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Jul 29, 2008

XBOX LIVE comes to your PC. For FREE.

Now you can play your 360 against a dude on his PC over XBOX LIVE. For FREE. Did I mention FREE?!?

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The Mojave Experiment goes public

Microsoft pulls a "Folger's Crystals" on Vista Hat3rs; turns out not ever using an OS is no basis on which to form an opinion. Who knew.

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Jul 22, 2008

Canada's Wireless Spectrum Ends: Cheaper Service To Come?

It’s going to take a while to see what kind of impact the new entrants will have on wireless services. Let’s just hope that this time, the competition sticks around, as opposed to being absorbed by the Great Canadian Telecom Duopoly.

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Warning about RED Beta Build 16 for the RED Digital Camera

Make sure you back up your media cards, as the Beta 16 firmware will require reformatting your media. Also, you can't roll back to Beta 15.

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Fanboys declare Dark Knight as the 'Greatest Movie Ever!'

Not only has The Dark Knight achieved a record highest opening weekend ever, but the film is now “officially” the “Greatest Movie of All-Time”. As of midnight, Monday, over 46 000 users of The Internet Movie Database have given The Dark Knight an average score of 9.5. The Dark Knight is a very good movie but is it really better than Goodfellas?

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Jul 17, 2008

Grassroots Growing Over Bill C-61

There are a growing number of options for Canadians to fight Bill C-61, the Great White North's version of the US DMCA. The latest is a YouTube group called c61in61seconds, but here are even more links on what's going on in the fight.

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Jul 16, 2008

Rock Band 2 on Display

Customized set lists! Online Battle of the Bands! I personally can’t wait til the Ion drum kit is available, with individually adjustable drum heads, and three symbols to boot. It looks totally sick.

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E3 Microsoft keynote - Canadians left out of online media

When are we going to get an online service like Netflix? Are you listening zip.ca?

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Jul 12, 2008

Toronto iPhone launch turns into a debacle

FIRSTLY I would like to point out that I am angered by the fact that Rogers quickly turned what should have been an event for all the customers who were excited enough to line up in the rain for hours on end into a media circus where the only person that really mattered to Rogers and most the swarm of media were the first few people in line

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Jul 11, 2008

Toronto, Canada, iphone launch line up, LIVE

rgbFilter is LIVE on the scene at the line-up at the Yonge and Dundas Rogers Plus store in Toronto, where at 8am there will be a special launch event for the iphone, with Rogers providing breakfast and prizes - are they trying to make up for all the bad publicity that they generated, or is this all a carefully orchestrated plan from them ?

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Jul 10, 2008

The Great Canadian Telecom Duopoly Roundup

It’s the semi-weekly Great Canadian Telecom (GCT) Roundup, taking a look at what’s happened in Bell and Rogers are doing lately (this week there’s some bonus Telus news).

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Jul 8, 2008

CONFIRMED: Apple Retail Stores in Canada NOT carrying iPhone

If you want an iPhone in Canada, Rogers and Fido are the only places to get one. I say wait for Telus and the HTC Diamond, or Bell and the Samsung Instinct. Way cheaper phones and plans, plus more functional (The Diamond can even copy and paste - it's a miracle!)

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Jul 7, 2008

Canadians to Broadcasters "We Want our Web TV"

More people are going to the Internet for their TV content. But how are they getting it? Survey says... "any way they can"/

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Jul 3, 2008

Why Did Xandros Acquired Linspire?

In short... to keep the Asus cash flowing. Xandros is the EEE's default OS, and if Xandros integrates Linspire's Click And Run compatibility to the EEE, Xandros becomes more appealing to Asus (so they don't have to branch their hardware as much), and end users.

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Jul 2, 2008

Nvidia CUDA Toolkit Now Available

The CUDA Toolkit is now available for for most operatings systems, including the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista and XP, as well as Linux and Mac OS X.

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