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.

FreeCreditReport.com - A Review

I have been using their site for about 2 months now. They offer a 14 day trial for getting your free report, and charge 14.95 monthly to track your credit score. For 24.95 monthly you can track you credit score on all 3 reporting agency's.

Although they are not the cheapest site out there (Wellsfargo offers all 3 scored for 14.95 to their customers) I have found that they have the easiest and nicest flowing site of all the ones I have tried.

I have also found their alerts to be very handy when keeping a close eye on your credit score. I get an alert sent to my email, in turn gets sent to my phone. So every time something on my credit happens, I am notified within 20 seconds of the action.

Over all I would say they are a little spendy, but for their well designed site, and easy to use layout, I think this is a great program for anyone working on building their credit back up. The first step to rebuilding credit, Is knowing your credit number.

There is only one book I ever recommend to people trying to get out of debt, and fix their credit. This is a must have! This is the book by Dave Ramsey called The Total Money Makeover.

Dearly Devoted Dexter

I started the second book about 3 days ago. I had just finishes Darkly Dreaming Dexter, which was the first in the set. So far the second book has kept me on a short leash. For the first part of this book Dexter takes us through some of his brain and paints a decently detailed picture about whats going on in his "lizard Brain" as he would put it.

Within the first few chapters we are introduced to his next victim. We also start to get a in depth layout of the rules and laws Dexter follows, which were laid down by Harry, His adopted father. There is still more yet to play out in this story of Dexter, our Good guy serial killer.

More updates to come as I get farther into the book, as well as a final review once I am done. I would highly recommend picking the first book up if you haven't already, this is a set of books you will love!

First Book: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Second Book: Dearly Devoted Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Third Book: Dexter in the Dark (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Book

Darkly dreaming Dexter is a book by Jeff Lindsay (also made into a Showtime series) about a character "Dexter Morgan" who works for the Metro Miami Police as a blood splatter analyst. Dexter's foster sister "Debera Morgan" also works with Dexter in the Metro Miami Police force.

Dexter is the lead blood splatter analyzer, with a twisted alter ego. Dexter was adopted by "Harry Morgan" a Miami Police detective  who raised Dexter with a wild understanding of Dexter's "Imperfections" growing up as a young child.

This story takes us along a thrilling ride as Dexter try's to solve a series of murders done by the "Ice Truck Killer" who's murder techniques follow oddly similar to Dexter's. Follow Dexter on his murderous adventurers as he and Debera track the ice truck killer through Miami.

 I was given this book as a gift from a friend who knew that I deeply enjoyed the T.V series on showtime. Once I started reading the book I realized I wasn't able to put it down. I ended up reading the entire book in one sitting. Only an hour later did I get back online and order the following 2 books in the series.

I will be putting up a short overview and some comments on those two in due time. For now I would highly recommend this first book as a place to start. please let me know how much you enjoyed this book. I would love to hear back!



Have you read this book? Please leave a comment about what you thought of it.

Order: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) from Amazon 


JonesTheory

Some changes to the site

So as you can probably tell I have been making some changes to the site lately.

I have been tying some things up on my end of life, and am starting to get some time to put into the site. I will be getting a domain name soon, and some private web hosting, and get a new blog going.

For now I will be using Blogger to keep my posts going, and to keep my pay per post up. But eventually (meaning in a couple of days) I will be setting up my personal website, with my own domain, and my own blog.

I will also be starting up a partner ship with another friend of mine and setting up a blog with several authors, along with a public forum to talk about the articles we post on there.

If you would like to help support either websites, please let my know by sending me a email at jjonesdesign@gmail.com with the subject "TheJonesTheory"

Thank you all, and have a great night.

Big Corporations remind me of Higschoolers

So Ive been recently told about a little issue that AOL has been having with a small group of people who have created a program that allows the combination of AIM,Yahoo,Msn,Jabber, and a few other chat messengers, All in one single program.

The group of developers created this application and named it "Gaim" While this stood for "GTK + AOL Instant Messenger" there is where my point leads me to. Although this name closely resembles the name "AIM" the application "Gaim" was created before AOL ever started calling their service "AIM".

Big Corporations remind me of High school students. They nag, complain, and do anything to make someone else's life a living hell. I support open source developing, and in doing so beleive that just because a name is like another, Doesn't mean they are trying to steal your work.

How often do you go to a computer store and see off brand products using things like "I " when they have absolutely no relevance to APPLE. They are merely item's for the product they put out called "IPOD" This is nothing different from this situation. AOL put out a product called "AOL Instant Messegner". "Gaim" is a off brand of "AIM".

Do you catch my drift here? Not only was "Gaim" around before the name "AIM" but "Gaim" is an open source project. Which means they the developers are not making anymoney from people using the product.

If you would like to read the whole artical you can go here: http://www.pidgin.im/

Tata indicom

With the growing of a new world, more and more companies are growing and developing their own business's. Tata Indicom is the leading and top growing telecom business in india today. This wonderful business is growing at incredable speeds.

To visit their website, Please feel free to click this link tata indicom This will take you directly to their site.

also, Tat Indicom's website also have forums for which members can get together and dicsuss the companys assests. This is something not many business would be willing to do, I give credit for taking the risk of letting people opening talk about their business, This truely means they have nothing to fear.

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Whats with these movies?

A Scanner Darkly

This movie was actually not a bad movie. It was done using cel shading, and is actually not that bad of an idea when it comes to trying out new things. They used the cel shading to there advantage too, Which was amazing how they did it.

What do I think?

If this was the directors first movie, then I would give him HUGE props. but at this point, It's not. Overall this movie would be considered NOT that good. With a loose storyline and a lack of details on whats going on it makes for a stretched out tweaker movie. I know this is suppose to be one of those "sci-fi Mystery" time movies, but it does lack in quite a bit.

What would I rate it?

Personally I'd rate this movie at about a 6 out of 10. but only because they used the cel shading to achieve AWESOME effects. Hopefully this director will put out another movie using the same techniques, but with a little better story line. Hopefully next time he will choose a better main character too. I mean come on, he was good in the matrix, but I can't take him seriously anymore.

Wrap it up

It was an ok movie, Id probably watch it again, but only because id pay more detail and try and figure out a few things that to me they left out. If you want to watch a movie that is different, then id choose this one.