First, let me begin by saying that I have been an Adam Betts fan for quite a while now. His artwork is simply stunning and endlessly inspiring for me. I visit his site often to see what new eye candy he has published. Back in May (or June maybe), I installed his flag pack (really only one of them) for the Old Glory screensaver and have had it running the apple logo flag as my screensaver ever since. The other day while sitting in a coffee shop, I was chatting with another Mac user when my screensaver came on to my laptop screen. I was greeted by a “Wow! Where’d you get that?” I promptly informed him and he started downloading. The incident immediately reminded me that I hadn’t shared the information via iBAM either and I should do so in case there were others that might have interest as well. So here it is, the link to Adam Betts’ Old Glory flag images post and his brief tutorial on how to install them. Enjoy!

I saw this great post over at lifehacker a few days ago that really talked about all the best ways to stay on top of the new TV season.

I agree that the traditional way of watching television really isnt the best way, and so here are the 5 top ways I can think of.

1) TVEase.net

These guys are really on to something. Its like TiVO on crack. They take the tivo, but add all of your music, your dvd’s, old genesis and NES games, and a web browser (and much more) and roll it all into a killer device. Oh.. and they dont charge a monthly fee! Check them out!

2) iTunes/AppleTV

iTunes sells most of the shows we want, except for some NBC stuff like Heroes. These are all good options, but Heroes is literally one of the only shoes I watch.

3) Amazon’s Unbox/TiVO/DirectTV

Everyone knows TiVO (and the cox, directTV, comcast versions) But with a monthly fee and literally only 2-3 shows I watch, it just doesnt make sense to me. I get all my HDTV with an Over-The-Air TV antenna and avoid all the monthly cable bills.

4) BitTorrent/Democracy/Miro/TIOTI

Basically stealing You have to be careful with BitTorrent. I’ve heard of people receiving letters from their ISP. I recommend taking this warning seriously.

5) Joost

Joost is a cross platform (Windows/Mac), freeware television streaming application. There is a decent selection here but still no Heroes, Lost or Rescue Me.

Hope this helps, and may inspire some of you!

Apple officially launched it’s new web apps page for iPhone. All sorts of web based goodies for your iPhone Apple - Web apps

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I had a meeting today in Scottsdale so I decided to swing by AJ’s after my meeting and get some email, iced tea and post some updates. I posted a MeToday, Snapped a picture of my workspace, wrote this post and nearly drowned in a sea of bleached blond hair, implants and injections of all sorts, expensive perfume and and uncountable slew of “fabulous” froof. Seriously though, I think there must have been some sort of froof convention going on near AJ’s today. In the last 10 minutes, I have seen more “plastic people” walk by than I care to count. I’m totally not a judgmental freak or anything, I just couldn’t believe some of these people and their “over-alterations”. All I can say is “WOW!” Anyway, I got a lot of work done, caught you all up on my shenanigans and now I’m off to my next meeting. Catch ‘ya next time.