Video iPod Available... Sort of 297
Pirogoeth writes "The fine folks over at Engadget have figured out how to get your new iPod Photo to play movies. According to the article, you use Quicktime Pro to export the movie as thousands of individual frames which you export to the iPod, send the soundtrack to the iPod as well, then, if you haven't guessed by now, while playing the soundtrack, put the iPod into slideshow mode and use the scroll wheel to manually keep the frames in synch with the sound. Sound impossible? Here's a video (in mov or wmv) of the Episode III trailer in action..."
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All you do is put the car in neutral, grab a buddy and stand behind the car. Then, placing your hands on the rear bumper...push. Scientists believe it's such a simple process we may all be getting around in these miracle cars any day now!
Great Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
Time to upgrade? (Score:4, Funny)
For example, the new Creative's Zen Micro [creative.com] has FM, is someone going to pre-record some radio talk shows and put it into iPod pretending that it's doing radio too?
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No, Just stupid.
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I had to flip the pages and hum the soundtrack, but the hand-drawn stick figure animations were outstanding.
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Can't you read? It says iPod right there in the subject line.
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Four hits of acid and stare really hard. Much more elegant (by orders of magnitude) and less of a brute force approach than TFA.
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It'll be beautiful, I tell you, especially if they walk into a lamp post while doing it.
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Isn't that how BSD was coded?
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Evan
OUCH! (Score:4, Funny)
Printer hack (Score:5, Funny)
Get a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 4650DN (duplex for double-sided printing) and plug it into three-phase power and it'll print fast enough to do this...
Of course, you won't be able to hear the soundtrack over the whine of rollers and gears burning themselves up...
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Still images placed on a reel and handcranked through light and synched with a nearby phonograph result in what is being called a "motion picture".
For this breaking story and more, stay tuned to our radio broadcast!
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Scientists built a car today that doesn't require any fuel at all!!
All you do is put the car in neutral, grab a buddy and stand behind the car. Then, placing your hands on the rear bumper...push. Scientists believe it's such a simple process we may all be getting around in these miracle cars any day now!/
There is, however, considerable debate among scientists weather this cooperative mode of operation is superior to the single operator mode in which the user places his feet through a hole in the floor and runs really fast that has been proposed by F. Flintstone and B. Rubble
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Course, there's probably some old geezer who thinks us youngins have it real good cause in his day he had to crank the projecter by hand. Oh, wait...
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badum ching.
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Can't you read? It says iPod right there in the subject line.