In this first installment of Things I Forgot to Say Weekend Roundup here are a few things I forgot to mention in previous posts:

1. Another way to test if your netcam is working is to use VLC Media Player. Click Media > Open Capture Device then select your webcam from the Video device name drop-down menu. You will then see what your netcam sees. You can set the video size to whatever you want as well and if you click Advanced you can play with other settings like frames per second.

2. To see exactly how much hard drive you actually bought (ie how much drive space you got screwed out of) head on over to epowermac’s hard drive calculator page. False advertising sucks and should stop.

3. Languages are fun to play with. Here is the Esperanto translator page and the LOLCat Speak page that helped give some readers here seizures when I posted The Only Way to Dual Boot A Computer (entirely in LOLCAT speak and then when asked to repost it I did but in Esperanto).

4. Readers here suggesting after my earlier iPad and Steve Jobs mockery that Steve should send me an Apple iPad to review. Some have suggested if Steve & Apple really wanted to allay fears that the iPad sucks as many think it does that he should trust his product enough to send me one to review. The theory goes if it’s really all that and the iPad wins me over enough to change my mind then it has a chance of not being the latest Lisa/Macbook Air debacle.

I really don’t know what to say on this one. I enjoyed making fun of the iPad like many others out there and have a ton of #1 hit search results on Google based on Apple’s iPad, which I still don’t understand but that doesn’t mean anyone at Apple, let alone Steve Jobs has seen my iPad mini spoof or the slideshow fun or the iPad Etch-A-Sketch imagery people seem to so love right now. And then even if they did see it why would they want to send me one for my opinion or possibly inevitable further mockery? Me just a simple, semi-imaginary and at times zany slightly-creative blogger. Why would Steve or anyone at Apple waste their time on me for a second when they’re all too busy trying to convince people it’s cool, hip, magical and everyone needs an iPad Etch-A-Sketch iTouch thingy?

Even after what I just said, let me respond to my crazy readers exactly why Steve Jobs and Apple will never send me an iPad to review. They’re chicken. buk! buk! baaaaaaaaaaak! buk! buk! baaaaaaaaaaak! buk! buk! baaaaaaaaaaak! buk! buk! baaaaaaaaaaak!

(Email me here Steve).

Ack, that’s it for now. G’night Steve. G’night Apple. G’Night Mary-Ellen, Jim-bob…