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Hello, Dexter Morgan

December 8, 2009February 16, 2010 Doug Groves Dexter, review10 Comments

It’s rare that we discuss TV shows on rgbFilter, at least outside of the podcast, and even then the podcast leans more towards the science fiction. Dexter is a worthy exception though. Now in it’s 4th season, Showtime’s Dexter follows the trials and tribulations of Dexter Morgan (played by Michael C. Hall), a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department, who also happens to be a serial killer. As a child, his murderous tendencies were noticed by his police officer father, who taught him to channel his primal urges…

Bye bye, Big Bop

December 8, 2009 Danny X 12 Comments

Yet another Toronto institution is closing its doors forever. In January of 2010, the iconic Big Bop will be no longer. Located at Queen and Bathurst, the Bop is the home of Kathedral, Holy Joe’s, and Reverb, and is known to many as a favourite venue for Toronto’s indie music scene. A cold wind seems to be blowing through Toronto’s west end these days. In the past year or so, we’ve seen a major stretch of Queen West’s historic district burned to the ground only to be replaced by a…

Tony Clement hints at overturn of CRTC – Wind Mobile decision

December 7, 2009 Doug Groves CRTC, Globalive, Industry Canada, Tony Clement, Wind Mobile0 comment

Late last week, Minister of Industry Tony Clement made some comments that could be considered disconcerting to the incumbent wireless carriers in Canada, regarding the CRTC’s recent decision to block Globalive’s Wind Mobile wireless from launching in Canada… “We do have the power through an order of council in cabinet to amend or vary the decision of the CRTC… The government’s policy is designed to increase competitiveness in the wireless space, and that is important for Canadian consumers because it increases choice, it increases quality and it reduces cost. [from…

Episode 021 – Google n Games

December 3, 2009 Doug Groves ACII, Assassin's Creed II, chrome os, David Cronenberg, google, L4D2, Left 4 Dead 2, sequel, Stephen King, The Shining, YouTube4 Comments

We start off this show with a lot of Google news, from the Chrome OS announcement to Youtube’s policy regarding playback on TV. Ryan drops some news from Stephen King about a sequel to the The Shining, and we take a look at both Left 4 Dead 2 and Assassin’s Creed II.

Rogers pulls a Telus and sues Bell over network claims

December 2, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, HSPA, legal, Rogers, Telus, Wireless0 comment

Rogers Wireless division must be feeling pretty down lately. With the launch of the new Bell/Telus HSPA network, big Red lost exclusivity of the iPhone. Telus also managed to get a court ruling preventing Rogers from advertising themselves as the “most reliable network”. Now, in what can only be seen as a fit of jealous rage case of turnabout is fair play, Rogers has launched a lawsuit to prevent Bell from saying essentially the same thing. Bell’s latest ads for the new network claim that it’s “the largest, fastest, and…

HP Mini 311 with Windows 7 and ION now in Canada

December 1, 2009December 1, 2009 Doug Groves HP, ION, netbook, Windows 70 comment

Although available for some time beyond Canadian borders, the HP Mini 311 line of netbooks have finally appeared in Canada. Although still using the single core Atom N270 processor, the Windows 7 Home Premium Mini 311-1033 sports 2GB of RAM and Nvidia’s ION graphics processor along with an 11.6 inch LED backlit display for $499. The 1033’s little brother, the 311-1000 at $429 has the lower powered ION LE GPU, which has less addressable memory, and is wearing last years fashions in the OS department, with XP Home. Both, luckily,…

RED Scarlet: Film resolution for the rest of us?

December 1, 2009 Doug Groves Red, Scarlet3 Comments

The RED ONE camera has been around for a while now, showing it’s chops as a replacement for analog film for a couple of years. Since then, Red also annouced two new cameras, including the Scarlet which is aimed squarely at the prosumer market. Well, the details are out thanks to the RED user forum, and although they added a little more ‘pro’ to the pricing than originally announced, the specs are pretty impressive. The ‘all-in-one’ Scarlet fixed 8x lens and brain will be priced at $4750 (US). This price…

Globalive launches Wind Mobile advertising in Canada

November 30, 2009 Doug Groves Globalive, SAF, Win, Wind Mobile, Wireless3 Comments

Globalive, and their Wind Mobile branded wireless service may still be waiting on approval from the Canadian powers that be, but that hasn’t stopped the newcomer from starting a national advertising campaign as of this past weekend. The spots use the Candid Camera approach to reveal the egregious nature of the incumbent companies’ policies, and work as commentary even if they aren’t ads in their own right, wich is a slim possibility. Industry Canada and the CRTC are still trying to decide what to do with Globalive, as the largely…

Stantum multitouch running on a Slate PC

November 27, 2009November 27, 2009 Doug Groves display, multi, multitouch, resistive, Stantum, Touch Park3 Comments

Stantum, who earlier this year demonstrated their innovate resistive touch screen technology which incorporates both multitouch and pressure sensitivity on a mobile screen at Mobile World Congress are showing a new update to the Touch Park software. This time it’s running on a Slate PC, which is a modded Dell Mini 10 netbook. This suggests that Touch Park has moved on up in the world to the x86 architecture found in PCs. Among the capabilities are pressure sensitivity, pixel resolution and 10 point multitouch. There’s no mention if 10 points…

The most expensive phone in the world… so far…

November 27, 2009 Doug Groves 8 Comments

If you think the above image is of some tacky new case for the iPhone 3GS, trimmed in Swarovski crystals, the de defacto mobile phone gems of choice.. well it would be understandable. You’d be wrong though. What this photo actually depicts is the world’s most expensive mobile phone, at least until some OTHER millionaire decides to out shine the Aussie business man who paid the equivalent of $3.3 million CDN for this… Priced at £1.92 million , 10 months in the making , the whole casing was created with…

Harmony Universal Remote Roundup

November 26, 2009February 16, 2010 Doug Groves Harmony, Harmony 1100, Harmony 700, Harmony 900, Harmony One, HTPC, Logitech, review, universal remote7 Comments

Before the Canadian company Intrigue Technologies (makers of the original Harmony remotes) was bought out by Logitech, obliterating the remote clutter in one’s living room or den was largely an exercise in frustration, either dealing with incomplete solutions or spending hours ‘training’ your universal remote to do exactly what you wanted to. If you were one of the few, you actually made the leap to the JP1 forums, which turned certain models of remotes into veritable powerhouses of IR control, after making a custom cable that allowed your Radio Shack…

LG IQ Windows Phone coming to Telus soon, pictures leaked

November 25, 2009November 25, 2009 drsquid HSPA, HTC, IQ, LG, Snapdragon, Telus, Windows Mobile0 comment

A few weeks ago a Best Buy Mobile flyer (see the flyer image by clicking more below) showed a mysterious LG handset called the IQ. This mystery was quickly solved when it was discovered that this was the HSPA Windows Mobile ‘Monaco’ QWERTY slider, previously rumored to be coming to AT&T in the US. Today The Mobile Ninja’s posted a gallery with lots of of images of the phone – hopefully a hands-on will follow. According to the Ninjas the IQ has a 3.2″ screen, 5mp camera, LG’s S-class interface…