Nintendo DS lite invades Japan.

By adding style to the functionality of the Nintendo DS, the Japaneses engineers have taken some hints from Apple and boosted the appeal of their coveted DS. This article gives a good description of the changes that include a much brighter and more detailed screen and a really solid redesigned body. Take a look. This might not replace your iPod but making the DS less of a toy and more of a gadget should put it into the pockets of at least a few more students.

Check out:

http://www.cabel.name/2006/03/nintendo-ds-lite-second-look.html

--Justin

Bedouin Soundclash -- December 10, 2005

Call The Office - London, ON

BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH wsg THE JUNCTION.

Tickets: $17.50 advance / $20 door. Show starts at 10:00.

These guys are really talented musicians. If you like reggae give them a listen. With inspirations like Sublime, The Police and more similarly Bob Marley, it seems Pat Pengelly (drums), Jay Malinowski (vocals/guitar), and Eon Sinclair (bass) may just be a new breed.

The Shape of Things Tickets On Sale

Theatre Western is putting on a production of "The Shape of Things" and tickets are now on sale. The comedy will play the McManus Studio Theatre in the Grand Theatre (471 Richmond Street) from Thursday, November 24 through Saturday, November 26 for 4 performances only.

Evening performances begin at 8:00 p.m., with a matinee on Saturday at 2pm.

Tickets (priced at $10, general admission) are now on sale through the Grand Theatre box office at 519-672-8800, or in person through Infosource (in the UCC Atrium) and at the Grand Theatre box office (471 Richmond Street). Check this out.

--J

Midnight Cult Classics from Western Film

Are you tired of paying top dollar for shitty movies. Well come to the UCC where every Friday at midnight they play all of your favorite films from the past. Upcoming features include:

Friday November 18 @ Midnight: Requiem for a Dream

Friday November 25 @ Midnight: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Friday December 2 @ Midnight: The Princess Bride

Friday December 9 @ Midnight: Silence of the Lambs

Not bad I'd say. I mean who remembers seeing The Princess Bride on a big screen. And it's just $2.00 admission.

Check out:

http://www.usc.uwo.ca/wfilm/midnight.htm

--J

Commenting

Great job with the shameless self promotion.
Commenting should be used responsibly.
Thats all I have to say.

--J

kegbot beer device... beer me!

This is the greatest display of technology and alcoholism. Imagine a system where you have a refrigerator, keg tap, flow meter, identification keys, and computer software that tracks not only your pints but your lifetime pint count, your blood alcohol right now, your highest blood alcohol and a whole lot more.

I am building one of these for sure.

Check out:

Kegbot

Fromtheshadows.tv

p.s. This spell checker tried to replace kegbot with sexpot. Whats up with that?

--J

Butter Darth Vader and Yoda

Theres something seriously wrong about this picture. As a lifelong Star Wars fanboy, I find this to be the most useless outlet of fanboy pride. Oh well.

Check out:

Butter DV/Yoda

Who does this? seriously!

--J

Why Hollywood Loves Bittorrent

Check out this awesome article about the very popular Bittorrent p2p program.

Check out:

Why Hollywood Loves Bittorrent
--J

Should I get a new iPod with video??

I'm thinking about it but Im not really sure so I figured this is a great way to see if people like the whole idea of commenting. My question is:

Should I get a new iPod with video?
What size?
What color?

Check them out at

iPod Generation 5

Tell me what you think

--J

Tuition Freeze Thaws in 2006!!

This is a hard subject to write about so I'm going to let you do the writing for me.

To have you opinions posted on this site, send an email with your name and subject of study to:

ONEWESTERN@GMAIL.COM

Have you voice heard.

Maybe the Gazette or Western news might even do a story about this site and your voice might make their pages as well.

--J

The Future Of Advertising

Popular writer John. C Dvorak writes on the future of advertising and how 20 minutes of commercials before a movie may be only the beginning. Its a great read.

Check out:

The Future of Advertising

Also if you like this check out:

This Week In Tech

--J

Leave The Pack Behind

Check out the new UWO Leave The Pack Behind website for information on quitting smoking TODAY. Contests for quitters will be available soon so keep an eye out on campus and at their website.

Check out:

Leave The Pack Behind

--J

REMINDER: Last day for USC Health Plan OPT-OUT

Monday October 3, 2005 is your last day to opt-out of the USC pre-paid health plan. Go to Rm. 373 on the third floor in the UCC.

Bring ID, and proof of coverage.

--J

Google TV

Google will be taking over more of the world by releasing an online FREE television service which is rumored to kick off with the popular show "Everybody Hates Chris". Look out for more on this story in the next few weeks.

Check out:

Google TV

--J

Want Office software for FREE??

Tired of paying hundreds of dollars for office software that just updates editions every few years. Try the open-source (FREE) version of the popular office suites on the market called "OPENOFFICE". It has all the functionality of your fancy Microsoft products, with compatibility and a nice user interface to boot.

Check out:

OpenOffice For more information.

--J

How do you stay awake on campus???????

If you're anything like me than you have a severe, borderline dangerous caffeine addiction; however, if you just like the occasional pick me up to pull through an all-nighter, here's a guide to the best energy drinks on the market. Having a dozen Tim Hortons definitely helps fuel a good caffeine buzz but don't hesitate to mix it up every now and again.

Check out:

Caffeine Guide

happy late nights

--J

Overheard At Western

For those of you that loved the Overheard in NY site, here's one a little closer to home. Check out:

www.overheardatwestern.blogspot.com

Tuning into the middle of a conversation usually results in you hearing something kinda like this

Girl #1: You're drunk.
Girl #2: I'm wearing sweatpants, so I'm obviously NOT drunk!
Girl #1: What?! Explain.
Girl #2: I'm wearing sweatpants. I wear sweatpants when I'm alone. I don't drink when I'm alone. Therefore I can't be drunk.
Girl #1: You're wearing sweatpants now, and you're not alone....
Girl #2: I'm NOT drunk!

or

Girl #1: I'm not a slut just because I made out with [so-and-so] and then slept with that other guy, am I?
Girl #2: I don't think so.

For more stupid conversations check out these other sites as well:

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/

or if you can understand it http://www.overheardindublin.com/

--J

Come to the WEGA booth during clubs week to meet me.

I'll be at the Western Electronic Gamers Association booth this week promoting our club and this years events. Come and check out the line-up of gaming events that we have in store for members and you can meet me too. Keep in mind I am always interested in suggestions for the site and the up-coming podcast so feel free to come to me with any input you have. OneWestern is a student resource that is produced and funded by students so while we might know a bit more about what interests us as students, we always love to hear what you have to say about it.

Hope to see many of you this week at all of the booths in and around the UCC.

--J

FREE Tech books!.

Fed up of paying hundreds of dollars for textbooks. You can find some free tech related books at:

http://www.freetechbooks.com/ that might provide you with all the necessary topics without the hefty price tag.

--J

iPod Bartender

Download over 250 drink mix recipes onto your iPod for quick reference. This comes in handy at any party or if you just have some free time and want to learn how to create some awesome drinks. You'll find the files and all of the installation information at:

http://www.electricstate.com/ipodbartender/

Good luck and bottoms up.

--J

Want 20 FREE iTunes songs?

First you must have an active iTunes account in the USA iTunes store. You can set this up very quickly by selecting the store, then changing to the USA store and following the link in the top right hand of the player.

Then follow the following link to get your FREE 20 songs on the iTunes store.

http://phobos.apple.com

it worked for me.

--J

USC Health Plan Opt-Out

Everyone is required to pay for the USC Health plan, but what most students don't know is that they are already covered. If one or more of your parents have health coverage, chances are that the coverage also includes you. Check it out as you can opt-out of the USC health plan and get your money back.

The deadline is October 1st and the forms can be obtained from InfoSource. You must provide proof that you are already covered under another plan. There will also be someone in UCC Room 373 on hand to process opt-outs.

METRIC playing at the WAVE

Metric's Emily Haines (vocals/synths), Jimmy Shaw (guitar), Josh Winstead (bass) and Joules Scott-Key (drums) will be entertaining western students at the WAVE on Sept 27, 2005. This is a 19+ show so don't forget your ID.

Metric combines syth pop with rock and dance to provide a unique blend of sound.
Check out the band's website at: http://www.ilovemetric.com/music.html
You can listen to .mp3 samples of some of their music and see if you like it.

see you there,

--J

Live Bands tonight and tomorrow

Tonight (Sept 9) on campus at UC hill is the foam party with a live band. Last year the live band did a lot of covers from pop to rock to punk and they seriously rocked. Check that out if you can.

Tomorrow (Sept 10) check out Sam Roberts with mystery opening bands on UC hill. The concert starts at dusk so get there early. The concert will be directly following closing ceremonies and will conclude with the Wild West Roast so check that out too.

See everyone there.

--J

Clubs Week 2005 Sept 19-23

Come out to clubs week on any of these days in front of the UCC. Theres likely a club that caters to your interests so come take a look. A list of campus clubs can be found at:

http://www.usc.uwo.ca/clubs/clubs_listing.htm

Take a look!!

--J

ENGINEERING USED TEXTBOOK SALE

BUY AND SELL USED TEXTBOOKS

Tuesday, September 13 2005
5:30 PM
SEB 1001 UES Resource Room


If you’re in ENG and you want to save some money on books, check out the used book sale. Most students save about $200+ by buying their books used rather than new. Some things to look for:

-Make sure that your prof is still using the same book!

-If your prof is using a previous edition of the same book, go to the book store on campus and see if you can see any differences between the new book and the old edition.
(Commonly they just mix up the practice questions and stager the chapters.)

-Take your textbook list with the prices for each book NEW so that you can compare your used book to the new price. Try to get your book for 60% of the new list value depending on the book.

-Don't buy the first book you see. There are lots of students selling books, so see if you can get the best price available.

-Don't buy previous year lab manuals, course notes or anything printed by the school. These notes are not transferable year to year and you may not be getting the deal you think you are.

Filesharing for the O-C

No I dont mean that sad ripoff of 90210. Living off campus means a lot of things; it means you have to make all your own meals, you can make as much noise as you want, and when you puke in the hallway you have to clean it up yourself. One of the huge disadvantages to living off campus is that you are no longer connected to the campus network and you have to look elsewhere for your music, movies and games. There are a lot of different ways to fileshare and for the average computer user, some of these may seem a little complicated. Here is a quick little guide to getting all those files without being connected to the campus network.

The best method is using bittorrent clients. Heres what you need for this.

-Bittorent client (Azureus, Bittornado, Bittorrent)
-Bittorrent trackers

Heres a list of a couple good torrent tracker sites:

http://www.piratebay.org
http://www.torrentspy.com
http://www.mininova.org
http://www.bi-torrent.com
http://www.torrentreactor.net

The whole idea here is to go to one of these websites, search for the movie, album or game that you want, download the torrent file corresponding to the file you want and then open that little torrent file in the program. Thats basically it.

For FAQ about bittorrenting check out: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/bittorent_faq.cfm

Happy sharing.

--J

Ikea As-is Section.... $10 desks.

Hey all,

I just got back from Ikea with some knowledge that I thought I'd share. I got a desk from Ikea for 10 dollars in the As-is section and it's the exact same desk that they have advertised for $160. The table top was in the as-is section where they usually keep old doors and glass tables and the legs were in with the candles and display cutlery. It takes a little while to sift through everything but it's worth it. I recommend to anyone that is going to Ikea to pick up some last minute furniture to check out the as-is section as I did tonight and got me a brand new desk.

--J

Gearing up for O-WEEK.

O-WEEK is coming up and we're getting ready to record our first podcast. We'll be recording the show mostly in our studio (apartment) and eventually we are going to be looking for a decent location on campus. The Spoke Lounge is always an amazing place to chill during the day especially if you've got a laptop. Were going to be doing some recording there as well once it calms down after O-WEEK and we'll post here where and when to meet us if you want to get involved.

We would love to get some suggestions from our visitors so feel free to email us:

onewestern@gmail.com

Check out the recent events going on on campus and in London by checking out the links. To make the best of your O-WEEK, Take advantage of our links. Check out everything going on and make sure you attend everything you can.

--J

THANK YOU everyone. Keep it up.

A few days ago I signed up for an account at Statcounter.com. I am surprised and honesty trilled to see that we are getting a lot of traffic considering we have only been around for 2 weeks. In the next month I promise we are going to continue to include more links, more posts, more interactive services such as the photoblog and the best podcast on campus. I'd like to thank everyone that has been supportive of this project and I would like to give a huge thanks to Western News for putting us in the "Special Projects" section on the new Weblogs at Western site. Thanks for all the support.

Again I would like to stress that any and all suggestions and comments regarding the ONEWESTERN project are invited. Send your comments to:

onewestern@gmail.com

I cant wait to see everybody in the next couple weeks. Tell your friends all about us.

I expect everyone to submit your pictures from o-week to the photoblog. Remember this is not a campus site so send us your party pics.

Hosting and more good stuff.

Great news...We've recently signed on with Audioblog.com for webhosting and RSS publishing so the podcast is coming soon. This whole project is coming out of my pocket so that explains why it takes a little while to get things going. With school coming up so soon it would be great to get things ready in time for the new students to get a glimpse of what onewestern is going to become over the next few months. I'll try to keep everyone updated as soon as possible in terms of updates and podcast postings. Our RSS feed is now active and Ill be posting that as soon as we have some content available as well. To those of you out there that aren't into the whole iTunes hype, check out a program called iPodderX

This is an awesome program that does all that iTunes has to offer, allows bittorrent d/l for higher transfers and it's free. I met the creator of iPodderX in Toronto a few weeks ago and not only is he a great guy but I can see a lot of awesome features becoming available very soon from iPodderX. Check it out.

Podcast Update

Hey Everybody,

We've been talking about the Podcast a lot and tons of ideas have been coming in from everywhere. We would just like to thank everyone who has contributed their thoughts and ideas. We are looking at publishing a podcast that really gives you as a Western student something that will appeal to your interests and the campus around you. One of the main ideas that we have decided on is making a themed podcast. That means that we're not going to keep the same format for every episode. We are looking at giving a brief run down of the biggest news stories at western, a listing of upcoming events, movie reviews, and couple other quick segments and then jumping right into the theme of the show. Some suggestions for themes have included Orientation week, Homecoming weekend, Awesome deals at Western, Campus Tech Support, Professor interviews, The Eng Episode and more. If you have any suggestions for themes, feel free to express them by emailing us at:

JStoyles@Gmail.com

PS> Look for us in an upcoming issue of Western News

--J

Check out Digg.com news and the soon to be aired PODCAST.

As a student at Western, I know what it is like to be out of touch with the world for 8 months of the year. In the right-hand column you can find stories found on Digg.com as chosen by ONEWESTERN. For Western campus related news, we will be posting links to various websites where you will be able to find out what is happening on campus, as well as our podcast. Our podcast will be airing in September and will be your one stop for Western News, Campus events, Interviews, Movie and Music reviews and some other fun stuff too. We will keep you updated on the release date for the first episode, then you will be able to find us on the ITunes music store podcast section for FREE.

--Justin

Western News Showcasing Blogs

"Weblogs at Western" will launch on August 25th with an article in a special edition of Western News. All Western bloggers are encouraged to send their information to tsutherl@uwo.ca. This is great news and we at ONEWESTERN are hoping that we will be included on this list and that it will help us get some more exposure on campus.

Don't forget to email your pictures as attachments to: onewestern.photos@tamw.com for them to be included in the moblog.

We will be seeing everyone soon. Enjoy what summer is left.

Photo Blog now available!

Send your pictures of you, your friends, and anything else showcasing UWO events, and campus culture.

Email your photos to: onewestern.photos@tamw.com

Submitted photos will be added to the moblog and can be viewed using the flasher box in the right-hand column.

Enjoy.

-Justin

Welcome to 'ONEWESTERN' ONE stop for everything WESTERN

Today we are glad to say that we have launched the idea of this podcast. It has been a thought of mine for a little while now and I hope that we can gain attention on campus as I know a lot of you out there are using Ipods and ITunes. Why not look to the future of indy broadcasting and learn about whats going on around you. My name is Justin Stoyles. I am an Electrical Engineering student here at Western and Im glad to be a part of this project. Look forward to seeing us on the ITunes Music Store and on campus as we are planning to record many of our shows in random locations on campus. I'd Like to thank everyone for their support in getting this off the ground.

Look out for us soon.

-Justin