Article Archive for October 2007

Led Zeppelin Music Finally To Be Made Available in Digital Format
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Posted in Film, Media, Mobile, Music, Retail on 15 October 2007
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The venerable mag Variety is reporting that Led Zeppelin will have its music available on digital platforms from all online retailers beginning Nov. 13. Now you can get the Led out via MP3! The band has also made a deal with Verizon to have its songs available as ringtones (is nothing sacred?). Led Zeppelin has […]

iPhone Buying Guide: Should I Buy An iPhone? Part I
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Posted in Apple, Computing, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Mobile, Music on 15 October 2007
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There is a lot of heated rhetoric regarding the iPhone but let’s separate the idle chatter from real facts: IF YOU TRY TO UNLOCK IT, YOU MIGHT BRICK IT Uh, yea. If you try and replace the carburetor on your BMW 6-series and your car starts belching black smoke and all the lights on the […]

Optimus Prime: The Wake Up Call
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Posted in Advertising, Film, Internet, Marketing, Media, TV on 14 October 2007
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Okay, I’m awake, I’m awake! Surprise, the DVD is coming out … Not quite as elaborate as the Criss Angel one …

Nintendo Power: The ‘Future Switch’
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Posted in Advertising, Computing, Design, Financial, Internet, Marketing, Media, Retail, TV, Video, Video Games on 14 October 2007
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Nintendo Power magazine, the house organ of Nintendo (please make your own joke here) will now be published by FUTURE out of SF. Future Publishing, not exactly the Conde Nast of publishing when it comes to budgets, is not likely to offer many relocation benefits to the current staff … and not to be rude […]

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Posted in Uncategorized on 13 October 2007
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How Google Works
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Posted in Computing, Gadgets, Internet, Science on 12 October 2007
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While I personally believe Conde Nast should give up on trying to produce their new biz magazine, Portfolio (it is a train wreck of a design filled with clueless advertisers who think ‘metrosexuals’ are still a desirable category only to confuse those who actually attempt to read the train wreck of content as currently produced), […]

Mattel Pixar Cars: What’s Coming in 2008 or 2009? Part II
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Posted in Advertising, Film, Marketing, Toys on 11 October 2007
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OTHER NOTABLE CHARACTERS? Mario Andretti’s assistant – based on a Lamborghini Urraco? ANNOUNCED! COMING IN A MULTI-PACK WITH MARIO! Maserati’s (Schumacher’s friends) The Other Sarge Boot Campers CHEAP TO DO VERSIONS Pit Crew Mack Mater with Blue Hood Race Official with Different Flags (Checkered, Green, Yellow, & White)(well, if Mattel wanted to annoy us – […]

Pixelmator: The NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME Review
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Posted in Apple Mac, Computing, Design, Marketing on 10 October 2007
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The Pixelmator creators have gotten a lot of press in their attempt to knock a few pegs from the Adobe Photoshop Regime and yes, the app looks fine and has lots of cool looking Apple Quartz effects and transparencies but while they may have spent hundreds of hours writing code and prettifying Pixelmator, they either […]

Google Rolls Out Google Transit Out Of Google Labs
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Posted in Internet, Media, Travel on 9 October 2007
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  Google has rolled out Google Transit out of the Labs and into Google Maps as an fully integrated feature. What’s the big deal? Not much unless you live in one of these cities: Not a very complete list but more will follow one would think. Using Google Transit means that when you look up […]

Mattel Pixar Cars: All the Piston Cup CARS-Speedway of the South Box Set
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Posted in Film, Marketing, Retail, Toys on 9 October 2007
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There are 36 Piston Cup racers listed here with just a few missing screen shots. The rest are the prototypes displayed at Comic Con. That leaves 7 “mythical CARS” un-accounted for – who did I miss? (Like NASCAR, 43 cars should be on the starting grid as they announced at the beginning of the movie). […]