Monthly Archives: November 2008

Free Dr. Pepper

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Today is the official release of Guns n’ Roses new album, Chinese Democracy. The album has been “in the works” for something like 15 years now, and everyone was beginning to suspect that it would be released sometime around Duke Nukem Forever.

The delay after delay for the new GNR album caused Dr. Pepper to state that “if Chinese Democracy is released anytime in 2008, everyone in the US would get a free Dr. Pepper.” Today, that comes true. For Sunday only you can go to drpepper.com and register to receive your free coupon.

There is one exception to that. If your name is Slash or Buckethead, you don’t get a free Dr. Pepper.

Google GMail Now With Themes

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Over the past several months GMail users have seen new, experimental features rolled out to GMail via the GMail Labs. While some of these are nice, for the most part they are “meh” features, and with Google’srecord, they’ll probably stay beta for years to come. Heck, GMail is still labeled beta.

This week, GMail users were given a new, honest to goodness, true feature. Themes. Granted, it’s not really anything that will help you with your email, but it does give you something different to look at. The 32 available themes range from a basic color redesign to iGoogle-like location and time changing themes.

I’m currently using the planets theme, which happens to be the same theme I use on iGoogle. What are you using as your GMail and iGoogle themes?

iTunes 8.0.2 & iPhone/iPod Touch 2.2 Updates

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Apple has released iTunes 8.0.2 which in addition to some fixes and enhancements brings along the iPhone and iPod Touch 2.2 update.

With the iPhone / iPod Touch (IPIPT?) 2.2 update comes with a number of enhancements to the Google Maps, including street view, walking locations, and the ability to share locations via email. Safari also gets the goofy update that changes the “search” icon next to the address bar to look more like a search box. Who cares?? Though the update does claim to improve stability and performance in Safari, now that’s what I want to hear!

For a complete list of what’s available in the 2.2 update, check out the Apple Support website.

Sanctuary Gets 2nd Season

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Sanctuary has somehow managed to snag a 2nd season. SciFi Channel (owned by the NBC bastards) has given the ok for 13 new episodes.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Amanda Tapping, but her on-again, off-again awful British accent needs to die. And the green-screen sets need some more digital editing or something to get rid of the fuzzy look that you get in just about every episode.

It looks cheap, sounds cheap, but really isn’t bad if you can get past all of that. Will it make it to a 3rd season? Who knows… I was shocked that SG:A stayed around as long as it did.

My Own Worst Enemy

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NBC has done it again. They’ve killed another show that I enjoy.

According to SciFi Wire, My Own Worst Enemy will die after it’s 9th episode. I can’t say I’m surprised, as the show wasn’t anything great. However it is better than a lot of the crap that’s on the NBC networks (including SciFi).

I hate you NBC.