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Category: TV Programs

  • Hockey Night in Canada Theme May Not Be Used by The CBC Next Season

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBack in April, I wrote How to Create iPhone Ringtones from TV Show Soundtracks Using Audio Hijack Pro and GarageBand ’08 and created a The Hockey Night in Canada Theme ringtone for my iPhone as an example. For those U.S.-based hockey junkies in our readership who haven’t heard, several Canadian news…

  • What’s It Like to Officiate the Stanley Cup Finals?

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMany of you know that I officiate college ice hockey, so you probably won’t be surprised at my interest in a few video clips taken from interviews with four NHL Officials selected to officiate the Stanley Cup Finals: These interviews were made available by ESPN on a website called ESPN Video.…

  • Recommending the700Level.com for It’s Coverage of the Philadelphia Sports Scene

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you follow me on Twitter, you know that I attended my first Princeton Mac User Group meeting on Tuesday night rather than stay home and watch Game 3 of the Flyers – Penguins series. This is undoubtedly considered a sacrilege in my community, particularly because I am so involved in hockey…

  • Hockey Making a Comeback as a Spectator Sport in the USA

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Wall Street Journal published an article today called The Return of a Great Game which celebrates the coming of age of stars Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Alexander Ovechkin. One of the key indicators of hockey’s renewed popularity is the elevation of hockey in the mix of highlights and analysis…

  • How to Create iPhone Ringtones from TV Show Soundtracks Using Audio Hijack Pro and GarageBand ’08

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe other day I was looking forward to watching NHL playoff games, and started thinking about how much fun it would be to watch Hockey Night in Canada on the CBC instead of Versus. I went over to CBC.ca and watched the HNIC Playoff Preview Show on the CBC Sports Video Player.…

  • Great Tip to Help Figure Out If Your PC is Compatible with Popular Games

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn Episode 45 of Tekzilla Daily, Patrick Norton pointed out a website called System Requirements Lab that can help you determine if your PC has the minimum or recommended hardware and software necessary to run dozens of popular PC games. I tried this myself and the way it works is to…

  • Comments on Steve Jobs’ 2008 MacWorld Expo Keynote

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI expected to be wowed by Steve Jobs’ 2008 MacWorld Expo Keynote a lot more than I actually was. However, I was doing other things while the event was going on (real work), and the products that I was most interested in (mainstream Mac laptops) didn’t get addressed in this keynote at…

  • Gadget Links: 8 Days to Choose Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesApple Releases a New “Get a Mac” Ad Co-starring a Football Referee on Apple.com: Pretty good attention to detail. The referee is wearing a white hat and a uniform that is very close to that worn in many college football leagues. What I would add to this is the referee turning on…

  • Livestrong Clothing at Dick’s Sporting Goods, But Not Their On-line Store

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI saw some ads for Dick’s Sporting Goods that star Lance Armstrong on New Year’s Day when I watched the NHL Winter Classic on NBC. The two 30-second ads both emphasized the fact that the Livestrong clothing collection is on sale at Dick’s Sporting Goods. I thought the ads had a…