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Archive for June 2012
Movie Catch-Up: Quantum of Solace
Daniel Craig’s second outing as Bond in a breathlessly brutal and kinetic dose of spy hokum. It seems every Bond has to ‘go rogue’ at some point, and this is Craig’s mission of vengeance to kill the men who killed his Vesper in the previous film. Some men get very attached to their motor scooters. … Continue reading
Full Circle Magazine Issue 62 Out Now
Full Circle Magazine Issue 62 is available now from the main site. This month: Command and Conquer. How-To : Beginning Python – Part 34, LibreOffice Part 15, and Linux Astronomy Apps. Graphics : GIMP – The Beanstalk Part 3, and Inkscape Part 2. Linux Lab – Tweet Screen Part 1. Review – Installing Software. Closing … Continue reading
Review: Vipre Business 5.0 Anti-Virus
Vipre Antivirus and Antispyware by GFI Software runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7; it is not compatible with Windows 95, 98, or ME, Macintosh, or Linux. There is a 30-day free trial version which is allegedly fully functional and provided by GFI as a free download of 43Mb. Installation takes a … Continue reading
Photography: Captured by Leslie
Leslie Rodriguez photography portfolio. “Hello! Thanks so much for visiting my photography page. I grew up in Louisville, KY (where I was known as Leslie McClure) and currently reside in Nashville, TN with my husband Javier Rodríguez. Javier and I work as a team to provide the best photography service available… As you might have … Continue reading
Review: The Man Who Saves Life Stories BBC Radio4
“Irving Finkel collects ordinary people’s lives. He hoards their life stories in diary form and has amassed a collection of hundreds of handwritten volumes. But Irving has a problem. What should he do with them? The diaries are crammed onto shelves and piled up in corners of his small office. Irving’s day job is Assistant … Continue reading
Review: Meek’s Cutoff
Opening with a hand-written card ‘Oregon Territory, 1845′ and followed by a boy grafittiing a fallen tree trunk with the single word ‘lost,’ we quickly see why. Three wagons split from a Westward train travel the wilderness led by ‘guide’ Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood), alleged tracker, Indian fighter and consumate *BS* artist. This ‘pre-Western’ directed … Continue reading
How-to: 10 Ways to Save the World One Internet Connection at a Time (Guest Post)
Christine at Internet Service Providers .org let us know about this one and we’re happy to re-post. Evidence of the power of the Internet is everywhere. From the impact of social media to the outreach programs that have changed lives around the world, there has never been a more potent tool for global influence available … Continue reading
Movie Catch-up: The Devil’s Backbone
Further exploring the back-catalogue of Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Blade II, Mimic), The Devil’s Backbone sits between his first two features, Chronos and Pan’s Labyrinth, a rather brutal tale of ghosts and orphans set against the hard backdrop of the Spanish civil war. Setting out it’s stall early on, we get on-screen ghosts, physical and … Continue reading
How-to: Find Out if Your Email Address is Compromised
Given the amount of spam that we get at Everything Express, ostensibly from legitimate e-mail addresses, I was directed to an interesting tool recently: PwnedList “PwnedList is a tool that allows an average person to check if their online accounts have been compromised.” The site is a simple one-click service to help the public verify … Continue reading
Review: Puss in Boots
This spin off from the Shrek franchise is built around Antonio Banderas doing that voice as the titular swashbuckling moggy. But Salma Hayek is underwhelming as Kitty Softpaws, further reduced to lack-lustre side-kick in the second half. Since all the best gags and fairy tale characters have been used up, we get a half-hearted villain … Continue reading
Review: VKontakte Social Network
VKontakte (Internationally branded as simply ‘VK’) is the most popular social network service in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Unless you live in those territories, you probably never heard of it. If it looks startlingly familiar in design and functionality, you won’t be surprised to hear that VKontakte is often described as a Facebook clone, … Continue reading
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