The first video podcast is up. Loud background noises and some profanities are included.
http://37prime.com/podcast/
Carlos Alazraqui talks about Reno 911!, short movies with Cedric Yarbrough, Anna Nicole Smith, and some other stuff.
Carlos Alazraqui Video Podcast
Finally I finish editing the video podcast for Carlos Alazraqui. I sent him the videos and waiting for his editorial inputs. We’re gonna put it up somewhere on the net also, maybe on his MySpace page.
Carlos, get on your Mac and watch the videos.
Carlso Alazraqui can be seen on the big screen in Reno 911!: Miami The Movie starting February 23rd, 2007. He also appears on NBC’s “Las Vegas” as Julio the janitor on Friday 23rd, 2007 episode.
Reno 911! – Movie Premiere and Carlos Alazraqui
Reno 911!: Miami The Movie Premiere will be held at Mann’s Chinese Theater on February 15th at 7:30 pm. The red carpet event will be atended by the main cast members. According to Carlos Alazraqui (Deputy James Oswaldo Garcia), the cast members will be arriving as their respective characters to the premiere.
I sat down with Carlos Alazraqui at The Hollywood Improv on Wednesday Night shortly after his stand-up performance. We talked about Reno 911! movie, his projects, and some other stuff. I will be posting the video after I finished editing it and showing it to Carlos. Check back for the exclusive official video podcast of Carlos Alazraqui at 37prime!
Carlos Alazraqui plays a janitor named “Julio” on NBC’s “Las Vegas” scheduled to air on February 23rd; the same night Reno 911! movie opens in theatres.
Carlos Alazraqui and Cedric Yarbrough (Deputy S. Jones) just finished working on a short-short film soon to appear somewhere, maybe on the internet.
Reno 911! is scheduled to shoot the fifth season sometimes in March 2007. More info to follow.
AppleTV at Intel Website
I was looking for an Intel motherboard drivers, and I saw AppleTV page on Intel Website.
SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 1.0.1.145 is Available
Previously, I downloaded SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 1.0.1.144 on January 1st 2007 and had a few trouble using it. It required SlingBox firmware upgrade but whenever I launched Slingbox Setup Assistant it always said that it was expired. After a little bit of fiddling around, the SlingPlayer worked without upgrading Slingbox firmware. The Slingbox Setup Assistant still unusable because it’s still expired.
Today I downloaded SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 and the version turned out to be 1.0.1.145. I have yet tried upgrading the Slingbox firmware.
This time I ran the SlingPlayer Uninstaller before installing the latest SlingPlayer. I then launched Slingbox Setup Assistant and it didn’t come up with expiration message. So far, so good. The next thing I need to do next is to upgrade the Slingbox firmware from within the local network.
http://www.slingmedia.com/
http://us.slingmedia.com/object/KB-005161.html
SlingBox Pro @ Amazon
SlingBox AV @ Amazon
SlingBox Tuner @ Amazon
Post CES and MacWorld Blues
Now that CES and MacWorld are over, it’s time to look back.
CES is still a much larger event and yet it was eclipsed by Steve Jobs’ MacWorld Keynote. Once again, Apple stole CES’ thunder. I am still processing and formulating the information overloads from CES and MacWorld.
Let’s see.
MacWorld
- Apple iPhone, AppleTV, and the new Airport Extreme base station. No real news about Mac OS X, Macs, and other softwares from Apple.
- ModBook – A tablet Mac.
- No GPS support on Mac OS X from Garmin
- …to becontinued
CES
- XBox 360 HD video and larger hard drive.
- Something about Windows Vista and its variants.
- Sling Media’s SlingCatcher.
- Tons of other products, to be added later.
This will take a while for me to write something interesting regarding CES and MacWorld.
Look! It’s a Phone, It’s an iPod, It’s a MacPhone!
A short editorial
On January 9, 2006 Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced the much rumored Apple iPhone during his annual keynote at MacWorld San Francisco. As written on Apple website: “Introducing iPhone. Apple reinvents the phone.”
For the last 3 years Apple has been rumored to have been working on a phone-like device. Apple and Motorola introduced Motorola ROKR, an iTunes-enabled phone on September 7, 2005 and somewhat closed a chapter on the rumor. Motorola has since then released other iTunes-enabled phones such as RAZR V3 and KRZR.
Apple iPhone is a different breed compared to any iTunes-enabled phones. Its appearance resembles more like an iPod than a phone. There are other smart phones with touch screen, but Apple strives to make its iPhone to be a class of its own. Underneath its shell, Apple iPhone runs a variant of Mac OS X. Its capabilities make Apple iPhone more like a Mac than a phone.
Steve Jobs on his keynote said that Apple would like to capture 1% of Mobile Phone market, or about 10 million units. Should Apple be able to reach that goal, they would be shipping an additional 10 million of Mac OS X. It is a surprise that Apple didn’t call it “MacPhone”.
Apple iPhone is tentatively scheduled for release in June 1007.