A couple days ago, I wrote about getting a free rental from a Red Box movie rental machine using a promo code I got when I signed up and gave them my e-mail. Those codes can be used once per credit card, so if you had a credit card and say, a check card with…
Red Box DVD Rentals
This week I discovered our local Ingle’s grocery store has a new vending machine – Red Box. This may be one of the coolest ideas ever. Completely unattended, there’s no annoying teenager who either knows too much or too little about movies. I don’t have a lot of older selection, but Red Box lets me…
MacWorld 2008: Updates, Movies, and Macbook Air
Steve Jobs came onto the stage to the cheers and clapping of all the major tech blogs and magazines and attendees at MacWorld today. Among the excitement of the keynote address were four major announcements. I’ll give Steve credit, he’s succinct in his keynotes. The four major announcements are: 1) iPhone Apps on the iPod…
Disney DVD: Better Upconversion than Most?
A few months back, I ditched my old Magnavox Divx-playing DVD player for a Phillips one that has HDMI output and also plays DivX movies. It was about $60 at Wal-mart and does 1080i up conversion on non-HD DVDs. It also doesn’t play HD movies, but it does make my current DVD collection look awesome…
This Made Me Chuckle, And TV’s Back, Sort Of
This morning I came in to the office, and after checking work e-mail I pulled up my personal G-mail account and this is what I saw: So, yeah – that made me laugh. I’ve just recently started using Netflix – I’m a little concerned they only said they received one movie back, but hopefully later…
Format Wars: Choose Your Side of the Force
With staggering holiday sales numbers, Blu-Ray is really leaving HD-DVD in the dust. It also helps that Sony’s Playstation 3 has the capability to play Blu-Ray discs out of the box, while Microsoft’s own HD-DVD attachment for the X-Box 360 comes separately. While the price difference with the add-on makes it as expensive as the…
I Want You to Take His Face… Off
No, no, I’m not strung out on drugs and wearing Nicolas Cage’s face. I certainly have not gone undercover as the malevolent Caster Troy. And under no circumstances will I be singing Elvis tunes while John Travolta shoots me with a spear gun. But I have most certainly not been feeling like myself lately. I…
Happy Birthday, Nicolas Cage!
Nicolas Cage was born today in 1964, making him a whopping 44 years old today. Cage is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. He was born Nicolas Kim Coppola, but changed his name to try and make a career on his own. Cage got his first big break in film while reading lines with auditioning…
The Importance of Backing Up Your Data
Every single hard drive ever made, will fail one day. Maybe it’s lasted a long time, but at some point, it will happen. If your data isn’t backed up somewhere, all your important documents, photos, music files, projects, and important business forms will all be lost. Then you’ll probably have to pay a data recovery…
Hellboy II Trailer Released
The second movie in the series, Hellboy II: The Golden Army is slated for 2008 release! Back to direct is Guillermo Del Toro; back as Hellboy is Ron Pearlman; and back as the sexy fire-starter is Selma Blair! The trailer (courtesy of IGN) is your typical action movie trailer: fast cuts, loud Rammstein music bed,…