The Green Bay Packers have added a former Greenville College football coach to their staff as the “Offensive Quality Control” coach. This comes as a part of the Packers recent head coaching change. Ty Knott coached at GC in 2001 and has prior NFL experience, as well.
Today I ran across this side project of The Echoing Green. Pristina is a group of female vocalists (including Sarah Masen, Crissy Jeter from EG, and others) teamed up with writer/producer Joey B. of the EG. All of the vocalists except Crissy have a folk or rock background, making for an interesing synthpop sound. If you like synthpop check out pristinamusic.com and their first single
It appears that Microsoft has decided to distribute Flip4Mac in place of their own Windows Media Player for Macintosh. Flip4Mac has been superior to WMP for Mac in most ways anyway, so it is nice that Microsoft is now giving it away for free through an agreement with the developer. It seems that it does have trouble with the internet radio stations I have tried though (RadioU, Cross Rhythms).
Tomorrow marks this year’s MacWorld Expo Keynote, where Steve will introduce the latest Apple products from underneath the secretive shroud that surrounds 1 Infinite Loop. This year one of the major predictions is a media center Mac Mini. That doesn’t make sense to me. The Mac Mini is positioned to be an inexpensive Mac to entice possible switchers. I think Apple might introduce a separate media center mac. It could be slightly larger than a Mac Mini, containing a desktop hardrive with more space and performance than the laptop drive present in the Mini. It could also have room for audio/video connections (not just the basic VGA/DVI and 1/8 inch stereo jack). Will it happen? Probably not, but it seems more logical than the Mini media center to me…
Look at all of the innovative new features in Windows Vista! It looks vaguely familiar…
I have gotten a lot of traffic to my blog from people looking for the Mutemath “Reset” video that has mysteriously disappeared. It is still there, but not linked to from mutemath.com ( The “Chaos” video is still there, too)
For the second time this week, basketball is in the technology news. This time it is the NBA putting every minute of every game into a searchable archive online. So, how long until free (ad supported) live game coverage and full archives are available for all of the major sports? I hope the other jump on the NBA and NCAA’s recent ideas.
The new Google Transit is pretty cool. It will be great once they have data for the rest of the country (and beyond). What will really be awesome is when they begin to provide mass transit, driving directions, airline flights, and local info all in one place. And maybe they can add traffic data (like Yahoo Maps), too. In other Google news, AppleInsider is reporting that they are developing Google Earth for Mac OS X. I would like that.
CBS will be offering free NCAA basketball coverage over the internet. It will be supported by advertising, just like normal TV. This is a good step in the right direction, but they really need to offer hockey this way. Too bad Comcast has the rights to the NHL and won’t let non-subscribers stream games. If only Altitude would do this, then I could see my Avalanche play.