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There's a couple features in the upcoming OS that I'm very much looking forward to, such as landscape keyboards for Notes and Mail, and phone-wide search.
Empire Theatres Grant Park is bringing back their Toonie Matinees from March 30 to April 03, for a select number of films. Click here to get a list from Access Winnipeg.
Whew. Thank goodness, I lie awake at night worrying about prep school's students' risk of vampirism... but they didn't mention anything about werewolves or mummies yet! The risk might still be very real! :P
The 2009 JUNO Awards wrapped up on Sunday in Vancouver. The show was hosted by Russell Peters who will be making an appearance in Winnipeg on October 12.
Months after teasing us at CES with an announcement of Skype's native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday.
Peeps are marshmallow monstrosities... they shouldn't be so damn tasty, yet hundreds are devoured every spring! The Tribune shows us the industrial womb they're born in via photogallery. :)
Recent additions to the official Scrabble dictionary - like "za", "qi", and "zzz" - have upset the letter distribution balance of the game, causing high scoring letters like "z" and "q" to become overvalued.
Mark Boulton writes a Think Vitamin feature on the importance of space, shapes, and how they can communicate ideas. A good read for anyone designing and/or laying out websites.
The LA Times reports on the release of Tata Motors' Nano, a car that costs as much as a nice notebook computer. A million people have applied, but because Tata is only making about 60,000 this year, they'll only receive a Nano if they're chosen in a lottery.
Combining spectacular Hollywood-style stunts with a gripping storyline, Wheelman provides an adrenaline- fueled, cinematic thrill ride guaranteed to leave you breathless. Vin Diesel stars as an undercover agent and highly skilled driver who must infiltrate the Barcelona underworld to gather intelligence surrounding a covert heist. Posing as a driver-for-hire, he ends up caught in a crossfire of corruption and chaos while trying to stay one step ahead of local law enforcement and rival gangs.
THE ULTIMATE THRILL RIDE: Designed to play like a Hollywood blockbuster, Wheelman delivers all the rubber-burning, asphalt-churning excitement of the most jaw-dropping high-speed car chases.
OPEN WORLD DRIVING: Go where you want, do what you want, however you want. Choose your own route through the living, breathing city of Barcelona as you complete more than 30 missions and 100 side-missions, or simply drive around and take in the breathtaking Spanish architecture as you seek out all the game’s hidden cinematic jumps and golden lion statues.
REVOLUTIONARY CAR COMBAT: Sideswipe pursuing enemies with Wheelman’s ground-breaking Vehicle Melee car combat. Execute devastating “slam-n-ram” maneuvers in all directions with a simple flick of the joystick. But be careful, because your enemies can do the same. Once you experience Wheelman’s Vehicle Melee, you’ll never want to play another driving game without it!
MAXIMUM MOBILITY: Escape down a narrow alleyway on the back of a tricked-out motorcycle. Drive through an office building to make your getaway. Hop behind the wheel of exclusively licensed vehicles like the Pontiac G8 and Saturn Astra and make your escape in style. Drive it. Trash it. Crash it. You’re the Wheelman, it’s all up to you.
CINEMATIC SIGNATURE STUNTS: Survive death-defying feats and perform pulse-pounding moves to trigger extreme over-the-top Hollywood-style mobile attack maneuvers including:
Aimed Shot: Drive and shoot at the same time while the rest of the world slows to an easy-to-target blur.
The Air Jack: Leap from moving car to moving car to take control of a brand new ride.
The 360° Cyclone Spin: Spin around 180° to take out anyone that’s behind you, and then spin back 180° again to resume your route.
Set directly after the events of the film, Wesley continues his transformation into a full-fledged assassin and heir to a legacy of a secret fraternity of assassins. He continues his quest with a new mission to seek out the French chapter of The Fraternity, hunt down The Immortal and finally discover the truth about his family. In Wanted: Weapons of Fate, become the uber-assassin Wesley Gibson as you control an arsenal of skills such as Assassin Time, which enables you to take down multiple enemies with sheer precision; use the Advanced Cover System to shield yourself and move through the environment with remarkable speed; and even bend the laws of physics by Curving Bullets. Your destiny awaits. Join us.
The Venture Bros is one of the best cartoons on TV right now. Period. If you’ve never watched the show, then you’re doing yourself a huge disservice.
So why am I talking about the show on a videogame blog? Well, the upcoming third season DVD and Blu-Ray Disc was announced this past week and the cover art for the box looks like an Atari 2600 game cartridge. Some of the shows major characters are on the cover, but it severally lacks Dr. Girlfriend in her Dr. Mrs. The Monarch outfit. Check out the box art in the gallery above.
No price was announced, but the DVDs will include deleted scenes, uncensored episodes, and multiple audio commentary tracks. Both versions will be released on March 24. If you’ve never seen the show, then visit your countries version of AdultSwim for some awesome.
A young man struggles against the pressure to Twitter his life away.
For more head to http://current.com/supernews or catch the Season Premiere, airing Friday March 20, 10 PM ET/PT.
A strange man uses holographic tools to build a world for the woman he loves. This is a short by filmmaker Bruce Branit known also as the co-creator of 405.
Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 8 has been released and can be downloaded now for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.
The latest stable release fixes several bugs including a security issue with paginator links. While this issue should only affect a small number of people, we highly recommend everyone upgrade to this stable version. We do not expect any incompatibilities with your current code, but as always check out the changelog[2] to see all the issues that were fixed.
Pretty awesome to watch the icon shifting over the years. It looks like pretty much everyone who has touched the series put their own mark on the icon.
The Story: Homicide detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim investigate murders specific to super hero cases, and they both have a secret: They both have powers. This new story will blow the roof off of everything you know about crime comics and super hero comics! Walker vs. Pilgrim! And they both have powers! From the writer of some of your favorite Marvel comics (ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, NEW AVENGERS) comes a brand-new chapter from this award-winning book. Collecting POWERS #25-30.
International Business Machines Corp. is offering to pay at least $6.5 billion, or double Sun's Tuesday closing price of $4.97, The Wall Street Journal reported online earlier.
The region map makes it seem as though the Northeast is rapidly losing population to the South but the states map clarifies the picture... the flow looks to be hundreds of thousands of retirees moving to Florida and Georgia.
A QuickTime stream of Apple's iPhone 3.0 media event has been posted. The event revealed a massive list of new features for developers and end-users which we summarized in a previous post.
Seems if you look for job opportunities with Apple in the province of Manitoba, you'll find a listing for a future opening in Polo Park. Wishful thinking?
Change the table cloth, order drinks, call a cab, all from the projected interface on the table. I particularly like how the preview of the meal is shown right on your empty plate. Clever :)
The Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry have presented the MTS Centre with the Major Facility of the Year (Over 8,000 Capacity) award. The K-Rock Centre in Kingston took home the same award for Under 8,000 Capacity.
There's been a lot going around lately, and throughout it all, I've tried to keep looking at the positive side of things... especially if it emotional hurts. I recently watched "Sita Sings The Blues", and this song in it entirely captures my philosophy when I'm feeling down. Sounds a little cliche, I know, but hey... there it is :)
From the ashes of old conflicts, a new terror arises. The Umbrella Corporation and its crop of lethal viruses have been destroyed and contained. But a new, more dangerous threat has emerged. Years after surviving the events in Raccoon City, Chris Redfield has been fighting the scourge of bio-organic weapons all over the world. Now a member of the Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA), Chris is sent to Africa to investigate a biological agent that is transforming the populace into aggressive and disturbing creatures. Joined by another local BSAA agent, Sheva Alomar, the two must work together to solve the truth behind the disturbing turn of events. Featuring a revolutionary new co-op mode of gameplay, Resident Evil 5 will let players experience fear together as terror moves out of the shadows and into the light of day.
Michael Lewis, who is seemingly cranking out 10,000 words a day about finance and sports these days, writes in the pages of Vanity Fair about the Icelandic financial collapse. It's an amazing story.
Misericordia Health Centre has become the first health-care facility in the Winnipeg to offer patients access to the Internet through wireless technology.
Mozilla on Thursday released the third beta version of Firefox 3.1, aka Shiretoko, one of the frontrunners in the current race to improve Web browsers.
A new photo and concept art from the film, starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman.
iTunes 8.1 is now faster and more responsive. You will enjoy noticeable improvements when working with large libraries, browsing the iTunes Store, preparing to sync with iPod or iPhone, and optimizing photos for syncing.
Here's a leaked, 125-page transcript of the brainstorming session that begat Raiders of the Lost Arc, a sit-down in 1978 with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan. Spielberg and Lucas veritably
Here's a leaked, 125-page transcript of the brainstorming session that begat Raiders of the Lost Arc, a sit-down in 1978 with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan. Spielberg and Lucas veritably
After years of wrangling, Nina Paley's acclaimed, brilliant short film, Sita Sings the Blues is finally available as a free, open-licensed downloads. Paley spent a shocking amount of time and money fighting over the copyrights to the 1920s jazz music that is integral to the film (some have likened it to Betty Boop in Bollywood, which is catchy, but fails to capture the fantasticness of the film), Paley's finally secured a license that allows her to distribute the whole movie, for free, forever, under a remix-friendly license.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, "Watchmen" is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the watchmen?
Recently I needed to implement styled tooltips that would follow the user’s mouse. Being lazy, I googled for a while and found a nice little library for Prototype (tooltip.js) that did almost exactly what I wanted. With a little modification the tooltips would follow the mouse around instead of positioning only when they were first triggered. Nice.
But the site I was working on was extremely complex, with positioned elements all over the place. The tooltips lost track of where they were in the page and ended up positioning themselves somewhere else on the page. They still followed the mouse, though. It was actually rather amusing. But not what I wanted. If only the tooltip elements were under <body> instead of ... somewhere else.
So back to google. I found another library for Prototype (move and copy) that made it easy to reposition elements. Then it was just a matter of triggering the move when I wrote out each element and it would be in the right position on the page. Worked like a charm. Or so I thought.
Not long after, I decided to add these cool tooltips to another project. That one had IE as a high priority, so I did more testing in that browser than in the first project (which was mainly intended for FireFox and Safari users). That’s when I discovered that IE REALLY hates it when JavaScript tries to move an element into the body tag. So much so that if the JavaScript in question isn’t in <body> or <head> the entire page will fail to load. Ugh. The solution was simple, just put the JavaScript where IE wants it to be (which, to be honest is the proper place to put it in any case). Still annoying, though.
The Story: Marvel’s First Family meets Millar and Hitch! When one of the world’s greatest writers teams up with one of the world’s greatest artists, the result is the truly World’s Greatest Comic Magazine! Following their epic successes with ULTIMATES and ULTIMATES 2, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch reunite to forge a new future for the Fantastic Four! Taking their cue from the wild-eyed, creative abandon of the classic Lee/Kirby years, Millar and Hitch make the book decisively their own! First up is the return of Reed Richards’ old flame, Alyssa Moy, with news of worldwide calamity that only Mister Fantastic can help divert — but what if the price is his marriage to Sue? Next, the Defenders are back and barraging New York with high-velocity attacks. This mysterious group of heavies has taken out Doctor Doom and Johnny Storm — and that’s not even their biggest surprise! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #554-561.
How awesome would it be if you could combine the aesthetic rigor and clarity of fixed-width, grid-based layouts with the device- and screen size independence and user-focused flexibility of fluid layouts? - a list apart
Halo Wars is a real-time action strategy game for the Xbox 360 that allows the player to control large armies and to shrewdly direct them in realistic warfare. Set early in the iconic war between the Covenant and UNSC - made famous by the Halo FPS games - Halo Wars provides a new angle on the war while bringing new heroes to the battle.
Can you name all the movies?
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Shame on you. This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're going to let it be the worst. And I guarantee a week won't go by in your life you won't regret walking out, letting them get the best of you. Well, I'm not going h
King Garnett and his trusted knights go on a quest in search of the Holy G. The time was 711 A.D., the Mutombo Ages. All across the land, men and women thirsted for guts, glory and game. The likes of which were said to be only found in the Holy G. Unfortunately, via sorcery and deceit, the exact whe
