Before I say anything about the iPad, I must start by saying.. I’m an Apple fan 100%, and I love all the products they have..
About the iPad… Seriously the most disappointing piece of tech Apple ever came out with.. Why? Many of reasons.
- Custom built in processor instead of an Intel, which makes any operative system you can install in a Mac or any Mac OS X applications completely incompatible with this device.
- For now, only runs iPhone and iPod touch apps.
- It will have new apps just made for it, but if you already payed for a copy of iWork, Microsoft Office, Adobe Studio or whatever, if you want an app like that for your iPad you will have to pay again for it instead of being able to install your own Mac OS X software. Not to mention that not all developers will make a version of your software for this device.
- The storage capacity is really deficient
- No USB ports, which means, no pen drives, no external hard drives, no external DVD. – The RAM memory is not upgradable.
- As it was pointed out, no camera.
- No multi-tasking which means, close your app to open the next one
In other words, while you can acquire a 10 inches laptop for the same price, apple offers a huge iPhone/iPod touch. For this size people would expect to get a laptop that runs Mac OS X with its applications and not a custom OS. Personally for this price i rather get myself an iPhone.
This review was dug up by request for my big brother.
Hey guys, sorry about the lack of content based posts as of late. It’s more or less I’ve got to find the time to make posts with a little more info etc.
As of late I’ve been dealing with a half retarded child-brained Croatian which has given me alot of amusement and comedy over the past few days. But enough about that i’m not going to waste your bandwidth. Without further bull-crappery i present to you BAMBI going crazy before a storm lol.
Just testing out the new HD Camera so i made a small montage via sony vegas. Which by the way continuously blue screened my machine until i gave up. So please excuse any bad cuts/transitions or things of that sort.
The reason for blurry vision some times was to test the cameras short lense zoom feature thing. Which worked out pretty well!
This is a touching story about a little girl who is sicken by a terminal stage cancer. You may have heard about it or you may not. In case you haven’t keep reading and even if you have heard about it please give your prayer and hearts for the following story.
This is Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old girl from California, USA. In 2005, she was diagnosed with a rare malignancy known as vascular cancer. Since that day, Colby has been embarking a painful life with the malignancy slowly creeping into her.
Last April, she saw the preview for the movie “Up”. Of course, “Up” is the current animation movie we have been greatly talking about – the awesomeness and touching of inner sense that the movie have provided. Since then, Colby was very eager to go and watch the movie.
Colby’s mother, Lisa asked if she could hang on until the movie is released in June (In US, Up was released on June 5). Little Lisa replied, “I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie.” It is apparent that Colby did not ask for anything but only the movie “Up” to come to the theater.
However, as the movie release was closing by, so did Colby’s health as the condition began to deteriorate. Without anywhere to turn to, on June 4, Lisa asked a hospice company to bring her daughter, a wheelchair for little Colby to ride on to the movie theater. Alas, the wheelchair was not delivered. Colby was too sick to go to the theater.
Then, a family friend of Curtin, called both Pixar and Disney, which owns the animation to notify them about the dying child with her last wish for watching “Up”. The Pixar officials were alerted and agreed to send someone to Colby’s house the next day.
The next day, someone from Pixar arrived. Along with the employee, a DVD for private screening specially given to little Colby to watch, stuffed animals of characters and other movie memorabilia.
However, Colby was too sick that she could not open her eyes to watch the movie. She was in agony, in pain. Her mother had to describe to her the scenes from the movie. When Lisa asked if Colby enjoyed it, she nodded.
After the movie ended, the employee’s eye was welled up and red – could not resisted the painful emotional to see how agony Colby was. But maybe it is a fate that Colby would not survived the night. Colby, with her parents nearby, died later that night.
Her mother said one of the memorabilia left by the Pixar employee was an “adventure book” based on a scrapbook that, in the movie, is kept by the wife of the main character. “I’ll have to fill those adventures in for her,” Lisa Curtin said of her daughter.
“When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie,” Colby’s mother told the Register. “I just know that word ‘Up’ and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven.”
I hope after you read this story, you will start to appreciate our life and be it more meaningfully.
Happy new year everyone, yes i know it’s been a very long time since i’ve actually got off my ass and made a blog post.
Recently i’ve become obsessed with the works by a man calling himself Pogo, these a true relaxation / chill out songs and should be listened to only if you are ready to have your mind blown by intense and awesome creative genious!
Below I’ve included some information about the man they call Pogo as well as all of his awesome videos. Please go full screen as i’ve spent over two hours implementing in a HD video player for you guys.
Pogo is an emerging 21-year old electronic music artist in Perth, Western Australia. He is known for his work recording small sounds from single films or scenes, and sequencing them to form new pieces of music. Often described as ‘Dream Pop’, and ‘Trip House’, Pogo’s music and videos have attracted a large and devoted following that continues to grow every day.
His most notable track, Alice, a composition of sounds from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’, was received with much success gaining 3 million views on YouTube as of July 2009. Pogo has since produced tracks using films like ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘The Sword In The Stone’, ‘Hook’, and ‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’.
Upular
Video for Pogo’s track ‘Upular’, composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the Disney Pixar film ‘Up’. The track also features a small number of percussion samples, including an obvious kick drum, crash cymbals and hi-hats.
‘Upular’ marks the first ever Pogo mix of a Pixar film. The closing advertisements have created much debate of whether or not Pogo has been endorsed for his work. The release of ‘Upular’ also marked the unsettling deactivation of ‘Alice’, ‘Expialdicious’ and ‘White Magic’. We expect an official statement from Pogo explaining these events in the near future.
Scrumdiddlyumptious
Video for Pogo’s track ‘Scrumdiddlyumptious’. The track is composed of a sine wave bass, original percussion sequences, and sounds recorded from the candy man scene in ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’. ‘Scrumdiddlyumptious’ remains the only Pogo video ever to be uploaded to YouTube in 720p. After spending almost twice the length of time in editing and finding little outstanding feedback to justify it, Pogo is yet to release another video in HD.
Mary’s Magic
Composed entirely of small sounds recorded from ‘The Secret Garden’, ‘Mary’s Magic’ marks the first ambient release from Pogo and is widely regarded his most mature and sophisticated track yet.
Bangarang
Video for Pogo’s track ‘Bangarang’. This piece is composed of sounds from the Spielberg classic film ‘Hook’, a sine wave bass, and “a few cymbals for extra spice” to quote Pogo’s YouTube description.
‘Bangarang’ is so far the only Pogo video ever to be removed from YouTube. On the 10th of September 2009, Sony Pictures Entertainment filed a notice to YouTube claiming that ‘Bangarang’ is an infringement of copyright. Many listeners responded to this with much criticism, posting numerous complaints to Pogo’s YouTube page and uploading several copies of the video to their accounts. Pogo was quick to file a counter notice to YouTube, and wrote an article on his blog explaining the fallacies of their claim.
Shortly after Pogo filed his claim, ‘Bangarang’ was reactivated on YouTube and remains live to this day.
Alohomora
Video for Pogo’s track ‘Alohomora’, made using sounds recorded from the film ‘Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone’.
Splurgenshitter
Video for Pogo’s track ‘SplurgenShitter’, shot over the course of a weekend. ’Splurgenshitter’ was shot south of Perth WA on the outskirts of Mandurah, using a Sony XDCAM EX1. The track features vocal samples of Stewie from Family Guy, Dot from ‘Around The World With Dot’, and Clint Eastwood from ‘Paint Your Wagon’.
Lockerz is a new website that allows you to gather “ptz” that as a user you redeem for free items. I am here to review this website, and give a quick comparision to other similar websites.
In their own words
“Lockerz is the place to go to buy the coolest stuff at the lowest prices, watch exclusive video, discover new music, play the hottest games, hang out with your friends – and get rewarded for just about EVERYTHING you do on the site.
Our mission is to be your daily habit, not a site for your parents or grandparents looking for their long-lost friends from Kindergarten.
One other thing you’ll love about Lockerz are PTZ (or “Pointz”). PTZ are Lockerz’ proprietary loyalty “currency” that you earn whenever you buy, watch, play, share, invite friends, or even just show up on Lockerz. Redeem PTZ at the PTZ Place for incredible prizes, great products and dream experiences.
Too Good to Be True? Why are we doing this? To thank you for joining early. To build a Lockerz community of cool, stylish, cutting-edge people who love to buy great brands. To give you a taste of how PTZ will work when we go live this fall. And to test out different prizes and PTZ levels. That’s key. This version of PTZ Place is a test. PTZ levels will change when the full Lockerz site launches.
Lockerz is set to launch sometime in the Fall 09. Members who sign up now will get to explore and help shape the site before the launch. We hope you’ll join us.”
To start off with, I find Lockerz very appealing visually. The website itself has been carefully designed with pleasing colors and a simple design. There are no advertisements (huge plus). An example is below:
Starting off, when you first sign up there is a game where you “catch” falling ptz. The great thing about this is, you can earn many points up. I earned 35 when I played. To give you a quick idea how much that is worth, an Xbox game that retails for $60 (regular price) is only 100 points. So essentially in under 2 minutes I earned a little over $21, that’s well over minimum wage!
When I first started browsing the website, I immediately clicked on the prizes (what would a site like this be without good prizes?!). I was very surprised to see things that I actually wanted! To give you, the reader a very brief idea of what they actually have there I uploaded some pictures.
When you click on prizes, you are greeted with three options (Cool Brands, Electronics, and Experiences):
Experiences (Charities, Concerts Etc)
An easy way to gain “ptz” is to invite friends. You get 2 ptz per friend you invite, once you invite 20 friends, you then get 4 ptz every new friend. They have a very simple invite menu, you simply separate email addresses by commas and then send out an invite, of course you can send a personal message to go along with it!
Another easy way to earn ptz is to simply answer the daily question
Overall, the prizes and easy points make Lockerz well worth the *very little* effort. I would give it an easy 9/10. The only reason is right now they are in beta and they don’t have THAT many ways to earn ptz, however, I am sure that will change . Currently, it is in Beta, however, it will be released very soon!
Ok, so i’ve recently been using a service called graboid. It’s an application which you download and it allows you to download and stream selected movies and tv shows etc.
The genres it can get into are endless, if you take a look at this screenshot below you’ll notice the vast selection you’ve got in front of you!
Now, the great thing about graboid is the fact that you can stream the movie without having to download it first. Once the movie is finished it will bring up a prompt asking “Did you want to save this movie for future playback” it then goes ahead and stores it in a local folder on your machine.
Usually the download speed for any given movie/music/content is at around 300 kb’s right off the bat, this can vary from different connections but in my experience it usually rockets straight upward from 300kb’s to 1mb’s.
What differs this from bit-torrent is the ability to stream right away, with no wait it also plays on a pretty neat media player built-in to the graboid client.
All in all it’s a very awesome application and it’s worth trying out. The only down side is the fact that they limit your downloads. This can be avoided by using new accounts created via proxy. Shit you wont ever catch me paying to pirate.
I never knew a book or words in general would make me feel such eurphric love towards my girlfriend, which already exists every day of my life. But the settings and scenes in this book reminds me of times spent with my lover and it makes me swoon more then a 13 year old girl at a John Mayer concert. The book was written with love and it pours from its pages.
I’ve only read about 30+ pages, and it has drawn me in so deeply. Theres one part where Henry goes back in time to look after himself as he first time travelled. He met his previous self at the age of five and toured himself around an old museum pretending to be a special tour guide just for his pre-future friend.
Anyways, i’ve only read a few pages so i’m not going to sit here and on-slaught you with a massive review, although it’s so tempting to just get up and scream to everyone what i’ve read so far.
Once i’ve finished reading i’ll give this book the review it deserves but beware i’ll probably scream every spoiler possible at you!
As i was saying before this book pours love from the pages and straight into your heart. It makes you seclude yourself from reality and remember all the beautiful times you’ve spent with a loved one. For me it was Rachael and it almost made me want slam the emergency exit button on the train doors and start running home for a massive cuddle and kiss!
Anyways, heres an extract from page nine, this book is incredible. No wonder Rachael has been egging me on non-stop to read it for 6 months. What took me so long!
Extract:
I lean back and stretch out on the sofa, bringing Clare along with me by gripping her under the arms and pulling; the velvet dress makes her slippery and she slithers into the space between my body and the back of the sofa like a velvet eel. She is facing me and I am propped up by the arm of the sofa. I can feel the length of her body pressing against mine through the thin fabric. Part of me is dying to go leaping and licking and diving in, but I’m exhausted and overwhelmed.
. Currently, it is in Beta, however, it will be released very soon!
