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  • Saturday Shenanigans: Recent Entertainment News

    Another week, more shenanigans! Well, it’s a pretty sad week, but it’s here nonetheless.

    GeekTyrant has another great article, this one about Bruce Campbell. He’s talking about Bruce Vs. Frankenstein, a sequel to My Name is Bruce. It’s a good read, so you should head over and check it out, my favorite part was this bit:

    …basically I want every horror movie icon in the movie. I want it to be the ‘Mad, Mad, Mad World’ of horror movies.

    Scream 4 is putting together a pretty impressive list of stars, and just added 2 more. Movieline reports that Kristen Bell and Anna Paquin have signed on to join the flick, likely as the two cameo kills to start off the mayhem, like Drew Barrymore and Jada Pinkett-Smith before them.

    And now for this week’s New in Theaters… actually, forget that. Only 2 wide releases this week, and both looks absolutely terrible. For this weeks trailer, we’re gonna switch it up a bit and go with a TV trailer. AMC released the trailer for their new series, The Walking Dead. This show has climbed and easily surpassed the list of my most anticipated shows from this coming season… it looks really good.

  • 90+ Days Without Voice Service

    It’s been well over 90 days since I last paid AT&T for voice service on my cell phone and started using an iPad SIM and a SIP solution to make calls from my iPhone. Things have been good, great in fact., that is until I recently ran into a major issue with my setup. A brief recap, I use Google Voice for my phone number, I then have a SIP number setup with IPKall which is connected to my pbxes.com account, which in turn is setup with Acrobits Softphone on my iPhone.

    Last week, for whatever reason, IPKall let someone else register the same number as me. So randomly my phone wouldn’t ring through, or if I didn’t pick up when someone called, the caller would ring through to this other guy. Kind of a major issue.

    After some back and forth with IPKall, I got a notification from Google Voice that someone using the same number as me had successfully added it  to their Google Voice account. Great.

    At this point instead of trying to resolve things with the folks at IPKall who were being less than helpful, I called up the guy who had registered my number and explained the situation.  Oddly enough he used my own tutorial to setup his account, in the end he was very understanding and we eventually got the number transfered back to me. I should note that the number I registered in the tutorial is not actually the number I’ve been using from IPKall, so this guy had no way of purposely registering the same number as me.

    Now I’m looking for a more reliable SIP number provider, even if I have to pay a few bucks a month I think it’d be worth it to ensure that my number doesn’t randomly get handed out to someone else. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know in the comments.

  • The MMA Minute – UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2

    Let’s face it, B.J. Penn is the best lightweight fighter of all time and one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world, his loss against Edgar in Abu Dhabi was a ‘traveshamockery‘. He just wasn’t himself in the fight and there’s no way he’s going to let it happen again. I’ll be very surprised if this fight is even close. However, there are some really good fights to back it up! Good job UFC, back to back home runs in the scheduling department. If this card comes anywhere close to the excitement of the last two pay-per-views, that will be an impressive run for the organization. Here’s the fights:

    Main card

    My first thought is that these are fairly easy to pick, but those are almost always the ones that come back to get ya in the end. But I gotta go with my gut and pick Penn to reclaim the lightweight belt, Couture to teach Toney a lesson in MMA, Maia over Miranda, Florian over Maynard (barely, it’s really hard for me to pick against Maynard, but Florian just does a fantastic job of preparing for fights and has looked head and shoulders better than everyone not named B.J. Penn), and I like Diaz over Davis. Looking forward to the fights!

  • Answer Google Voice Calls in Gmail

    Answer Google Voice Calls in Gmail

    So you’ve been having a grand old time making phone calls from Gmail, but maybe you’re like me and you’d like to actual answer incoming calls in Gmail. Good news, Google’s got you covered and it’s really simple to setup.

    Here’s how to enable it:

    Step 1: Login to your Google Voice account.

    Step 2: Click Settings, and select Voice settings.


    It should automatically load to your Phones tab, at the bottom of your “Forward to” list you should now have a Google Chat option, just check the box next to it and you’re good to go.

    You’ll now get a Caller ID like popup when you have an incoming call, and of course you can also answer the call from within your browser now.

    Tip: You can also transfer calls from your Gmail to your regular phone by pressing * while in a call. This works to transfer calls from your phone to Gmail as well.

  • Hijinks Movie Reviews: (500) Days Of Summer

    Seems like many of the movies I’ve watched lately have had this ‘movie crush’ theme, and  (500) Days Of Summer fits squarely into that category. My entire interest in this movie revolved around the fact that Zooey Deschanel was in it, not sure any other actress would have even made me curious about the movie. I just really enjoy her characters, they are quirky, off the wall, awkward, and usually just perfect.

    I really went back and forth on this movie, there were a number of scenes and lines that made me laugh, but there were almost an equal number of scenes that just frustrated me. More after the break. (more…)