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While Microsoft has extended the end-of-life deadline Windows XP several times under consumer pressure, not least from Enterprise customers, we have reached that line in the sand. The party’s over.

Officially, Windows XP is now dead, but it’s not gone. Choose your stats carefuly; conservatively, between 20 and 27% of computers connected to the Internet still run Windows XP. Yet as of April 8th, we’re at the”end of support” – so what will happen to all those Windows XP systems now?

It will continue to run and activate, using the same activation process that checks with Microsoft to ensure you’re using “genuine” software and not a pirated version of Windows. Continue reading →

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Zoe Saldana is a latterday Columbian ninja, executing La Femme Nikita killings in this exploitation action-flick of slim girls, big guns, revenge and Missions Impossible.

In a tense opening fifteen minutes, nine year old Cataleya (Amandla Stenberg) sees her parents murdered by drug barons, before making a thrilling but improbable escape on foot worthy of the French Connection; free-running over roof tops, markets and sewers.

Handing over her father’s incriminating lists to the Americans in exchange for asylum, the child makes it to America, escapes the CIA, finds her relatives in Chacago and bides her time for revenge. Like you do. Continue reading →

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Post originally appeared at Socialeum.com, Blog On Social Media Promotion, sent to us by Pep.

Recently, Facebook released a fresh tool for Facebook web pages called “Tell your Supporters” that allows web page administrators to import e-mail contacts, determine which e-mail contacts aren’t currently “Liking” their fan page, and information these contacts having an invitation.

This new tool can be an attempt to give a simple and targeted solution to increase fan bases (a win-win for both Facebook and page managers). In this article, I’ll review how brand names can use this tool, and cover some of the pros and cons of this tool from my initial experience testing it.

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Move over Don Cheadle, it’s Irish whimsy and Brendan Gleeson all the way in this black comedy replay of High Noon; a violent, profane tale of drug trafficking, casual murder and police corruption amid the Paddy stereotypes of the Emerald Isle .

Beginning as a fish-out-of-water comedy with the arrival of black FBI agent Wendell Everett, in Galway to investigate a major drugs shipment, Cheadle (Oceans trilogy, Iron Man) beautifully underplays  the humourless and straight-laced agent.

His Irish liaison is the crass and confrontational rural police Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Gleeson – Harry Potter, Troy), whose interests include class-A drugs, prostitutes, swimming, Russian literature and casual racism – “I’m Irish. Racism is part of my culture.” With an incisive Columbo-like persona and his own moral code, world-weary Boyle appears to be the only man in Ireland with any shred of integrity. Continue reading →

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Post originally appeared as A little Extra support by Edwin Flay

Part One covered the good reasons to be a Background, or Scenic Artist…

However, there are also several good reasons never to be an extra:

• A lot of other industry professionals will assume you’re not a trained actor at all;
• You will be treated like the thickest person in the room;
• You’ll get no respect;
• If you do it long enough, you may get so comfortable that you never to try and progress further;
• You may end up having to miss auditions because you’re committed to an SA job;
• You may come to despise extras yourself;
• You may have all the confidence ground out of you.

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In 2077, time travel is invented and immediately banned; not that it stops criminal syndicates using it to ‘disappear’ their victims back to 2044 where contract killers – loopers – dispose of them, until the day their older selves are sent back for disposal to ‘close the loop’.

Rhian Johnson’s Looper is smart, tense, suspenseful and just left-field enough to be out of the ordinary. And like ALL time travel movies, makes no sense whatsoever once the time paradoxes start flowing.

John-Gordon Levitt (Brick, The Dark Knight) as Young Joe does a fantastic impression of Old Joe; Bruce Willis (Die Hard, Fifth Element) in his best performance since time travel head-breaker Twelve Monkeys. But Emily Blunt (The Adjustment Bureau) is again in a different class to the boys. Continue reading →

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Post originally appeared at Socialeum.com, Blog On Social Media Promotion, sent to us by Pep.

One of the things that’s kept me personally busy within my community management times has been wanting to user profile the various forms of Facebook fans. Even though fans are each exclusive (since they’re all different people), many of their behaviors fall into certain patterns.

Here are the 5 most common types of Facebook followers that I’ve observed while handling communities, and ways to tailor your articles to help keep them.

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