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TCAF – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 9-10, 2009

May 6, 2009May 19, 2009 drsquid tcaf 20091 Comment

The fourth Toronto Comic Arts Festival returns this year, to a new location, the Toronto Reference Library, on 789 Yonge St, Toronto. TCAF is the response to the standard overblown comic convention – it is a 2 day event that encompasses a little more that just getting your issue #1 signed by the artist. To quote the organizers – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is a unique comics event, patterned after comics festivals like Angouleme, Harlem, and the Small Press Expo. It is two full days of comics-related events, including…

7 Summer Movies I can’t wait to see

May 5, 2009 Danny X 1 Comment

Wolverine has come and gone, Star Trek is a mere 2 days away, and it looks like John Connor and Optimus Prime are poised to duke it out over who will own the summer blockbuster season of 2009. Of course, I’m excited about all of the above (Wolverine notwithstanding), but it’s important to note that this year’s summer movie season looks to bear some interesting fruit. A quick stumble through Quicktime’s Trailers site lead me to conclude that these are the top 7 movies I feel like I really shouldn’t…

Cydia Apps for a Time Walker’s Phone II

May 5, 2009May 6, 2009 Paul L 6 Comments

This iPhone screenshot is from an episode of a TV show called Flashpoint, which I discovered on my hard drive, and with which I discovered that the most common video container in the world (anything ending in .AVI), is unplayable on this ‘iPhone’ handset! It took a little bit of screwing with to get right, but there is an MPlayer app on Cydia you can use to watch this forbidden format. With a few skips and jumps, and provided you don’t sic it on anything too hi-rez, it works. But…

Windows 7 RC released to public

May 5, 2009May 5, 2009 Doug Groves Windows5 Comments

Though it actually sneaked out the door a day early, the latest version of Microsoft Windows 7 has officially been released to the public. Just like the earlier beta, this is the ‘Ultimate’ edition of the OS, so it comes with all the bells and whistles, including Media Center. An XP compatibility mode which will allow legacy applications to run in a virtualized XP space, concurrently with Vista & Windows 7 applications, is also available as an addon, which should help assuage some of the fears of enterprise users as…

[TFLN] will never let you live down your shameful drunken deeds

May 4, 2009July 28, 2009 Danny X twitter0 comment

[TFLN]: TXTS FRM LST NGHT is a new-ish site with a mission to keep a record of a phenomenon that’s likely familiar to all of us on some level. Remember that time you havered your ex because it was 4 in the morning and you just had to get something off your chest? Ya that’s kind of the idea. From the site: Texts From Last Night (TFLN) was founded in February 2009 by two friends for reasons that may or may not include: the tendency to press send more easily…

Toronto one of the top 10 most photographed cities on Earth

May 4, 2009July 25, 2009 Danny X photography, Toronto5 Comments

According to LIFE Magazine, Toronto has joined the ranks of Barcelona, New York City, Tokyo, and 6 other large cities as the most photographed in the world. LIFE’s process was not particularly scientific, but still telling, in that it appears that the stats come from casual or amateur photographers and not necessarily from any corporate-sponsored initiative: A glance at the list of Flickr’s all time most popular tags reveals that a handful of cities are consistantly photographed by the users of the popular photo hosting site. Check out the stream…

Apple’s App Store: the continuing misadventures, this time through the Downward Spiral

May 4, 2009 Danny X 6 Comments

Sometimes it feels like we here at rgbFilter are just banging the drum slowly when it comes to Apple and the App Store. As we’ve reported time and time again, the App store’s walled-garden app system sports an approval process that makes some people raise an eyebrow and ask “huh” (or in my case, shout out “WTF??”). But now their selection process has negatively affected the very entity Apple has always professed to protect: the artist. Explicit language after the break.

Cydia Apps for a Time Walker’s iPhone

May 1, 2009May 5, 2009 Paul L 3 Comments

I feel like I am already familiar with certain apps on this iPhone device, although I’ve never used them before. If your brains were to spontaneously explode, for example, over a square kilometre, your memories would lie disconnected on the ground in an amplified map of their former positions inside your head. Tiny differences in cranial coordinates would translate to much larger differences over a square kilometre. Someone – maybe even the next ‘someone’ to squat in your now-empty skull – could even decode that map. Well, okay, so the…

US puts Canada on piracy blacklist

April 30, 2009April 30, 2009 Doug Groves IIPA, MPAA, piracy0 comment

Today marks the first time that the United States has marked Canada as a ‘priority’ problem in the fight against intellectual property theft. This puts the largest trading partner of the US in the same rogues gallery of pirates that includes Algeria, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia and Venezuela amongst others.

Bumptop: An OS add-on in need of a form factor

April 30, 2009 Doug Groves bumptop4 Comments

Recently, Toronto based Bumptop.com came out with a beta version of their Bumptop OS, an add-on for Windows that takes the 2D desktop metaphor and adds that 3rd dimension. I’ve been playing with it for a couple of weeks now, and here are my impressions…

iPhone Jailbreak, Start-to-Finish

April 29, 2009April 30, 2009 Paul L 3 Comments

It appears that I promised a full iPhone jailbreak guide in an earlier rgbFilter post. I have since lost any memory of doing it. Fortunately, I actually wrote out all the steps before my latest schism, and have since recovered them for you from my lifestream. Here is the entire rest of the series. Make sure you reread the caveats in that first post!… QuickPwn 2.2.5 identifies which iPhone model to jailbreak…

Artificial Walking Gel Created

April 28, 2009July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Science, terminator8 Comments

The above video demonstrates a chemical gel created in a lab at Waseda University in Tokyo. It’s a purely chemical reation that allows it to move in a fashion similar to an inch worm. The 600 um scale is just over half a millimetre, so there’s no fear of it killing loved ones and taking their forms yet… From The New Scientist, a great place to keep tabs on all the latest advances of SkyNet.