Alex Lindsay reviewed an amazing Mac download (Comic Life - $24.95) on Call for Help last week that helps you turn your favourite photos into a comic strip. Needless to say, Mikey was inspired! And in celebration our upcoming Sweet 16 (16th episode - September 26th), and Hot Stuff’s new calling in the field of electronic comic art, here’s Part 1 of 2 of…

From Lindsay to Plasq to Ringer to Sweet 16 (Click on the images and enjoy!)

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Hope to meet some CFH and commandN fans at our open house (Leo is calling it the Toronto Super Summit) in T.dot (more details here)!  If you can’t make it, check out commandN next Monday to see some footage and interviews.

We’ve received a number of questions over the last week or so about how to add/watch commandN within your iTunes Player (requires iTunes 4.9).

View our how to subscribe video in a new window (requires Quicktime 7)

In the next few days we will be releasing How-to videos for iPodderX and other news readers.

"Your Video for a Shuffle" Contest
Sponsored by our friends at iLounge.com       
       

Time for another contest, but this time you have to do some work!  Send us your very own tech how-to video and you could win an iPod Shuffle (approx. value $99US).  Shoot a tech tip, product review, or software demo using your digital cam, web cam, or video cam and send it off to us (instructions below). 

Be creative (e.g. Buttercup Baby).  Have fun!   

Thx to iLounge for donating an iPod Shuffle (the founder saw commandN in iTunes, so that helped).

Format:  3 minutes or less .mov or .wmv compressed video at 320×240 for viewing*
Delivery:  Please send your video to info@commandn.tv via Dropload.com (100MB max)
Deadline:  Friday, noon EST, August 12th, 2005
Air date:  Winner’s video will air on commandN, Episode #10 (Monday, August 15th, 2005).  Mikey, Brian, Jeff, and Amber will check out all the videos and pick a winner.  Good luck!

*We’ll request a high-quality version of your video if you win. 

Makes for a good Friday morning to see friend Steven Garrity (from the web design firm silverorange - based in Charlottetown, PEI), Diggnation, TWiT, and other podcasters in the NY Times this morning (found this on Digg, with easy log-in info - username: teste  password: teste). 

The article also mentions Podcast Alley (and commandN just made it to the Top 10 - so thanks for voting).  As always, expect another video (Episode #7) Monday!

We’re moving on up on Podcast Alley, so thanks to everyone who voted for us (and to Leo Laporte for asking folks to vote for us). 

OTHER NEWS FROM THE COMMANDN TEAM
Our post-production editor, Brian,
is away on holiday right now (he deserves it after working eves and w/ends on commandN!).  He made us promise to take a screenshot
if we make it to the Top 10 on Podcast Alley, so if you haven’t done so
already vote for us here to make that happen. 

Jeff is plugging away on some segments over the next few weeks.  If you have tech questions or ideas for him, fire him off an email.  He’s in Sri Lanka on business next month, so if we’re lucky we’ll also get him to do a segment from there!

Mike(y) is working on a few short-and-sweet how-to segments that he’ll post here within the next couple of days (e.g. how to subscribe and watch commandN on iTunes, etc.).

Amber (I’m writing this, so I guess I can say "I"!) is working with the team to plan content for upcoming episodes.  One of our ideas for an upcoming contest (Episode 10) is to ask viewers to submit their own tech/how-to segment - winner’s video will air on commandN (stay tuned for more details!).

That’s it for now.  Thx for watching/listening/reading/clicking/downloading.
-A

We finally made it into the "Podcast Directory" in iTunes (our H.264
feed), so now you can subscribe to our weekly tech video show and watch
it directly in iTunes (must have iTunes 4.9).  All you have to do is search the directory for "commandN’ and click "subscribe."  Enjoy!

Someone listed us in the Vlog Map, so thanks for that ;).

P.S.  We added a donations button, so if you want to contribute to help us buy equipment and cover the general expenses we incur while we produce the show the money will be put to good use.  Thanks in advance!