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Apocalipstix Interview With Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart

August 8, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 0 comment

This past Wednesday, we at rgbFilter went to the Toronto launch party for the new comic The Apocalipstix by writer Ray Fawkes and artist Cameron Stewart. Ray and Cameron were kind enough to give Alex some time to talk to them about the comic, and other projects they have coming up. It was a great night, presented by Chris from The Beguiling. After an intro and book signing session, the party continued with a couple of great bands, Dame and Terror Lake. There will definitely be more coverage of the…

PhysX Support Coming To Nvidia on Aug 12th?

August 8, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 1 Comment

Some time ago Nvidia acquired PhysX, a company that made dedicated hardware to vastly speed up rendering of physics calculations which includes everything from water pouring out of a tube demos to complex interactions between hard and soft bodies to name but a few. Now, it’s being reported that the latest version of the Nvidia drivers (177.79) which are due out August 12th, will have PhysX support built into them. Most models Nvidia cards in the 8000 and 9000 series, as well as the latest generation 260 and 280 will…

iTunes’ AppStore Blacklist growing as another app is struck down by the Hand of Jobs

August 7, 2008August 8, 2008 Danny X 7 Comments

Are you rich and wanna flaunt it? If so, download “I Am Rich”, quite possibly the awesomest app ever. You see, what “I Am Rich” does for you, the everyday Rich person, is flaunt your richness by adding a fancy red jewel to your iphone that just declares “I AM RICH!” and absolutely nothing else. The application costs a mere $999.99, a pittance to be able to declare to the world that you are one of the elite few who can afford such unnecessary contrivances. At least, that’s what you…

Bell launches a new ad campaign, just in time for the Olympics

August 7, 2008August 10, 2008 Danny X 0 comment

Tomorrow Bell will unveil its new branding with a 60-second television ad during the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympics.“This is a significant rebrand from the basement up,” said Rick Seifeddine, senior vice-president, brand strategy for Bell during a conference call on Wednesday. In anticipation of the launch, Bell has been teasing the public in its major English-language markets since last week with outdoor media executions showing only the letters “er” with portions of larger blue letters at the edges. The number of executions increased over time, appearing in…

10 Most Dangerous Video Games? Only in Thailand

August 6, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 4 Comments

Thailand’s Ministry of Health, ever on the guard for dangers to its citizens health and well-being, have announced it’s 10 Most Dangerous games… 1- GTA 2- Man Hunt 3- Scarface 4- 50 Cent – Bullet Proof 5- 300 6- The Godfather 7- Killer 7 8- Resident Evil 4 9- God of War 10- Hitman I think the image says it all. According to the CNET Asia site, the inspiration for the list comes from a teenager who killed a taxi driver for his money. Of course, the kid also liked…

Canadian Band “The Craft Economy” hates Bill C-61

August 6, 2008July 25, 2009 Danny X Bill C-61, Craft Economy1 Comment

Toronto indie band The Craft Economy has gotten active in its dislike towards Canadian copyright bill C-61 by taking some of its latest tracks, putting them together on a CD as a single and B-side, and distributing them around the city attached to light poles for people to pick up at their leisure. For free. At least one of the songs on the disc is released under the Creative Commons licence, an action becoming more and more popular, it would seem. Folk artist Johnathan Coulton, who gave up his day…

Bell Beavers let go. Norm MacDonald fired again.

August 2, 2008July 25, 2009 drsquid Bell1 Comment

Bell announced on Friday that they are (finally!) axing their beaver mascots, Frank and Gordon. In newspaper ad’s run across the country the two lovable critters declared “It’s been a blast, nature is calling and we have been invited back to the forest to become teachers for a whole new generation of spokecritters.” Canada weeps.

Join us at the APOCALIPSTIX Graphic novel launch party

August 2, 2008August 2, 2008 drsquid 2 Comments

rgbFILTER will be covering this event for our podcast and we hope you will join us for what we are sure will be a great party. Details below about the event from the facebook event page THE APOCALIPSTIX is the new graphic novel by Toronto authors Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart, and fresh from their sold out pre-release at the San Diego Comic Convention these two top graphic novelists return to “play” their hometown with a book launch party featuring bands, prizes, and more THE APOCALIPSTIX: RAGNAROCK PARTY will feature…

rgb Filter Episode 007 – The Dork Knights – Show Notes

August 2, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 0 comment

Wow, the show’s the same length, but it’s crammed to the gills this week. As usual, you can watch it at the right hand side of the site right away, or grab the video for viewing on your TV, mobile phone, or anywhere in between. First up is The Canadian Wireless Spectrum Sale. Esquire Goes E-Paper for it’s 75th anniversary. Use TiVO to buy directly from Amazon. Make Oprah happy. The Mojave Experiment Goes Live, with no help from Crispin Glover. You can watch Hulu.com from outside the US? Really? …

XBox Live Gold Now Free On The PC!

July 29, 2008August 2, 2008 Danny X 12 Comments

“For a limited time, Microsoft is offering free online multiplayer on Xbox 360/Games for Windows titles that offer LIVE cross-platform play. This promotion won’t last, so we can encourage everyone to take advantage of it while they can.” That’s the official quote from Microsoft regarding Xbox Live playability from your PC with others on 360 consoles. The promotion covers all titles that include Xbox 360/Games for Windows cross-platform play, and allows 360 users with an Xbox Live silver membership to play online free of charge. A paid Gold-level membership is…

“The Mojave Experiment” goes public

July 29, 2008August 2, 2008 Danny X 0 comment

As has been posted here earlier, Microsoft recently conducted an experiment in which they gave Vista naysayers an opportunity to be the very first to test drive “Mojave”, the new operating system from the software giant. In a nutshell, people who were vocal about hating Vista but had never tried it for themselves were brought in and asked why they wouldn’t upgrade to Vista, with the near-universal response being “I’ve just heard bad things about it”. Then, after praising Mojave on the highest mountain, it was revealed that these people…

Microsoft’s Mojave OS A Major Hit

July 26, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 6 Comments

Microsoft recently unveiled it’s ‘Mojave’ operating system to a select group of prominent bloggers in San Francisco just over a week ago. They specifically went out of their way to get people who had been vocal about their dislike of Vista. The results? Over 90% of the group had a positive reaction to the Mojave OS, including one exclamation of “Oh wow!”, which is reminiscent of the Vista OS launch. The real kicker is that the Mojave OS is nothing more than Vista.