The Magic Fiddle on the Ipad

Want to play the fiddle? But only own a iPad?

Fix your eyes on the ipad application called "Magic Fiddle". From the creators of "Magic Piano" Smule brings you an annoying to learn, but highly reactive and colorful fiddle playing. The sound is supreme and houses a clever design.

Although there is a steep learning curve, beginners can pull together some fiddle melody in no time! Magic Fiddle has a built in guide that will walk you through the correct way to hold your iPad. Once you have mastered the setup of this ipad fiddle app, you can challenge people from around the world!

You can pickup an Apple iPad MB292LL/A Tablet (16GB, Wifi) from amazon.com for $553 + shipping.

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Microsoft Tag - Your information is just one scan away

Microsoft has actually put out a decently cool product called Microsoft Tag. This has created an all new way of providing information to people. You can create these bar code style squares, and use them anywhere on any media. A user merely scans this box with their phones camera and an application, and the user automatically gets all the information contained in the boxes data.

The image to the left was generated using Microsoft's tag creation system at http://tag.microsoft.com scanning this image will attempt to open a browser link on your phone pointing you to the main page of thejonestheory.blogspot.com

 Using an image such as the one above, a user can use a down-loadable application on their cell phone to scan the image and get the data. head over to http://gettag.mobi for the latest details on the scanning application.

Toy story 3 on DVD/Blu-ray

Toy Story 3 is the latest release to the trilogy "Toy Story".  Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated family film, the first Disney/Pixar film to be made, as well as the first feature film to be made entirely with CGI.

I saw this movie in theaters and it absolutely blew my mind. The animation in this movie is ultra realistic, and the characters facial expressions are dead on. I am planning on picking up the DVD just so I can check out all the special features on the DVD.

For all you High Performance TV watchers, you can pick up Toy Story 3 (Four-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) have the Blu-ray for the big screen, and the DVD for the kids!

If you don't have any of the previous movies, you might as well pick up the entire stack! It comes out to be cheaper to just buy the Toy Story Trilogy (10-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy).

Here is a full list of what you get:

Toy Story:
•Toy Story 3 Sneak Peek: The Story
•Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs Blast off
•Paths to Pixar Artists
•Studio Stories: John's Car, Baby AJ, Scooter Races
•Buzz Takes Manhattan
•Black Friday The Toy Story You Never Saw
Toy Story 2:
•Director commentary
•BD Live-portal (BD only)
•Toy Story 3 sneak peek: "The Characters"
•Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs: International Space Station
•Paths to Pixar: Technical Artists
•Studio Stories: Toy Story 2 Sleep Deprivation Lab
•Studio Stories: Pinocchio
•Studio Storyies: The Movie Vanishes
•Pixar's Zoetrop
•Celebrating our friend Joe Ranft
Toy Story 3:
•Day And Night Theatrical Short Filmmakers Commentary With Commentary By Director Lee Unkrich and Producer Darla Anderson
•Bonus: The Gang's All Here - A look at the returning voice talent for Toy Story 3.
•Toys! - A look at all the toys from updating classic characters to developing the Sunnyside Daycare and Bonnie's Room toys.
•Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs: The Science of Adventure (conj with NASA)
•Paths to Pixar: Pixar Editors, past and future, share anecdotes about their career path.
•Studio Stories: Where's Gordon? There's a hidden room at Pixar that we call the Where's Gordon?, and this is its story.
•Studio Stories: Cereal Bar The majestic and expansive Pixar cereal bar is explored.
•Studio Stories: Clean Start The Pixar animation team shaves their heads to mark the start of TS3 animation.
•A Toy's Eye View: Creating a Whole New Land
•Toys! A look at all the toys from updating classic characters to developing the Sunnyside Daycare and Bonnie's Room toys
•Interactive Game: Toy Story Trivia Dash
•Cine-Explore by Dir. Lee Unkrich and Prod. Darla Anderson
•Beyond the Toybox -commentary track
•Beginnings with Michael Arndt - Screenwriter Michael Arndt analyzes successful opening scenes from ToyStory, Nemo and the Incredibles.
•Bonnie's Playtime - A roundtable discussion with the Lee Unkrich and the story artists who brought the "Bonnie's Playtime" scene to life.
•Roundin' Up a Western Opening - Development process and scene analysis of "Western Opening" in its various iterations through the story process.
•Goodbye Andy - An exploration of character design, acting and animation in the scene "Andy's Goodbye".
•The Accidental Toymakers of Pixar - Meet the makers of the original Buzz Lightyear and watch how the newest version of Buzz - the Ultimate Buzz is constructed.
•Life of a Shot - Overview of artist contribution to each step of the production pipeline on a select group of shots from the Western Opening of Toy Story 3.
•Making of Day and Night
•Epilogue - Stand-alone 1.33 version of the Epilogue.
•Ken's Dating Tips, Lotso Commercials, "Dancing with the Stars" at Pixar
•Trailers and More

Dark Horse Deluxe Dexter Color Changing Mug

So I just found this on amazon, and just had to make a post. If you don't know one thing about me, let it be known that I am highly fond of the Dexter series. The TV series, books, short stories, online comics. I present to you one of the cooliest Dexter merchandise products around. The Dexter Color Changing Mug.

Feeling murderous in the morning? Get out your Dexter blood-splattered mug and let the caffeine from a hot cup of coffee warm you up and restore your civilized side. This diabolical mug shows the two sides of Dexter: when cold, it is covered with blood, just like a newly discovered Florida crime scene; when hot, the blood disappears, leaving a grinning Dexter, who's in on all your secrets.

I plan on picking up this cup soon just to see how great the changes are. If you have this cup let me know how cool it is. If your going to buy one, let me know what thoughts you had when deciding to buy it.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

 Activision has put out yet another epic first person shooter called Call of Duty: Black Ops. Set in the era of the cold war, black ops brings you authentic weapons and vehicles of the times. Providing new playing styles in single player mode, Call of Duty: Black Ops houses a large array of maps providing hours of fun on your own.



Throwing your self right into the heat of the battle is the online match making. Call of Duty: Black Ops follows the familiar feel of COD:MW2 with an improved physics engine. Online you can choose to play against other online players in head to head combat, or tag up with your friends and play Co-op missions.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is both available for the XBox 360 as well as the PS3. Both systems provide new and improved graphics, also available in 3D!

If you have not yet played any of the Call of Duty series, your not only behind the times, you are missing out on some of the most intense, heart pounding combat action. So pick up a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops, grab your mountain dew, and crank your headphones to max. It's now time to step in the the cold war and unless your inner commando.

Also, if you are into "Special Edition" sets, you can pick up the Call of Duty: Black Ops Hardened Edition for Xbox 360, or the Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition.

Let me know how your experiences go with this game, It is my hopes to pick up a copy soon and bring back some even better details about the game. If you have this game, or have done your research, what are the features you like most about this latest release?

Thanks for stopping by!

Transcend 16GB Class 10 SDHC Card (TS16GSDHC10)

For the last month or so I have been looking for a good 16GB SDHC memory card. After doing my research I found the Transcend 16gb SDHC card SD 3.0 SPD class 10. This thing is working perfectly and has great response to transferring files.
Although I have not seen Transcend much in the market, the performance this little guy has is amazing. I have bought many high end memory cards that compare in performance, but ended up failing far to quickly for the price I paid.

Transcend has really done a great job in the mini memory world, and this 16GB SDHC card is top notch.


On another note I also recently purchased a new Android phone. The problem I was having was finding a suitable flash memory card for it. Check out my next review to see how the SandDisk 16gb class 2 microSDHC card held up.


If you own this particular product please let me know how it worked out for you. If you have had better luck with another device please share your information so we can do a review on it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Future Weapons: Season 1

A long time back I had purchased the Future Weapons: Season 1 DVD pack online. I received it quickly and watched the entire season in one night. This inspired a post of mine on this website http://thejonestheory.blogspot.com/2007/02/future-weapons.html So far this has been my highest producing post on this website.
The reason that post is getting so much attention is because of how awesome the show is. If you have seen this show before, you know some of the cool toys Richard "Mack" Machowicz gets to demonstrate for us.


There have since been a few more seasons put out. But today I watched the entire season again and remembered why it was so freaking cool. If you haven't bought it, pick up Future Weapons: Season 1 on DVD and be prepared to wipe a grin off your face.

If you have bought or are buying this DVD, let me know what you thought about it. Did you enjoy watching things get blown up as much as I did?

Future Weapons

Aspire AS5251-1805

If you are shopping around for a new laptop or netbook, this post should lead you too a great find. I have used Acer products for a while now, all have been laptops. I have had no issues with any of them, and still have all 3 to this day.

We bought our daughter one of these Aspire netbooks and have not regretted it one day. This nice computers comes Pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium operating system (64-bit version) which makes it run smooth.

 The picture on this screen is really crips as well. It runs a ATI Radeon HD 4250 graphics (with 256 MB of discrete video memory) and has a 250 GB hard drive. This computer works great for playing music, watching movies, and even more so doing home work. Out daughter uses her's for school, and types up all of her reports.

If you are looking for a light weight, power packed (not to mention affordable) netbook, Aspire AS521-1805 is a perfect choice for you.

 

Please take a minute and let me know what you think about this netbook. Have you owned one? Did you enjoy it?

A andriod for a pennie

Well I am not sure what this is all about, but it says the price is a Pennie! So go on and buy a new android phone!

 OK, So that price is probably wrong, we all know that! But lets admit it, the android is the hottest thing on the market right now.

This is a Samsung Captivate. It has a built in 16GB memory running a 1GHz processor. With a beautiful AMOLED screen, this Android 2.1 device runs amazingly.

This is been the best Android phone put out yet for the carrier AT&T. If you have your service through them, and would like to go to the light side, pick your self up a new android phone.

Android market is loaded with tons of games and applications. The system runs smooth, and you will never be disappointed.