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Like sands through the hourglass, so goes the daily drama of MegaUpload. The only good thing about the FBI’s arrest and seizure of the MegaUpload has been the interesting reading it has provided. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is quite the character. His birthname was Kim Schmitz, but he changed it years ago. A month ago in a big middle finger to the recording industry he put the MegaUpload Mega Song on YouTube. It’s a catchy song about how awesome MegaUpload is with over 12 million views that features tons of celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Jamie Foxx, Chris Brown, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Diddy, Floyd Mayweather, Jr and many others. Apparently Alicia Keys’ husband, Swizz Beatz, was negotiating to become CEO of MegaUpload for about a year. My guess is Mr. Dotcom thought it would be a good move to befriend some in the industry and it also surely helped him gather some of the singers featured in the Mega Song Video. Why Swizz Beatz would agree to become CEO was either lack of knowledge or greed. Either way it is interesting that he hasn’t been arrested or even questioned by the FBI so far. While this is intriguing the arrest of Kim Dotcom was right out of a Hollywood movie. Continue Reading…

So if you look back through my tweets you come across this gem from 7/12/2011, “@netflix just became my #1 tech stock to short! Kiss subscriber growth goodbye with that price increase.” Just 70 days later the stock price is down 50% and the destruction of this company is even a little shocking to me. CEO, Reed Hastings put out a YouTube video apologizing for screwing up the company with the price increase. He tried to explain that they know the future is streaming but letting go of the mail business which made Netflix so successful was hard to do. Instead of taking the price increase back, Netflix decided to spin off the mail order business and in a few weeks is changing the name to Qwikster. I’m sure whatever small percentage of their customers were still subscribing to both services loves that they will soon have to login to two different websites and get two different bills. And Qwikster, holy crap, what a terrible name. On top of that, the @qwikster on Twitter is some stoner who hadn’t tweeted in months. Imagine his surprise to seeing his email get slammed with over 8000 new followers in the past 24 hours. I know the mail order business is a dead man walking, but it could have kept walking for years. Mr. Hastings has damaged the brand in a way that can’t be fixed. Hulu, Apple and others should send him a thank you gift. At this point I only see one way Netflix can be saved. Quickly become the best streaming site on the web. Biggest selection with the best quality streams. It might even help if they re-branded the Netflix name to something people know and trust when it comes to quality online movies. Like maybe the Pirate Bay.

As you know I’ve been looking for an alternative to MegaUpload for awhile. I liked FileServe, but unfortunately it wouldn’t download direct to most iOS devices. Well WUpload is a new player that is gaining market share rapidly. Thus, I thought I would give it a try. I know it downloads fine to an iPhone 4 with the Downloads Lite app. Thus, you will start seeing a few files going to WUpload as I test out people’s reaction to it. It works just like all the others. Just scroll down to the right and click “Slow Download” in the regular download box. Once clicked you’ll have a twenty second countdown before a captcha box appears. Enter the captcha and click submit. You should immediately see and “Download Now” button in the same place. Click that and your download starts. Let me know what you think of WUpload.

Hey, anyone interested in writing some articles for iPhone4idiots? I’m getting a little tired cranking out two or three posts per week and am looking for a guest blogger. You can write about anything tech that interests you. iPhones, iPads, social networks, apps, games, game consoles or iOS. I’m only looking for one or two posts per week. What do you get for your time? Well, you can link back to your own website/blog or post a YouTube video to get extra views as long as it fits within the article you post. Also, you don’t have to worry about the grammar police. If you’ve read my stuff you know why. I can’t be a hypocrite, I just want something comparable. So if you are interested use the contact page to shoot me an email.

Anyone noticing the brilliant marketing campaign going on right now called Mano A Mano in el Bano? I noticed this morning there were promoted tweets (putting it at the top of my trending tweets list) about Fabio (the long haired Italian model) and the Old Spice Guy. You know from the YouTube Videos and commercials. Anyway, Fabio has challenged him to a dual. What this means, I’m not sure. The Old Spice Guy accepted in a video recent enough to take credit from bringing football back. Can’t wait to see what comes of the dual tomorrow and how much buzz this builds. Not sure how much it cost for the top promoted tweet each day, but I suspect it’s peanuts compared to its overall value. The campaign is already viral on Twitter and YouTube. It has to be popular with females, right? Back me up ladies, you like the pecs. I suspect you’ll be seeing Facebook posts in your stream this evening. I for one am rooting for the Old Spice Guy to win. Either way, the almost real-time nature of this marketing is the future. I suspect the marketing team is gathering data and the dual video or videos will be shot in the morning.

I’m off to South Africa for the World Cup. GO USA!!!! While I’m gone there likely will not be any new Movie or TV show links added. Feel free to post links in the Forum if you have them, but Requests will not be answered by me until I’m back at the end of June. Sorry, that means you’ll have to wait for The Last Song, Toy Story 3, Sex and the City 2 AND new episodes of True Blood, the Secret Life of the American Teenager etc. You can find these lots of other places just not usually in mp4. So if you can’t wait just grab them elsewhere, but please come back at the end of June as things will be back to normal. I will be posting some videos of my travels so check them out on the YouTube channel.

Thought I’d make a guide about unraring files since some people aren’t sure how to do it. It’s really simple and there is also a step by step video at the end of the guide. To see how to convert files to mp4 see our guide here. So rar files are a way to breakup another file into smaller parts. Continue Reading…

A. C. Milan, $4.99, keeps you updated with official news from the club. I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big soccer fan so I thought I’d check out this app since this large Italian soccer team has my favorite US player on it, Oguchi Onyewu. What better way to keep track of how he’s doing? Well, the app is hugely disappointing. Milan deserve a red card for this one. First, the news tab is fine, but really contains nothing different than what you would find on the home page of their website. The video tab is even worse. First each video is labeled movie 1, movie 2, etc. so you have no idea what you are about to watch. Continue Reading…

Two requested movies this week, The Bachelor (1999) and Katt Williams American Hustle. New episodes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, Curb, Bored to Death, Entourage, Drop Dead Diva, Dexter, Mad Men and Californication. Finishing up Nip Tuck and Six Feet Under soon. Spent a lot of time on Dexter The Game app review (hoped you liked it) and on Friday night getting MMS working and writing about it. Tell me what you liked or what you want to see more of. Anybody using MMS or tethering? Send me a tweet or come post in Forum. Working on VERY COOL app review for next Thursday!

Apple’s ‘It’s only rock and roll’ event took place last Wednesday, with new products and software updates. Despite my laziness I wanted to post a small recap on the event. So, what’s new?
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