from the G4 press releases: LOS ANGELES, CA, January 11, 2005 - G4, the only 24/7 television network dedicated to video games, screeches into 2005 with announcements of a new name, look and feel as well as two new series, "Formula D" and "Girls Gone Wired." Charles Hirschhorn, Founder and CEO of the network, announced the channel's official name as G4 - video game television - earlier today at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour. The name change and new network look and feel will take effect on February 15, 2005. yep thats right also the new motto will be Games, Gear, Gadgets, and Girls!!!!! About G4: G4 is the only 24/7 television network dedicated to videogames. It features all original programming that covers every aspect of the video game culture - games, gear, gadgets and girls - with live shows, insider information and breaking news. The network is available in 50 million cable and satellite homes nationwide. Headquartered in Los Angeles, G4 is owned by Comcast Corporation. To learn more, log onto www.g4tv.com. also cheat has a new host her (and i repeat her) name is Kristen Holt (and She looks hot)! Kristin Holt BIOGRAPHY Kristin Holt's beautiful smile and engaging personality have helped her to become a highly in-demand on-camera personality. In fact, Kristin is a triple threat as an extremely talented television host, radio personality, and singer/musician. Kristin is pursuing her musical career on two fronts: she is singing backup for Lindsay Lohan, while also recording her first electronic dance album with internationally renowned DJ, Richard Humpty Vission. Kristin began her singing career as a finalist on season one of Fox's #1 hit show, "American Idol." After appearing on the show, Kristin came back for season two as a special correspondent, which helped to launch her hosting career. In 2004, Kristin co-hosted a morning radio show in Dallas on the Top 40 station, WILD 100.3-FM. As the female voice of the show, she was responsible for music news, Hollywood news, shopping segments, and guest interviews. Kristin was also a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader for the 2000-2001 football season. As one of the youngest cheerleaders on the squad, Kristin was selected for the elite DCC Show Group as their featured singer. She traveled to 10 different countries as part of the USO Tours, including Bosnia, Macedonia, Hungary, Korea, Japan, Germany, and Italy. Some of Kristin's other hosting and correspondent credits include "Access Hollywood", "Fox LA", "The Making of the Dallas Cowboys Swimsuit Calendar on ESPN" and NBC's "The Best of California". Kristin currently resides in Los Angeles, and is finishing up her degree in political science. anyways i got my first issue of sync and its cool!!!!!!!!

This storm has caught people off guard! 1. The I15 was closed between St. George (where i work) and cedar city (where i live) due to an accedent that was weather related (lots of snow)! 2. then on monday sevral rivers in st. george (the city i work in) started to flood and and go in high levels infact one road that is close to a free doctors clinic in St. George was shut down due to flooding and St. George got a lot of rain! 3. Then today St. George still had more flooding and out of noware the Santa Clara river in Santa Clara started erroding the side of the river and during this it erroded land and then a house finally went down stream and then more house got taken down this river! 4. last i checked several more houses got collapsed by the 10 o' clock news here in utah at least 30-45 houses got swept away by 2 rivers the santa clara river and the virgin river! but utah wasnt the only place affected by this storm CA got the same amount of problems infact one town is rocked by a land slide that took out a whole nehiborhood! i have to say this to get help for all these people affected from so. CA to so. UT we need to be involved! if you want to help heres some links at: www.redcross.org if you want to read about what happend near me go to these sites http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?sid=143895&nid=5 (NBC) http://kutv.com/home/ (CBS) (this site has video of houses colapsing into the water!) http://www.abc4.tv/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=AB2EF1B9-1A37-446E-9181-71CDAC07A247 (ABC) www.fox13.com (FOX) i want to mention this to get info on anyone i know there in st George also id like people to pray for everyone affected in this storm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well the weather here in utah is just mierable read abouit it here at http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?sid=143673&nid=5 this is just bad i mean our new govener had to come and check on so utah were i live its just plain bad here it came from califonia and it hit them hard and then i came thru vegas and hit them hard! now it's in mormonville U.S.A. (just kidding) anyways if you come to UTAH be careful dont drive on flooded roads and watch for avalanches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep if you want my rss feed and are on firefox prees the orange colored symbol at the lower right corner!!!!!

well a lot has happend this week so i want to put it all on a list: 1. im now on xbox live if you want to know my gamertag its rayjay1999 (note: i have no communicator yet so bare with me when i play you!) 2.kevin p got a blog up which is real cool its at:http://www.kevinpereira.com/wp/ 3. i saw some cool stuff at ces a 201" color lcd by samsung! a real cool car that had futuristic doors and dvd audio! 4. bill gates products go on the fritz first a media center pc freezes during his keynote! and a Car racing game gets the blue screen of death on an xbox! i feel sorry for microsoft employees after that one! read this and more about CES at digg.com 5. alex gets specs on xbox 2! 6. my state utah gets a super bad storm with snow and other bad stuff read about that at: ksl.com no anouncement on xbox 2 at CES like we all hope'd but we still have the GDC and E3 so look out!!!!!!!!!!

yes this is my new addition to my blog! my crtics corner im going to cover everything from video games to flash films to short films online (from atom films) and internet based tv shows and even movies how im going to rate them is based on colors of a street light Red, yellow and green (red means crap yellow means ok and green means that was the bomb)!!!!!!!!!!! now hereis my first critic and it's on the internet computer hacking show the broken! first i need to explain how i found this show! well all i need to say is i was channel surfing at my parents house and i cought this show called xplay! well during this time i was living on my own and the apartment i lived in the tv was paid with the rent the only problem was the apartment complex did not have techtv which carried this show called xplay! well a few years down the road i moved in with my parents who had this techtv network on there tv! so i had a chance to watch this show called xplay and slowly i started watching other shows like Call for Help and The Screen Savers and even unscrewed! well on screen savers there was this guy called kevin rose and he mentioned his site kevin rose .com ! well i started visiting the site when i got on the internet and i saw this link to this thing called the broken and i was at the forums for tech tv and some one explained the broken and soon i went to the broken.org to see what this was all about! i noteced you needed divx to watch it at this time to get divx for free it came with adware and i could not down load it on my dsl conection so i gave up on watching it! a few months later i was being told to watch it see what you think so now finally i did get to watch it and heres what i think about it ! first the tips are very easy to understand and its very funny! second they seem to just love beer and cuss this internet show is not for the little kiddies! if you were to break the show down its like jackass with out the pain (due to what they do and the disclamer at the begining)! also i think the shows are fun to watch i mean if they were going to put this on MTV everyone would watch it! i think the most interesting thing is the console modding segment in episode three you can see how easy it is to modd an xbox compared to a ps2 and game cube ! and i have to say ramzi is very funny! i give this show defenate green light!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is from alexalbrecht.com Hey all, So in my travels this weekend I came across a Microsoft employee and talked him up about Xbox II... here are the facts I found out. 1) Hard Drive... Yes! There was some speculation that MS was going to take the HD out to make it more difficult to Mod. 2) Flash based HD... Yes!!! It was told to me that the HD was going to be flash based... small size fast access... BAM! 3) No Stupid Dongle DVD playback... Yes!!! The reason that the first Xbox didn't have built in DVD playback is a simple one, Sony owns the Intellectual Property rights for DVD playback. Nuf said... 4) Xbox II at E3... Hell Yes!!! There will be an Xbox II maybe more at E3 this year... 5) Xbox II release date announced at E3... another Hell Yes!!! MS will be announcing a release date for Xbox II... Now this is not like the "rumors" about IBM before these are hard cold facts from the horses mouth... well that was interesting the only thing we dont know is if the disc format will be blue ray or hddvd we may know at C.E.S. or even at E3 as stated above?

yes dan the man huard blows lid on g4s business practases! excerpt from http://www.danhuard.com To get back on track, even with an extra few hours to work on live calls, the execution of the calls were still suffering. Getting geeks to ‘come out of their shell’ is very hard. Rehearsing the question with them ahead of time always helped but as soon as they were on live television it usually went to hell. Nonetheless, I kept plugging away. After the next couple weeks of pre-producing the first live caller, I started to get some heat from my Executive Producer, Paul Block. Even with the callers I found from viewer mail, they still weren’t interesting enough for him. People get nervous on TV. Hell, I would get nervous on TV, it’s not easy. I explained to Paul Block and Joshua Brentano (the new Series Producer) that the demographic we’re using for the live calls isn’t working. Most of the TSS fans are geeks, they’re introverts. This is where The Screen Savers as you once knew them changed completely. I was ordered by Paul Block and Joshua Brentano to generate questions for live callers. But these weren’t any live callers. They wanted me to use G4 employees, friends, family, whomever. Basically, I would think of a question and give that question to a designated caller. So now, the A block callers were manufactured questions and callers. I used TSS producer’s friends and family, Peter Green’s assistant (Sr. VP of Programming & Production - this was done with his OK, btw), my girlfriend, and countless other people to create the ruse that these were genuine questions coming from our viewing audience. At this point my work suffered exponentially because my heart just wasn’t in my job anymore. The live aspect of the show just died, and I stopped believing in the most unique show on television. I was called into Paul Block’s office two other times this time I was threatened to lose my job. Here’s a quote from that meeting, “Dan, if I didn’t like you, I’d fire you right now.” Was Paul correct in saying that? Maybe, but I was forced to go against what four years of college told me not to do: lose my ethics. I fought them every chance I could, I tried my best to uphold the dignity and the ethics of The Screen Savers. From what I gather, this is why I was part of the lay-offs. i guess he didnt want an exposee but he got one you can read the news on this at http://slashdot.org/articles/05/01/01/1725230.shtml?tid=129 or at http://www.digg.com/technology/The_Screen_Savers_faked_their_calls_at_G4 if you want my opinion G4's pr department better say something fast or G4 is going to have a lot of angery computer nerds at there front door!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep at the end of this week we get to see ces!!!!!! what i hope to see from the show is the unveiling of xbox 2 and any cool mp3 players that may come here! what do you hope to see?

this is interesting i tryed it and it works!!!!!!!! Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up: 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now! Id like to thank a_soggy_waffle on the g4tech tv boards for this info!!!!!!!