Pen Holder Digital Picture Frame
August 19, 2008
Picture frames have become more popular over the years. Now they are starting to show up in various places other then a regular frame you hang on your wall. The latest I came across was a digital photo frame built in to a pen holder.
Features
* DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME WITH PENCIL CUP
* 1.5″ LCD SCREEN
* HOLDS UP TO 70 IMAGES
* FEATURES RECHARGEABLE BATTERY
* INCLUDES USB CABLE & SOFTWARE
* 128 x 128 resolution, slideshow mode with adjustable settings, time/date display, alarm clock, rechargeable internal lithium-ion battery, cup holds pens/pencils/clips/etc., auto shut off, software and USB cable included
Although a bit bizarre it’s kind of a cool idea as it is an object you might easily have on your desk and ideal for flicking through pictures of your family.
The picture frame pen holder costs $32.99 from Gadgeta.
Superior Scandium Flueless Gas Fire
August 13, 2008
Now that you have your sleek Macbook Air, your 50″ HDTV running at 1080p and your 30″ Apple Cinema screen for your Mac you then turn to your old fire and think it’s time to make that look cool too. The Superior Scandium is a flueless gas fire which you hang on your wall and it looks absolutely stunning.
It measures 1055mm wide, 530mm heigh and has a depth of just 183mm making it very thin. It is made of brushed metal and is finished in Black Glass and Aluminium. With it being flueless it operates at 100% efficiency making it a good choice in all areas. The heat output of the fire is 3.5Kw and it requires no flue making it quicker to install.
The Superior Scandium is available from FiresGalore and currently costs £1067.01.
Fireproof - Trailer
August 8, 2008
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Fireproof - Trailer At work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter’s adage: Never leave your partner behind. At home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules. After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that Catherine wishes she had never married. As the couple prepares to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb’s father challenges his son to commit to a 40-day experiment he calls “The Love Dare.” When Caleb discovers the book’s daily challenges are tied into his parents’ newfound faith, his already limited interest is further dampened. Is it too late to fireproof his marriage? Caleb Holt’s job is to rescue others, but now he has to face his toughest job ever … rescuing his wife’s heart. Directed by: Alex Kendrick Starring: Kirk Cameron, Erin Bethea, Ken Bevel, Harris Malcom, Phyllis Malcom |
Movie Review: Saw IV
July 28, 2008
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It’s quite rare for me not to notice movies that come out in theaters so it was a big surprise that I found out that not only has Saw IV already been released, Saw V is coming out later this year. I am not a Saw fan at all but having seen all three Saw movies, I wouldn’t want to break my run so off I went to find a copy of Saw IV.
Anyone who has seen a Saw movie will known that this is just another run-of-the-mill torture porn. The first one quite innovative for its time but succeeding movies that dealt with torture (like Hostel) has lessened its impact with the succeeding sequels.
As sequels go, it takes a really good story to make succeeding movies emerge from the shadow of the original. And here Saw seems to have stalled. I think the twist in Saw 2 was quite cool and made the movie a good enough sequel for the disturbing first movie. But the third movie failed to deliver a good yarn, but I have to give the movie props for ending with a very memorable scene with Jigsaw apparently getting killed.
The fourth movie begins with Jigsaw, dead in a mortuary table. The first incision on his body is proof that Jigsaw is not going to come back to life or some such nonsense. Death is the final end for him. This was an intriguing beginning as it immediately makes you think, “if Jigsaw’s dead then why the hell is there a new movie.” But, as Jigsaw says in the microcassette that was discovered in his stomach, the games are just about to begin.
The basic plot of the fourth installment is the recruitment of a new person who will continue Jigsaw’s work. Like all Saw movies, the basic template is a whodunit only with more blood, and graphic depictions of eviscerations. There is something to be said about writing the perfect whodunit. I have to admit that Saw 2, did it quite well, but three was a big letdown. All I can say that Saw IV is messier for the simple reason that the writer tried to string together the three previous movies with the fourth one. This gives a lot of complications because timelines are sure to get screwed up, and I think it did with this movie.
I won’t comment too much about the acting because this is, after all, a slasher flick designed to appeal to baser instincts. I just have to say that there were no standouts here. No one really stood out as great actors—except maybe for Tobin Bell, who has proved his mettle before as a talented character actor.
Fans who get off on the creative ways of torture in Saw will also be disappointed because there seems to be far fewer set pieces. And the reason is that the producers really did decide to make a character piece of the fourth movie as a way of really exploring how Jigsaw became who he is.
This is not the best Saw movie of the bunch but for Jigsaw fans, this movie will prove to be indispensable.
Rating: C-
3 Popular Music Search Engine
July 19, 2008
I’m checking out 3 popular music search engines (songza, seeqpod, and skreemr). Among the 3, I seem to like songza more.
When using a music search engine, I expect to search either for a specific song, or I enter an artist and expect to see a list of songs by that artist. I don’t want to see wikipedia articles or news about those artists.
I tried doing a search for “Duran Duran”, one of my favorite bands in the 80’s and here’s what songza returned.
Songza returned a list of Duran Duran songs. The nice thing about this is that if I click one of the songs, it’ll play it. Really cool!
The second music search engine I tested was Seeqpod. Here’s what seeqpod returned.
Honestly, I didn’t like what I saw. I has a couple of links to you tube. Does this mean that if I create a video at youtube and I include the word “Duran Duran” in the title my video would be included in this search result page? Hmm…. we might be seeing a new form of spam. … ‘video spam’.
The 3rd music search engine I tested was skreemr. Here’s what it looks like.
This one seems better. One of the results was “The Reflex” which was a very good Duran Duran song. I noticed that the link pointed to this file “http://musicglob.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/duran-duran-the-reflex.mp3?
When I click that link, it’ll play the song.
I guess by creating a music search engine which crawls the net in search for mp3 files uploaded on websites and indexing it, these search engines won’t be liable for copyright infringement since technically, those mp3 files are not hosted on the search engines. They just “found” these files and returns a list of urls where it can be found.
People can then just do a right click and click “save as” and these mp3 files would be downloaded to their hard disks.
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