Smartphone Games Summit in San Francisco, CA
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole in Theaters
WCG Ultimate Gamer, Season 2 on SyFy
WCG Ultimate Gamer, Season 2 on SyFy
Daily Dose
Thursday, Septmember 23, 2010 –
Quote To Live By:
“When a woman, whether she’s a wife, a lover, or a slave you’ve purchased to be a wife or lover, leaves you repeatedly… take the hint.” – Dominar Rygel XVI from Farscape
Up Front:
Blogger Who Has Been Chronicling His Weight Loss In Order To Fit On the Harry Potter Ride No Longer Has …
Change that ‘M’ to a ‘D’: Disney’s New Game Lets Mickey Be a Jerk
Warren Spector’s been promising that Disney Epic Mickey–the first video game in years where Uncle Walt’s signature creation plays a lead role–will let players turn Mickey into, well, a poopyhead. Players can make a bunch of self-serving decisions that benefit only themselves and one guess that, once those choices compound on one …
The Writers of the Guardians: Screenwriter John Orloff
SPOILERS START
MC: What had to be adapted from the book to the screenplay?
JO: In the book – Kludd (the protagonist’s brother) actually kicks Sorren (the protagonist) out of the nest (instead of them both falling out together in the movie.) Sorren was actually kicked out of the nest by his mean old brother.
Also, Kludd is …
HeyWire Launches Free International Text Messaging
Free text messaging services aren’t anything new, but the recently-released HeyWire breaks the mold a bit by offering a static, unchanging phone number that you can give out to your friends to let them text you, free international text messaging to and from 114 countries, and a web-based interface that allows you to send text messages
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Verizon: Tiered Data Plans, No iPhone
Speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference today, Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg told investors that Verizon has no plans to carry the iPhone in the near future and that Verizon may roll out tiered data pricing in the coming months.
“We don’t feel like we have an iPhone deficit. We would love to carry it when we get there, but …
Two Minute Video: Visions of a 3D Point and Shoot Camera
The Finepix Real 3D W3 is Fujifilm’s second stab at a consumer-friendly point and shoot camera that takes 3D photos. While the first version met with less-than-favorable reviews last year, the W3 has slimmed down a bit and gotten a little easier to use so it should fare better this time around.
It’s still a niche product for a niche …
ReadySteady Stabilizes Pocket Camcorders, Doubles as Tripod
The $30 ReadySteady camcorder stabilizer is a little smaller than a hockey puck. It’s made of two high-quality, sturdy aluminum halves that house a flexible seven-inch rod that screws into your camcorders tripod mount.
When you want to use the ReadySteady, you untwist the two aluminum halves, remove the gooseneck tripod rod, twist the …