REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month.

All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls.

…. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:    888-382-1222.
It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time.. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number.

Best and hope this helps you avoid some marketing calls on your cell phone!

Adam Faragalli

According the imdb.com, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints day is on limited release for October 30th, 2009. Troy Duffy returns as director with the original cast. Pre-screen people who were lucky to have seen it reported “”simply AMAZING” and that the “anticipated sequel did not disappoint.” I’m a fan of the first movie, one of my favorite movies. Very excited about this sequel!

“For the last 8 years the brothers have been living with their father on a sheep farm deep in isolated Ireland. One day their uncle tells them that they have been framed for the murder of a Bostonian Catholic priest. The boys must return to Boston to not only clear their names but find the men who framed them.”

Check out the official trailer here:

Cheers,

Adam Faragalli

Apple has had some of the best advertising for the past 20 years. Working with Jay Chiat, the advertising guru of sorts, TBWA and who knows who else the Apple ads have gone from to the one featured below.

1984 Ad

Now I really love Macs, and I like Windows as well. Both have benefits and both have issues. I have experienced crashes and freezes with every Mac, new or old, I ever worked on. Of course the same can be said of Windows. Recently, over the past 6 months, I have been using Windows 7 and I have to say I do like it. It is stable and gets the job done. A vast improvement over Windows Vista.

But this blog is about the new Apple Ad, Broken Promises. I believe my favorite part of this ad is the change in clothing as the Windows guy goes all the way back to the 80’s. Classic.

The Pirate Bay Logo

I have been following the Pirate Bay torrent law suit for some time. The case has drawn on but recently the Court Orders Pirate Bay to Erase Torrents or face rather costly punitive damages and law suits.

“The Amsterdam court today ruled that The Pirate Bay must remove a list of copyrighted torrents from their website within three months. In addition they have to block Dutch users’ access to parts of the site where copyrighted torrent can be downloaded. If not, the three ‘operators’ will have to pay penalties of 5,000 euros ($7,500) per person, per day.”

“It was concluded that The Pirate Bay itself is not necessarily guilty of copyright infringement. However, according to the Court the site does assist in copyright infringement by allowing and encouraging its users to share torrents.”

So enjoy the last few months of service from The Pirate Baybecause soon it could be a completely different site. In the end, another site will take it’s place. There are already many torrent sites out there eager to replace the traffic. If the site does in fact go down I will update the blog and give you some other solid options to share with the world.

Cheers,

Adam Faragalli

Verizon_Droid Preview Image

Verizon’s upcoming phone Driod has been advertised to compete with Apple’s iPhone. Verizon’s teaser preview with a large media buy has stirred up some hype for the phone. If anything, it has raised some eye brows about some of the phone’s claims to have and exceed the Apple iPhone’s capabilities. Check out the ad below to see what I mean.

Now some have said this is not an  attack on the iPhone. The ad seems obvious to me as the “idont” comment throughout the ad is targeted to the i in ”iPhone”. Verizon’s  Web site for the Driod phone does not have much detail and adds little to the hype generated by the advertisement.

The iPhone Blog recently wrote about “Verizon Attack Ads — Claim iPhone iDoesn’t do What Android 2.0 Droid Does.” In the blog Rene Richie counters each point that the Driod ad raises.

For example, “iDon’t run simultaneous apps: Again, it does. The iPhone can run iPod, Email, Phone, Messages, App Store/iTunes downloads, Quicktime streams, and other functions in the background with full multitasking. Apple restricts two or more 3rd party apps from running at the same time, but that’s obviously too subtle a difference for Verizon.”

From Daring Fireball, “Droid” is going to be a Verizon-owned brand. It’s purportedly a Motorola-manufactured phone, but Verizon is the licensee of the “Droid” trademark. (Which name, by the way, strikes me as the perfect name for an Android OS phone — sort of implicitly establishes it as the Android phone.) That’s the big thing. Verizon doesn’t see itself as a mere carrier for other companies’ phones. It sees itself as being bigger than the phones. It’s Verizon-vs.-Apple in this spot, not Verizon-vs.-AT&T.

So that is some of the hype going on between Verizon’s Droid and the Apple iPhone. Personally, I think the hype is all hot air. My bet is the phone will launch and ultimately fall short of the advertised claims. The iPhone with all it’s applications is just to hard to beat!

Cheers,

Adam Faragalli

Inspired Mag brings another list to the masses. This one is 20 Essential Infographics and Data Visualization Blogs.

Take a look at the article, 20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs.

Cheers,

Adam Faragalli