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Comment on Applebox Movieclub by Adaline Pietrowski

Adaline Pietrowski — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:20:22 +0000

Found a great site to watch new movies online F L Y 3 4 . c o m

Comment on dStore to go Retail 2.0 by Simon

Simon — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:31:47 +0000

Ahhh .. I had vague memories of this as a paper-catalogue/back-of-house system from the UK, but I could never track it down. Argos! Thanks again Matt

Comment on Playing around with fonts by Simon

Simon — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:25:57 +0000

Thanks for the tip I totally get pedantic .. the devil is in the detail!

Comment on dStore to go Retail 2.0 by matt

matt — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:13:17 +0000

It’s a version of the counter-in-front/warehouse-in-back model developed by Argos in the UK back in 1973. Except Argos displays very few products, and instead, customers select from giant catalogues in-store, or bring item codes from their catalogue at home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos_Ltd

cheers,
matt

Comment on Playing around with fonts by matt

matt — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:07:03 +0000

I’m a big fan of Rockwell. But it’s a typeface, not a font.
A font is a full character set, of a particular style and size from a typeface.
So, Rockwell italic, 9pt is a font. But Rockwell itself aint.
cheers,
pedantic design guy.

Comment on Blu-ray Wins. Period. by Simon

Simon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:56:06 +0000

ha! (i) but also gives you richer colour, better sound and beautifully crisp visuals. (ii) agreed, Steve Jobs is holding Apple back. With recent changes to simpler licencing, hopefully we’ll see Blu-ray support in the next generation of hardware. (iii) Just sit closer to the TV! (iv) nice tip - will check it out.

Comment on Blu-ray Wins. Period. by Richard

Richard — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:47:09 +0000

But. (i) Front/Nixon is a character driven drama, there are no car chases, so Blu-Ray lets me look at Michael Sheen’s pock marks better. (ii) S Jobs says it is a “bag of hurt”, so I can’t play it straight off my set up here. (iii) My eyes are that bad, VHS looks good. (iv) The local retravision store (the one near Bunnings) is very good.

Comment on C’mon .. help a guy out by Simon

Simon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:07:19 +0000

Thanks for the link Stephen - that’s actually the image I took in the end. Not quite hi-res enough .. but it will have to do (another movie that I couldn’t find good poster art for was the Russell Crowe film - Tenderness).

All my poster art is generally studio release art and so without OFLC classifications - it looks so much better than DVD cover art. So rather than having OFLC ratings on the images, I put them in with the movie details. iTunes does the same and so does BigpondMovies Downloads. If I’ve got it wrong, hopefully the OFLC will start with them!

Thanks for the HWW links .. you’re right, with clients like ninemsn, I can smell the $$ already

Comment on C’mon .. help a guy out by Stennie

Stennie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:53:56 +0000

Hi Simon,

Not sure if you’re allowed to show overseas art without the OFLC rating, but as a last resort there’s always IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1355909376/tt1223893

I believe HWW (http://www.hww.com.au/) also provides movie images, though probably not priced on smell of oily rags :).

Cheers,
Stephen

Comment on Whether or Which by Simon

Simon — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:38:23 +0000

.. still trying to crack that one! Got a pretty funny short film on the way that will help out ..