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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Dec 31st
So here it comes! 2010, the farthest we’ve made it thus-far. As the night comes around, be sure to stay safe and spend some time with your loved ones. Rock in the New Year with some style!!
Happy Holidays!!
Check back in the new year for some awesome news, videos, tutorials, and alot more!!!
CHRISTMAS IS HERE!!!!
Dec 24th

So as Christmas rolls upon us i’m sure you’ve noticed that there have been few updates in the last few weeks. We here at JWstudios have been in the christmas spirit and have been overwhelmed by it!! So we are taking a hiatis to help Steve Jobs pack up the slede and get all those groove new christmas imacs and ipod nanos out to “THE PEOPLE”!!! We will be back in the new year with some awesome new stuff!! MORE BLOGS, MORE ACTION, MORE SWAGG!!!!!
To Be Continues….
iPhone 3GS emulates N64, blows minds in the process
Dec 7th

Look what we have here — a preview of 3G4, a N64 emulator developed by NWorksDev. Compatible with the iPhone 3GS and the iPod Touch 3G, this bad boy appears to be rendering down the graphics (as one would expect) but all in all it seems to be running pretty smoothly. Of course, this is a work in progress: the developer (who claims to 14 years old) says that he has to overcome duplicate button registers, delayed presses, and some crashing — and he has yet to implement the L, R, and Z keys. That said, this thing is pretty sweet! Hit up the YouTube links for info on becoming a beta tester — but not before you see the thing in action.
Feeling down? Try a little Manamana today!
Nov 25th
Okay, so this may be another crazy and pointless, drug-inspired Seasame Street vid, but I bet you’ll watch it to the end! I’m a fan of this midget-Sasquatch guy. He’s like Bigfoot’s mini-me.
Droid vs iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre vs MyTouch 3G: Total Cost of Ownership
Nov 25th
After months and months of blogger buzz and a heavy veil of secrecy, the new Motorola Droid by Verizon Wireless is set to launch within days, just in time for the holiday season.
The Droid enters into a smartphone marketplace dominated by the Palm Pre with Sprint and the ever-popular iPhone 3GS with AT&T. But how are consumers supposed to compare the offerings?
BillShrink.com is here to help! While sticker prices are roughly comparable between smartphones, each offers its own particularly generous features. Below is an apples-to-apples comparison graphic that examines the true cost of ownership and select features of each phone.
And, without further ado, we bring you the Droid vs. iPhone vs. Palm Pre vs. MyTouch 3G …(now that’s a lot of smartphones)
Click Here 4 the Original Post
Getting a Droid: Today or Tomorrow?
Nov 25th

I’ve been testing the Verizon Droid for the past few days, and it’s an awesome phone.
But even though I’m eager to ditch my iPhone and eighty-six AT&T, I’m not going to switch to Verizon for the Droid.
Don’t get me wrong: I am very impressed with what Motorola has built. In my mind, the Droid and the iPhone are the two best smartphones on the market today. The Droid can compete with the iPhone in almost every respect.
In some features, such as the screen, it comes out way ahead: The Droid’s vivid, high-resolution 854 x 440 pixel display blows away the iPhone’s 480 x 320 screen. It’s simply crisper, clearer, and easier to read. (Note: The photo above does not do it justice.)
Voice-call quality is much better than on the iPhone. Callers sounded crisp and clear. And I was able to set up Google Voice to work with both incoming and outgoing calls and SMS messages — something you cannot do with the iPhone.
For that matter, since all of my contacts, calendars and e-mails are hosted by Google now, setting up the Droid to work with my information took me less than five minutes. Because I have more than 3,000 contacts it took the Droid nearly an hour to sync them all to the phone over the 3G network (and during that time, the phone got alarmingly warm), but I never had to install desktop software or even plug in any cables.
It was hands-down the easiest and fastest setup process of any phone I’ve used, and when it was done, the phone had everything I needed. (By contrast, getting the iPhone to sync with Google was a tricky and time-consuming process — and you need to install iTunes and connect your iPhone to your computer by USB in any event.)
The Droid also uses Verizon’s 3G network, which in my ad hoc testing came out ahead of AT&T’s. Downloads seemed faster, and the data connections were generally more reliable. It still dropped one of my calls, as I was riding the commuter train, in almost exactly the same spot where AT&T inevitably drops my iPhone calls. Without further side-by-side testing I can’t definitively state whether the Droid on Verizon’s network trumps the iPhone on AT&T’s, but my sense is that it generally does.
In terms of interface and features, the Droid is the first phone that’s truly comparable to the iPhone in terms of power and ease of use. There are interface differences, but for the most part they’re not better or worse, just different.
Multitouch is the most glaring omission, which means you can’t pinch to zoom the screen. But, like the iPhone, you can double-tap to zoom in, and the Droid is similarly smart about sizing the screen to fit whatever column of text you want to read.
Its onscreen keyboard works almost exactly like the iPhone’s, and is even superior in that you can choose among multiple type-ahead suggestions rather than just waiting for the phone to suggest the one you really want.
And while there are only about 10,000 Android apps, compared with the iPhone’s 100,000, there seems to be plenty of selection. The Android Market should be more than enough to keep me happy, with a couple of exceptions.
The reason I’m not switching to the Droid is twofold. First, the hardware keyboard troubles me. It’s not especially good, and I worry that the slide-out mechanism could be prone to failure. There’s no way to confirm that other than heavy use for three to six months, but it’s a risk I’m not quite ready to take — especially because the onscreen, virtual keyboard is so good.
With such a good virtual keyboard, the hardware keyboard seems like an unnecessary and even dangerous, trouble-prone appendage, like an appendix or a vestigial tail: It can only cause problems.
Plus, it adds weight; the Droid, at 6 ounces, is about 2 ounces heavier than the iPhone. So I’d rather wait for a lighter, keyboard-less version of the Droid.
The second big reason is that I’ve grown dependent on two iPhone apps: Instapaper Pro and Tweetie. I also occasionally use RunKeeper, Stanza, Pandora and a handful of games, but Instapaper and Tweetie are the killer apps. They’re the things that, together with e-mail capability, make the iPhone useful to me.
Tweetie I could probably learn to live without: There are plenty of Twitter apps for Android, and the most popular one, Twidroid, seems to work fine, even if it lacks Tweetie’s elegance and speed. But Instapaper’s ability to collect, reformat and display news articles and blog posts I want to read — even if I’m offline — has made it an indispensable commuter and downtime companion. I would sorely miss it.
So while I’m no fan of AT&T or Apple, I’ll be sticking with the iPhone now. It’s one of the two best smartphones on the market, and it’s the only one that has the apps I depend on.
Warner’s DVD2Blu trade-in swaps Blu-rays for your DVDs, Leland Gaunt approves
Nov 22nd
After baptizing the remaining HD DVD faithful, Warner has moved on to teaching new Blu-ray converts the five pillars of faith with a trade-up program. Send in your old DVDs (just the box art won’t cut it this time around, better buy some blanks and get to ripping if you still enjoy Training Day on long car trips), $7.95 – $9.95 per movie plus $4.95 for s&h (orders over $25 ship for free) and expect HD versions back in 4 – 5 weeks. Is it worth it? Depends on how many of the 55 flicks on the approved list you own (included after the break) but for most you’re probably better off keeping the ones you have and eyeing budget bins carefully, nabbing catalog flicks like Harold & Kumar for less than $15 without any mail-in shenanigans shouldn’t be too hard for the truly thrifty.
DVD2BLU: Eligible Titles
Title DVD2Blu Price
10,000 B.C. $9.95
Rush Hour 3 $9.95
Full Metal Jacket $9.95
Pan’s Labyrinth $9.95
Ocean’s Thirteen $9.95
Christmas Story, A $9.95
Elf $9.95
We Are Marshall $9.95
Speed Racer $9.95
Body of Lies $9.95
The Golden Compass $9.95
The Orphanage $9.95
Superman Returns $9.95
The Searchers $7.95
Blazing Saddles $7.95
2001: A Space Odyssey $7.95
History of Violence $7.95
A Clockwork Orange: Special Edition $7.95
Risky Business $7.95
Scanner Darkly $7.95
The Wedding Singer: Totally Awesome Edition $7.95
Alexander Revisited $7.95
Michael Clayton $7.95
Swordfish $7.95
Rumor Has It $7.95
American History X $7.95
Final Destination $7.95
Beetlejuice $7.95
Taking Lives $7.95
Wyatt Earp $7.95
The Fugitive $7.95
The Aviator $7.95
Eraser $7.95
Dirty Dozen $7.95
Collateral Damage $7.95
Last Samurai $7.95
Dark City, Director’s Cut $7.95
Rio Bravo $7.95
Training Day $7.95
Gods and Generals $7.95
The Shining: Special Edition $7.95
The Perfect Storm $7.95
Pride and Glory $7.95
Constantine $7.95
The Lost Boys $7.95
Journey to the Center of Earth (2008) $7.95
Wedding Crashers Uncorked (Unrated) $7.95
Any Given Sunday (Director’s Cut) $7.95
Bucket List, The $7.95
Superman II: Richard Donner Cut $7.95
Harold and Kumar Go To the White Castle $7.95
An American in Paris $7.95
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation $7.95
Deliverance $7.95
Dumb and Dumber (Unrated) $7.95
FACEBOOK is DOWN?
Nov 18th

So facebook just went down. I’m sure it will be back up any second…. but i feel like im wasting away as the seconds go on!! anyone else feel this way?
ioSafe Solo hard drive places a 2TB bet on all kinds of disasters
Nov 18th

ioSafe couldn’t have chosen a better time to update their Solo fireproof and waterproof hard drive line with a 2TB model. Sure, it’ll cost you $399 for a USB 2.0 connection instead of eSATA, FireWire 800 or USB 3.0, but you’ll never know when your yacht sinks or burns down, sending that precious Kenny G collection to oblivion. Don’t go thinking you can just get the $149 500GB model and upgrade it yourself either — you’ll have to destroy the waterproof seal to get to the hard drive, as demonstrated before. Yeah, life’s tough.
Apple to open 40 to 50 new Apple Stores next year
Nov 15th

At a media preview event yesterday designed to create buzz for Apple’s newest store opening in Manhattan, Ron Johnston, Apple’s senior vice president of retail announced that Apple would be opening 40-50 more Apple retail stores in the coming year.
One focus will be on opening larger stores overall. While this is great news for anybody who has been frustrated by the zoo that is any Apple store on any given day recently (careful what you wish for when you wish for your platform of choice to finally get the market share it needs to ensure continued development), the bulk of these stores will be overseas in cities like Paris, London, and Shanghai.
So if you live in Paris, London, or Shanghai, congratulations! You, too, will have a store you can try to shop in when all you want is a new set of earphones for your iPhone and you can’t get anywhere near the display.

