New iLike Sidebar for iTunes (for Mac users)

iLike:

Guess what Mac users?

We’ve released our latest iLike Sidebar for iTunes on the Mac first !!

The new Mac Sidebar represents a lot of work we’ve added in the last few months:

1) We now offer “instant playlists”, much like the Windows sidebar, but with a simpler interface!

2) More recommended music - 6 mainstream songs, 6 free MP3s from GarageBand

3) “Other listeners” view - every time you play a song, see faces of others who listen to the same artist

4) Your iTunes playlists are automatically synced on a daily basis so changes to playlists appear on your profile on iLike.com

There are also a whole bunch of bug-fixes in this release. We
haven’t auto-updated our userbase to it (yet), so you need to download
it yourself at http://iLike.com/download. Check it out and send us feedback!

STAR WARS: CLONE WARS Trailer

OK, apparently that thing I posted yesterday was fan-made….here’s the real mccoy, and looks MUCH better…

AICN: A trailer for STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS has been released via starwars.com.

This is the genuine, official, actual CGI series we’ve been hearing so much about - not that STAR WARS ANIMATED: TALES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC fan made thingie.

CLICK THE PIC BELOW TO JUMP!

Star Wars: Animated - Trailer

First sneak peek at the animated Star Wars TV series….including Thrawn!

Video: Sony’s ultra-thin color flexible display

I’m waiting for the day when I can wallpaper my TV to the wall…this is nuts…

Boing Boing:

David Pescovitz: 

Based on this video demo, Sony’s just-announced full color flexible OLED display looks pretty amazing:

Featured Mac Download: Drag and drop zip archives with YemuZip

Lifehacker:

Mac OS X only: Freeware app YemuZip is a graphical interface for creating zip files on the fly.

Create zip files using a drag and drop with YemuZip. Before creating
the zip archive, YemuZip forces you to choose whether to create the
file in “PC compatible” or “Mac specific” modes. (The Mac format will
maintain the integrity of your metadata.) But don’t worry, the files
created using PC compatibility mode are totally compatible with your
Mac, too. If YemuZip isn’t for you, you can always create zip folders using a single keystroke. Yemuzip is a free download for Mac only. — Kyle Pott

YemuZip [Yellow Mug]

New PA Game Trailer

This ought to be a hoot:

Drawing: Draw floorplans, diagrams and charts online with Cumulate Draw

Lifehacker:

Previously-mentioned online drawing tool Cumulate Draw’s newest version adds lots of handy features, like network and floor plan shapes.

Quickly throw together a network diagram, flowchart, org chart, or
rearrange your office furniture using floor layout and office layout
items. Cumulate Draw’s interface is rich with click and drag features
to enlarge, rotate and re-position items. Click on the image above for
a quick and dirty chart I threw together in a few minutes with Cumulate
Draw. Thanks, Chris! —Gina Trapani

Cumulate Draw

Best Cursor Ever!

This is awesome….just trust me and click through…

Digg: “Words cannot describe this.”

LINK TO MIRRORED SITE (digg killed the first link)

HOWTO make OpenCola

Boing Boing:

Cory Doctorow:
Wiki-How has a page up today on making OpenCola, a freely licensed
soft-drink. I helped found the company that developed and released the
OpenCola drink, and it was developed by Amanda Foubister in our
kitchen. It tastes excellent, but it also highlighted for me just how
much sugar there is in this stuff — a lot.
When you make cola, you basically end up filling a glass with sugar and
then adding just enough water and ancillary ingredients to get it to
dissolve.

Flavoring

* 3.50 ml orange oil
* 1.00 ml lemon oil
* 1.00 ml nutmeg oil
* 1.25 ml cassia oil
* 0.25 ml coriander oil
* 0.25 ml neroli oil
* 2.75 ml lime oil
* 0.25 ml lavender oil
* 10.0 g gum arabic
* 3.00 ml water

Link

(Thanks, Joe!)

Giant collectively controlled game of breakout coming to cinemas near you!

Boing Boing:

Cory Doctorow: “MSNBC.com has done a deal with cinemas in the US to replace the dumb
pre-movie ads with a giant, participatory game. The game is
Newsbreaker, a simple break-out style game that rewards you for
clearing lines by dropping real-time RSS news headlines, but the
gameplay is the cool part: a motion sensor in the theater allows the
entire audience to control the paddle by swaying in unison from side to
side. Check out the video of the gameplay at a Spiderman 3 opening
weekend screening in LA (given what a steaming CGI turd Spidey 3 is,
this was probably the best part of the movie, apart from being harassed
by night-scoped teenagers looking for camcorder pirates). These people
are having insane fun.”