Category «Digital Entertainment»

InterActual Update: NEW version 2.6 now available

A good portion of the DVDs that are sold come with software on them to let you watch it on a PC. One of the most common ones is the InterActual player. It is owned by Sonic/Roxio, and has several versions. The latest version was just released: InterActual 2.6 FREE Upgrade * Cool new look! …

Winter Wolves announces Quizland in italian and spanish languages

I recently received this press release: Winter Wolves Studio Announces Quizland update for PC/MACWinter Wolves has released an updated version of their popular trivia game Quizland, adding more than 1000 new questions and two new languages: italian and spanish. Now you’ll be able to play the game with questions in those two new languages (useful …

Belkin TuneCast II FM Transmitter

Chris has an auxiliary input jack on his car CD player, so he can plug his MP3 player, Axim, or whatever else he can into it and hear it over his car stereo. I don’t have such a thing, so I had to resort to the FM Transmitter route. These are devices that plug into …

Free Beethoven from the BBC

I first read about this in Ed Bott’s blog. The BBC site explains it this way: Download all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies here the day after they are broadcast. All the symphonies are performed by BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. The page has a listing of when the performances are and when the music …

Superman on the Web

From Entertainment Weekly: It’s been 22 years since Superman first flew onto the big screen, but he’s as popular as ever online, where fans have collected enough stories and photos about the ”Super” flicks to fill a Sunday edition of the Daily Planet. At Superman Cinema, scene-by-scene analyses of all four film installments plus ”Supergirl” …

Amazon.com Free Music Downloads

I saw this post this morning in my BoingBoing.net RSS feed. Amazon.com has compiled a list of the top 200 songs they are giving away as free downloads which also happen to be DRM free.

SD Flash Memory Card with built-in USB

SanDisk Corporation today introduced an innovative SDâ„¢ flash memory card with built-in USB connectivity. Flash memory always amazes me. This card has 512MB and only uses half of the actual card. The other half is used for the USB connector. This isn’t the first SD/USB memory card; apparently that honour belongs to Digimaster. But this …

Stop Action Michael Jackson – Thriller

A while back, we mentioned a clip about a stop action version of Spiderman 2 made entirely out of Lego. There is a version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, the extended version, done in stop motion Lego as well. The quality is not nearly as good, though it is still enjoyable to watch, especially the …

(Almost) Famous PCIN Subscriber

Alex Walcer is a good friend who lives in the same city as me. We go to Church together, we used to work at the same place, and he has been a subscriber to PCIN for years. His brother-in-law, Adrian listens to a Toronto radio station, Mix 99.9, and they have a segment on the …