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General Discussion / Re: TX Death Row Inmate has a case of the Munchies, Eats Own Eye

« on: January 16, 2009, 07:35:23 PM »

Well, his eye's not bigger than his stomache. That's for sure.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Time Warner North Texas now had TWC HD!!

« on: January 14, 2009, 09:09:43 PM »

I may not have HD, but it's official, Time Warner Cable in North Texas has The Weather Channel HD. It's on Channel 738.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/CustomerService/CLU/TWCCLUs.ashx?CLUID=1013

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Raymie's Icon-ery

« on: January 13, 2009, 03:11:15 PM »

Very impressive. Thanks for the icon sets! 

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Local Forecast / Re: Brand new January 2009 TWC music

« on: January 07, 2009, 09:58:28 PM »

I'm trying to identify the title of this clip.

Song 5

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDkvCSnDnmM&fmt=18

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Local Forecast / Re: Brand new January 2009 TWC music

« on: January 07, 2009, 04:00:14 PM »

Sounds like a great playlist.

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Local Forecast / Re: Brand new January 2009 TWC music

« on: January 06, 2009, 04:51:46 PM »

It seems the playlist has returned to normal. "Give It Here" by Joe Sample was played all the way through the 3:48PM CT LOT8s portion without any cut-ins.

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Local Forecast / Re: Brand new January 2009 TWC music

« on: January 06, 2009, 04:40:45 PM »

Another nice jazzy tune at 3:38PM CT.

...followed by another Trammel cut-in.

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Local Forecast / Re: Brand new January 2009 TWC music

« on: January 06, 2009, 03:35:55 PM »

Motion of the Ocean by Robin Scholl from :58

Thanks!

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Local Forecast / Re: Brand new January 2009 TWC music

« on: January 06, 2009, 03:00:38 PM »

The tune at 1:58PM CT sounds something like David Sanborn and yes it was used before. Don't know what month or year it was though.

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Local Forecast / Re: Brand new January 2009 TWC music

« on: January 06, 2009, 09:50:51 AM »

"Give It Here" by Joe Sample at 8:48AM CT.

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday Vic!

« on: January 06, 2009, 12:33:05 AM »

Happy Birthday Victor!

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Raymie's Icon-ery

« on: January 05, 2009, 12:16:09 PM »

I am proud to announce QuickCast, my set of 89+2 weather icons for all applications.

What's great about QuickCast?


It has legibility. I've outsmarted The Weather Channel by making icons in a flat style that also are easy to read.

They're scalable. The default size of QuickCast icons is 160x160, much larger than most icon sets (128x128).

There's 89+2 of them. I went through my XL icon and other icon set collections to create a comprehensive package that trumps even respected icon sets like the IntelliStar 2006 package - including modified icons.

What's the +2? The 90th icon in QuickCast is a No Data icon. Like the other 90 icons, it visibly communicates the lack of data, with a greyscaled sun and the words "No Data" at the bottom. The 91st, "Weather Alert", indicates an active weather alert.

It's even so comprehensive that most weather.com-compliant icon sets for Samurize only have 42 unique icons. Over half of the icons in QuickCast aren't even used for weather plugins!


QuickCast. Weather icons you can always turn to.

If you are interested in viewing a sample, hop over to The Weather Channel Reimagined. If you want to order the full set of 91 QuickCast icons, contact me and I will send you each icon in 160x160 PNG format.

I'd like a full set. I may have already goten a sneak peek thanks to you, but I like to get 'em all.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Michael's TWC Fan Art Portfolio

« on: January 04, 2009, 09:49:55 PM »

Here's my take on the Daypart Forecast:

DISCLAIMER: All known materials are property of The Weather Channel and TWC Interactive. Background and template courtesy of Martin. Icons on the second picture are courtesy of Raymie. All weather data is real as of 8:00PM CT the date this is posted.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Say It Ain't So, Time Warner!

« on: January 01, 2009, 11:39:16 AM »

It seems that Viacom and Time Warner has finally come to an agreement. The blackout was narrowly avoided when the deal was struck at 12:30AM CT.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijDA5bgxiHlTvS_r-SSjskS1Tq1wD95E5B200

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Michael's TWC Fan Art Portfolio

« on: January 01, 2009, 11:36:10 AM »

Nice.

By the way, the w in weather is not capitalized in "Local weather ID"

Thanks! 

I know the W in Weather is not usually capitalized, but I kinda liked it the way I put it.