review – Page 7 – rgbFilter

Bell Motorola DEXT review

June 7, 2010June 15, 2010 Doug Groves Android, CLIQ, Dext, mobile phone, MOTO, Motoblur, Motorola, review, smart phone, smartphone9 Comments

At the height of the RAZR’s success, Motorola was a force to be reckoned with in the mobile space, but the migration to an increasingly smartphone world has left Motorola behind. To make make a push back into the phone market, they’ve decided to hitch their wagon to Google’s Android train, with the announcement of the qwerty keyboard packing CLIQ in the US last fall. To appeal to social networking aficionados, the CLIQ and it’s brethren are adorned with Motorola’s custom UI called MOTOBLUR, which provides a constant feed of…

Sweet Tooth Volume 1 review

June 3, 2010June 3, 2010 Peter Brunton Comic, Jeff Lemire, review, Sweet Tooth, Vertigo11 Comments

Mad Science, and Mike Mignola’s Missing Sperm If you’ve ever fantasized about surreptitiously stealing biological samples from Bill Willingham, Mike Mignola, and Cormac McCarthy in an effort to create a bold new breed of deranged comics creator (and let’s face it, who hasn’t?) then you need not fantasize any longer. Some genius of a mad scientist (OK, technically mad engineer) has apparently done just that, and this creation’s name is Jeff Lemire. It lives in Toronto, of all places. The real deal here is that this guy Jeff Lemire has…

Samsung Galaxy Spica Review

May 27, 2010May 27, 2010 Doug Groves Android, Galaxy, google, i5700, Mobile, review, Rogers, Samsung, Spica, urmusic1 Comment

The Spica is one of the most recent Android phones from Samsung, and has been released on Rogers in Canada. It seems pretty obvious that Samsung and Rogers are aiming this at the lower end market, as the Spica can be had, as of this writing, for as little as $29.95 on contract, which makes it a viable alternative to zero dollar ‘dumb phones’. Rogers was kind enough to send us a review unit to put it through the wringer, and I have to say the Spica is an odd…

Alan Wake review

May 18, 2010May 19, 2010 Doug Groves Alan Wake, Bright Falls, DLC, Remedy Entertainmet, review, The Signal, Xbox 3601 Comment

Alan Wake, the new thriller game from Remedy exclusively on the Xbox 360, has been a long time in the making. In fact, the last game Remedy put out was the classic 3rd person shooter Max Payne 2, a good seven years ago. This time around, the focus is less on all out action and more on giving the viewer (erm – the player) the creeps. Does it pay off?

HP TouchSmart tm2 review

May 17, 2010 Johnathan Leger Apple, Courier, Hewlett Packard, HP, HP Slate, iPad, Microsoft, review, tablet, tm2, TouchSmart15 Comments

So after waiting for the reveal of Apple’s once “mythical” tablet to be revealed, only to end up being as disappointed as Japanese Anne of Green Gables fans after traveling half way around the world to see the real deal, I decided I was going to buy a Windows based tablet. The Microsoft Courier looked interesting but a bit out there and the HP Slate looked rocking although a bit underspec’d. I decided to hold out for the Slate.

The People vs. George Lucas: the verdict?

May 3, 2010May 4, 2010 Doug Groves Alexandre O. Phillipe, Film, Hot Docs, review, SXSW, The People vs. George Lucas, Toronto7 Comments

Ever since the release of The Phantom Menace, Star Wars fans old and new have debated the merits of the new trilogy, and Lucas’ decision to drastically alter the original trilogy to make it more ‘modern’, not just in the effects department, but taking some rough edges off main characters. The new documentary The People vs. George Lucas, from director Alexandre O. Phillipe, is a good distillation of that debate. It offers up, in a compressed timeline, an overview of the history of George Lucas and the almost religious following…

Kick Ass movie review

April 25, 2010April 25, 2010 Doug Groves Kick Ass, Mark Millar, movie, review0 comment

Alex and Dave discuss whether Kick Ass does or not. To correct Alex’s name mix-up, Hit Girl is played by Chloë Grace Moretz, Red Mist by Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

Asus O!Play Air – Firmware Updates

April 13, 2010April 19, 2010 kingpinlei Asus, eSATA, HD, HFS+ compatible, Mac, media player, O!Play Air, PC, review, set top box, WiFi, Windows11 Comments

Asus has definitely been busy. Since my last review of the Asus O!Play Air, Asus has released a few firmware updates for it. The most notable is firmware v1.09 which surprisingly adds Internet accessible content to the O!Play Air. While it still does not add Youtube support (Asus, please, add YouTube support!!), Asus has provided apps to give access to such sites as Flickr and Picassa.

HTC HD2 review

April 13, 2010July 19, 2010 Doug Groves HD2, HTC, HTC HD2, review, superphone, Swype, T-Mobile, Wind Mobile10 Comments

When the HTC HD2 was released overseas last fall, it quickly gained a lot of fans. They couldn’t help but appreciate the bright, massive screen and the design of the phone itself. This included reviewers generally down on Windows Mobile 6.5. Now that the phone has officially hit North American shores via T-Mobile US, we take a look at it running on Wind Mobile here in Canada. Out Of The Box First impressions are important, and the HD2 absolutely nails it in this department. The design of the phone itself…

An rgbFilter review: X’s hands-on with the iPad

April 6, 2010April 15, 2016 Danny X Apple, eReader, iPad, iPad in Canada, netbook, review, ultra mobile6 Comments

When I came into the office this morning, the very last thing I expected to see on my desk was a shiny, new, 16gb, Wi-Fi-only iPad. Right about the time I was thinking to myself what I’d done recently to deserve such a gift, the owner came by to pick it up and apologize for cluttering up my work area. Fortunately, I’d had just enough to time to play with it that my reaction was less “Finder’s Keeper’s” and more “meh, whatevs.” In short, after playing with the iPad for…

Mass Effect 2 review

February 15, 2010 Doug Groves Bioware, Mass Effect 2, review, RPG7 Comments

Before jumping into the proper review, let’s get one thing out of the way. If you haven’t yet played the first Mass Effect, you will be missing something from Mass Effect 2. In the same way that The Empire Strikes Back is a better movie than Star Wars, not seeing the first just takes away from the overall experience. Sure you can jump right in, and it won’t hurt the enjoyment, but if you watch them both, it’s a richer experience. Sure, in the case of Mass Effect, that’s a…

Chew: A comic about a psychic cop, chicken, and the FDA

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 drsquid Chew, Comics, FDA, Poultry, review0 comment

I used to buy a lot of comics, having a pull at my local comic store of anywhere between 5-10 floppies a week, but as the years have gone by I have a) become lot more selective in my choices, and b) decided to wait for trade paperbacks to come out, instead of buying single issues. It is only when something is very special that I still buy the floppies. Joining ‘The Walking Dead’, the greatest zombie story in any media, is ‘Chew’, one of the most original, funny, and…