Archive for December, 2007
December 31, 2007
Written by lukadium
As we look back into 2007, we didn’t have many remarkable movies.We are hoping 2008 to be a better year in the movie sphere.Here is a list of most anticipated movies of 2008 according to yahoo:
Cloverfield
Shrouded in mystery since the untitled teaser trailer appeared last summer, producer J.J. Abrams’ modern take on the monster movie has had people everywhere buzzing about just what it is that’s tearing New York City apart.
Read more about Cloverfield in IMDB.
Rambo
After surprising a lot of people with the success of Rocky Balboa, writer/director/star Sylvester Stallone goes for the one-two punch, bringing back his other iconic character, John Rambo, for a rescue mission in the Burmese jungle.
Read more about Rambo in IMDB.
Horton Hears a Who!
For the first animated feature based on a book by Dr. Seuss, the creators of Ice Age have recruited two comic heavyweights to lend their voices: Jim Carrey, as the elephant Horton, and Steve Carell as the microscopic fellow only Horton can hear.
Read more about Horton Hears a Who in IMDB.
Iron Man
Marvel Comics’ steel-plated superhero is coming to the big screen, with a stellar cast and amazing effects. Robert Downey Jr. brings humor and humanity to the role of Tony Stark, the billionaire who builds and wears the indestructible armor.
Read more about Iron Man in IMDB.
Speed Racer
The Wachowski Brothers, the creative duo behind The Matrix, return to directing with an altogether different visual extravaganza, the live-action version of a classic anime series. The trailer promises eye-popping sights and a whole lot of speed.
Read more about Speed Racer in IMDB.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- Release Date: 16 May 2008
- Director: Andrew Adamson
- Genre: Adventure / Family / Fantasy
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Plot Outline: The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land’s throne, Prince Caspian.
- Cast: Liam Neeson / Ben Barnes /
Warwick Davis / William Moseley
The four Pevensie children return to the magical world of Narnia to find 1,300 years have passed and an evil king rules the land. They will need the help of the mighty lion Aslan to restore the young Prince Caspian to his rightful place on the throne.
Read more about Prince Caspian in IMDB.
Sex And The City
Four years after their series left the air, Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha are hitting the silver screen. The teaser trailer shows Sarah Jessica Parker looking fabulous in haute couture, her underwear, and (gasp!) a wedding dress.
Read more about Sex And The City in IMDB.
Wall-E
- Release Date: 27 June 2008
- Director: Andrew Stanton
- Genre: Animation / Comedy / Family / Romance / Sci-Fi
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Plot Outline: The year is 2700. WALL*E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for.
- Cast: Fred Willard / Jeff Garlin /
Ben Burtt / Kim Kopf
From the director of Finding Nemo, Pixar’s next groundbreaking animated film tells the story of a little who spends centuries cleaning up garbage all by himself who finally gets a chance to see what the galaxy has to offer by way of adventure.
Read more about Wall-E in IMDB.
Wanted
- Release Date: 27 June 2008
- Director: Timur Bekmambetov
- Genre: Action
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Plot Outline: A young man (McAvoy) finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (Freeman) to follow in his dad’s footsteps.
- Cast: James McAvoy / Morgan Freeman /
Angelina Jolie / Terence Stamp
Angelina Jolie is back in action as a mystery woman named Fox who indoctrinates James McAvoy into a secret fellowship of assassins so highly trained they bend the very laws of physics, with Morgan Freeman as their gun-wielding guru.
Read more about Wanted in IMDB.
The Dark Knight
- Release Date: 18 July 2008
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
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Plot Outline: Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham’s new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker’s crimes grow more and more deadly.
- Cast: Christian Bale / Michael Caine /
Heath Ledger / Morgan Freeman
Continuing the story of director Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, Christian Bale returns as the Caped Crusader, this time facing his arch-nemesis, the scarred and scary Joker, played with psychotic menace by Heath Ledger.
Read more about The Dark Knight in IMDB.
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December 31, 2007
Happy New Year from the staff of iPodObserver.com! 2007 was a very good year if you like iPods, iTunes, iPhones, the Apple TV, digital music, digital video, and everything else Apple-related. iPodObserver.com saw significant growth throughout the year, and we appreciate your continued support!
We’ll return on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 for our regularly scheduled coverage in the lead-in to both CES and Macworld Expo!
Bryan
Editor
iPodObserver.com
December 31, 2007
If you have a jailbreaked iPhone, you could test weisms which provides enhancement to the iPhone’s native SMS application.
More information here.
Tags:iphone SMS weismsiphone, SMS, weisms
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December 31, 2007
Some pictures are appearing on the web about the 1.1.3 firmware, are they real or not? I let you decide by visiting this link.
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December 30, 2007
Written by by Aibek
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Fed up with spam? Tired of telemarketing calls? Feelin’ paranoid about identity theft? … Here you’ll find a bunch “throwaway” web tools that can help you out.
Disposable email account
Mintemail - Instant disposable email for any ‘fishy’ registration form or sign-up. Go to mintemail.com and a random email address will be automatically generated and copied to your clipboard. You can either bookmark the location of created inbox and use it on a regular basis or always use a new one.
Highlights include: Automatic eMail verification, email forwarding, option to set custom expiry times (from 1 hour to 1 month) and more.
Disposable phone number
Numbr - This is a really good one. Basically, Numbr gives you an anonymous disposable phone number that can be set to forward all incoming calls to any provided landline or mobile number (US only). Absolutely free. It’s an ideal solution for times when you want to keep your phone private but want to list your contact number in places like classifieds listings, social networking sites, blogs ,etc.
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Along with the number, you also get access to dozens of cool functionalities, i.e. forward to voicemail, ability to activate/deactivate nr. at any time, etc. Read more: Numbr - Disposable Phone Number.
Disposable login details
BugMeNot - Here you can get disposable login details (username/password) for a huge number of popular news/review/download websites that normally require users to register.
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For example, let’s say you clicked on a link that points to an article on a popular media website (eg. NYT). Usually instead of landing straight on the article page you’re asked to signin or register. Maybe there is a good reason behind it, but what’s the point of signing up if that is your first and only visit to that website. When it comes to BugMeNot, it instantly gets you a number of “public” login details that can be used to access the website. It’s fast, it’s convenient and you don’t have to worry about getting spammed.
Disposable name and address generator
FakeNameGenerator - Fun tool for quickly generating fake but totally sound names and contact address. Cool part about it, not only you get to choose country of residence but can also specify what kind of name you’re looking for, i.e. Chinese, American, Indian, etc.
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Disposable file sharing
File.io - Anonymous file sharing service where you can upload and share file/s (via password-protected URL) for 30 days. Once 30 day period is over, all shared files will be automatically deleted. Read More: File.io - Disposable File Sharing.
Are you aware of any other ‘disposable’ web service ? Share it in comments.
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December 30, 2007
ComputerWorld has created another end of the year list: the 25 most innovative products of 2007. An Apple product isn’t on the top of the list, that place goes to Google Gears, but the iPhone does clock in at the number 2 spot which isn’t too shabby. The biggest innovation, according to CW, is the touch screen display. I’m going to disagree with that, because I’ve used devices before the iPhone that had touch screens and they weren’t as much fun, or as easy to use, as the iPhone. The real innovation of the iPhone is that the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts. The software and hardware work together to make using this device a pleasure. Here’s hoping that in a few years other handset makers will figure out what Apple has done with the iPhone and emulate it, of course by then Apple will be on the 3 or 4th revision of the iPhone. The mind boggles as to what that future iPhone will do.
Oh, and ComputerWorld, how about innovating a little bit with your website and not splitting up a relatively short article into 5 separate webpages? That’d be awesome.
December 30, 2007
Whilst the blogosphere is known for its seemingly endless attempts at Apple rumour one-upping, the New York Times has joined the fray, not only re-iterating the Financial Times’ earlier statement that Twentieth Century Fox will be on-stage for the Stevenote but also adding “more than one studio [will] appear onstage at the company’s Macworld exhibition …. to endorse a new Apple movie rental service.”
When the news broke of Fox being first to sign up to iTunes movie rentals, we’re certain that more than a few folks were surprised at the news: if only because it wasn’t Disney (and of course Pixar) who were leading the Apple movie bandwagon forward again.
December 30, 2007
Insanely Great Mac has the breakdown on a meeting between O2 (purveyors of the iPhone in Britain) and Mr. Jobs from the UK’s Financial Times, and it seems iPhone users across the pond can’t get enough data. Over 60% of iPhone users use over 25mb/month of data, while only 1.8% of non-iPhone users on O2 go over that mark. That’s a lot of data downloading.
It’s probably not a surprise, then, that about 60% of iPhone buyers are also new to O2, which, in my estimation, means that people who switched for the iPhone also switched from a non-data cellphone, and are making up for the difference. We talked on the Talkcast a little while ago about how the iPhone isn’t necessarily stealing the “business smartphone” audience away from brands like Blackberry– it’s actually attracting new smartphone users completely. And there are a lot of them– O2 is looking to sell 200,000 iPhones in Britain by the end of January, and they say that despite Apple’s cut of the profits, they’re making money on every one.
Finally, we get almost-but-not-quite-final confirmation that the 3G iPhone is due next year, and that O2 will very likely carry it. Which isn’t really a surprise– seems like things are going pretty well for O2 and Apple in GB, and so it’s hard to see either one of them breaking up a good thing.
December 30, 2007
HandBrake is one of those applications that we adore here at TUAW HQ. It makes converting DVDs into a variety of digital files a snap (though only use it with DVDs you own. Don’t be pirates, kids). Chris Breen, of Macworld fame (and an amateur astronomer it would seem) shows us how to use HandBrake like a pro. Breen goes a step beyond ‘use the presets’ and delves into what many of the options HandBrake offers up actually do, and how they impact your files.
Check out the video, and get to ripping your DVDs!
December 30, 2007
I like Mac OS X Hints a lot, although I will admit that most of the hints they post just aren’t for me– either they’re for things that I just don’t have a need to do, or they’re for things I already figured out a solution for on my own. But lately, I’ve been trying to figure out if there was a way to start up bittorrent downloads from my iPhone (we’ve already been able to control clients remotely, but getting the torrent file was the hard part). And so I was ecstatic to see this tip from Whosawhatsis– with just a little tweaking, you can install a bookmarklet on the iPhone and a script on a PHP server that will send a URL from the iPhone to the server, and then download that URL directly into a folder that a bittorrent client (Transmission is used in the example) will monitor to download the torrent.
Pretty slick. Whosa runs this on a separate server, but while I’d have to read up on exactly how to do it (or maybe our commenters could jump in with suggestions), I’m sure that it wouldn’t be too hard to enable a Mac to run a PHP script when asked remotely. Get that running, make the necessary modifications in Who’s script, and bingo, you should be able to click the bookmark and then the link on your iPhone, and have the torrent file show up in your Mac, ready for a bittorrent client to grab it immediately.
