Leo Laporte from TWiT was out car shopping one day. He shot this little video in a GT Mustang and put it up on the interwebs.
Category: Tech
Editors Choice – THE SACKBOY SONG
Big thank you to TurtleGirl over at Girl Gamers for putting SackBoy on their Editors choice page. It’s nice to see both genders having a great time at gaming.
My oldest son Jesse is a big WOW and Runescape player, along with a handful of console games he really enjoys. He just recently got his girlfriend playing some Runescape and the two of them play late at night online together. (ahh young love)
I don’t really play games that much these days. Too much of my time is spent recording all day. Like today. Forteen hours of it. Come on man, time for a break already.
Paulywood’s 45 #15: SackBoy
If you haven’t heard about Sony’s PS3 game LittleBigPlanet, here’s some video clips of it along with my song SackBoy. Watch for cameos of Leo Laporte from TWiT, and the guys from TRS.
Jason Calacanis Loves Audible
When I first wrote the original Audible jingle, I had no idea how much Jason Calacanis loved Audible books. After hearing him drool over them every time he’s on TWiT , I felt the need to include him in the song.
Take it away Jasoooooooon!
Screw You Ringtones
If you look up the word “Integrity” in the dictionary, you will find a picture of Leo Laporte. Leo blows up at Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang June 6/09.
Here are two ringtone versions I made while watching This Week In Tech this afternoon.
Enjoy.
The Tech Guy (radio show)
A proposed theme for The Tech Guy with Leo Laporte . Leo is looking for a new theme song for his syndicated weekend radio show.
Here’s mine 🙂
iTunes Store
You can now get my songs in the iTunes Store. Each week you will get a new song via podcast.
If you’re not sure what a podcast is or how it works, the Wikipedia answer is: “A podcast is a series of digital media files, usually digital audio or video, that is made available for download via Web syndication.”
Simply put: You subscribe in the iTunes Store (usually for free) to an audio or video show, and when a new one is done, you get it automatically.
Subscribe now 🙂
12 Days of GizWiz
One of my favorite podcasts is The Daily Giz Wiz with Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte. Here’s just a few ideas you can add to your Christmas list (if you can still find some of the older ones).
Merry Christmas!
SackBoy
If you haven’t heard about Sony’s PS3 game LittleBigPlanet, here’s some video clips of it along with my latest song SackBoy. Watch for cameos of Leo Laporte from TWiT, and the guys from TRS.
Spore
Use your iMac to share the internet with your iPhone.
I have an iPod Touch but I don’t have a wireless router. How could I use any of the features that require wifi. After searching for a way to connect my iPod to the internet, I was able to use the Internet Sharing feature on my iMac.
Before you start you need to turn AirPort: On
Step#1:Open System Preferences / Sharing
Step#2:Under Service click on Internet Sharing, for Share your connection from: select “Ethernet”, for To computers using: select “AirPort”
Step#3:Click AirPort Options, choose a Network Name, Enable encryption, choose your Password, click “OK”
Step#4:Under Service check the Internet Sharing box, and click Start
When you turn on your iPod Touch and open Safari, a list of networks will appear, choose the one you made and enter your password. Now you can enjoy all the wireless features on your iPod Touch.
I don’t have an iPhone but I suspect this will work just the same.
A post from my iPod
We are camping up in Hope B.C. for nine days. This is my first post from my new iPod Touch.
The wifi is kind of slow here but it’s been fun playing with tech and relaxing.
Ringtones Available!
I’ve made Ringtones with some of my songs. They should work on most cell phones including the iPhone.
So if you’ld like to use them, head on over to my new Ringtones page.
iReady
July 11, 2008, around the world the new 3rd gen iPhone 3G will be available. “Twice as fast. Half the price”. Are you iReady?
iReady
It’s 7/11 2008
I’m Standing in line and I just can’t wait
People have waited a week on the street
NewYork to LA for San Fancisco’s treat
Please Mr. Steve I have heard for a year
That a faster SDK iPhone will appear
And now AT&T drops a bomb from the air
With a list of To Do’s out of Hell to prepare
iReady Twice as fast
iReady Half the price
iReady New 3G
iReady And mobile me
With 2.0 software update
I can do even more at a faster rate
I can download and push, I can sync in the cloud
I can use any headphones and turn it up loud
iReady Twice as fast
iReady Half the price
iReady New 3G
iReady And mobile me
Activation in the store
Half an hour what a chore
Photo ID, SSN
Credit check it never ends
iReady Twice as fast
iReady Half the price
iReady New 3G
iReady And mobile me
For more of my songs, look around here, or visit paulminshall.com
* a special thank you to operator lady
Wordle 45 word cloud
Here’s a word cloud made up from the lyrics to all my songs on “45” generated by a cool site Wordle. I forgot to add 45 to the cloud. Dang!
New iMac
Two firsts in my life on the same day. #1: I did the crazy Boxing Day sale shop. #2: I bought my first Mac! A 20 inch iMac. Here’s a picture of the special day. The rest can be seen here on flickr.
DARPA
The DARPA Grand Challenge was earlier this month. What an amazing achievement. Vehicles being driven by computers, not remote control, through a desert course. I first heard of this last year after channel flipping one night and landed on our PBS station. The program was showing the 2005 Grand Challenge, if you ever get the chance it’s a must see.
In a similar venture Google has launched their $30M moon challenge “to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth“ ( The Honolulu Advertiser ).
Next year George Jetson moves in next door.
The Great Debate
I’ve been really buisy working on my new site, so I thought I’d take a break and catch up here.
This was taken after Leo and Amber’s debate on plasma vs LCD TVs at Vancouver’s Future Shop on Broadway, Sept. 27/07. Alot of helpful info. I think I’m leaning towards plasma now. It was great seeing the two of them together again. Amber got a few shots in on Leo for old time sake. Good times!
Dick’s Gadget Warehouse
Just in time to celebrate the 400th episode of The Daily Giz Wiz ,fellow musician and fan of the DGW podcast, George Wood and I composed this song.
Leoville Fair
Leo Laporte sings Simon & Garfunkel during a break on his Tech Guy radio show. I later added some guitars.
Paul Minshall 
