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

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

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.

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

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.

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.
• The new iPhone will maybe make use of the new ultra portable intel cpu chip.
• An iPhone software update(1.1.3) that makes sending sms messages to multiple people possible, rearange your icons the way you like them on the home screen, create webpage shortcuts on your home screen, locate yourself on Google maps using celltower triangulation, hybrid map view in Google maps, Making copy/past possible, and maybe adding video recording to the iPhone.
• The announcement that the iPhone is coming to more countries all over the world.
• Blueray support to the Mac.
• An iMac like dockingstation where you insert the new ultra portable Macbook into.
• Maybe a new iPod touch update that incorporates some of the new futures that the iPhone is getting like, adding shortcut to webpages and rearrange you home screen.
• An update for the Apple TV.
• An Apple TV with blueray player.
• The announcment of movie rentals from Fox and Disney.
• And ofcource something that we never saw coming, the way Apple likes it.

The keynote will start on January 15 at 9 AM, PST and will end at 10.30 AM.

Here are 3 of my favorites,

Diggnation

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.

The Totally Rad Show

The Totally Rad Show primarily focuses on reviews and reminiscing of movies and video games. It stars Alex Albrecht, Dan Trachtenberg and Jeff Cannata.

Cranky Geeks

A tech podcast with John C.Dvorak that debates the weekly tech story with a panel of guests.

Here’re a couple of sources where you can find video podcasts.

The iTunes store Revision3 Videopodcasts.tv

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

2. That’s the hardware part you also need to following software.

• WMWifirouter
• PHM (if needed)
• Wlan IP Manager (if needed)
• SP_AllowCertificateInstall.cab (if needed)
• SDA_ApplicationUnlock.zip (if needed)

3. Next check if you can setup a static ip on you WM6 phone.

• Go to -> Start -> Settings -> Connections -> Wifi
• If there is a Network Adapters tab go to 6. Ad Hoc , else go to 4. Wlan IP Manager.

4. Because there is no Network Adapters tab on you phone you need to download Wlan IP Manager and install it. Search on google for, WLANIpManager_Setup.CAB and copy and install it on you phone.

5. Setup of Wlan IP Manager(only when you don’t have a Network Adapters tab)

• Go to Start -> Wlan IP Manager
• Select you wifi adapter name.

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Next step,

• Select options -> New profile
• Input the following settings

  IP 192.168.0.1

  Subnet 255.255.255.0

  Gateway 192.168.0.1

  When done your phone will reboot with the new settings. If an error comes up it could be because your phone is registry locked.

5.1 To unlock follow the next steps(at you own risk, may cause damage to your phone).

Get the next 2 file from google. SPAllowCertificateInstall.cab and SDAApplicationUnlock.zip

• Copy SP_AllowCertificateInstall.cab to the root of you phone.
• Run the application.
• After unzipping run SDA_ApplicationUnlock.exe while your phone is connected with active sync. (If you’re a Mac user use Virtualbox or similar to install windows xp with active sync.)
• Download PHM Registry Editor Smartphone 2002, 2003(ARM/PXA) package.
• Copy it to your phone and install.
• Go to Start -> PHM
• Go to HKEYLOCALMACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies

  Change the DWORD named “1001″ to 1 (could originally be 2)

  Change the DWORD named “1005″ to 40 (could originally be 16)

  HKEYLOCALMACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\0000 1017 = 128 or 16 (before) 144 (after)

  HKEYLOCALMACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\0000 101b = 1 (this key might not exist, if so, create it).

• Restart you phone
• Next Follow the 5. Wlan IP Manager steps again.
• Now it should reboot and have the correct settings.

6. Next step is to setup an Ad Hoc Wifi connection on your mobile phone. - Wifi must be on. - Go to Start -> Settings -> Connections -> Wifi - Add new - Enter a Network name. - Networktyppe is internet - Check for device-to-device

• Go to next page.

• Select shared as Autentication type.

• WEP for Data encryption

• Enter a network key

• Select finish

6.1 Setup a static IP(only when you don’t need to use Wlan IP Manager)

• Go to Start -> Settings -> Connections -> Wifi
• On the Network Adapters tab select you wifi device.

• On the IP Address tab, select specific IP address.

  IP 192.168.0.1

  Subnet 255.255.255.0

  Gateway 192.168.0.1

  7. WMWifirouter

• Download WMWifirouter and copy it somewhere to your phone.

• Use your explorer and launch WMWifirouter
• Press connect and let WMWifirouter configurate your phone, wait till it’s done.

Now you’re done with you phone and should it be configured correctly.

8. I’m using the setting for an iPod touch for these should also work on a laptop.

• Go to Settings -> Wifi on your iPod touch.
• Select the wifi network you created on you mobile phone.
• Enter you password.
• Press the blue arrow and select the Static tab and use the these settings.

  IP adress 192.168.0.2

  Subnet 255.255.255.0

  Router 192.168.0.1

  DNS 208.67.220.220 (Open DNS server www.opendns.com)

  9. Finally test your 3G speed in safari or youtube.

Guitar Hero III  review

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.