The guys over at Doogtoons have created 80’s singer L.B. Rayne. The Indiana Jones song is not only amazing it’ll be stuck in your head. I don’t like posting videos on my site, but this is exceptional. Showing this video to friends, most think it’s a legit 80’s video. Enjoy!

If you’ve ever seen any crime dramas on CBS you’ll know that nearly every show ends with some sort of sad, provocative music. The music scenes aren’t exclusive to CBS, although, they can also be heard on shows like House MD, Scrubs, and Grey’s Anatomy. The music scenes can make the show great, but could they use different music sometimes? Here are ten overused songs in television:
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If you listen to the radio for any amount of time you’ll know “Lollipop” by Lil Wayne. It’s a pretty catchy song with some laughable lyrics, but Lil Wayne has done one better with a remixed version with help from (the master of terrible) Kanye West. The remix strays from the songs original lyrics and will leave you baffled on how these guys wrote this song. Read the rest of this entry »

Most people have never heard of a Chumby, and usually think it’s something to do with (the old children’s TV show) Gumby or might even think it’s a type of dinosaur, but it’s none of the above. The Chumby is a mixture of an alarm clock and, for better words, a widget player, all enclosed in a “cute” leather pillow. At first glance the Chumby looks like a children’s toy, and it could as well be, but it has quite a bit of power for its small size.

Setting the device up easy. Turn on the Chumby, follow the on-screen steps, connect to the Internet, match the code on the Chumby website with your Chumby and then you’re ready to add widgets. To own a Chumby, you HAVE to have an Internet connection to use any of Chumby’s online widget features. Putting widgets on the Chumby requires no syncing with a computer, it’s done all through the website. When you find a widget you like (on the Chumby site) you simply add it to one of the “channels” you’ve made. In about a minute, the widget you added to the channel appears on you Chumby.

Currently, the widget selection is small, but the product isn’t on sale to the public and when it is, I expect it to grow. On my Chumby, I’m running the Chuck Norris fact widget, the PandaCam, TechCrunch feed, Google News feed, Rotten Tomatoes movie ratings, Pendulum, and Facebook. The Facebook widget, which is my favorite, simply shows status updates, pokes, notes, and friends. The Chumby also runs flash and will play online videos from sites like YouTube. I referred to the Chumby as a widget “player” because that’s what it is. I’ve yet to see a widget with the ability to input information. Want to see what my Chumby’s playing? There’s an embeddable widget for your MySpace or blog, here’s mine:

The Chumby isn’t all about the widgets, it also includes two usb ports, speakers, and even an accelerometer. The usb ports and speakers are for syncing and playing your iPod. The speakers are pretty low quality and depending on the size of your music library, it could take a while for the Chumby to recognize your iPod. The accelerometer was unknown to me until I added the Pendulum widget, which takes advantage of the hidden feature.

The Chumby team is constantly updating the gadget’s operating system with bug fixes, optimizations, and new features. A quote from the Chumblog:

“Remember, the chumby’s open for further improvement and we’ll be pushing significant new functionality to everyone’s chumby over-the-air as we go — so let us know what you want chumby to do and that will help us make it even better for you over time.”

With the hope of future updates and features, I want to see a sleep timer, easier navigation when playing music through, and the ability to input information into widgets (Pownce updates?).

The Chumby is a innovative product. The only thing that will bring it down is that it’s unheard of by most. My family and friends had never heard of Chumby and although most thought it was cool, they didn’t really understand exactly what the gadget was. The Chumby will be on sale to everyone late this year or early next year for $180.

What do you think of the Chumby? Do you want one? Leave a comment.

Want to see more pictures? Check out the unbox.

Procrastination and a looming cold have delayed this review. Sorry.

If your a Powncer like myself, then you’ll know that I broke my video iPod a couple of days ago. How did I break it? Well, at first look the iPod looks perfect almost new, but when it turns on the screen looks like somebody dropped a rock dog paw on it. Fortunately, I’ve ordered an iPod Touch, but the eight gigabytes won’t be enough to hold my whole iTunes library, so I need help deciding what to do.

Sell it

TechCrunch just recently posted about BuyMyBrokeniPod.com, a website that buys new or old, working or non-working iPods. BuyMyBrokeniPod allows you to get a quote on the chosen iPod and they would buy mine for about $64 bucks. Payments are made through PayPal and the seller (you) are required to pay for all shipping costs.

Fix it

You would probably think the most logical answer would be to get it fixed, but that isn’t so in my opinion. Today, I called Apple to ask them about getting it repaired. They kindly quickly told me that my warranty ended a couple days ago and to get the device repaired I would have to pay $130+ for a refurb, which doesn’t include the ($30) for phone support/setup. I don’t feel like spending $160 on a used iPod, especially when I could get a brand new nano for that much.

Do nothing

Other than the broken screen the iPod works fine. I could just use it to play audio files and leave the video files for the iPod touch. This would be the cheapest and easiest method, but the broken screen would drive me insane. The screen is something I can live with temporarily, but seeing it every day will lead me to just throwing it away.

Buy a new iPod

Buying a new iPod is my favorite idea, but not my bank account’s. After buying the iPod Touch and an iPod classic I will have spent $550 bucks, which is a lot considering I only have a part time job. It’s not that I don’t have the money, I just feel the money could go towards something a little better, like college.

As you can see I can’t make a decision so I want to hear what the Internet has to say. I’ve created a web poll to make it easier for me to make a decision. If you have another idea, feel free to leave it in the comments or email me at mail at r3fresh dot com.

*I’ll be sure to post some pictures of the cracked out iPod as soon as I get my hands on a camera.

Apple refreshed the whole iPod line recently and they introduced the iPod Touch. The iPod Touch is exactly what everyone has been asking for, an iPhone without the phone. The 8 millimeter device won’t be shipping until October, but I have a feeling Steve has a few more tricks up his isleeve sleeve.

Gizmodo reported that the new iPod Touch might include Bluetooth after they found a picture of it on a foreign Apple site. With Bluetooth, the iPod Touch could:

•  Share music with other iPod Touch and iPhone users
• Have wireless earphones
• Connect to any Bluetooth-enabled computer wirelessly (audio/video transfer)

Bluetooth would be a revolutionary feature on an iPod, but I don’t beleive it’s the only one.

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“Leaked” shots of the next generation iPod Nano have been posted all over the Internet and people are wondering why Apple made the upcoming incarnation, wider? After studying the blurry, leaked pictures (from 9to5mac.com); I started to understand Apple’s reasoning for the squished design.

Making the iPod wider allows for a bigger screen. Having a bigger screen would be perfect for playing videos on the iPod Nano, thus making TV shows/movies/games compatible with the cheaper, more widely appealing, iPod model. With more TV shows/movies/games selling on the iTunes Store, Apple will increase profits as well as increase their world domination in online media distribution.

Apple knows that when they sell an iPod, they are also selling a membership to the iPod-exclusive iTunes Store. This leads me to believe Apple’s anti-DRM remarks are purely for publicity and “DRMed” content is a must for Apple’s iTunes Store to survive.