District 9 Torrent is out now and pirates are all over it!

Brandon Davenport Sep 7, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Internet, News

With over a million downloads in less than 24 hours, Peter Jackson’s Sci-Fi thriller District 9 is well on its way to becoming the most pirated movie of 2009. The huge download spike is caused by a DVD quality version of the movie that leaked onto various BitTorrent sites yesterday.

In the present day and age, no blockbuster movie can escape the fate of being pirated. However, the popularity of the various rips and titles can differ drastically, and a recent leak of a high quality version of Sci-Fi thriller District 9 might become a record breaker.

Two weeks ago a Telesync version of District 9 already found its way onto the Internet, but the rate at which the freshly released R5 release is being downloaded easily beats all other titles released in 2009 to date!

[via torrent freak]

This means that District 9 is a Geek movie with momentum to carry it on for 20 years as a classic SiFi movie, right up there with Star Trek and Star Wars. I mean c'mon, anyone who saw it was utterly suprized by the fact that you don't need a 300 Million dollar budget to make a good movie.

Why its a geek movie:

Geeks download torrents, and 99.9 percent of a geeks watched this movie (Including me)

C64 emulator for iPhone approved | minus BASIC

Brandon Davenport Sep 7, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Gaming, News

After a lengthy process that had previously met with rejection, Manomio’s Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch has finally been accepted by Apple. This marks the first time a multi-purpose emulation title has been approved by the App Store. The $4.99 C64 app comes bundled with five fully-licensed classic games, and additional titles can be purchased and downloaded directly within the application.

App Store policies prohibit software that could run downloadable code, which barred most emulation attempts in the past. A couple of Sega titles worked around this by nature of being single-purpose emulators. The condition by which the C64 title was finally approved was the removal of the BASIC programming language (though ironically it’s still shown in screen shots, even on the App Store). Since only sanctioned programs can be installed and run from within the application, no user-alterable code is present.

The C64 emulator is neat enough in itself, but the really encouraging news here is that a precedent has been set; the business model may open the floodgates for developers to bring more classic gaming titles to the iPhone platform. So download that SDK and get hacking!

[via TouchArcade]

 

Spotify launches on mobile phones

Matt Hurley Sep 7, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Applications, Music, News, iPhone

The music streaming service Spotify has been released on mobile phones. Phones using Google's mobile operating system Android, and iPhone users can access the firms four million tracks.

The application will also allow users to save 3,000 tracks for offline use. However unlike the free streaming service for computers will have to pay a subscription charge. Spotify has 8 million users across Europe the service is not yet available in the United States but should be available by the end of the year.

Here's how to get it

Know Your Meme: David after Dentist

Ricardo Trejo Sep 7, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Videos

Quite informative and hillarious.

How to make a Mobile version of your Website or Blog, with Mobify

Brandon Davenport Sep 6, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Design, How to, Okay Geek, Videos

We all love the internets, but sometimes (even on the iPhones screen) things just dont fit, or they don't go in the right places. Things get jumbled up, and its hard for your readers on mobile devices such as iPhone, Blackberry or Razor. The text is all jumbled up and the images dont fit on the screen.

And don't even get me started on making seperate stylesheets (Pain in the ars) and all the browser redirection crap and unstable everything, it just gets mixed into a big mess!

In this video I will show you how to make a Mobile version of your website easy enough for a beginner, but if you need to, you can edit full css.

Make one now!

The Noises Rest - The audio in silent films | You look nice today

Brandon Davenport Sep 6, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Humor, Videos

We of You Look Nice Today ("the Talent") were invited, nay, commissioned to make a thing for a thing - bit.ly/momedy - to be screened at a big fancy place in New York with a lot of fancy people and some interesting paintings. Okay, it was the MoMA. Perhaps you've heard of it.

Explain ourselves at youlooknicetoday.com

Sony VAIO X Uncovered | Specs, Pictures and Prices

Sony in the past have made some beautifle desktops and laptops. Their premium (sometimes overpriced) products show us that beuty and functionality come hand in hand.

A little cheaper than a MacBook, but you get a whole lot of looks.

Video | Specs | Pics after the break [...]