I’ll come clean and say that I’ve still not been drawn into the whole Angry Birds phenomenon, but that’s not to say I haven’t heard about it.  It’s very difficult not to have heard about Angry Birds after all! Movie studio 20th Century Fox are counting on this as it’s now been announced that the [...]

Categories: Games

The Social Network, the story of the founding of social networking website Facebook, has taken an important step towards Oscar success today after winning four awards from the US National Society of Film Critics. The film was named best picture, while David Fincher was named best director, Aaron Sorkin won best screenplay and  Jessie Eisenberg [...]

Categories: Facebook

Not a lot of movies are released exclusive to Bittorrent. The American Prince is the latest movie, or shall we call it documentary, that is exclusively distributed this way. What probably makes it even more interesting is the fact that it was produced by well known director Tommy Pallotta who made great movies such as [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment

Back in the days when the Internet was just a series of tubes music, movie and book fans had to get their recommendations from magazines, friends and the guy in the store that sold them the stuff. Recommendations on today’s Internet are a big thing. They are highly popular with users and companies alike. Users [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video, The Web

I don’t like to take my purchased movie DVDs with me when I travel but still love to have some of my favorite or new movies with me in case I would like to watch a movie on my notebook. I could of course burn those DVDs and take the backups with me but this is not ideal in my opinion. I do not like to carry any media with me when traveling.

Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

I thought it would be really nice if I would learn a little bit more about you, my regular and casual readers. Instead of simply asking for introductions I had the idea to ask a weekly question which I would answer as well. I certainly know the demographics by taking a look at my site stats but that is not what I’m interested in.

Categories: Cool, Entertainment

Most video editing programs are rather complex and it takes a while until one is able to work with the video editing software without the fear of doing something wrong or missing a crucial step in the editing process. This is a huge problem for amateurs who would like to cut a video that they created without having to learn a complex software. There is however a possibility for them. Jumpcut is a online video editing website that lets you upload videos from your computer and edit them online on their website.

Categories: Online Services, The Web

When I’m looking at my video collection I see different formats, file sizes, resolutions, bitrates, audio formats and codecs. It normally takes some time to create a DVD from this mess. What would you do if you wanted to create a DVD from various .mov, .avi and .mpg files ? Convert them, load them into a program that is able to create DVD`s and burn them afterwards ? How much time would that take, what would you say ?

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

Why would someone want to backup his DVD`s ? The Movie Industry apparently thinks that no one should be able to backup his own, bought, DVD movies because of the build in copy protection of almost all new movie DVD`s. We, who pay money for the DVD`s, want to have the right to make a backup of a DVD that cost $20 or more. Some users don’t want to have scratches on their DVD`s, some want to use the DVD in their cars or Notebooks without fearing to lose or damage the original one.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows