit “miffed” with Yahoo! on this matter. I have been searching for some documentations on upgrading WordPress using Yahoo! web-hosting. So far, I have found none.

I am currently running a mirror of my blog hosted by the good folks at WordPress.com and it has been generally excellent. One thing that I recently found out is that a little rant that I had might cause a little inconvenience with WordPress.com administrators.

Anyway, I am still looking for some instructions, informations, and feedback on upgrading WordPress using Yahoo! web-hosting.

The answer might lie here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/83231

No Sleep ’till MacWorld San Francisco 2007

My Colleague and I are going to MacWorld San Francisco 2007. Thanks to the people who’s providing us some funds for lodging and transportation. We will be staying somewhere nearby the Moscone Center. Let’s see what Apple would do this year.

I’ll be somewhat reporting the whole trip to, at, and from MacWorld. As always, I’ll be posting entries on my blogs (37primeBlog and 37prime.worpress.com). I’ll attempt posting on both blogs at the same time, if possible. Most likely I’d be posting first on my main blog (37primeBlog), and add the entries to the “mirror” (37prime.wordpress.com) later on. My trusty MacBook Pro will be accompanying me along with my digital camera and video camera.

I am highly anticipating the arrival of the much fabled “Apple phone”. My current phones are at least 2 and 3 years old (Sony-Ericsson T616 and T637), both share 1 SIM card. Both phone don’t really work that well, and I’ve been swithcing between the two for the past few months.

No surprises when it comes to the iLife ’07 and iWork ’07; they are coming with some enhancements.

I have heard a  thing or two about the “iTV”; none of the rumor sites ever mentioned them. I trust my sources for the informations. If only they woud make Mac mini with “iTV” functionalities.

The usual upgrades/updates to Macintosh line would be no brainer. Then again, Apple will be releasing new and updated products throughout the first quarter of 2007. Special event in February? By doing so, Apple will stay in the media spotlight (no pun intended, or is it?) throughout the quarter and the year.

Many speculate that Apple would be releasing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on MacWorld. It’s such a wishful thinking based on the current state of Leopard Developer Preview Releases. Apple has not released any Leopard with Release Candidate label. To paraphrase Leo Laporte who’s quoting someone else, “Wouldn’t it be great for Apple to release Leopard two weeks before the actual Windows Vista release date?”

This is quite a long post……..

…to be continued

…maybe

p.s. Yes, the title was from Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep ’till Brooklyn”

iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0.1 and Windows Vista

There has been reports that iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0.1 is not compatible with Windows Vista, I cannot confirm this as of yet. My main Windows computer currently runs Windows Vista RC2 Build 5744. I also run Windows Vista RTM (Business and Ultimate) on different computers.

According to Apple Support, iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0.1 for Windows System Requirements:

  • Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
  • Windows XP with Service Pack 2

I will test the iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0.1 with Windows Vista (RC2 and RTM). Watch for this post for the result soon.

On Windows Vista RC2 Build 5744, iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0.1 failed to install.
(screen capture to be added later)

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