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Top 10 Directorial Debuts

Directing your first feature film is not an easy task. Directing your first feature film, which turns out to be a masterpiece seems almost impossible. However, some of the very talented directors succeeded in doing so. In this Top 10 I’m counting down the 10 best Directorial Debuts of All Time.

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10,000 BC Movie Review

Roland Emmerich (director) likes to go back and forth in time, accompanied by a big budget. With Independence Day he considered an alien invasion, in The Day After Tomorrow he showed the results of an abrupt global warming, in 1998 he remade Godzilla. Even though these movies are big business, the quality varies from questionable to bad. Therefore it is no surprise that I was not very excited to see his newest movie, 10,000 BC.

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Burn any image file to CD/DVD with ImgBurn

Before I discovered ImgBurn, I was looking for a freeware application that could burn a DVD from .VOB files. I knew Nero Burning Rom could do it, but that one isn’t free. Luckily I disovered ImgBurn, a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application, that can burn anything to anything.

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File-sharing showdown: Usenet vs. Bittorrent

When Bittorrent inherited the earth a while ago, file sharing became more popular than ever. The other major player in file sharing land is Usenet. Usenet has been around for quite a while as a public message network, but is also very popular when it comes to file sharing. Therefore it’s time to make a comprehensive comparison between these two.

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Post summary on frontpage, summary bold in full story

A trick that I used for this site. Always wondered how to get a post summary on the frontpage, but the same paragraph in bold in the full story? Well, that’s exactly what I was l asking myself back then. However, it’s very easy. Read along.

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We’re finally up!

All righty then, our first Wordpress blog is up and running! It took us a while to figure things out, this being our first weblog, but we finally made it.

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