Shoot 'Em Up

Wow, what more can I say (how many times have I said that on here) about the new movie Shoot 'Em Up (Sept. 7), which stars Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, and Monica Belluci. I am excited so you should be too. Check out the trailer.

Code Monkeys

If you loved the 8-bit 80's video games, you probably will like this new show on G4. It's called Code Monkeys and it's on Wednesday nights at 9pm. It's a little difficult to describe, basically it is a show about game programmers drawn with 8-bit graphics that relives our childhoods of 8-bit video games and takes the characters to places that you shouldn't see, but in turn makes it extremely funny. I would have to say that you are either going to Love it or Hate it, but give it a chance if you have G4TV and tell me what you think.

More bad news for HD-DVD

Target just announced that they will only sell Blu-ray players this holiday season. After Blockbusters announcement a while back about only renting Blu-ray movies things aren't looking to good for the HD-DVD camp. All we would need would for Walmart to make the same decision then we could most certainly could say that it would be game over for HD-DVD.

Simpsonize Me

If you don't already know about the Simpson movie that gets released this Friday, you can consider yourself out of the loop. Fox is doing an amazing job for the publicity for this movie like transforming a dozen 7-11 stores into Kwik-E-Marts selling Duff Cola and sprinkled donuts. Each time I see the trailer the entire audience seems really interested. Well, if you would like to get in on the action go here and turn yourself into a Simpson. All you have to do is upload a picture of yourself and click a few options, next thing you will be one, but of course you have to log in to save your work. Have Fun.... (please note, I am not in any way endorsing Burger King and to be honest, The King commercials kind of scares me)

I'm digging my new broadband co.

Check out these speeds, simply amazing..... As Darth Vader would say, Impressive, most impressive.... In June Wave Broadband took over my old broadband co. and increased my speed to 6MB from 3MB and now it is 10MB. Not bad if you ask me. Check out your speed at speakeasy.net and tell me what you have.

Check out my new blog

I created a separate blog that will be just filled with my iPhone pix. I hope you have not grown tired of all of my iPhone news, but I hope will come and enjoy what I have to offer over at my new blog.

Tech-Guy-Ted's iPhone Pix

Sent from my iPhone

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The year of the PS3 (My two cents)

Is it time to believe in the PS3, you bet. After lots of speculation of a price drop for the PS3, Sony announced at E3 last week that indeed they would lower the price of PS3 a $100. Amazon was selling them like hotcakes by offering a PS3 with a free remote and a Blu-ray movie. As you know I have talked up lots of Blu-ray titles on here and I can't tell you how much better they look than DVD's, they just do. Recently the Ninja Gaiden series came to the PS3; was always a Xbox exclusive. Next month John Woo's sequel to the Hard Boiled movie "Stranglehold" comes out on both the 360 and the PS3, but the PS3 version comes with Hard Boiled on Blu-ray in HD while the 360 version doesn't have a HD-DVD version. Xbox announced that they would be upgrading everyones warranty originally 90 days, then upgraded to 1 year and now 3 years because lots of people are getting the 3 rings of death(which I have encountered along with 3 of my close buddies). Then a few days ago, Peter Moore leaves Xbox to go work for EA Sports, what is that about, Peter Moore was with Sega when the Dreamcast was released and we know that the Dreamcast didn't last (even though it was a decent system). Did he jump ship because he saw something bad, who knows, is Microsoft in a world of trouble, well, we all know their game devision has been loosing money from day one, but they do have Halo 3, so I can't say they are history, I just think that the PS3 is going to catch up and they see it. I know the price is keeping most of you away from it, but like the iPhone, you add up what you all get and you are getting an amazing deal. I was so gunho for the 360 for the first year, but now I just see amazing things coming out from the Sony dugout, I can guarantee one thing, that this Christmas season is going to be an amazing time for the gaming world. I just wanted you to know how I feel.

"Ninja Gaiden Sigma"


"John Woo's Stranglehold"

Sweetest "unaltered" iPhone Photo

At 9pm tonight I saw the sweetest shot, so I pulled out my iPhone. I just held it atop of my car and got an amazing reflection off of the roof. If it were a 5+megapixel camera, it probably would have looked more amazing, but hey were talking a 2megapixel phone camera. What can your phone do?

If you haven't been keeping track of the score it is iPhone 4, your phone 0.

iPhone 1 week (and a few days) later

I have to start off by saying after a week (and a few days) later after standing in line for over 2 hours I am still digging my iPhone. I was really impressed just by opening my sealed AT&T bag to find a really cool sturdy box that the iPhone was in. The setup process seemed very simple, I was a Verizon customer and had to port my phone # over to AT&T and after about 30 minutes or so I was making my first phone call. I am going to start off by talking about the 3 things Mr. Jobs told us when the iPhone was announced back in January.

Revolutionary Phone:

I couldn't say it any better, the iPhone is flat out amazing. It is so simple to connect the phone to iTunes and it automatically imports all of your contacts. You can simple scroll through your contacts or bring up a # keypad and dial it like any other phone. If I get a voice mail it just saves it to the phone and you can see who the caller was and what time it arrived, then simple touch on the screen to listen to the message, if you missed something just drag to scroll back to hear it again. The speaker phone and mic work well, most people I call say that I sound louder than I used to. It is too simple with that large bright screen that I usually keep at 50% brightness and I am able to see the screen in full sunshine too. I can see all of the other manufactures trying to develop a phone that is comparable to the iPhone or they will see a dramatic decline in sales.

Widescreen iPod:

Awesome..... Yes a wide screen iPod that you can view movies, podcast, or whatever song you want anywhere you are is what most iPod users have been dieing for. It is super simple to use, even easier than a traditional iPod for the fact that it is a touch screen, no more using a scroll wheel to try to find an artist, song etc. Now you just click on the picture and next thing you are watching or listening whatever you feel like. To watch videos it requires you to turn it sideways to view them and when you are playing a song while it is sideways you see your songs in cover flow which basically shows your album covers. One thing to note is the screen is glass and it won't scratch from a stick of Chapstick in your pocket like what happen to my Nano after a 2 mile walk 2 months after getting it (that made me very upset). The included headphones are cool in concept with the mic and push button that allows you to answer while you are listening to the iPod, but like all other iPods headphones, they must have someone with huge ears when designing it. I never can fit them into my ears. They didn't come with the traditional pads that wrap around the ear buds, so I stole them off my old pair and that makes them work for me.

Internet in your pocket:

WOW, I can bring up any web page that I want, I look up what time the movie is going to start, what restaurants are nearby, or reviews of any product like when I went to Fry's and saw a Blu-ray movie on sale. Yes some of you may have a cell phone with mobile web, but we are talking full sites with all pictures and text. You type in yahoo.com and you can click on any link you want. You just double tap the screen to have it zoom, or you can use you fingers to zoom in or out. You can even turn the iPhone sideways to get a wider view. You can view your email, it starts ups asking what kind of email you want to set up, Yahoo mail, Gmail, .mac, AOL, or any other email i.e. IMAP, POP, Exchange. You can even set up more than one account and check your email from anywhere, which is really cool.

The Negative:

(1) One bad thing I can say is that the iPhone does not support Java or Flash. This affects some web browsing, but so far I really haven't any issues with it. Rumor has it that they will release a update to the phone that would support one or the other in the next couple of months and I wouldn't be surprised to tell you about that when I tell you what I think of the phone in 6 months.

(2) I suppose I could also say that you can't use the phone's bluetooth to connect to a wireless printer to print a photo or transfer a file and that this could be taken as a negative point, but most times when I showed this feature to someone I was just showing off what my printer with bluetooth could do, so I don't really know if I could call this a negative point because when I sync my phone with my computer iPhoto opens and downloads all of the pictures I took and then I could do anything I want with them. I could even email that photo from my phone to anybody and have them print it if a computer is handy using wireless internet.

(3) That leads to my last negative point, the wireless network for At&t Edge. It is on the slow side, but in time I hope it will get faster. I just usually look for a free Wi-Fi spot or use the wireless in my house/work and I am amazed by how many business I find out there that offer free Wi-Fi.

Final thoughts:

You can do SMS text, view your calendar, view your photos, take 2MP pictures (very good quality I will add a picture of this cool Audi TT that I took with my iPhone for you to see), view YouTube videos (fun), check your stocks (see how Apple Inc. went from $40 in January to $130 in 6 months), use google maps (see street names or satellite view, awesome), check the weather, have multiple clocks with alarms, timers, etc., calculator, and a notepad that you can write anything and all of this running on a slimmed down version of OS X. What more could you ask for.

People say the price is a little too high, but when you add an 8GB Nano ($249), an amazingly nice functional phone ($300+), a 2-megapixel camera ($99), and a person computer (running Mac OS X) ($999+) to view the internet, check your email, look up addresses and then fit all of those devices in a small package that fits in your pocket. Priceless....

iPhone 2.0 might be better, but I simply couldn't be happier with At&t and my iPhone 1.0. Battery life has been good so far, I just charge it every night, 1 day I even went 2 days without charging, but I didn't use it much as it was in standby most of the day. Some may call me a Apple Fanboy, but how could you not be after a week of using the most amazing, fastest selling electronic device ever.

If you lucky enough and got one too, I would like hear your opinion in the comments.

As I pomised, the picture of a cool Audi TT



Bonus picture to show what a long shot would look like


thanks to dray for suggesting to me to do this review

PS3 $499 + free stuff

If you have been thinking about getting a Blu-ray player or a PS3, now is the time, Amazon has the perfect deal for you. Order a PS3 for the new low price of $499 and get a free PS3 remote, Memento Blu-ray disc, and 5 additional Blu-ray movies free via mail in offer. If I didn't already have this system, then would be ordering it right now. I don't know how long this will last, but head over and when it arrives tell me how much you love it.