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  • Entry Level Geek: Marvel Comics Reading Chronology

    I’ve been back here at Hijinks for just under a month, I’ve brought you The MMA Minute, T.W.I.S.T., Saturday’s Shenanigans, and helped to re-popularize (re-popularize? Is that even a word?) Hijinks Reviews of all sorts. It only makes sense that I’d squeeze in one more new ‘theme’.  I’m not sure anybody is actually reading these, but I’m still crankin’ them out regardless!

    With that entry out of the way, welcome to Entry Level Geek. This title inadvertently describes the reason I’m here at Hijinks in the first place! Said nicely, I’m not at the same level of geekdom or nerdery as the rest of our terrific staff, you probably realized that after the first or second post I made. But they haven’t kicked me out yet, so I must trudge forward. Entry Level Geek will include an assortment of things but will probably center mostly around comics and maybe some rumors about upcoming movies based on comics (Avengers anyone? The next Batman flick?). I chose Entry Level Geek because I’ve just recently begun my trip into the world of comics, so I’m far from an expert, but I’m having fun taking it all in.

    To find out what all this nonsense is about, follow me through the jump. (more…)

  • What I’m Playing: Episode 2

    What I’m Playing: Episode 2

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  • Hijinks Reviews: The Jim and Frank Mysteries – The Blood River Files

    Publisher: Chillingo Ltd
    Platform: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad
    Cost: $0.99 [iTunes Link] – for a limited time
    Released: Jul 09, 2010
    Version Reviewed: 1.0

    I stumbled across The Jim and Frank Mysteries the other day, as I was perusing the App Store on my iPod. It was receiving 4.5 out of 5 stars on only about 45 ratings, boasted over 20 hours of engaging gameplay, and it warned of being a “TIME LIMITED INTRODUCTORY PRICE!” I’d recently played the Chillingo game Pro Zombie Soccer and enjoyed it, so for $.99, I figured I’d give it a try. In short, I’d like to congratulate Chillingo for going 2 for 2. (more…)

  • Week In Review: July 11-17

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  • Quick Tip: Pinning Tabs in Chrome

    Did you know if you right-click on a tab in Chrome (cross platform) you have an option to permanently place a tab in the tab bar? I’ve been using Chrome as my default browser for the last few months and while I’d seen the option before I’d never actually looked into it.

    This really comes in handy for websites you normally load/visit each time you open Chrome, and while I’m a big fan of starting fresh each time I open my browser there are certain sites I open every time, like Google Mail, Google Analytics, etc. so pinning is a nice time saver.

    Pinning is pretty self explanatory, on any platform (Windows, OS X, Linux) just right click the tab you’d like to pin and select Pin Tab.

    Right click on any tab and select "Pin Tab"
    You’ll now get a nice shrunk down tab for that website added to the far left side of the tab bar.

    Pinned Tabs

    And if you decide you’d like to remove a pinned tab, just right click on it and select Unpin Tab.

    Unpin Tab