May 2009 Releases

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

New Blu-ray, CD, DVD, NDS, and PS3 releases for the month of May that seem interesting to me for one or more reasons. If something is too special to come out on a Tuesday like everything else, it’s under the following Tuesday.

May 5, 2009

Blu-ray

• Big: Extended Edition [1988]
• Dexter: Season 2
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off [1986]
• Saturday Night Fever [1977]
• There’s Something About Mary [1998]

CDs

• Abstract Rude – Rejuvenation
• The Alchemist – Chemical Warfare
• Bicasso - Rebel Musiq
  • produced by DJ Fresh
  • features Murs, The Grouch, Zion I and others
    
• Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus reissue
• Gallows - Grey Britain
• Hatebreed - For the Lions
• Isis - Wavering Radiant
• Peaches – I Feel Cream
• Zao - Awake?
  

May 12, 2009

Blu-ray

• Action Hero 3 Pack
  • The Day After Tomorrow [2004]
  • I, Robot [2004]
  • The Terminator [1984]
• Black Sheep [1996]
• Dodgeball: Rated [2004]
• Fargo [1996]
• Funny Guy 3 Pack
  • Napoleon Dynamite [2004]
  • Office Space [1999]
  • Young Frankenstein [1974]
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [1966]
• Jock 3 Pack
  • Hoosiers [1986]
  • Rocky [1976]
  • Dodgeball [2004]
• License to Kill [1989]
• The Man with the Golden Gun [1974]
• The Terminator: Lenticular Cover [1984]
• Underworld Trilogy
  • Underworld [2003]
    
  • Underworld: Evolution [2006]
  • Underworld: Rise of the Lycans [2009]
• Underworld: Rise of the Lycans [2009]
• Wayne’s World [1992]
• Wayne’s World 2 [1993]

CDs

• Isis – Wavering Radiant

May 19, 2009

Blu-ray

• Army of Darkness: Screwhead Edition [1993]
• Batman: 20th Anniversary [1989]
• Changing Lanes [2002]
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Skynet Edition [1991]

CDs

• Busta Rhymes – Back On My B.S.
• Busta Rhymes – Back On My B.S. - deluxe CD+DVD
• CKY – Carver City
• Eminem – Relapse
• Guru – Guru 8.0 Lost & Found
• Method Man / Redman – Blackout! + Blackout! 2
• Method Man / Redman – Blackout! 2
• Moka Only – Lowdown Suite 2…The Box
• Mos Def - The Ecstatic
• Old Man’s Child – Slaves of the World

May 26, 2009

Blu-ray

• Children of Men [2006]
• Falling Down [1993]
• Inside Man [2006]
• Robin Hood Prince of Thieves – Extended Cut [1991]
• True Romance – Unrated [1993]

CDs

• Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low
  

Insert images in Gmail messages

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

It’s about time. Google has added an image insertion button to Gmail (via Labs). No more attaching or the weird-ass “don’t click control-A, but drag-select an image, copy it, and paste it into your message, and hopefully your recipient can see it” work-around.

It’s in the Labs for my Google Apps-powered domain e-mail as well. Awesome.

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New RA Scion track

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Sick new RA Scion track produced by MTK available here.

More information here.

Windows 7 beta

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

I recently upgraded my 8710w (my main home system; it stays closed and plugged in, and is hooked via HDMI to my receiver, which goes to a 42″ Sharp LCD “monitor”) to 4GB of memory and a 320GB  harddrive (ReFills are huge; the 120GB that came with the laptop almost wasn’t cutting it anymore) and have been running the Windows 7 Ultimate x64 beta for a week or so now. I have yet to find something that doesn’t work on it.

Software, etc. I used regularly on Vista Ultimate x86 that still works fine on the Windows 7 x64 beta:

• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended – The x64 version and it loads very fast and I haven’t seen anything weird yet. The only thing I’ve really done with it so far is create the Custom Logo™ for my Kverke.com Mail Powered by Google®. I’ll mess with some of my recent RAW files and see if I can break it.
• Reason 4 – I use Reason 4 with my Akai MPK49. I had a slight hiccup (the MPK would no longer control the software; I unplugged the USB cable and plugged it back in and it worked again) while I was trying to get the MIDI Clock Beat Sync setup but I think it was because I selected the wrong MPK49 option (select one of the two similar ones, not the different one) in the Advanced Control screen.
• Trillian Astra – I’ve been on the alpha test since September of ’07. It’s not the most efficient piece of software, but I like only having to run one IM program (Pidgin is good too, less of a resource hog, but there were a few features I like about Trillian better). A lot of the time when an IM window opens, or when I open the main window, the software will grab a 100% of a core (would be the whole system if I didn’t have two cores) for 10-20 seconds before responding. Each build works better than the last (except the couple times where they broke something with a new build, but they immediately came out with fixes for those rare occasions). It works about the same as it did on Vista, or maybe better because I’m using a newer build by now.

Software that (not surprisingly) still works:

• Firefox 3.1 beta 3
• WinRAR

Broken [partially]:

• Textpad – the Textpad link in the right-click context menu gives an error about not being able to find the file specified. I’m not sure if it can’t find the Textpad executable or the file I right-clicked on, but I assume it’s the former.

Software I still need to try:

• Various games
• FL Studio 8
• ACID Pro 7

April Fools' Day around the web

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

What.CD: a “helpful” character named Rippy based on Microsoft Office’s annoying Clippy.

Gmail has a new feature: Gmail Autopilot^TM by CADIE

The Grouch & Eligh sent out an e-mail with a link to a video saying the upcoming Say G&E album is pushed back.

Microsoft had some goofy stuff on MSW: caffeine patches, dairy farm/energy station; and on KUMO: a jackalope, Chuck Norris named head of Homeland Security, etc.