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  • Hijinks Movie Reviews: It’s Complicated

    The one and only thing that grabbed my attention about It’s Complicated was the fact that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin would be sharing the screen. These two have had some really funny moments in the past on SNL as they both go back and forth taking the lead for the most hosting gigs. While those big names did translate to a few good laughs, it wasn’t all good.

    As always, we’ll skim the top of  the details here and jump in a bit more after the jump, plot points brought to you courtesy of Wikipedia. It’s Complicated was released in theaters on December 25, 2009, and was then released on DVD and Blu-Ray on April 27, 2010. With big names aplenty (Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Meryl Streep, and John Krasinski) you’d think they’d deliver some big laughs… well… (more…)

  • Peek 9 Hits the Market

    Oh hey, Peek is still producing products. Didn’t realize that.

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    I kid, I kid. The Peek 9 was just announced, claiming to be 9 times faster than the previous Peek Pronto, thanks to a nice software overhaul. But the bigger news in my mind is they’ve started packing more features into the OS, and the Peek 9 ships with several new apps, including Facebook, Twitter, Weather, RSS reader, and PeekMaps. It also looks like they’re launching an ad-hoc type app store called PeekTop Apps.

    Rounding out the offering is the ability to view PDF and Office files attached to emails.

    For those who are reading this and going, “Wait, what the heck does the Peek do?”. It’s a simple concept, Peek provides contract free unlimited texting/email for as little as $10 a month. Pricing for the 9 is $69.99 for just the handset or $99.99 for the handset +2 months of a service.

    [ Get your Peek 9 ]

  • Want More Processing Power? $50 says Intel

    Granted this feature has only been rolled out on a few low end Compaq systems purchased through Best Buy, but apparently Intel has been offering consumers an “upgrade” card, with nothing more than a serial code on it for $50. What does that code do you ask? It “unlocks” threads and cache on y?our Pentium G6951processor.

    Yes, you read correctly. Intel will take an extra $50 of your hard earned cash just so you can use your processor, that you’ve already paid for, to its full potential.

    This is way worse then when Apple charged users $1.99 to enable the Draft-N support in their wireless card. At least that was a feature that wasn’t advertised when people originally purchased the MacBooks.

    So, is the hardware equivalent of DRM the hot new revenue generation model for vendors trying to make up for discounted hardware prices? I sure hope not. Otherwise those websites claiming to “make your PC faster” will be selling fake hardware unlocks to unsuspecting people instead of just bogus software.

     

  • webOS Woes: Worst mobile browser ever?

    webOS Woes: Worst mobile browser ever?

    Dear HP,

    Now that you’ve dropped some serious coin on Palm, start making some changes to what could be a pretty useful OS.

    For this installment, let’s talk web browser. Years ago we were lucky to even have internet on our phones and serving up plain text websites was acceptable, but we expect just a bit more out of our smart phones these days. So please step up your game.

    Here’s an example of the quality browsing experience I’ve been dealing with lately.

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  • Week In Review: September 12th – 18th

    Apparently we have yet to post anything new and exciting for the month of September because traffic is steadily declining and our top five posts for the week are the same as last week, just in a different order.

    Top 5 posts for the week:

    Peak number of RSS feed subscribers: 102

    Number of Facebook Fans: 61

    Busiest day: September 12th, with 949 unique visitors.

    Top browser: Firefox with 32.53% market share.

    Top operating system: Windows with 66.05% market share.