Are you in Ohio? Northern Ohio in fact? Does your lawn overgrow with weeds? Or do you just want someone to put in a new patio and have it done right? Well heck call my Uncle Ed and go check out another website I recently did (which came out really well) www.matteuccilandscaping.com. Tell him Anthony sent you (and say it in an italian accent!) Also check out a little diddy Cayenne Chris Conroy from Teknikal Diffikulties (www.tekdiff.com) did as a favor for me!

Hey folks a new ‘alpha’ version of Walking Stick is now available. Please see the other post for more information.

You can download the game at

http://www.anthonyanselmo.com/WSa1.zip

Please feel free to test out and let me know any feedback. I think the game has improved greatly since first run. I’ve decided to go with a tiled version of the game to make things easier. I’ve also improved the game play, characters and level designs. Please try out and let me know if you feel like your play your old Apple IIe!

I recently had the pleasure to help an amazing band update their website. Go check out www.gravity-store.com and check out an amazing band! The website was probably one of my best designs yet! If you get a chance, go check out Gravity when they play in Cleveland, Columbus or Pittsburg soon! Progressive Rock lives!

The Final show, our thoughts, and our goodbyes. Featuring music by Gravity (www.myspace.com/gravity33), Transformers Rejects comedy bit from Teknikal Diffikulites/TEKDIFF (www.tekdiff.com). Don’t miss ZePiper’s final goodbye. Thank you to all of our fans and supporters over the years.

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In reference to ‘The Rise of Chrome‘.

It’s not often that you can start from scratch and create an amazingly easy product. Yet Google does that so efficently with Google Chrome that you have to ask the question why wasn’t this done sooner?

I’ve watched the Internet evolve over the past (what) 12 years? I’ve seen Browser Wars 1.0 and 2.0. come and go. At this stage of the game Internet Explorer has so much kibble in it that it’s worthless to do anything with, let alone rely on for any world-wide standards. In fact the only thing IE is good for is company Intranets simply because developers can rely on one browser for a standard within an organization.  Still it’s slow, buggy, and the user interface is so overworked now it’s not even funny.

Firefox (or foxfire as some may call it, mainly my friends) use to be the upcoming star champ. But this too has become bogged down with too many plugins, and features that make the once stable and quick browser slow and annoying. Firefox is now as slow as IE and taking on some of that bad IE design.

Safari is great for a mac user, and terrible if you have windows. Not much else to say there.

And here comes Chrome, not only is it free, and simple but it is QUICK, and like really quick! I count up to ten seconds before IE launches and only 4 for Chrome. PLUS Google did something that should of been done a LONG time ago and combine the search bar with the URL bar.  Also, go figure, every tab runs in its own environment so if one hangs you don’t lose the whole application. Hey this browser rocks!

Let’s also slap on another well designed logo (I think that is a KEY point as see my earlier post on Firefox’s logo), that stands out very well on the desktop. Also you don’t have extra plugins trying to read PDF’s (just download them for me please?) and RSS readers (just load this for me in Outlook please?) and you have an amazing fast, simple browser that is the way it should of been back in 1995. No extra junk, no stupid features, just simple web browsing done right!

We as users never knew what to use for our hompage. The opening page showing you the top 12 items you recently used was also genius. This was such a great design that Apple stole it for Safari and made it even better!

Chrome is what a modern browser should be. Fast, Quick, Simple, well designed and did I say FAST!? I love the simplificty of it. Please Google don’t try and add any more extra crap to this. Chrome is fine just the way it is!

Dear fans, fellow podcasters, and pretty much everyone else.

There comes a time in your life when transition or ‘Transforming’ (stop groaning there) becomes imminent. And unfortunately that time in my life has is now. I’ve enjoyed with immense pride and pleasure creating four highly successful and world-renown podcasts both from completely opposite ends of the spectrum. However the amount of effort and time to produce these shows has become too much to juggle. This combined with fellow hosts busy schedules it has become almost impossible for everyone to get together on regular basis anymore.

I find myself in need of a much deserve break because of burn-out and a much needed change of direction.

Sadly Transformers is in a major lull since Revenge of the Fallen disappointed every insatiable fan out there, and in terms of my other podcasts I find myself growing more and more out of touch with pop culture. It’s time for the next generation of podcasters to step up to the plate.

Because of all of this I am announcing my retirement from Podcasting. I feel I’ve done my contribution to society in these arena and it’s just time to move on.

I want to thank all the fans through the five years of doing this. I really appreciate the support, the emails, the tweets and the general love from random complete strangers. It really goes to show that if have an idea you can make it happen and as much as I don’t want to disappoint ‘you the fans’, I need to take care of my mental and financial well-being above all.

You can continue to follow whatever projects I get myself into at anthonyanselmo.com.

So with that being said I want to seriously thank you all again for your interest and support of these endeavors for the past four years. This really has been a blast and while I do not imagine this is ‘farewell’ I consider it a ’see-ya-later’. Keep your spirits bright, your dreams alive, reaching for the stars with your feet cemented in the ground.

Take Care.
Anthony S. Anselmo

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From friend Ender (aka Matt) from the TFormers.com Podcast joins me as we do a review and commentary for one of our favorite (and often criticized) movies Star Trek V. We talk about the movie as a character piece and also the religious quantifications. (more…)