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Downey Jr. trying to lock down all fandom in all corners? BloodyDisgusting.com seems to think so, as Universal Pictures moves to nab a big time lead to relaunch film adaptations of bestselling novelist Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles work.More after the jump...Related posts:New Gwyneth Paltrow and Downey Jr Images from Iron (Read More)
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When choosing a blog platform, you have a variety of options: Drupal, Movable Type, Typepad, Blogger, Joomla, Expression Engine, WordPress.com, self-hosted WordPress, and others. But when you start researching the options, WordPress seems to have at least 10 main strengths over its competitors: Abundant Themes. You can choo (Read More)
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"DVD Jon" Johansen, a guy who knows a thing or five about iTunes syncing, breaks down how the Pre must pull it off: by reporting itself as an iPod. It's brazen, and possibly brilliant. Yesterday at AllThingsD, we saw a sync demo in which iTunes reported the Pre as an iPod. Johansen says the process behind this isn't that co (Read More)
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www.bloodygoodhorror.com
The Chinese Hopping Vampire has to be one of the weirdest monsters ever to terrorize the screen that didn’t spring from Lloyd Kaufman’s imagination. Properly known as Jiang Shi, they arguably have more in common with Western zombies than they do vampires. The Jiang Shi are dead bodies reanimated by Taoist priests that su (Read More)
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The New York Times’ terrible first-quarter results (plunging ad revenue) reminded me to finally read Clay Shirky’s “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable” essay.As a former journalist and someone who still loves reading newspapers, Shirky’s thesis is alarming but, painfully, on the mark. One thing that resonated is Skirky (Read More)
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MakeUseOf.com
I did it. About a week ago, I took the plunge. I made Google Chrome my default browser, and now do almost everything within Chrome. I do miss Firefox every once in a while (after all, we were in a relationship for quite a while, and over a number of version changes), but I’m glad I’ve moved on.Chrome is only getting better (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb
What are you doing? No what are you doing Apple, Skype, Flip, StubHub and Box.net?? These popular companies just couldn't resist paying off Twitter users to put advertisements into their Twitter streams using the new pay-per-tweet service Magpie. It's enough to make you question the true motives of any outspoken fan and the (Read More)
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Apple's tendencies for tight control of its products ultimately drove U2 to abandon the company for sponsorship in favor of Research in Motion's BlackBerries, the music group's frontman Bono is now known to have said. In a recent conversation with Toronto DJ Alan Cross that was mentioned to the Globe and Mail, the artist r (Read More)
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While third-party apps are being trumpeted as the iPhone's strength, key Palm Pre demos this week were designed to highlight their restrictions by taking advantage of those precise things that Apple won't allow. (Read More)
Apr 06, 2009
: Whoa. Could you be more petulant?The Pre is vapor, until it is in the hands of the average user and the strengths and weaknesses of the platform have been evaluated in real-world situations. In never said, nor implied, that the iPhone was flawless. The highlighted post at AppleInsider seems to suggest that the Pre is going to be an equalizer. That remains to be seen. A key comment was, "by running presentations of carefully selected third-party software live on sample phones." Picking and choosing applications to enhance a perceived advantage that no one can verify or refute through independent investigation is specious. Using Pandora as an example, they post attacks Apple for not allowing background processes and heralds the Pre as unlocking this restriction. Really? I think not. Pandora streams audio live over the 3G network. That requires the radio to constantly poll the WAP[s], download the data stream, convert it to analog and play it through the speaker/headphones. All of this takes energy from the limited capacity of the battery. You can be as peevish as you like in "balanc[ing]" my dislike of this postulating. Until the device is out in the wild, roaming between WAPs (WiFi, 3G, EDGE, etc), renegotiating connection efficiency, and more, no amount of demoing is going to convince me of anything other than Palm's desperation to regain relevance and stir up a bunch of hype about their device. Until these claims can be proven, they are nothing more than advertising. 2
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Thanks to TechCrunch, U.S. tech reporters are about to spend another weekend working instead of playing. Two sources told proprietor Michael Arrington that Google "is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter." He wrote:We don't know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they s (Read More)
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Dinner With Max Jenke
DVD vending machines, like the one seen above, have become a familiar sight in shopping areas over the past few years. I still haven't used one myself but since one was installed at the entrance of my local Stop & Shop awhile back, I've noticed that it's done brisk business from the start, with customers lining up to get th (Read More)
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