Archive for February 2010
2010 Best Picture Oscar Nominees
I’m skipping the New Movies for this week to bring you…Oscar nominees!
There are 10 Best Picture nominees for this year’s Oscar ceremony, and here are the trailers for all of them….except Inglorious Basterds. You can find that trailer on your own.
1: Avatar
2: The Blind Side
3: District 9
This trailer contains violence and scary images.
4: An Education
5: The Hurt Locker
This trailer contains war violence.
6: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
The following trailer contains violence.
7: A Serious Man
The following trailer contains violence.
8: Up
9: Up In The Air
So, what do you think? Were you surprised by any of these films being nominated for Best Picture? Which one do you think’ll win? Tell me in the comments section below!
Cursor Mania
I told you that I prefer a different service to Freeze.com’s offerings of cursors; this is that service. But I have good news and bad news.
The GOOD News: This program lets you change your computer’s cursor to almost anything: spinning flowers, glittery pointers… no, really, anything.
More GOOD News: This program also has a smiley application for inserting smileys into your emails and such. It also has a screensaver app (but Freeze.com is my recommendation), an ecard app (I prefer 123Greetings.com) and a horoscope website (no comment).
The BAD News: It’s a browser toolbar.
The WORSE News: It’s longer than the screenshot above. Like, way longer.
So if you like toolbars, then you’re good to go. If you don’t but still want to customize your cursor, I’d get it anyway. I don’t mind the toolbar.
And here’s a little tip: When you’re waiting for something to load on these cursors, it reverts back to your original Windows cursor. To give it more splash, download this app, which installs cursors into your regular Windows Control Panel mouse settings. Then go to your mouse settings pane (for me on Windows 7 it’s Start>Control Panel>Hardware and Sound>Mouse (under “Devices and Printers”)>Pointers. Then click on a pointer and apply it. Go to the Cursor Mania options and click on a cursor. It’ll override the cursor you picked in Control Panel, but still have the cool “loading” animations of the other cursor. Clear as mud!
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? (Trailer)
Here’s a trailer for Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?, the sequel to his 2007 film Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?. It’s about a group of couples who go to an island paradise to evaluate their marriage (and to drink “Margaritas! Margaritas! Margaritas!”) But I can only say one thing about this trailer:
DRAMA!
The movie comes out April 2nd. You can find out more about it on its official website, www.WhyDidIGetMarriedTooMovie.com.
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/45599838001?isVid=1&publisherID=44692000001
Freeze.com
Freeze.com is my favorite site for getting screensavers. They also have wallpapers and other downloads, like games and social networking tools like smileys. The website has a large library of screensavers, ranging from Nature to Space. (They also have cursors available, but I prefer a better tool other than Freeze’s, which I’ll tell you about sometime later.) All of their selections are free, but during the installer you have to click through some ads. You can decline them, of course, but they get annoying when you download multiple things, like screensavers, in a row. Here are some examples. (I boxed the “Decline” buttons in red.)
You get the idea: That’s a whole lotta ads. I actually encountered two more during installation. (But the screensavers are great, though.)
New Movies for Friday, February 26th, 2009
- Cop Out. Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan star in this comedy about two cops who hunt down a stolen baseball card. R.
And that’s the movie for this week! For more information, check out its website at www.CopOutMovie.com.
The Last Airbender (Trailer)
The trailer for The Last Airbender, about a young boy who must fight to protect his nation from captors and the other nations who want to start a war.
WeatherBug
I’m not fond of WeatherBug’s site; I think it’s a little messy, but I love their desktop weather application. It predicts the weather for the next few days, sure (it has this neat thing, WeatherBug Weekday that shows the weather for the rest of the week) but it has so much other stuff too! (Ads? Yeah.) It has weather news, storm updates, webcams that take pictures of the weather, “Weather Fun”, and more. The website is a little cluttered, but here’s a visual reference to where the download link is on the site.
Windows Live Writer
If you’re a blogger, get this program. Windows Live Writer allows you to post to your blog without having to go to the Internet. (You’ll need a Net connection in order to have the posts publish, of course.)
I know this sounds cliche, but the setup is way simple. Just plug in the address and name of your blog, and that’s pretty much it. I love how you can switch easily from one blog to the other if you have multiple blogs. What’s also cool is that if you put in the code for a video, it changes to the player right then and there, in the editor, so you don’t have to wonder “Will the player be cut off or not?”, which can be really annoying if it is.
Free at http://download.live.com/writer
A New Movie for Friday, February 19th, 2010
- Shutter Island. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess on a creepy island. R for disturbing violent content, language and some nudity.
That’s the movie for this week! Check out its official website at www.ShutterIsland.com.
Killers (Trailer)
Here’s the trailer for Killers, a romantic comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. Heigl plays a recently divorced woman who falls in love with a man (Kutcher). Come his 30th birthday, however, she realizes that killers are stalking them, but more importantly, her husband is a top-secret assassin.
To start the preview, roll your mouse over the player and click on the Play button (>).
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