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Toronto braces for a TROMA-tic experience as Lloyd Kaufman comes to town.

December 5, 2008 Danny X 1 Comment

All right everybody, drop your tacos or I’ll blow your brains out. Hot off the wire from our friends over at the After Dark Film Festival: Legendary cult horror filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman, who presented the hysterical zombie chicken musical POULTRYGEIST at Toronto After Dark Film Festival last year, returns to the city this weekend with a rare 35mm film print screening of his breakthrough cult classic film THE TOXIC AVENGER! The screening is tomorrow night (Saturday, Dec 6, 9PM) at the Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West and will be…

Episode 013 – Fallout

December 3, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 3 Comments

In this episode it’s all post-apocalyptic goodness as we discuss the books World War Z and The Road (and the movies coming out based on them), and we get into gory details about the game Fallout 3, which is available for the PC, as well as the Xbox 360 and PS3. Plus, there’s an apology from Dave, another installment of MegaHurtz, and much more.

Quick Shot: Skyfire vs. Opera Mobile

December 3, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Microsoft, Opera Mobile, review, Skyfire, video, Windows Mobile3 Comments

Skyfire is a relative newcomer to the Windows Mobile browser scene. After lingering in a US only beta for what seems like over a year, the folks at skyfire.com have finally spread their wings, at least to Canada and the UK. What Skyfire promises (and delivers on) is a browser with Flash support built in, for both video and Flash animations. This is a quick speed test comparing Skyfire with the excellent Opera Mobile 9.5, with some sample in-browser Flash playback, using an HTC Touch 400MHz phone. Rendering speeds between…

Palm Slashing Staff… And The Slow Bleed Continues

November 27, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves palm1 Comment

Caught this at ITNerd: It actually made me sad when the news that Palm is laying off up to ten per cent of its staff and cutting some product offerings hit Valleywag. Palm used to have a rather nice handheld OS and I have owned several Palm products over the years. But increased competition and increased focus in terms of churning out Windows Mobile OS devices has put Palm OS into the position of being a distant also ran. To be fair, there are rumblings of a new OS coming….

Lost Tool Bag Filmed In Earth Orbit

November 26, 2008November 4, 2009 Doug Groves tool bag20 Comments

A week after Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper lost the $100,000 bag of tools while performing maintenance on the International Space Station, Kevin Fetter captured the orbiting kit from his backyard observatory. This video is converted from a WMV link found at spaceweather.com and is used with the express permission of Kevin.

YouTube goes widescreen, and it’s about time

November 25, 2008November 25, 2008 Danny X 1 Comment

If you’ve been to YouTube since yesterday, you’ll have noticed a change to the window in which you waste some time watching Dramatic Chpmunk, Baby Panda or the Numa Numa guy: They’re all now being presented in widescreen. The YouTube Blog explains the reason for the change: We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will…

Oblong’s G-speak Points the Way to Tomorrow’s Interface

November 21, 2008November 21, 2008 Paul L 3 Comments

When I first laid eyes on Jeff Han’s next generation touchscreen interface, it gave me that tingle that told me, “Welcome to the future.” The same tingle I got when I saw my first command line interface in the late ’70s, or when I spotted my first GUI in the mid-’80s. Oblong Industries’ newly available (after more than a decade in development) “spatial operating system“, G-speak, has turned that tingle into a burning itch. Nothing I have seen in tech innovation has made me as eager to live long enough…

Bell Permitted to Continue Throttling… For Now

November 20, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 2 Comments

The CRTC today announced its oft-delayed ruling in the CAIP application to put an end to Bell’s internet throttling practices. From the horse’s mouth: “The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today announced that it has denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers’ (CAIP) request that Bell Canada cease the traffic-shaping practices it has adopted for its wholesale Gateway Access Service…” “Based on the evidence before us, we found that the measures employed by Bell Canada to manage its network were not discriminatory,” said CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein in…

Bought a New MacBook? Throw Out Your Cinema Display

November 19, 2008November 20, 2008 Paul L 7 Comments

Ars Technica (and other outlets) are reporting that via the ‘DisplayPort’ external video adaptor, Apple has placed an HDCP-like DRM chokehold on iTunes-purchased video playback from its new MacBook and MacBook Pro models to a big-screen monitor. This is a consumer rights issue in more ways than one, including some pretty serious and unprecedented ways (at least in the Apple world).

Episode 012 – Walled Gardeners

November 18, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 3 Comments

It’s a big show, and the return of the old set! We get into a discussion about the increasingly walled garden nature of gaming, talk about the growth of the smart phone market, our takes on True Blood and the US version of Life On Mars, and wonder if hiring the original writers for Heroes can save the world (well it’s world anyways). In cool sites, we have a couple of great recommendations for public domain and royalty free video for all you video editors out there, and mention some…

RED news! Info for Scarlett & Epic Cameras released!

November 14, 2008November 18, 2008 kingpinlei 5 Comments

RED has finally released new details of their highly anticipated new Scarlett and Epic digital cinema cameras. Earlier this year, RED had pulled details of Scarlett and Epic in order to do a redesign of the cameras, citing that the camera market had totally changed and that they had to change as well to stay ahead. Dubbed the DSMC (Digital Still and Motion Camera), the Scarlett and Epic cameras are now the centre of a totally modular and customizable digital camera system. Built around the updated Mysterium sensor inside a…

Coalition rallies public to support Open Internet

November 13, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 5 Comments

It’s been a long time coming, but the CRTC is only days away from ruling on the 3rd party ISP throttling issue. At the heart of the matter is whether Bell, the nation’s largest DSL provider should be able to throttle the traffic of wholesale 3rd party ISPs. There has been much evidence presented in the past that Bell has misrepresented the extent of P2P (bit torrent) traffic on said networks, and despite claims to be targeting said traffic, slowed down traffic across the board. With the delays in the…