A little ventilation over the whole PSN Scenario...

Here is my take on the PSN Outage.  Please read the post all the way through before jumping to conclusions. Last week millions of Sony Playstation 3 gamers became shocked to find out that the beloved online service 'PSN' (Playstation Network) was offline. And not only was the service down, but it was apparently suspended without any time frame for when it would return. As of this writing (4-29-11) the service is still offline.  But don't be fooled into thinking that is as bad as it gets. The...

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New Video Posted: MultiBoot Live Ubuntu DVD Demo!

The new video went live on YouTube this afternoon, it is a short demo of a Live MultiBoot Ubuntu DVD I created using the multicd.sh script.  Look for another video coming soon of how to use to the script. You can find the script at: http://multicd.tuxfamily.org Feel free to drop by my YouTube Channel for more videos (and more coming soon) at: http://www.youtube.com/user/TechieSmarts Happy Surfi...

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More Live Action News: TMNT

On the topic of live action films from my last post.  Where Mortal Kombat is being retold as a webseries.  I stumbled upon this short on Youtube. It is entitled: "Fight the Foot".  It shows Raphael taking down some baddies and a couple really coold shots of the costume used.  This is apparently a fan film.  And it looks great.  If you're ever bored or need a few minutes of some entertainment to pacify your nerd urges.  Swing by YouTube and do a search...

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This Week's News: The Cell Phone, Cisco, F2P Announcement, and Mortal Kombat!

This week we have several newsworthy topics. The first public mobile phone call was made by Mr. Martin Cooper.  Mr. Cooper worked for Motorola and the phone was a really large brick looking phone.  It's amazing to see the how far mobile phones have come.  If you've done your math, that would place this iconic phone call on April 3rd, 1973.  So try to wrap your head around this, if Mr. Cooper hadn't made this phone call (and if Motorola hadn't developed the tech) than we more...

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Green Lantern WonderCon Footage

Ok, I was browsing my usual sites of interest this morning when I bumped into Actiontrip's posting of footage from 'The Green Lantern' that was showcased at this year's WonderCon.  This was just way too cool not to share. Personally, I'm not too sure about the cgi suit.  There are scenes where it looks totally awesome, and some scenes where it just looks sort of out of place.  But either way, this film looks to be amazing!  This footage alone is enough to spark my interest...

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Mobile App Review: TuneIn Radio

Every once in awhile, I seem to stumble upon really cool stuff.  And this is no exception.  Over the weekend I was at Best Buy playing with their Android tablets.  My wife took the Motorola Zoom for a spin and loved it.  While playing with it, she found "TuneIn Radio".  She installed it on her HTC Evo 4G (and absolutely loves it).  So I figured why not see if it is available on my iPod Touch.  And it is. So, what does it do?  Easy, it streams radio stations...

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