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  • Captain America: The First Avenger New Poster

    // Gradly // blog, Movies, News 3 Responses

    Marvel has released the first official poster for Captain America: The First Avenger and it’s amazing!

    Captain America: The First Avenger hitting 3D and 2D theaters on July 22. Directed by Joe Johnston, the action adventure stars Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Toby Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci and Neal McDonough.

    Captain America: The First Avenger will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.

    Click on the image below to see it in full version.

  • 25 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Bought Pixar

    // Gradly // blog, Pixar, Steve Jobs 1 Response

    On February 3rd, 1986 Steve Jobs acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm. Jobs, who was forced to resign from Apple, renamed the group “Pixar”. After some years of initial business struggle, the rest is history: Pixar is now the most successful animation studio in the world with masterpieces such as Toy Story, Up and Wall-E in their portfolio. The company became a subsidiary of Walt Disney in 2006.

    From the unofficial Pixar blog:

    When Pixar went beyond the conference and animation-festival circuit and into the multiplex with Toy Story in 1995, it changed the art and business of animation overnight. True, if Pixar hadn’t made the first computer-animated feature film, someone else eventually would have. But if Toy Story hadn’t been a superlative film, it’s doubtful computer graphics would have taken over feature animation as it did.

    Pixar’s most extraordinary creation, perhaps, is its repeatable process for creating stories that audiences will want to see. I don’t mean a “formula,” but a way of incubating stories: putting story development in the hands of the director and providing regular feedback from a director’s peers.

    Happy birthday, Pixar.

  • iPad 2 to Have Carbon Fiber Shell, NFC, 7-inch variety?

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, iPad, Rants & Raves No Responses

    We’ve heard about NFC but iLounge floats two more very interesting, here what they had to say:

    A previously accurate source has provided iLounge with some interesting new details on Apple’s ongoing iPad development efforts, cautioning that some of the information is very preliminary. Here’s what we’ve heard.

    1. RFID/NFC Accessories: According to our source, Apple is actively developing new accessories that will communicate with the near-field radio chips reportedly built into new iPads and iPhones. In the most basic implementation, an accessory could announce its presence and potential functions to an iPad or iPhone without the need for a Bluetooth or similar connection; our source suggests that an otherwise simple case could include a radio chip so that an inserted iPhone or iPad could go into power-saving hibernation mode automatically. More complex accessories will go far beyond that.

    2. A New Body Material: While our source urges caution on this point, it’s possible that the company will use a new material similar to carbon fiber rather than aluminum for upcoming iPads. Apple has already applied for a patent on this, and apparently second-generation iPad shells made from the new material have already been spotted. Apple has in the past worked simultaneously on more than one version of a device enclosure before making a late-stage switch to another, but it is apparently testing these new shells now in the hopes of reducing the weight of iPads.

    3. The 7-inch iPad Lives: While Apple apparently decided to scuttle the 7” version of the iPad it was working on last year, our source notes that a key iPad, iPhone, and iPod component provider has been asked by Apple to develop a part for use in a seven-inch iPad. Our source believes that this part is for a new version of the device that is still in development, and doesn’t know whether it will go into production. The request suggests, however, that Apple is continuing to keep the idea of a smaller-screened iPad alive despite having pooh-poohed competing 7”-screened devices as “tweeners.”

    Our source recommends that you take all of this with the requisite grains of salt. We wanted to share it because it was intriguing.

  • Greenpois0n RC5 for Windows To Be Available Within 2 Days

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, iPhone, Jailbreak 1 Response

    iPhone hacker @p0sixninja of the Chronic Dev Team has confirmed that the Windows version of Greenpois0n will be available within 2 days, that means the next Sunday or Monday as max. Here is what he had to say:

    @p0sixninja: Site issues should be better soon thanks to @iOPK. Windows version should be out tomorrow or the next day

    Greenpois0n RC5 was released yesterday. For How-to Guide and iOS 4.2.1 for iPhone, iPad, iPod Downloads please check here & here.