February 2011 archive

Do We Need Adobe’s Flash on Mobile Devices?

I just read an article on Mashable about Motorola’s new Xoom tablet, apparently it is going to ship without Flash, Adobe’s web animation tool. This is a pretty major deal considering the flack that Apple got a few years ago when it decided not to include Flash on it’s mobile devices. Android has used Flash …

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Film Actually Ep028 (120) – Wonder McBeal

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/geekactually/geekactually.com/wp-content/filmpodcast/FilmActuallyEp028.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadHosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Celine Roberts This week we review the multi-Oscar nominated film “The Fighter”. We also take a look at a new trailer for “Thor” and discuss Schwarzenegger’s come back in our Entertainment Buzz section and deliver a brand new Lists of Five – Five …

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Geek Actually Ep120 – The Not So Serious, Serious Show

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/geekactually/geekactually.com/wp-content/episodes/GeekActuallyEp120.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadHosted by: David McVay & Josh Philpott This week on the all new Geek Actually we have shoddy journalism, IBM’s Watson decimating Jeopardy, Tim Wu congratulates the NBN, Detroit gets a RoboCop statue, bacon flavoured toothpaste, geek fight club and rumour time: First of AMD for sale and second, …

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REPLAY – Geek Actually Live Shows for February 19th, 2011

Here are this week’s live shows presented in the same order that we recorded them. We start with the all new Geek Actually and then move onto Film Actually. Because the show is live, you get it here with all the mistakes intact. Check the individual audio show posts for the show notes. This week …

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Game Review – Mass Effect 2 (PS3)

Space. The final frontier. Well, actually there’s enough movies, comics, tv series, books and video games based on space exploration that it doesn’t really seem all that “virgin territory” anymore. However, the science fiction side of role playing games is relatively untouched with only a handful actually being a successful series. The last one of …

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New Trailer: Thor

We are going to discuss this on Film Actually episode 120, but here it is for you all to watch. This is the new trailer for Marvel’s “Thor”. Lots of new footage in this trailer and it even has a little humour which the first trailer was missing. I am actually starting to look forward …

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