Where Do You Buy Your Music?

Posted on December 20, 2008
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With Christmas nearly here and many people getting new potable music players as presents, I was wondering where everyone buys music from.  If you own an iPod you probably have iTunes installed and might even be using it to buy music.  I’ve bought music from iTunes and even though it’s priced well, many of the songs you purchase have DRM and can only be used on an iPod.  We have several kinds of portable music players in my house, so it becomes hard to put music from the iTunes store onto some of these players.  I’ve never tried the Zune music store, but I’ve heard it is almost as good as the iTunes store, but once again you are locked into DRM designed for the Zune music players.  Recently I have been using Amazon to purchase music.  What’s nice about the Amazon music store is that there is no DRM so you can use the music on any type of portable music player.  Some songs are even cost less than the usual $0.99 price seen elsewhere.  Amazon doesn’t offer a music player like the others, but they do have a downloader you can install and it will put the music you buy into your library and add it to iTunes or Windows Media Player for you automatically.  There are other places around the web that sell music, but I’m not sure how reputable they are.  There are also some places such as rhapsody that sell music subscriptions where you can have an unlimited number of songs for as long as you pay the subscription.  Problem with the subscription idea is you don’t actually own any of the music and when you stop paying the monthly subscription you lose all the music you acquired through the service and lets face it with today economy who really needs another monthly bill?

Ghostbusters The Video Game

Posted on December 4, 2008
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There have been rumors of a Ghostbusters video game floating around the internet for years now.  One week the game is on and in production then it’s off again.  Now it seems as though the game is back on track and getting ready for a June 2009 release for all the major console and the PC.  Even the voices sound good, but I have the idea they grabbed them from the actual movies.  From the trailer it looks like the game follows the Ghostbusters movies somewhat as well.  Give it a look:

[VIA] Joystiq

Black Mesa Source Releases Half-LIfe Re-Make Trailer

Posted on December 1, 2008
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Since the Valve released Half-Life 2 back in in November of 2004, a dedicated group of gamers and programmers at Black Mesa have been redoing the original Half-Life game using the Source Engine.  The Source Engine is what drives Half-Life 2 and makes it looks so nice.  Now finally we get to see what the people at Black Mesa have been working on, yet they are still teasing us with a 2009 release date:

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Originally this was to be a free mod for Half-Life 2.  Perhaps Valve will pick this up as an official mod.  I hope it is still free, but it would also be nice to see the developers get paid for all the hard work they hav put into this modification.

Wolverine And The X-Men Trailer

Posted on November 19, 2008
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Nickelodeon’s new cartoon coming next year, Wolverine And The X-Men:

New Watchmen Trailer

Posted on November 14, 2008
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Latest Watchmen Trailer:

Hulk Vs. DVDs Preview

Posted on October 24, 2008
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Marvel is releasing Hulk Vs. various members of the Marvel universe.  The first DVD will be Hulk Vs. Thor due out in January 2009 and here is the preview.  Looks ok to me for a rental but not worth buying.

PSP Firmware 5.01 Update Released

Posted on October 22, 2008
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Sony has quickly released an update to the PSP’s 5.0 firmware from last week.  The PSP firmware 5.01 is said to correct issues relating to larger capacity PRO Duos. Namely users who own an 8 or 16 GB stick were left with an insufficient space error when downloading content from the PlayStation Store.

The update is availble for download at http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/1579 or use the newtwork update built into the PSP.

For those of you running custom firmware, 5.0 M33 is out as well:  http://www.psp-hacks.com/2008/10/17/custom-firmware-500-m33-released/ for more information and http://www.psp-hacks.com/2008/10/18/150-kernel-add-on-for-psp-fat-cfw-500-m33/ for the 1.5 kernal add-on.

Thanks to PSP-Hacks for the updates!

PSP Firmware 5.0 Released

Posted on October 15, 2008
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Looks like Sony is moving forward with the PSP.  With the new firmware you can access the Playstation Store directly and download content such as games, movies and themes just like on the PS3.  All the new changes look really good!

PSP Firmware 5.00 changes:

Soundss like a good time upgrade the old firmware.  Custom firware based on the official 5.0 should not be that far behind (it never is ;)).

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows Game Trailer

Posted on October 10, 2008
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Spider-Man: Web of Shadows comes out on October 21st.  The idea is the alien symbiote that became venom spreads out and takes over New York City.  Other heroes and villains are transformed into other versions of Venom that utilize each ones unique powers.  I’m still not sure why Wolverine is even in the story.  The music doesn’t go with the trailer either :/

Punisher Warzone Movie

Posted on October 9, 2008
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So on December 5th another Punisher movie will hit theaters directed by Lexi Alexander and starring Ray Stevenson and Dominic West. So what’s different?  I think they are starting over again.  I believe the last movie starting Thomas Jane exist in this storyline, it’s just ignored and not referenced to.  We will have to wait till December 5th to find out if this one is any good.  Punisher is one of those Marvel character that could become a great movie or an immense flop.  The official site is up at http://www.punishermovie.com/.

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