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Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta - Free!
August 10, 2008
Opera recently released a new beta of their mobile phone internet browser called Opera Mobile 9.5 replacing their current Opera Mini browser which costs around £15.
I’ve had a HTC Tytn II Windows Mobile based smartphone for around 3 months now and I find it’s really useful being able to install free applications such as Google Maps and Google Mail which work great. However, my Internet browsing has been severely limited, mainly due to the poor performance of Internet Explorer Mobile which has real difficultly in displaying most of the websites that I visit on daily basis.
Couple this with all the media coverage surrounding the browsing abilities of the iPhone 3G and you can start to feel like you’re missing out, especially when you’ve got a data plan not being used that’s burning a hole in your pocket so to speak!
Continue reading »BBC iPlayer (UK)
August 5, 2008
Having recently put together a new Home Theatre PC (HTPC), I’ve been looking at the various options that I have with new TV entertainment services, the latest of which is the BBC’s iPlayer UK service.
It seems to have taken a while in actually arriving as I’m sure that this service was first talked about a year or two back, so I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from it, especially after having already tried the Channel 4 On Demand application that downloads TV shows – however this isn’t always free and the fact that they were charging for something I could see for free on the TV wasn’t something that I was too happy about.
The BBC iPlayer comes in two different formats;
- a streaming online service accessable through the BBC website.
- a downloadable application which downloads the shows prior to viewing.
A Vote For Zath?
August 4, 2008
I have to say that I’m rather shocked about this, my fellow blogging friend, Garry Conn has highlighted to me that I’ve been the subject of much talk over in the US…
…I don’t know what to say!
Take a look at this video and see quite what has been going on recently in America, I never thought being online, having a website and such would end up causing such a stir!
Would you vote for me?
Continue reading »Heroes Season 3 Trailer
July 31, 2008
The Heroes season 3 trailer is here! Heroes returns on 22nd September in the US and is looking like it will be awesome! From the looks of things, season 3 onwards looks as though everything is going to be a lot darker than the previous 2 seasons which is why they’ve called Volume 3; “Heroes: Villains”.
This looks like it’s a real battle between heroes and villains and there are some very interesting looking clips in there which could throw a few things on its head for some of the established characters.
Continue reading »Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Trailer
July 30, 2008
It’s finally here! The new teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. This is set to be the darkest film so far and I can’t wait for its release in November.
The trailer shows Dumbledore telling Harry that he wants to show him a very important memory, which leads to the orphanage where Tom Riddle was raised.
You then see Voldemort as a child and his first meeting with Dumbledore. It’s quite chilling seeing young Riddle as you know that he’s going to turn into the most evil wizard of all time.
Freakily enough, the young lad chose to play young Riddle, is in fact Ralph Fiennes nephew!!
Continue reading »‘The Dark Knight’ Review
July 27, 2008
The Dark Knight (12A)
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eric Roberts
Director: Christopher Nolan
Running Time: 152 minutes
“And here we….GO!”
Now…which version do you go see? The normal cinema version or do you go for the full experience at the IMAX? You’re a fool if you don’t go see the greatest superhero film of all time at the IMAX!!
I’ve never been to the IMAX before to see a live action film and I was blown away by what I saw. The first scene of the film was a huge explosion of a city landscape on a 72ft screen. I had to grip my chair as I felt like I was falling through the sky. The whole of the IMAX gasped in excitement and it was the single most exhilarating cinema moment I have ever experienced…….and then the bank heist started!!
Continue reading »Tech Gamer: Belief and Betrayal
July 24, 2008
Belief and Betrayal is a ‘Point and Click Adventure game’ – something you see a lot less of these days in the age of photo-realistic graphics and free-roaming open-ended game worlds. The ‘Point and Click Adventure’ was a type of game which saw real success back in the 90s - those were the days of great games like Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Broken Sword – unfortunately here’s where the likeness ends!
Belief and Betrayal states on the box “Unveil dark secrets that could destroy humanity” and “Become enthralled in a secretive and mysterious world of power and intrigue; truth and conspiracy” – which I initially thought, “this sounds an awful lot like the Da Vinci Code, but it might be good all the same”, I think it’s fair to say the developers have taken some inspiration from it!
I installed the game – it took a while, so I went away and make a hot beverage, came back to find it was still installing – it eventually finished, I took this to be a good sign - there must be lots of high quality graphics and audio to make for a really polished game experience. Unfortunately once I loaded the game up I found that this certainly wasn’t the case!
Continue reading »LG Secret KF750 Review
July 23, 2008
I’m going to let you in on a Secret, an LG Secret to be precise! - “Style that lasts”
The LG Secret designed to look great, including mobile phone features you’ve come to expect these days, but also some innovative new ones that makes this handset really stand out, much like the LG Viewty did around six months ago, this is the LG Secret (KF750), the latest in LG’s Black Label Series of mobile phones.
Continue reading »‘Wall-E’ Review
July 22, 2008
Wall-E (U)
Director: Andrew Stanton
Cast: Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin, Kathy Najimy
Running Time: 103 minutes
How do Pixar do it? They just keep raising that bar higher and higher. It’s hard to say this is the best Pixar film to date as that’s like asking which one is your favourite child?
I thought that Wall.E was going to be an amazing film, but never this good.
It’s been 700 years since humans left the inhabitable earth on a giant spaceship called the Axiom, where every human now lives and does nothing…..literally.
For the first 40 minutes or so of the film, there are no dialogue parts, apart from the odd robot sounds, but this really adds to the cuteness and love-ability of Wall.E. He has a pet cockroach that goes everywhere with him during his day of tidying the mess left on earth by humans, and stacks it into skyscraper sized piles.
Continue reading »Convert VHS
July 21, 2008
Do you need convert VHS onto your computer or DVD? Well you can now get a USB VHS Converter, so that makes me ask the question - “Do you even remember VHS?” - Personally I remember sneakily taping a certain leg crossing/uncrossing scene and trying late at night to repeatedly rewind and play it without my parents hearing.
If your answer to the question was NO, then this is grown up talk, go do your homework! If your answer was YES, then you’ll know that my parents (and probably the next door neighbour) heard the horrendous stop, start and rewind whir that all video machines made. The switched on couple that my parents are, knew exactly what I was doing - I feel a little sick! Well that’s enough of me sharing, down to business!
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