Cranking out news for the geeks, music buffs and gossip junkies, my way. -Greg

Video Name Tag could be the future of advertising. Advertising on anything from walls, hats, even clothes. Taking this space for rent to a new level. Notice this device in the shirt below. It’s actually playing live video.

I’ve been patiently waiting for Zinio to release their app for Android and the day has finally come! Zinio isn’t your average reader. Why because they have more magazines than Kindle and Nook “…choose from thousands of issues from 41 countries in 23 different languages.” I’ve also downloaded a magazine on both Kindle and Nook and neither can compare to the clarity and quality of Zinio’s digital magazines. I’ve had the desktop app for windows for a while and liked it a lot. So when I got my XOOM I was pretty disappointed to find they hadn’t released their Android version yet. Now that’s changed and it’s been released today. I’ve already got it downloaded and have briefly run through some free magazines and I have to say it looks GREAT! The app is now available in the market and is supported on Honeycomb. If you download before June 15^th you’ll get 24 free magazines! So get over to the Android Market and download your Zinio App today! –Greg

Zinio’s Official Web Site

Zinio’s Android App in the Market

**Update – So after some regular usage last night I have some more comments. First, it takes way to long to download a single magazine. I’m running 18M download at home and was using WiFi only which still seem to take around 5-10 minutes. Second, more than several times would I turn the page and wait for it to load completely so that the text would be clear and it never would. I would have to turn past the page a few and come back to get it to load correctly. Lastly, I feel that the experience was rather slow overall. It’s a great start and feel it only needs to improve the 3 previously mentioned items and it will be pretty solid. Looking forward that polished product.

G Machine has gone through a little bit of a make over. Come check out the sleek new look and feel. The change is based around making it easier for everyone to read. I think the new layout creates an easier to look at feel for your eyes. The WordPress Theme “Piano Black” was built by Mono-Lab, thanks guys. Once you’ve taken time to feel it out please let me know your thoughts and comments, I would really love to hear them! -Greg

Photoshop has over the years been making it easier and easier to manipulate photos. Now enter the upcoming Content-Aware Fill feature which is more like magic than a tool. One of the most time consuming and problematic issues I have is when I remove and object from a picture and have to rebuild the background. Well what if you could just trace the object and poof its gone and the background was rebuilt? Well, my friend you would be using this tool. Adobe should have called this thing pure magic. -Greg

Coming to theaters this April is Kenny Chesney’s “Summer in 3D” . This movie will be shown in 3D about his tour and everything that goes with it. I’m not sure about how much the 3D will add to it, but I sure am looking forward to the movie! Here is a sneak peak.. – Greg 

Bottle bootlegger, Jason Kay found himself with a felony charge and 2 misdemeanors after creating his own version of a Gatorade label. His label pictured to the left included a picture of Tiger Woods and read “unfaithful”. I think it’s hilarious and Tiger deserves the joke, however Gatorade doesn’t seem to agree. If convicted he could face up to 5 years in a federal prison. The charges “of introducing adulterated or misbranded food into interstate commerce, mutilating or destructing a food label, and tainting a consumer product with the intention of causing serious injury to a business” seem a little over the top. I don’t think that Jason is going to single handed bring down Gatorade. -Greg 

Going through my normal bunch of emails from different tech sites I subscribe too, I came across this interesting article at GIZMODO. Basically its a set of unofficial guidelines that I think everyone should have to read and sign before being allowed to enter a movie theater. What do you think about them? -Greg

Article from GIZMODO

Most of us already know that it’s NOT socially acceptable to talk during a movie. But to those of us who weren’t born in a barn, these rude movie-goers are still a constant burden. It’s time to fight back, dirty.With Avatar in theaters, the stakes are simply too high to risk losing a film to some pudgy fat boy film school drop out who is convinced his personal commentary is just as important as the countless hours of work that have gone into the filmmaking process.

The following are a list of rules and responses that I feel, as a society, we need to deem socially acceptable to assimilate into our communal fabric.

6-Inch Voices, Or Group Humiliation
I know I’m coming off rude already. The occasional quiet comment to the person beside you, that’s totally fine by me. But If I can hear you from over two seats away, chances are, you need to shut the fuck up (throughout life, possibly, but definitely in the theater). If a person makes loud comments that a single “shhh” doesn’t thwart, everyone around them should stand, point and loudly ask them to leave (with liberal use of expletives). It’ll be a painful, distracting experience, but chances are, it won’t be needed again.

Really, It’s OK To Tell People to Shut Up
I know I just made this point, but I want to make it abundantly clear: telling talkers to shut up is OK. You are doing all of the shy, weak and first daters who want to enjoy a movie but not lose out on a potential post-film grope a huge favor. Let’s just make an oath, right now, to support one another against the talkers, be they intimidatingly muscley or not. Let’s acknowledge a silent brotherhood, poised to attack at the slightest breach of conduct.

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