Sometimes, my favorite part of a movie is the title sequence. In this instance we have a very clever title sequence for a movie that doesn\’t really exist: a documentary about the history of the title sequence. Directed and edited by Jurjen Versteeg, A History of the Title Sequence pays homage…
via A History of the Title Sequence.
San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Cosplay Gallery
The gallery you\’ve been waiting for is here. While Tony and Sara have been busy this Comic-Con interviewing comic creators, shooting booth tour videos, or attending panels, I\’ve been walking around the convention floor non-stop on the hunt for cosplayers. There are many familiar faces from past cons and even this year\’s Wondercon, and surprisingly few Batmen in attendance. This year\’s big cosplay trend seems to be Captain America. Update: The gallery is now complete. This year\’s final tally was 1,143 photos!
San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Cosplay Gallery – Comic Vine.
Dragon Age Film Pushed Back to 2012
Funimation and Bioware have pushed back the release of the Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker anime film to 2012. Funimation is currently streaming a behind-the-scenes teaser trailer for the film after showing it at Comic-Con International this past week.
dragon Age: Dwan of the Seeker, appears to be the first original anime from Funimation & it\’s co-production initiative…
The History of Microsoft\’s MS-DOS
MS-DOS is 30 years old today. Well, kind of. On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the disk operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP), a hardware company owned and run by a fellow called Rod Brock.
SCP developed what it at various times called QDOS and 86-DOS to run on a CPU card it had built based on Intel\’s 8086 processor.
The company had planned to use Digital Research\’s CP/M-86 operating system, then still in development. But, having released the card in November 1979 – it shipped with an 8086-compatible version Microsoft\’s Basic language interpreter-cum-operating system – and reached April 1980 without CP/M-86 becoming available to bundle, SCP decided it had to create its own OS for the card.
Enter, in August 1980, QDOS. It really did stand for Quick and Dirty Operating System. That\’s actually what it was: a basic but serviceable OS good for coding and running programs written in 8086 assembly language – the x86 instruction set. It was written by SCP\’s Tim Paterson, who had joined the company as a programmer a couple of years previously and began work on it in April 1980.
Read the rest of the History of MS-Dos at Microsoft\’s MS-DOS is 30 today.
Ripping Out iCal’s Torn Page
One complaint about Leopard is the faux leather appearance of the interface…
If that is annoying you, then take a look at:
- Big Bucket – Archive – Ripping Out iCal’s Torn Page – How to remove the \”Turn page\” elements from iCal
- OS X Daily details how to return iCal to the non-leather appearance.
Please keep in mind, that these changes are not plist changes, they modify the actual iCal application. Â So backup your old ical application before you attempt either of these changes.
Who wore it best? A collection of the best Doctor cosplay at Comic-Con
IO9.com has a gallery of the best Doctor Who cosplay at Comic-Con.
Mac malware \’explosion\’ missing in action
The appearance of the MacDefender trojan back in May provoked a lot of back-and-forth between various tech writers (including your humble correspondent). Was this a sign that the good times were ending? That the Mac platform would come under ever-fiercer attack from malware authors? That soon we\’d all be running resource-sucking virus scanners and a-fearing every link we clicked?
Well, in a word: no. It wasn\’t. And I\’ve got some science to prove it.
Mac malware \’explosion\’ missing in action
2011 MacBook Air – Early Benchmarks
Eyeballing it the 2011 i7 MacBook Air looks about twice as fast as the top of the line 2010 MacBook Air. Damned impressive.∞
via 2011 MacBook Air – Early Benchmarks.