Entertainment,Gaming,Movies 5 November 2010

Missed the old style fallout series where you can modify your weapons, have legacy controls on your companion and missed the old characters? Have you been dismayed with the changes on Fallout 3? New Vegas brings back the old controls, the old character line, more focus on the story something left omitted on Bethesda’s last version of Fallout franchise. New Vegas was created by the same team that brings you the original series now working at Obsidian.

The games start when you are shot on the head and left to die only to wake up being revived by a friendly doctor. The search starts on who wants you dead and why. This will trigger your travels to the wasteland up to the Wild West area of New Vegas where the nuclear damage was less evident and less mutation takes place. The game now brings back the ammunition weight which is one of the critical things that diehard fans want to stay and got striped from Fallout 3.

 Entertainment,Gaming,Movies,Video Stream 31 October 2010

FightResource is proud to announce the release of 1001 Submissions Disc 1 onto the iPhone and iPad. 1001 Submissions is the ultimate reference video set for your submission grappling collection, and is the largest single instructional set ever assembled, taught by the legendary Din Thomas. 1001 Submissions for the iPhone separates itself not only in quality of instruction, but also in the way in which it is intended to be used.

A conscious effort was made to make this application as versatile as possible, making all video content independent of your WiFi or cell phone signal. With this in mind, all videos are downloaded as part of the application, and can be watched on the mat, on a plane, by the pool, or in your underground zombie apocalypse bunker after Z-day – try doing that with a streaming app!

 Entertainment,Movies,Video Stream 26 September 2010

The Macintosh project started in the late 1970s with Jef Raskin, an Apple employee, who envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer. He wanted to name the computer after his favorite type of apple, the McIntosh, but the name had to be changed for legal reasons as it was too close, phonetically, to that of the McIntosh audio equipment manufacturer. Steve Jobs requested a release of the name so that Apple could use it but this was denied forcing Apple to eventually buy the rights to use the name. Raskin was authorized to start hiring for the project in September 1979, and he began to look for an engineer who could put together a prototype.

Apple on some point have experimented on some alternative types of system which of course only drains their cash until they realise to start marketing again and revive the Macintosh line. To date, Apple the creator of Mac holds a wide range of gadgets and electronic devices that make Microsoft electronic products look like a school project. A thing of trivia was, both Steve Jobs and Bill gates (owner of Microsoft) are both founders of Apple Systems.

 Entertainment,Movies,Video Stream 26 September 2010

A resourceful drummer playing with pails, boards and other items commonly used to wash clothes.

You can also build your own drum set by using other similar materials from paint buckets to paint cans. A slight understanding on how sounds are made is needed and a slight musical ear is a must. The steps can be found by reading the whole article.

 Entertainment,Movies,Video Stream 23 September 2010

A rookie secret agent faced with a problem not covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets inside a multi-million dollar, government-issue nuclear briefcase.

 Entertainment,General 14 September 2010

Microsoft Humorous Quotes

• “640 K ought to be enough for anybody.” — Bill Gates, 1981
• “I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs.” — Bill Gates – OS/2

Programmer’s Guide

• “The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.” — Bill Gates, OS/2 Notebook, Microsoft Press, 1990, p. 614
• “The Internet? We are not interested in it” — Bill Gates, 1993
• “Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.” — Bill Gates, Jul, 1998
• “We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993″
• Microsoft (27 Jul 1998, filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
• In response to Java: “Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that’s distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.” — Bill Gates
• “Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free” — Bill Gates

 Entertainment,Shows 25 July 2010

Nickelodeon has announced a new series from the creators of cartoon epic “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”
The new show from Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko has the working title of “The Legend of Korra” and will premiere on Nickelodeon in 2011. It was posted earlier that there was a new Avatar series that is currently under development and the job/career search from “MTV Networks Careers” and “The Animation Guild” search for Storyboard Artists, Storyboard Revisionists, Storyboard Supervisors, Prop Designer and Character Designer proves its existence.

The live action move “The Last Airbender” *rewritten and directed by M. Night Shyamalan released June 30 earned a lot of bad publicity and controversy and a huge uproar from fans around. Paramount, the studio behind the film is watching the movie’s international gross before making firm plans about any follow-ups. The director, M. Night Shyamalan, expressed outmost interest to create the sequel and was happy that he previously got the exclusive contract to direct the 2 other books. The movie in question was a $150 million film shoot mostly at the backyard area in Philadelphia at the directors town and have spent $130 million on advertisements and trailers (which almost none of it appeared on the movie).

*I used the term rewritten since the director really rewritten the whole story and presented his new totally new version of the series that angered a very huge portion of the fans.

 Author's Choice,Entertainment,Gaming 23 July 2010

On July 28, 2010 at 1:00AM, East Asia and Ocenia will be able to purchase the new game Star Craft II: Wings of Liberty via an online digital download.

The official release was July 27, 2010 at approximately 10:00AM (GMT+8) where the CD/DVD will start to fill up your favorite computer games stores.  On july 28, 2010 at 1:00AM (GMT+8) will be  Battle.net’s  official SEA opening and online purchase activation.

Those that wants to get a little ahead with the others can download the game starting today by visiting this link http://sea.battle.net/account/management/sc2/pre-download-page.html, you need a valid Battle.net account to download the game.

StarCraft II continues the epic saga of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. These three distinct and powerful races will clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the legendary original, StarCraft. Legions of veteran, upgraded, and brand-new unit types will do battle across the galaxy, as each faction struggles for survival.

Featuring a unique single-player campaign that picks up where StarCraft: Brood War left off, StarCraft II will present a cast of new heroes and familiar faces in an edgy sci-fi story filled with adventure and intrigue. In addition, Blizzard will again offer unparalleled online play through Battle.net, the company’s world-renowned gaming service, with several enhancements and new features to make StarCraft II the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game.

 Entertainment,Movies 8 July 2010

I just watched this movie and I was surprised on how bad it turned out to be. The first mistake was character focus.  The story starts with Katara doing some water bending and hitting his brother Sokka.  They then found Aang (or “Oong” as I keep on hearing on the movie) frozen under suspended animation in an iceberg below them. Sokka breaks the ice sheet that trap the iceberg below the water and Katara breaks the Ice-Air bubble. This is great but who was that guy on the navy ship? Well that was Zuko, never introduced and I have no idea what he wants. Luckily I watched the whole series so I am guided but I frankly get lost on the movie.  Prince Zuko attack the tribe (gosh, I finally learned who that guy was) and then Aang come out and presented himself to the fire prince Zuko from an igloo.

The director made a pride choice of changing how the name was pronounced into Ahng  from Aang because he wants it to be more racial accurate. He base it on an aspect that Aang was an Asian, true but why Ahng? Well the director was an Indian who speaks Hindi. It may work well if all Asian speaks that same way as Hindi does.

Problem is, if he wants it to be accurate then why do the crown prince Zuko, General Iroh, the firelord and Azula are not japenese? The series portrayed them as a country resembling  Japanese people and culture which can be concluded that the upper fire country members are Japanese.

 Author's Choice,Entertainment,Gaming 2 July 2010

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