iPhone 3G S launch in Toronto, on June 19th 2009
Last Friday we went to the iPhone 3G S launch event at the Toronto Eaton Centre Apple Store…this post is a little tardy, but better late than never!
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Rogers says that the Revolution is here – at least until June 19th
In a press release dated May 7th, Rogers asked cellphone users to “Join the Mobile Revolution on June 2”. Right up until a few days before, when pricing details ($149 on a 3-year term) leaked out, the only thing many users knew about this “revolution” was that Rogers was going to be selling the HTC Dream (a.k.a. “old” Google G1) and HTC Magic (a.k.a. “new” Google G2) Android OS smartphones. While being one of a select few carriers worldwide (along with T-mobile and Vodaphone) to sell Android handsets was a…
Read MorergbFilter @ TCAF 2009 – interviews with Sketchkrieg! & Tom Scioli
We attended the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival, held on May 9th & 10th, and we got a chance to talk to a lot of the artists at the show – we will be posting more videos over the next few weeks. This episode is with the members of Sketchkrieg!, a band of comic artists based in Toronto, and Tom Scioli (a huge Jack Kirby fan), co-creator of the Image comic series Godland with writer Joe Casey, artist of the Freedom Force comic (based on the classic PC game by…
Read MoreWhat went wrong with Terminator Salvation?
After seeing the movie with Doug and Dave, I couldn’t help thinking about what might have been. The movie, in my humble opinion, was not as bad as the reviews had suggested, but it certainly could have been better. In the months prior to the film’s release there were rumours leaked online about a controversial earlier draft of the script — existing prior to Christian Bale’s involvement with the film — which sounded far superior to the one that ended up on the big screen, and now chud.com has the…
Read MoreFan Expo 2009 guests announced, including Bruce Campbell
That time of year is almost upon us (August 28th-30th), the return of Fan Expo to Toronto, one of the biggest conventions in North America. Fan Expo covers Comics, Sci-Fi, Horror, Anime and Gaming – last year rgbFilter brought you some exclusive interviews and show coverage, that you can see by clicking on our Fan Expo 2008 banner to the right, and this year we hope to do it again…Groovy. The 2009 guest lists are already up at the Fan Expo website, and as the picture above hints, the one…
Read MorePunch Out for Wii – Little Mac hits the Streets of Toronto
On a cold Sunday night near Bloor and Bathurst in Toronto, Nintendo set up an outdoor projector and a wii showing off the new Punch Out! for Wii….I shot this a little late, so the crowd was small… As for the quality of footage…well one thing for me to remember in the future with an HD capable camera is when you leave the memory card in your computer it records to the camera’s miniscule internal memory – at QVGA resolution only 🙁
Read MoreTCAF 2009 Day Two Pictures
A few more pictures from TCAF – what a great festival. On the second day we did more video and we will be posting over the next few weeks some very interesting interviews with some of the guests, and a great panel discussion on newspaper and web comics and their future, so stay tuned – same bat-time, same bat-channel!
Read MoreTCAF 2009 Day One Pictures
Saturday was a day of checking out all the tables and some of the signings. We filmed one of the panels, and those videos will be up soon! For now enjoy these pictures…
Read MorePlants vs Zombies, a game
If the name alone doesn’t convince you that this is possibly the greatest game of all time, then know this – Plants vs Zombies is from those fine purveyors of digital crack – PopCap games – the creators of Peggle ! If you still need more convincing you can read a review here. You can download the FREE trial for the PC (only, so far) here. If that wasn’t enough PopCap has created an AWESOME theme song for the game…
Read MoreTCAF – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 9-10, 2009
The fourth Toronto Comic Arts Festival returns this year, to a new location, the Toronto Reference Library, on 789 Yonge St, Toronto. TCAF is the response to the standard overblown comic convention – it is a 2 day event that encompasses a little more that just getting your issue #1 signed by the artist. To quote the organizers – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is a unique comics event, patterned after comics festivals like Angouleme, Harlem, and the Small Press Expo. It is two full days of comics-related events, including…
Read MoreEdgar Wright presents a Marathon of Spaced at the Bloor
Edgar Wright, here in Toronto filming his version of the comic Scott Pilgrim, continues his ‘Wright Stuff’ film festival at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto this weekend with a Marathon screening of all the Spaced TV series episodes – Before Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, there was Spaced. Originally broadcast from 1999 to 2001 on the UK’s Channel 4, director Edgar Wright will be marking the series’ 10th anniversary with a marathon screening of all 14 episodes at Toronto’s Bloor Cinema — FREE for Bloor members and “The…
Read MoreAdventures in Windows 7
Microsoft opened the Beta of Windows 7 up to the public over the weekend. It can be downloaded here. Windows 7 has been misconstrued as a response to Vista’s bad press, even though it has been in development since well before Vista even shipped. However, I am sure the all hype surrounding this very early public preview (it might not even ship in its final form until 2010) is a response. Vista has generated a lot of ill will towards the Redmond giant (most of it unfounded), and Windows 7…
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