Box Office

Fancy yourself a film fanatic? Have no fear as the Box Office app is here, allowing users to quickly access movie showtimes sorted by name or even your location (via zipcode or GPS/celltower location). Best of all, sort by RottenTomatoes score to find the best bang for your buck. All ticket links send you directly to Fandango. Did I mention that it’s free?

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Disclaimer: This remains but a rumour at this point, one that has been circulating the ‘net ever since Apple popularized touch-screen technology with the iPhone and the subsequent iPod Touch. But new information as surfaced that leads some to believe that the MacBook Touch does in fact exist, and that it’s coming in October!

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Since the dawn of time…er…of the modern computer people have envisioned a myriad of methods to interact with PCs. They keyboard/mouse combination has, despite a varied assortment of competitors, become the de facto means of inputting information into a computer. Even for gaming, despite the prevalence of consoles and their nifty ‘controllers’, the old ‘board and mouse have weathered the tests of time. But together they’re rather bulky and cumbersome and at times restrictive. While laptops have consolidated the mouse function into a little pad, others still strive for a replacement without sacrificing functionality. The most discriminating of critics in this respect are PC gamers, who will demand the utmost accuracy and response. So it comes across as somewhat ambitious that OCZ Technology chose to target that audience when crafting the first ‘brain-computer’ interface available on the retail market; the Neural Impulse Actuator.

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So you want to Jailbreak that iPhone 3G?

As recently reported, those folks over at the iPhone Dev Team have been hard at work on a jailbreaking procedure for the new 2.0 update and the iPhone 3G (unlocking the 3G is said to be a different story and will be forthcoming in the near future). While footage of the Pwnage Tool 2.0 jailbreaking a 3G iPhone has been circulating around the web for nearly a week now, all details related to the release of the software simply stated ‘soon.’ Well, soon was Saturday when the Dev Team made the Mac-only available for download. As depicted in the video the Pwnage Tool makes jailbreaking a pretty simply, point-and-click procedure. Too easy for you? Get Windows then.

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Movie Madness: Dark Knight + Watchmen trailer leaked online

Okay, it’s every where. Batman this, Batman that. I couldn’t make this news post without mentioning the ahem Dark Knight. The movie has potential to set a box-office record, likely capturing the 2008 (to date) top box office revenue. The film has already set one record for premiering on the most theatres, narrowly beating out Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (4,366 Dark Knight to DMC 4,362).

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This week has been dominated by E3, which means all things console and videogame related. The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo is host to hundreds of game developers, dozens of ‘booth babes’ and three key players: Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. While all three had their news-worthy announcements at their respective public conferences held at the beginning of the week, Nintendo’s was relatively quite. That’s because on the eve of the festivities they decided to launch an preemptive strike by offering up a juicy bit of news: the Wii-mote is getting an upgrade.

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E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), the annual videogame expo, kicks off this week with keynote addresses from the industries biggest players: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony.

On Monday, Microsoft made some significant announcements and Tuesday the onus was on Nintendo and Sony to respond. Below are some of the highlights from both addresses. We’ll let you be the judge of gets top honours for best keynote.

Nintendo Unveils Wii MotionPlus

Have you ever wished that the Wii-mote was just a little more accurate, a bit more responsive? Well, prepared to have your wish granted as Nintendo revealed the Wii MotionPlus add on for the standard Wii controller. This little device [pictured] plugs into the end of your controller and sets out to function in sweet harmony with the accelerometer and sensor bar to provide 1:1 flailing motion to screen. This means a superior level of accuracy, and immersion, in all games.

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E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), the annual videogame expo, kicks off this week with keynote addresses from the industries biggest players: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. While from year to year the calibre of content revealed varies, the boys over at Redmond have set the bar high with a slew of surprising announcements. Here are some of the highlights:

Microsoft’s Big-game announcement

You know how some games just sell systems? Halo sells the Xbox, Mario sells the Wii, and Final Fantasy sells the PS3? Well, you can stroke that last one off the list. Adding to the list of previously exclusive Sony titles, Square Enix and Microsoft announced that the next installment in the widely popular series, Final Fantasy XIII (pictured), will be coming to the Xbox 360 the very same day the PS3 version is released. If the significance is lost on you, it’d be like Han Solo appearing on the deck of the Enterprise or..uh..Cindy Crawford selling Martha Stewart's line of furniture (you see, Cindy has her own line of interior décor, so selling for some other woman would be like, sacrilege, right? Ladies? Anyone?)

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Do you park smart?

Ever spend needless hours and gas driving around, desperately trying to find a parking spot before McDonald’s breakfast ends? Okay, well how about just trying to find a parking spot? While, Streetline Industries might just have a solution for you.

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iPhone App store online on eve of 3G release

So there is relatively little calm before this storm. Apple has brought their app store, offering a host if differing apps for iPhones and iPod Touchs, some come at a cost, others are free. One interesting app being offered free by Apple is the remote app which allows users to remotely control iTunes through their iPhone/iPod Touch. Pretty sweet deal, in my opinion, especially since I could see Microsoft, in the same position, charging an arm and a leg and then some.

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Rogers iPhone second most expensive in the world

According to CBC.ca, the Rogers branded iPhone is second most costly on the whole wide Earth. While that comes as little surprise as the minimum cost over three years is $2,176 US, what is somewhat surprising is that the host of the most costly iPhone:

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