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Update to my Apple trailers javascript

Sunday, September 6, 2009 11:51:19 AM

Apple has changed their trailer links recently so the user javascript file in the previous post doesn't work anymore. Here's an updated version.

apple.js

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User javascript to download Apple trailers

Saturday, March 28, 2009 11:55:39 AM

I made a user javascript for Opera to easily download trailers from www.apple.com/trailers. It creates links to the top right corner of the page to directly download the videos. You can download the file at the bottom of this post. Enjoy.


apple.js

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Miro 2.0

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 2:05:49 PM

The 2.0 release candidate of Miro is so much more faster than the previous versions. They've switched the interface to XUL from the one they used before and it's a huge improvement. The whole interface is faster and better looking. And I haven't gotten any of those annoying error messages when Miro fails to create a preview image from a video in the video library.

I recommend checking it out. http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2009/02/miro-two-release-candidate-two/

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Some changes to my Miro channels

Sunday, October 12, 2008 2:55:47 PM

I really hope this is the last time I'll have to change the feed addresses for my channels. I have previously tried FeedBurner, but I had some difficulties, probably because the feeds weren't 100% valid. After a request from a subscriber, I fixed the feeds to be valid and now FeedBurner accepts them. So, long story short here are the new and hopefully final locations for my Miro channels:

Timo's HD Movie Trailers: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TimosHDMovieTrailers

Timo's Movie Trailers: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TimosMovieTrailers

Other change I made was to limit the number of trailers to 20 from the original 50 to save bandwith. These changes shouldn't at all affect people who have already subscribed.

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Timo's Movie Trailers moves again

Monday, August 18, 2008 5:56:49 PM

Due to the increased traffic I had to move Timo's Movie Trailers channel feed again.

Here's the latest address for it.

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I'm number one! (well, almost)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:59:47 AM

I was wondering why my Timo's Movie Trailers channel's number of subscribtions has skyrocketed in the past week or so. Then I checked out Miro's list of top rated channels and somehow Timo's Movie Trailers is number two! It's great that it's getting all this attention, because I've always felt it was more interesting that Timo's HD Movie Trailers, because of the variety of movies featured. I'm just worried I'll have to move the feed to a new host again because of the increased traffic.

Thanks for everyone who's voted for my channels! Have a cigar!

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Timo's Movie Trailers is not down

Saturday, July 12, 2008 2:07:34 PM

And everything is working again. That was fast.

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Timo's Movie Trailers is down

Saturday, July 12, 2008 1:05:20 PM

My host FileDen is having some server troubles, so the RSS feeds for Timo's Movie Trailers and Timo's HD Movie Trailers are currently down. Hopefully they'll get things sorted out soon so you can again subscribe to the channels in Miro.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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En büyük yumruk

Monday, June 30, 2008 11:49:00 AM


I just watched one of the most entertaining action films I've seen in a long time. It's a Turkish film called En büyük yumruk from 1983 starring Cüneyt Arkin, who I'm sure is familiar to all fans of Turkish schlock cinema. I have no idea what the plot of the film is, but it's pretty irrelevant when you've got countless action scenes of Arkin and his female sidekick beating up bad guys. This is one of the most action packed films I've ever seen, since there's an action scene every 5-10 minutes. Most of them have the hero doing his awesome Cüneyt-Fu to beat up baddies wearing ski masks. I'm sure the reason they all wear ski masks is because it's probably the same stuntmen in every fight. There's also two car chases that are entirely lifted from other movies.

Yes, one notable thing about this film is that it shamelessly steals footage from countless other films. Almost every action scene has shots lifted from Hollywood or Hong Kong action films. I recognized footage from Charles Bronson's The Stone Killer and from a couple of Bond movies. I'm sure all of the music is also stolen, but I only recognized Morricone's score from My Name is Nobody.

Here's a few scenes from YouTube for your enjoyment.

The first big fight.

Another fight scene with Arkin doing awesome flips.

A flashback. There's no sound, but it's still worth watching till the end.

The finale.

Here's the entire film at YouTube.

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Even the fedora is CGI

Saturday, June 7, 2008 8:58:50 AM



There's a scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull where a bunch of ants carry Indiana's fedora to their nest. The fedora and the ants are all CGI. Why couldn't they just simply attach a string to the fedora and drag it on the ground and add the ants later? It would've been simpler, cheaper and better looking. That's a big problem in this movie. There's so much obvious cgi that it renders the action scenes completely unexciting. Characters swordfighting on jeeps racing through the jungle is a great idea and it would've been awesome if they had stuntmen doing it for real, but when you have actors in front of a green screen it just becomes boring.

I can't really think of anything really worthwhile about this movie. Shia and Kate were okay, I guess.

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