C30 Rock’s season finale included a song at the end which is reminiscent of a “We Are The World” type of song. While it was a great show and a nice ending to a good season, 30 Rock upped the ante by releasing the “He Needs A Kidney: Music Video” video through iTunes. NBC, Universal Media Studios and Apple are donating 100% of the proceeds to the National Kidney Foundation.
The video features big name stars such as Sheryl Crowe, Elvis Costello, Mary J Blige, Clay Aiken, Norah Jones as well as other performers. Jeff Richmond, 30 Rocks’ music supervisor composed …read more

Next week is the Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Course, a spring rite for golf fans. Get ready for the action by taking a quick tour of the course–hole by hole.

Wouldn’t we all like to have a consistent 300+ yard drive? This video gives a few pointers on how to make that dream a reality. Take a look:

Google has a new app called Vidnik. It allows you to use your Macs built-in video camera to record videos and upload it to your YouTube account in a snap.
Vidnik is currently at version 0.13.0. I downloaded and tried it and it was fairly easy to use. It still needs a lot of polish. It doesn’t respond as quickly as it should.
This app is great for making quick videos for your blog. Diaries perhaps? Or just simply saying hello to friends. Download it here and give it a go.

The software update to Apple TV is now available. During MacWorld, Steve Jobs said that Apple will be releasing a software update to the Apple TV in order to give it more features. He publicly admitted that their first try with Apple TV wasn’t successful and the software update should make it better. Props to Apple for that.
What’s new with Apple TV? Well the big thing is a the movie rentals aspect. You’re now able to rent and buy movies, tv shows and other content via the Apple TV. Computer not required.
Apple TV 2.0 also has some new features …read more

Finally I was able to score some credits for my iTunes account. I had 2 cents last week and through some kind friends, I was able to ask them to buy some iTunes Pre-paid cards for me to top of my account. After redeeming my iTunes cards and with $40 ($25 + $15) in my account, I then proceeded to scour the catalog of movies to rent from iTunes.
My dad’s boss was in town for awhile and while having dinner with him, he recommended that I try to see “Ratatouille”. I’ve seen most Pixar movies except for this one so …read more

For those new to iTunes, Apple made some video tutorials on iTunes and some of its features. The tutorials are categorized into three groups. iTunes Jukebox, iTunes Store and iTunes Syncing. It coves the basic stuff that you’d want to do with iTunes. The link to the tutorial is here.

I’m not really a big fan or learning via reading an article or a tutorial. I would rather watch a video or play around with something to learn it. It’s not to say that I don’t read articles or tutorials, I do. If I had a choice, I’d go for something multimedia.
It’s for that very reason that I signed up for an account at Lynda.com. I didn’t sign up to learn Mac stuff per se. It was for Adobe apps that I use really. However it was a pleasant surprise that there were Mac titles available.
Now they’ve added new titles …read more

No, this is not a joke… I can’t believe I missed the new Mac ads. These are still pretty much as funny as the first commercials. Among the four ads I think I like the Podium the best, followed by the PR Lady at a close second.
Check them out here.

A new iPhone Ad is out. This time it demos the YouTube application for the iPhone. Starting June 29th as mentioned in this post, the iPhone will be able to download and play YouTube videos. Cool. Downloading via WiFi should be ok but I’m not sure about EDGE.