Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
TheWB.com
I forgot to mention it earlier this week but TheWB.com went live. Maybe because the site is so poorly designed and has such a wasted use of quality content that enables me from writing my review of the site. I’ve got a few drafts I’ve written up and I even sent a letter to Brent [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Internet, TV on Web by Jason D.
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Tina/Sarah
Newly minted Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin
Tina Fey
Posted without comment.
2 Comments » - Posted in Sweet by Jason D.
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Facebook: The Movie
A movie about Mark Z. and the founding of facebook sounds like the perfect recipe for an A&E miniseries. Now that we find out it’s being written by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) it might have some potential. Even of Sorkin himself admits to being new to the social networking website. “I figured a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Facebook, Movies by Jason D.
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
What to do if your iPhone is lost or stolen…
So, say you just got a shiny new iPhone 3G. Say it’s an awesome 16GB version. Yeah, you’re the cool guy now.
Say you then leave your iPhone in the restroom at a concert, and 3 minutes later its gone for good.
Sad panda. Sad panda, indeed.
You think to yourself…”No worries! My phone has GPS–they can track [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Apple, iPhone by Jason T.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Disney’s Vault Goes Blu
The Ultimate Fairy Tale is coming to Blu-ray Oct 7.
Today the Walt Disney Co. announced it’s future line-up of animation classics that will be released on the Blu-Ray platform. Now that the format war is over Hollywood is looking to bring the cautious public into the HD world. With price tags of $300-$700 for the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Movies, PS3 by Jason D.
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
NBC’s Beijing Bust
NBC/Universal might have shelled out $900mil for exclusive U.S. coverage of the Beijing games but it looks like they might have made their monies worth. The company says they raked in more than $1bil in ad sales for the games. While that $100mil might be what ‘The Dark Knight’ made in its first 12 hours [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Advertising, Internet by Jason D.
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Rock [Band] out with a real wooden axe (…or Guitar Hero)
OK, so you’re a great [Rock Band | Guitar Hero] guitar player. But you just don’t feel like you’ve got the proper equipment to truly become a Rock [Band] legend.
Never fear, Peak Products has come to the rescue.
CNBC is reporting on the introduction of the Peak Starpex Guitar Controller, which works with [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Gaming, Hardware by Jason T.
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Control your computer with your tongue
TDS–no it’s not a new compact car from Volkswagen. Instead, it’s the Tongue Drive System, a new user interface device created by Georgia Tech researchers to allow users to control various systems with their tongues.
Use of the tongue would allow for much broader and quicker interactions with systems–the current “sip and puff” [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Physical computing, User Interface by Jason T.
Monday, August 25th, 2008
In the name of progress
As we continue into our second year we’ve decided to make a few changes. Some of then you’ll see and some you won’t. One change that will help us to bring you the most up to date information is our upgrade to wordpress 2.6.1 which allows iPhone acess.
The volume of posts should increase and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Sweet, iPhone by Jason D.
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Zuma Zuma
Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale are welcoming their second child together into the world. Zuma Nesta Rock was born via c-section today and the baby weighed….. some sort of poundage and I don’t really care and am a little weirded out that it makes it into international news stories.
I’m just hoping that this means in [...]