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Having a system here in the house that runs Boxee as a front end has been wonderful, but the one thing every user of Boxee will say is that it needs to be updated. Well, the time has come – this fall!

What is Boxee, you ask? Well it’s this pretty awesome Media-Center that was originally made for Linux/Mac/Windows, then was put onto it’s own hardware called the “Boxee Box.” You can check it out at http://boxee.tv/.

Good news for PC/Mac/Linux users – we are working to update the downloadable software version of Boxee and hope to have builds available this fall so you can enjoy the updated browser, improved playback, and lots more content that are currently available on the Boxee Box.

We know Boxee users on computers have been frustrated with the long wait and we want to be open with you about our priorities, growth, and the future of Boxee.

Read the rest of the post at the Boxee Blog.

UPDATE: The update hasn’t come yet, but I’ve been told by one of the people on their support team that the update is still going to be released by the end of the year.

In order to make sure I don’t get bored this summer, I’ve started a blog with a friend of mine. Joanne VS. Nienhouse (http://joanne.vs.nienhouse.net/). It is mainly a hub for all of our humorous musings and a sort of battle between myself and Joanne. It will prove to be interesting, I’m sure!

It’s been jsut about a year since I’ve posted anything. I tell ya, it’s been a crazy year. Starting today, however, things are going to be a lot better – time to focus on what I love most – computer stuff. Be expecting more stuff from me here, and on Joanne vs. Nienhouse (http://joanne.vs.nienhouse.net/).

I finally got around to making a sort of light box out of some k’nex and a blanket and I must say, it turned out pretty well. I uploaded several photo’s I’ve taken in it.

Check them out in my photostream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flakepardigm/

After being announced at Google I/O, everyone has been waiting eagerly for it to come out for the Droid and a couple other devices. It looks like we are getting closer to this update as we have a 2.2 rom out in the wild (but requires a separate kernel that has the wifi driver)

You can check out putting froyo on your Droid here:
http://www.droid-life.com/2010/06/08/download-newer-motorola-droid-froyo-leak-frf57/
(Also, there are some newer baseband updates available on droid-life)

Here is a list of all of the new features – the links will take you to a sreenshot of new feature in action.

All screenshots I have taken for this article are free to use as long as they have proper attribution – http://tan-com.com/blog/licenses/.

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A collection of computer graphics that I have made.

Flickr > Flakeparadigm > Graphics

I just finished up the timpa.org web site – http://timpa.org/

Direct scans of my negatives. The only photoshop work was inverting from negatives and adjusting curves and levels to make the picture visible. More coming up, Just used a whole roll and am going to post them too.

Well We are now around to Ubutu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and it looks like nothing has changed support wise, so to get the backlight to adjust, just add:

nomodeset acpi_backlight=vendor

to the “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT” section, right after “quiet splash” and before the closing quotation mark. Now run

sudo update-grub

and you will be good to go! Reboot and try out your freshly brewed screen backlight adjustments!