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• iOS System Level Link Management

  Published on 25 August 2011

  iOS needs system level link management which can hook in to apps and create a better flow for users. “Official apps” (is there a way an app can be marked as official?) sho…

• WordPress Custom File Upload

  Published on 07 July 2011

  In a couple of recent projects I have been delving deeper and deeper in to customising the functionality of WordPress, using it more like a CMS than just a blogging platf…

• iPhone Games 3

  Published on 30 May 2011

  This is my third article recommending iPhone games. Out of the previous two entries, there are only a couple of games I play regularly. Since my second entry over six months a…

• Using the Correct Glyphs

  Published on 08 April 2011

  Modern keyboards have limited space to display characters which users will use on a day-to-day basis. This restriction of characters has lead to widespread glyph substitutions…

Movies Latest

• Someone Else

  Watched on 25 January 2012

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  When thirty-something David isn't working as a photographer at a high-street photo studio he is stressing over his love-life. Torn between his rather-too-agreeable girlfriend Lisa and the exciting but tricky Nina, he has serious decision to make. When he gets it all wrong and loses them both he has to start all over again

• Source Code

  Watched on 23 January 2012

  8

  Colter Stevens, a US Army helicopter pilot whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan, wakes up on a commuter train. However, he discovers that he has assumed the identity of another man. 8 minutes later, the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in some kind of pod. He then talks to someone named Goodwin, who tells him he has to go back and find out who the bomber is. He is sent back to go through the whole thing again and attempts to find who the bomber is but fails. The bomb goes off and Stevens finds himself in the pod again. He is sent back another time, yet still cannot find out anything. When he returns, he asks what is going on. Goodwin and Rutledge, the scientist in charge, tell him that he is part of a project that can put someone in another person's consciousness during the last 8 minutes of their life. Stevens then asks why he cannot just stop the bomb. He is told that…

• J. Edgar

  Watched on 22 January 2012

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  As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.

• Haywire

  Watched on 22 January 2012

  6

  Beautiful freelance covert operative Mallory Kane is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can't authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. After a mission to rescue a hostage in Barcelona, Mallory is quickly dispatched on another mission to Dublin. When the operation goes awry and Mallory finds she has been double crossed, she needs to use all of her skills, tricks and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.

• The Tree of Life

  Watched on 21 January 2012

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  The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

• Stake Land

  Watched on 20 January 2012

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  Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.

• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

  Watched on 17 January 2012

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  A filmmaker decides to memorialize a murdered friend when his friend’s ex-girlfriend announces she is expecting his son.

• Stand by Me

  Watched on 16 January 2012

  8

  After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.

• Goon

  Watched on 15 January 2012

  6

  Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way.

• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

  Watched on 15 January 2012

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  Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.