Speed Racer, surprisingly watchable
Yesterday I saw Speed Racer, my expectation was very low. The response I hard from the movie wasn’t that great. The movie also tanked at the boxoffice on opening weekend, but I gotta say the movie surprised me in way.
By all means this is not a great movie but it’s a decent flick.
The story begins with Speed Racer who is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible, a cross-country car racing rally that took the life of his older brother, Rex Racer. Speed is loyal to the family business, run by his parents Pops and Mom. Pops designed Speed’s car, the Mach 5. The owner of Royalton Industries makes Speed a lucrative offer, Speed rejects the offer, angering the owner. Speed also uncovers a secret that top corporate interests, including Royalton, are fixing races and cheating to gain profit. With the offer to Speed denied, Royalton wants to ensure that Speed will not win races. Speed finds support from his parents and his girlfriend Trixie and enters The Crucible in a partnership with his one-time rival, Racer X, seeking to rescue his family’s business and the racing sport itself.
Summary from imdb
Watch the Speed Racer trailer at Apple.com/trailers
May 21st, 2008 - Posted in Movie trailers, Movies, Personal | | 0 Comments
Thursday the new Indiana Jones movie will premiere in the Netherlands
Almost 20 years after ‘The Last Crusade’ Indie returns with a new adventure.
Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
Plot summary from imdb.
I already reserved my ticket, now just hope it’s as good or better then the old ones.
Watch the trailer at apple.com/trailers
May 20th, 2008 - Posted in Movie trailers, Movies, Personal | | 0 Comments
Create an easy blog post with Textmate
Wow just found out that you can blog with Textmate, another thing you can do with Textmate this program is great!!
To setup a blog with Textmate is truly simple, goto Bundles -> Blogging -> Setup blogs Add a blog name and the url with username and that’s it.
Things you missed http://username@thingsyoumissed.com/xmlrpc.php
Now you’re ready to fetch the last 20 blog posts from your blog. Goto Blundles -> Blogging -> Fetch Post -> Select a Blog post
To create a new blog post goto File -> New from template -> Blogging -> Blog Post(Markdown)
And finally to post the blog post to you blog goto Bundles -> Blogging -> Post to blog and that’s all.
Watch the blogging screen cast on the official Textmate website, Screen cast.
Also install Markdown for easy writing.
May 19th, 2008 - Posted in Personal, Tutorial | | 0 Comments
April 3, Live Diggnation show in Amsterdam
Yeahh!! A live Diggnation show in Amsterdam, I’m so gonna be there.
It will be held at ‘The Next Web’ conference on April 3 7 pm. The live show is free for all just like the London live show. For more details checkout ‘The Next Web’ conference site,
2008.thenextweb.org Diggnation Diggnation forum
March 22nd, 2008 - Posted in Diggnation, Personal, Podcasts | | 0 Comments
All 4 music labels DRM free
Within a year of Steve Jobs open letter titled ‘Thoughts on Music‘ all 4 music labels have dropped some or all DRM from there digital library.
EMI was the first to sell DRM free music in Apple’s iTunes music store soon followed by Vivendi’s Universal. And last December Warner Music Group made the decision to drop DRM. Now Sony BMG as the last one of the 4 major music labels will sell part of its music library without DRM.
This is a great victory for us, the consumer. Now we’re no longer bound to one brand or device.
A passage out of the open letter from Steve Jobs ‘Thoughts on Music‘.
The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.Steve we’re almost there.
January 4th, 2008 - Posted in Apple, Music | | 0 Comments
Macworld is here soon
January 15 is the day Steve Jobs(CEO of Apple) will give another one his famed and highly watched keynotes. And just as last year when he showed us the iPhone for the first time he probably has something new and special plant for us, the consumer.
There are already floating alot of rumors around on the internet, some are reasonably possible and some are wildly insane but still they’re rumors and some of the time there’s a grain of truth to them.
Here is een summary of the rumors for Macworld 2008,
- Jay-Z and Apple starting a record label.
- An ultra portable Macbook with no cd/dvd drive and a Solid State Harddisk so that the thickness can be reduced by 50% compare to a Macbook Pro models. It would also have a 13 inch LED screen and an extra wide multi-touch touchpad.
- An iPhone with 3G for fast internet.
January 4th, 2008 - Posted in Apple, iPhone, iPod touch | | 0 Comments
Video podcasts
Getting tired of regular tv and haven’t tried out watching a video podcast, start watching now! They’re free and some are even in HD. You can find them in all sorts of categories.
Here are 3 of my favorites,
Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories. Hosted by Founder of Digg.com Keven Rose and Alex Albrecht.
January 2nd, 2008 - Posted in Personal, Podcasts | | 0 Comments
iPod touch + 3G WM phone tutorial
I based this tutorial on the knowledge I gathered from setting up my Samsung i600(WM6) with my iPod touch and from these sources xda-developers.com, modaco.com.
First this may work with Windows Mobile 5 phones that have ICS(Internet Connection Sharing). But this tutorial is written with experience gained from setting up a Samsung i600 Windows Mobile 6 phone.
1. What do you need to make this work?
- Preferably a 3G phone with WM6 that had built-in wifi and bluetooth.
An iPod touch or laptop
December 30th, 2007 - Posted in Apple, Personal, Tutorial, iPod touch | | 2 Comments
Zero Punctuation
If you really are bored with those standard video reviews of games check out ‘Zero Punctuation‘. It’s totally different but just freaking funny and awesome!
Guitar Hero III review
December 30th, 2007 - Posted in Games | | 0 Comments
Hancock movie trailer
The Hancock movie trailer was release recently starting Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman.
Quote from IMDB,
A hard-living superhero (Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Theron) of the public relations professional (Bateman) who’s trying to repair his image.
Watch the Hancock movie trailer at www.apple.com/trailers.
December 29th, 2007 - Posted in Apple, Movie trailers | | 0 Comments
