December 2008
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SMS/text messaging in Gmail Chat
SMS in Gmail Chat
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The Ten Best Foreign Films of 2008
| Film School Rejects
Editor’s Note: To ensure the quality of our Year in Review feature, we’ve turned to our expert columnists to bring us Top Ten lists from their favorite genres. And when it comes to foreign films, Rob Hunter is our guy. To read more of Rob’s foreign perspectives, check out Foreign Objects every Wednesday.
This was a fantastic year for movies, both domestically and...
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In Theaters This Week [12-31-08]
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What Does The Watchmen Ruling Mean?
Watchmen:
So now that we know that the Watchmen movie case has been resolved in Fox’s favor, we’re left wondering what happens next. Who owns the movie? Will it be released? Will anyone watch the Watchmen?
What Did The Ruling Say? Short version is that Judge Gary Feess’ ruling said that Fox was right. The most important sentence from the ruling is:
Fox owns a copyright...
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Windows: Everything You Need to Know How to Do in... →
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Windows 7 Beta 1 Out in the Wild
Windows 7:
What’s being called the “first and only beta” of Windows 7 has made it onto BitTorrent tracking sites, and one early review, with screenshots, is already out. Get a preview of both below.
The leaked beta build, known as Windows 7 M1, was supposed to make its initial public release at the International Consumer Electronics Show (running Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas), but,...
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20 Free websites to watch Tv Shows/Movies online |... →
According to some researches, people have started watching movies and TV shows on the internet rathar than TV. For example, YouTube is the biggest online community of people who share possibly anything that you might have seen on TV. The plus point is that you get to watch whatever you want, anytime you want.
I use to watch Tom & Jerry when I was a kid and there was this specific episode I...
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The (Cute) Spawn of Clones
Clones:
Now that cloned animals are having babies, as well as spawning second and third generation clones, there’s no telling when the cloning madness will stop.
The kittens pictured here are the children of CC, the first cloned cat. They were born healthy and cute in 2006.
But this year, scientists in Korea announced that they created healthy cloned cats from clones. In a paper...
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Stalled Printer Repair Purges Stuck Print Jobs
Featured Windows Download:
Windows only: Stalled Printer Repair is a portable application that detects and effectively removes stuck print jobs that are backing up your printer queue.
For whatever reason, Windows can be finicky when you try deleting a print job from the queue. Often that means you’re stuck staring at the queue, trying to delete the same job over and over again, and...
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Storyz: Easily Create And Share Stories Through...
Storyz: Easily Create And Share Stories Through Cellphone
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Although Storyz can be used from the web too, it would prove more useful for cellphone users. As the name suggests, it helps you create a story or an account of an event...
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How To Create An Animated Loading Image Easily
| MakeUseOf.com
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Have you ever been to a website and seen the nice little circle that is spinning round and round while the application is being loaded? Most people who have no technical knowledge...
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Logoinstant: Free Logo Designs Collection
Logoinstant: Free Logo Designs Collection
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LogoInstant is a website that provides you with a free logos collection. All logo designs are free of charge, just find and download anything you like. The site has wide range of logos...
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Eddie Murphy Really Isn't The Riddler, Honest
The Dark Knight:
No sooner has the Sun’s reporter claimed that Eddie Murphy really, honestly will star in the sequel to The Dark Knight than someone else has appeared to call shenanigans. That person’s name? Eddie Murphy.
A rep for Murphy contacted Access Hollywood to say that the rumor is “not true,” which fits with everything else in the world that we know about the...
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FlashPaint: Online Drawing Tool
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FlashPaint is an online drawing tool that lets you paint pictures online. It runs on Flash and provides you with a quick and responsive online editor that has pretty much everything you would need. Created drawings can be saved...
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Fix an Incorrect or Duplicate Windows Boot Entry
Windows XP:
If you’re annoyed over a duplicate or unnecessary boot option in your Windows XP boot menu, excise it with a handy guide from the How-To Geek. The guide covers removing and modifying entries in the boot.ini, whether they are phantoms from previous installs, recovery partitions, or other operating systems. The guide also covers a low risk way of disabling the boot menu all...
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The Best Sites for Movie Trailers
The Best Sites for Movie Trailers | MakeUseOf.com
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Winter time is movie time. Heading out to the movies with friends in the afternoon, getting some popcorn, nachos, coke and then snuggle into the...
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TPC: Send A Fax From A Computer For Free
TPC: Send A Fax From A Computer For Free
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TPC is a website that allows you to send fax from computer for free to many locations around the world. There are two ways in which you can send fax.
One way is using a browser. You just...
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Spectackler: Compare Electronic Products...
Spectackler: Compare Electronic Products Side-By-Side
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Spectackler is a neat web app that tries to help you with the buying decision for electronic products. It lets you find the exact product you’re looking for by letting you...
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Manipulate Vector Images with Open Source Inkscape
Featured Download:
All platforms: Inkscape is an open source vector editing program. If you are looking for a free alternative to the Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape has a host of features that make it worth taking for a spin.
Inkscape can be run on Windows 2000/2003/XP, Mac OSX, and Linux. Skilled users of Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw may find more advanced features missing, but I found in...
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Best Online Job Search Site: Indeed
Hive Five Winner for
The relatively new job search engine Indeed won top honors in this weekend’s Hive Five Best Online Job Search Sites. Monster pulled in second billing, followed by the always-popular Craigslist. For more options for finding a great job online, check out our job sites call for contenders.
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Talking Mickey Rourke with Director Darren...
« FirstShowing.net
By now we’ve reported quite a bit on Darren Aronofsky’s latest, The Wrestler, and you’ve probably already read my glowing review of the film. But since The Wrestler finally steps outside of just New York and Los Angeles based theaters come Friday this week, I thought I’d share part of a conversation I had with the director recently, particularly...
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Breaking News: Judge Rules That Fox Owns Rights to...
| /Film
United States District Court judge Gary A. Feess has a horrible Christmas present for Watchmen fans. The judge concluded on Wednesday that 20th Century Fox “should prevail on crucial issues” in their lawsuit with Warner Bros over the rights to the comic book movie adaptation. According to the New York Times, Feess says that “Fox owns a copyright interest consisting of, at the very...
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Review: Valkyrie - The Redemption of Tom Cruise?
Movie Review: Valkyrie - The Redemption of Tom Cruise? | /Film
As I sat down to write my review of Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie, I was struck by how many questions this film is expected to answer upon its release. Can Singer still deliver a big-budget success, after the lackluster performance of Superman Returns? Can Tom Cruise bounce back from his self-inflicted public image problems? Can an...
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Paul Giamatti in Sophie Barthes' Cold Souls
First Look: « FirstShowing.net
Considering it’s a quiet Christmas weekend and also that the Sundance Film Festival is only 20 days away, we’ve got yet another Sundance related debut this morning. We were sent the first batch of photos from Cold Souls, a dark comedy starring Paul Giamatti that will be premiering at Sundance. In the film, Giamatti (ironically) plays himself, an...
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Video MobileConverter Formats Flicks for Small...
Featured Windows Download:
Windows only: BitTorrent super-host The Pirate Bay claims its ViO MobileConverter tool reduces nearly any video’s size by 20 percent and converts it for mobile devices faster than anything else. Let’s see about that.
Why the speed and quality test? Simply because ViO, with all the nuance of the typical Pirate Bay communication, claims this on its home...
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Google Docs Gadget Offers Drag-and-Drop Uploading
Google Docs:
Google releases a desktop gadget for Google Docs that lets you drag and drop spreadsheets, presentation, and word processing files onto it to upload it to your account.
You’ll need to be running Google Desktop to get the gadget (available for Windows and Linux only), which lists all your account’s documents for quick access to your files. Along with the...
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Store Your Thoughts, Ideas, & Anything Else In...
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It’s simple, it’s effective, it’s WikiPad, a way to keep your notes organized electronically. You can actually manage to be almost completely paperless with the use of this...
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Recover Your Lost XP, Vista & Office Serial...
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AskTheAdmin here again with another free tool that I can’t live without. As TheAdmiN I have literally over 10,000 servers in production. Most of them are on the same...
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Review: Taken (The Would-Be Next Bourne...
Movie | /Film
In the next few weeks, quite a few bloggers will debate whether Liam Neeson gives Jason Bourne and James Bond a sharp chop to the throat in the fluid, under-the-radar actioner Taken. Today, FirstShowing.net swept away its weekly confetti and threw a fresh parade for the film in hopes of getting 20th Century Fox’s attention. Fox, that ever-maligned of studios, is essentially...
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Disney Officially Dumps Third Chronicles of Narnia...
« FirstShowing.net
The truth finally comes out, it just took 9 months to get it! Disney has officially decided to dump The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third movie based on C.S. Lewis’ popular series of books. Citing “budgetary and logistical reasons” for their decision, Disney has given up all future rights for any additional sequels. Back...
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Early Reaction: Paul Rudd's I Love You, Man -...
« FirstShowing.net
When it comes to comedies these days, I’ve grown tired of the typical stupid humor that American audiences seem to enjoy so much. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t find myself laughing at the same things that I used to. So when a comedy comes along that actually has me laughing in the theater, it’s worth mentioning. I Love You, Man is just that, a...
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Why So Serious, China? We May Never Know
The Dark Knight:
The Dark Knight may have been an international cultural juggernaut this year, but not everywhere, apparently; Warner Bros. announced yesterday they won’t be releasing Chris Nolan’s Batman movie in China due to “cultural sensitivities.”
According to Variety, Warners issued a statement about the decision that blandly explained,
Based on a number of...
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Tron Returns to Tron
I Watch Stuff -
What’s a Tron without a Tron, y’know? So bruce Boxleitner, who played Tron in Tron, is reportedly reprising his role as Tron in TR2N:
Bruce Boxleitner, who played Alan Bradley and the title character in Walt Disney Pictures’ 1982 film Tron, is currently filming a role for the studio’s upcoming Tron 2.0. He joins fellow original cast member Jeff Bridges...
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The Curious Production of Benjamin Button
Junket Report: | Film School Rejects | Junket Report
With all the positivity and praise surrounding The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I’m sure you’re very curious about the production. You probably want to hear Blanchett’s views on the script, Pitt’s take on Fincher, and anything Fincher has to say about anything. Me too! But that’s not to be, as the big three are a bit reclusive and I...
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Will Sandra Bullock Be Stallone’s Latest...
| Film School Rejects | Casting Couch
Many of you may look upon Sylvester Stallone’s upcoming action epic The Expendables as a lesser version of Quentin Tarantino’s Ingloryhole Bastards. If so, you are wrong. For my money, The Expendables looks to be the more interesting of the two. After seeing the kick to the nuts that Stallone gave to the Rambo franchise, this new ensemble action...
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Get Used To Eddie Murphy In Batman 3, aka Gotham
Bat-Rumor:
The Sun reporter Gordon Smart stands by his report that Eddie Murphy will party all the time as The Riddler in the Dark Knight sequel — which he claims will be called Gotham.
The fandom world is calling for Smart’s head for putting Eddie Murphy and Batman in the same sentence, let alone the same movie. But Smart, who claims people laughed at him when he touted Daniel Craig as...
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Review: The Spirit
| Film School Rejects | Movie Review
The Spirit (2008) Written and Directed by Frank Miller Starring Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of stylized violence and action, some sexual content and brief nudity.
Story: After an incident in the line of duty left him about dead, Central City Detective Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht)...
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Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert on...
Roger Ebert Bitchslaps The Spirit | /Film
“The Spirit is mannered to the point of madness. There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material.”
Read the full review on RogerEbert.com.
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Mega Review: The Spirit and Valkyrie - Both...
Mega Review: The Spirit and Valkyrie - Both High-Energy and Surprising « FirstShowing.net
With a slew of movies vying for your attention this holiday and similarities in The Spirit and Valkyrie, I thought it’d be worthwhile to combine them into one “mega review.” After all, The Spirit and Valkyrie both have blockbuster expectations - the return of comic wizard Frank...
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Google Docs Gadget Offers Drag-and-Drop Uploading
Google Docs:
Google releases a desktop gadget for Google Docs that lets you drag and drop spreadsheets, presentation, and word processing files onto it to upload it to your account.
You’ll need to be running Google Desktop to get the gadget (available for Windows and Linux only), which lists all your account’s documents for quick access to your files. Along with the...
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Set Alerts for Newly Released Songs & Albums
Albumreminder:
AlbumReminder is an online tool that monitors newly released songs and albums of you favorite artists and notifies you via email or RSS feed.
The alert setup is simple and easy. After creating an account, simply add your favorite artists or bands to your personal list. From that moment whenever there is a new album release for one of the artists or bands in your list the...
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Run all Google Apps in One window with GMDesk
| TechCityInc
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If you’re looking for an application that allows you to run your Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps and Google Calender in one window then, GMDesk is exactly what you need. It’s a standalone application to get the...
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Stephen Chow Might Not Play Kato, Might Still...
| /Film
Last week it was announced that Stephen Chow would no longer be directing The Green Hornet, but that he was still attached to play the Hornet’s sidekick Kato. However, that might not actually be the case at all. Chow tells The Associated Press that he might not play Kato in the film due to possible schedule conflicts. Sounds to me like Chow is graciously trying to step down from the role...
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Aronofsky Leaves it All On the Mat with The...
| Film School Rejects | Movie Review
Unless I planned on busting the buzz on what seems like a universally loved film, there wasn’t much left to write about it. I never read reviews before I see a film or before I write my own, and I haven’t yet, but the highlights are inescapable: Mickey Rourke’s return, Aronofsky’s maturing as a director, award nominations inevitably waiting in the wings.
...
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DNA Films Greenlights New Judge Dredd Movie
| /Film
According to an announcement on 2000 AD’s message boards (via AICN), DNA films, along with Rebellion and and 2000 AD, have greenlit a new Judge Dredd film. According to the Rebellion’s CEO and Creative Director, “We can’t give away too many details at this point, but we’re looking forward to working with DNA Films to bring Judge Dredd back to the big screen.” Production is scheduled to...
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In Theaters This Week [12-25-08]
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Liev Schreiber Could Have Been William Stryker
Wolverine Origins:
The new Victor Creed, LIev Schreiber, let it slip that he was originally approached for the role of a young William Stryker in Wolverine, but his knowledge of Sabretooth steered producers in another direction.
According to The National Post’s Ampersand, it was Schreiber himself that suggested he take on the role of Victor Creed.
“I read the comics before I got...
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Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
| Film School Rejects | Movie Review
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Directed by David Fincher Written by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald Starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond, Taraji P. Henson and Tilda Swinton Rated PG-13 for brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking
If there was a film that had Oscar buzz around...
