He’s always been able to amaze people with some of the near impossible dance steps he had, and the overall fluidity he displayed in his movements to the point where you questioned whether it was even humanly possible. And you would try it at home, and more often than not, (at least I) you end up on the floor. The moonwalk has been one of MJ’s signature steps, and while it still amazes me at how easily he does it, most people know the basic idea of how the moonwalk is done. But at least until now, I had no idea of how Michael Jackson did the near 45 degree lean in Smooth Criminal. Wires? Trick photography? It just didn’t make sense to me. But now I know.
iTunes for Windows doesn’t get as much love as the Mac equivalent. There are amazing programs and extensions, all for free, that you can get for your iTunes on the Mac that help manage and extend your iTunes functionality (You Control and I Love Stars being prime examples). Finally, there is something that well help me with some of my iTunes tasks for my Windows PC. Meta-iPod is a free Windows-only application that has a host of functionality built into it. You can easily fix the meta data for a track, find songs that are in your iTunes folder and not in iTunes and vice-versa, fix your album art, transfer ratings from your iPod to your PC and, coolest of all, automatically rate your music depending on how many times you’ve heard the track and how many times you’ve skipped it. Quite impressive for a free program. (Found on DownloadSquad)
Gizmodo has posted an extensive set of photos and video for their hands-on with the new Zune HD. I have to admit, the graphics and animations are truly sweet, but there is no way I would switch this for my iPod Touch. The Touch is so much more to me than music and videos. The browser and games have given me a portal where I can spend anywhere from a few minutes to hours of my time playing games, emailing friends, tweeting, or just surfing the internet. Check out a video after the break.
