For anyone that doesn’t know, a few weeks back someone (or some group) hacked the iTunes App Store (the place you buy apps for your iPhone, iPad or iPod from) and bumped up all the apps by a specific seller in the “eBook” section to the front page as bestsellers; even though most weren’t even [...]
Archive | July, 2010
Predators Movie Review
I’ve been looking forward to Predators for a long time. I love Predator and I love Robert Rodriguez. It should have been a match made in heaven but I can’t help but feel disappointed. There were a lot of good ideas and a lot of it was executed well but a few key flaws really [...]
Twilight Saga: Eclipse Movie Review
Just to get this out of the way right up front, Eclipse is by far the best of the Twilight movies so far. Many of the annoying things of the past movies were fixed and it looked fabulous. That being said, the problem that even the best Twilight movie is always going to have, and [...]
Why I Hate Social News Sites
NOTE: This is an anti-social-news site venting post. If that will upset you, please click away. I have posted before about why I hate Digg, but to be fair, I hate all social news sites that rely exclusively on users up-voting stories. I recently had my account at reddit banned out of thin air, so [...]
Alan Wake on Xbox 360 Looks Bad
I picked up Alan Wake for the Xbox 360 yesterday and I have to say: good lord are the textures crumby. The entire game looks “muddy” or “washed out”, depending on if you are in a light or dark scene. What is so disappointing about this is that you can tell with the right horsepower [...]
MongoDB (Single-Server) Data Durability Guide
If you are a MongoDB user or just interested in NoSQL databases in general, you may have seen the excellent “MongoDB has poor data durability by default!” (I am paraphrasing) conversation started by Mikeal Rogers. It is an excellent topic to bring up and regardless of Mikeal’s association (he’s a CouchDB developer) I never once [...]
You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore…
I recently sent a friend a text message using the phrase “reach-around” in response to my feelings about having to pay a large sum to have my washing machine repaired. I think that may be one of my favorite phrases in the whole wide world. It definitely ranks among the heavy hitters like “douchebag” and [...]
WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Review & Free License Giveaway!
Summary WinX DVD Ripper is a versatile easy to use DVD ripping and re-encoding utility for a multitude of your devices. Review There are many ripping and re-encoding utilities out there such as Handbreak, but none we have seen are as easy to use as this program. Within 3 clicks you can be ripping a [...]
Patrick’s 10 Favorite Vampire and Werewolf Movies
The 4th of July weekend was handily dominated by the latest installment of the Twilight film series, that misbegotten teen romance series in which a vapid and incompetent girl is inexplicably wooed by a teenage vampire who sparkles and is only vaguely a vampire and a teenage werewolf who doesn’t wear shirts and isn’t a [...]
Retro Review – Boardinghouse!!!
Here in Tucson, we have this FABULOUS movie theater that shows all sorts of independent films, art films, cult films, and all manner of alternative films that you may not see anywhere else in town. It’s called The Loft, and it’s been around since Christ was a corporal (www.loftcinema.com). Everybody loves The Loft, and every Monday, [...]
@Override Compiler Errors in Play! Framework “Must Override a Superclass Method”
If you are working with the Play! Framework and have run into exceptions that read like “The file <MyFile>.java could not be compiled. Error raised is : The method <MethodName> of type <ClassName> must override a superclass method” then you might be wondering if there is a compiler bug in Play! – worry not, it’s [...]
Reuters Likes Catchy Titles
Thanks to Matt Young that sent his in along with the subject line “No comment necessary” and he’s right. Thanks Reuters! I’m picturing the article’s author, Gene Cherry, coming up with this at his desk, having a moment of “OH god… oh god this is awesome…” and then curiously wondering if is editor would clear [...]
Funny iPhone 4 AT&T Reception Issue Fix
Thanks goes to Chris Hunkele for sending this one in: it’s a fix for the iPhone 4 reception issues due to the antenna design… all better!
FFmpeg Team Implements a WebM/VP8 Decoder in 1400 Lines of C
Some quick background on the state of video codecs: H.264 is the most popular video codec for online and offline (Blu-ray / HD captures) videos H.264 is encumbered by patents and licenses required for usage, administered by the privately held company MPEG LA. Online video publishing/creation/distribution and popularity is increasing at an astronomical rate Companies [...]
How to Update iPhone 2G with Firmware 3.1.2, Jailbreak and Carrier Unlock Guide
REMINDER: This guide is for folks with the original “2G” or EDGE-only iPhone (pictured above). If you have an iPhone 3G, try our iOS 4 guide to get updated to the latest iPhone OS! Introduction If you are like me and own an original 2G/EDGE iPhone and feel sad that you can’t install iOS 4 [...]
Otto Ross and the Lindy’s on 4th OMFG Burger Challenge
For those that don’t know Lindy’s on 4th is a burger joint in Tucson, Arizona that has a 12-patty and cheese burger challenge called the “OMFG” that was featured on the TV show Man vs Food. Upon airing of that episode a friend of ours named Otto Ross insisted that the challenge was no problem and [...]
How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Disk 1 Blu-ray Won’t Play in 60GB PS3 Fix
Update #2: Success! After continuing to mess with this problem and the workaround below not doing the trick, I kept reading online and finally found a solution that works. I love you misio121! When your disk gets to the “Upgrade your firmware” notice screen on the disk Start randomly pressing R1/R2 and X all together [...]
Google Adsense is Hilarious Sometimes
If you are familiar with our “Monkey has Way with Frog” post then you know what happens… and it’s not so good for the frog. What is funny though, is when Google Adsense picks up the context of the post and displays unintentionally funny ads, like so: Romantic get-away indeed! For what it’s worth, I [...]
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