A new iPad app called Flipboard is attempting to bridge the gap between the straightforward, simplified layout of a magazine and the endless amounts of disorganized information available on Facebook and Twitter.
The app is free to download and positions itself as “a social magazine that brings to life the stories, photos, news and …
From the brain trust behind 2009’s interactive musical play toy YouTube Piano comes YouTube Radio, a medley of YouTube-themed ditties.
Eight stations cover the music spectrum and aside from my inability to translate cat, each spits out YouTube centric lyrics in different musical styles. Hate jazz? Just change the station by clicking …
Welcome back to the Scott Pilgrim Book Club. We’re psyching ourselves up for Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (out now!) and the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World movie (due out August 13) by discussing each volume of the series over the course of six weeks. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams, Evan Narcisse …
Comic-Con International is here, taking over the San Diego Convention Center, most of the rest of San Diego, and the lives of the 130,000 or so people who go there from July 21-25. It is a pressure-cooker of an event, and it’s easy to have a miserable time there if you get caught up in the crush. It’s also pretty easy to have an …
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Comic Con 2010: San Diego Insiders Share Their Survival Tips (And Ninja Tricks) [LA Times]
I (Almost) Live In The Cloud [NYT]
Droid 2 Launching Aug. 12 With R2-D2 Edition? [Gizmodo]
Apple’s $15.7 Billion In Revenue Is Highest Ever …
Wondering what the Thor and Captain America movies are going to look like? Well, like this, apparently:
These two concept art images from next year’s Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger movies are going to be available as posters at the Marvel booth at San Diego Comic-Con, starting tomorrow night. Admit it: That Thor …
If you haven’t seen Inception then go no further. You’ve been warned.
Kudos to the folks over at Giant Freakin Robot for putting this together.
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And this is why moviemakers have PR people. M. Night Shyamalan went a little off the approved script at a The Last Airbender press conference in Mexico when someone said that audiences had lost faith in his work following movies like The Lady In The Water, and
In the horror landscape, B-movie mania at its best points right to Roger Corman. His oddball approach to cheesy creature features and unnecessary nudity have become a comfy oasis somewhere between horror and campville. The deaths are messy, the sex is unexplained and the situation is always dire.
(More on Techland: Avatar Heads Back …
When is a Pixar movie not a Pixar movie? When it’s produced by Disney-contracted third parties in India, apparently. Bleeding Cool has discovered that Planes, the planned direct-to-DVD spin-off from Pixar’s Cars, won’t be produced by Emeryville’s favorite animators after all, but instead originate in Disney Toon Studios, where the …
All this week you’re going to be seeing news stories about how great Comic-Con is. So before all that starts I just have to say something.
Comic-Con is not great. Comic-Con is awful.
(More on Techland: A Guide to Having a Good Time at Comic-Con)
No, I mean, God knows, there are good things at Comic-Con. You can walk up to a …
Editor’s Note: Today, we’re rolling out the first of our App Of The Week series, where we’ll take a look at a new app (iPhone, Android, iPad or otherwise) and bring you comprehensive reviews on the latest and greatest in the app world. If you’ve got a suggestion, please feel free to email us at tips@techland.com.
I can never …
