Apple Needs To Worry About ANDROID [Google Android]

If the cream-worthy updates to the highly anticipated new iPhone are going to be GPS, 3G, an App Store and some UI tweeks, Apple is going to have some serious barriers in reaching it’s 10 million sold mark.

The more I see the possible feature set for the upcoming ANDROID phones, the more I realize Apple is going to be in a world of hurt. Granted, iPhones are pretty sweet. The interface is like butter. I can’t go back to regualr voicemail and being able to efficiently access my email and the web has been great, but Google is doing some great things with their open source ANDROID platforms. Check out these vids…

A few things Apple can do with the iPhone

1. Release a slew of phones with varying features. Think Shuffle, Nano, Classic and Touch—the distinct line of iPods on the market. Each would have it’s own set of features and hardware feel.
2. Allow developers more freedom with the code. ANDROID is open source for a reason. Developers are gonna eat it up.
3. Subsidize the phone. Sell a model at $200 or less.
4. Build a enterprise superphone and leverage your partnership with Microsoft for it’s Exchange product to compete with RIM’s Blackberry.

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate [Free Downloads]

Today only,  Giveaway of The Day is offering Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate for Windows fanboys. Get it quick.

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate, powerful and easy-to-use DVD ripping software, can rip DVD to almost all video and audio formats, such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264, RM, MOV, M4V, XviD, 3GP, MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG, etc. Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate helps you to rip DVD to videos and audios for various portable media players as iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Mobile Phone etc.

Besides, the editing functions let you clip DVD movie segments, crop video size, edit video vision effects, adjust subtitles, and add a video watermark. More features that you will experience:

• Split and merge: Splitting one source file into several or merging several source files into one video file;
• Set several output formats for one source file;
• Batch processing;
• Advanced audio and video settings;
• Retrieve DVD information online

Sienna Miller as The Baroness [GI Joe]

I was never a big GI Joe fan growing up. As a matter of fact, I dug the PSAs more than I was into the show. Regardless, there’s a big budget GI Joe flick coming sometime next year and there are all kind of uninspiring actors that have signed up to play the various roles. Sienna Miller is one of those actors.

Dailymall has pics of Miller as The Baroness right here. Supposedly, she died her hair for the role. That’s range!

So You Think You Can Dance?—Best Buy Edition [LOL]

Not sure what’s funnier here: Trio of girls in a Best Buy store proceed to do their best TLC impression or the Best Buy rep who attempts to out dance them?

I appreciate exuberence, but when you’re in public there’s certain behavior that just doesn’t work, like this for instance. More importantly, this Best Buy geek should have folded at the head nod. Hilarity ensues.

Family Guy Spinoff—Potential PJs Alert [The Cleveland Show]

Kid is obese. Daughter dressed like a video chick. Sounds about right

The Fox Network is spinning of Family Guy with The Cleveland Show in spring of ‘09. This could be brilliant in the way Chappelle’s Show was or dreadful like Eddie Murphy’s The PJs. I would have preferred seeing a Quagmire spin-off, if any. Then again how long before Quagmire’s trademark head bob and catchphrase gets sickening?

Black themed satires often use the absurdity of racism and stereotypes to generate laughs. Sometimes they come off well, like in the case of the first few seasons of In Living Color. Often the characters turnout just unfunny, like Jamie Foxx’s portrayal of Wanda in the last few seasons of the same show. Here’s hoping The Cleaveland Show isn’t the latter.

Family Guy is somewhat subversive like The Simpsons or slightly biting ala The Boondocks Season 1. If the producers can pull off that same effect I may end up watching. Preview clip below…

Niko Bellic Not Getting His Due? [GTA IV]

How can you blame this guy for speaking out? Michael Hollick is the voice behind anti-hero Niko Bellic, from the blockbuster game Grand Theft Auto IV. The New York Times details Hollick supposed obscurity even though he has appeared in a few Law and Order eps. I wouldn’t call that obscurity by any means. It’s all about being a struggling actor in New York City.

The real story is about the money. Hollick was paid $100,000 for his work but he and others are fighting forresiduals. The video game industry has surpassed the movie industry in terms of revenue, but the voice talent do not receive more than the day rate for their work, not the residuals that movie, TV, and radio actors receive. Hollick blames his union for the discrepency. Read more

Kanye West—G Shock Event Vid [Geek Music]

This is just Kanye being Kanye. Performing Can’t Tell Me Nothing with live fembots/Barbarellas. Very trippy scene and slightly NSFW.

Kanye West - Can’t Tell Me Nothing

Giving Away 20 Evernote Invites [Evernote]

Evernote is one of the more versatile apps I’ve used recently and I want to share it. It’s a beta application that Ars Technica describes it as a “backup for your brain”. That sounds about right considering there are so many ways one can send web clips, notes and even dictation to Evernote. The service/app allows you to send notes via Web, Phone or Desktop app. Best of all, you can synchronize all of your clips.

It sounds alot like del.icio.us, but it’s more…

I have 20 invites I want to give away. Leave a comment below if you’d like an invite to the beta. For more on Evernote, peep the vid below.

Jean Grae—Love Thirst [Geek Rap]

I love the concept and feel of this vid. It’s Jean Grae with her clip for the track Love Thirst produced by 9th Wonder. It’s a nice little lazy track and I’m digging it. I have to say, I’m not feeling much hip-hop these days (I’ve evolved), but track is decent enough to through on a playlist I guess. For me, that constitutes high praise, plus I’ve always liked Jean’s style. Peace to The Smoking Section for the link.

Jean Grae - Love Thirst

Galactica Post Ep Roundup #2 [Battlestar Galactica]

Amazing. This week’s episode was very powerful. I must say I don’t know where this is all leading. Knowing what I’ve seen and heard about this season, things don’t look like there is going to be any shared We Are The World songs anytime soon.

Speaking of songs, what was up with Gaeta and the singing? Boy that was annoying, yet alluring all at once. The folks at Galactica Sitrep posted this Youtube clip of the Gaeta hymm.

Here are a few stories that piqued my interest…

BSG direct-to-DVD movies are possible once the show ends.

Galactica Watercooler has compiled another weekly list of BSG theories and Monday morning quarterbacking.

The folks at io9 aren’t found of Gaeta’s singing but love the dig the cylon mistrust of the humans.

SyFyPortal wasn’t much impressed, however.