Geekisms!

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now the fifteenth movie to surpass $1 billion at the worldwide box office. What were the other fourteen? And how did they fare review wise, comparatively? IGN has prepared an awesome breakdown of these billion dollar movies and their review scores...

What a difference a month makes. When we last checked in early February, Gingerbread was still the most commonly used major version of Google's mobile OS despite having launched all the way back in 2010. As of the start of March, there's a different story to tell: variants of Android 4 are at last more popular, collectively representing 45.1 percent of active use versus Gingerbread's 44.2 percent. Most of those on the newer OS are still using the 2011-era Ice Cream Sandwich, although we have good news again when Jelly Bean has grown to represent 16.5 percent of current users. There's a long distance to go before any one version of Android 4 surpasses Gingerbread, but the gap is closing fast.

The Humble Bundle crew are at it again. Humble Bundle with Android 5 is now available for whatever price you choose. As their slogan says: 'Pay what you want. Support Charity. Get cross-platform, DRM-free games! 

The bundle consists of popular indie titles such as Dynamite Jack, Beat Hazard, Solar 2 and Night Sky HD, along with their soundtracks. Plus, if you pay above the average purchase price which is currently $6.64, you get Dungeon Defenders (with DLC included) and Super Hexagon as well as the soundtracks for both games.  The fun part of all this is that the games are cross platform which means they are available on Windows, Mac, Linux and even Android!

Hot Damn!!

That's all that was on my mind as I watched the latest trailer for the upcoming summer blockbuster, Iron Man 3. More than enough explosions, robots suits to satisfy any geek cravings you may have. Plus if you watch carefully, you'll see glimpses of the self assembling Iron Man armor which comic book fans will know references the extremis technology from the Iron Man comics. One thing I did notice missing though was the trademark humor that Robert Downey Jr. brings to the role of Tony Stark. It seems like this release will be a more serious take on the franchise. 

Whatever the case, its Iron Man 3, its coming out May 3rd, 2013, if you don't watch it you'll lose all your friends and everyone will hate you! 

Just kidding. But seriously, you have to watch it!

I came across a colleague of mine who had purchased the recently released Blackberry Z10. I don't know how much he got it for but I was able to get some hands on time with the phone and I can boldly state this is not the Blackberry that you've gotten used to dissing. First thing you notice is how light the phone is, it felt like I was holding an empty plastic phone case. That's not to say that it feels cheap, the plastic that makes up most of the phone's outer body feels good and the textured back cover is a nice touch too. the screen is gorgeous and the OS is very responsive to the touch. The camera app was very quick with taking photos and just one tap takes you to the picture gallery with minimal fuss. Multitasking works pretty well though I think this is the part of the phone that i believe will confuse most regular folk on account of the fact that the phone has no physical buttons or onscreen buttons to tell you how to switch between apps. Only those who are familiar with the Blackberry Playbook will know to swipe from the bottom of the screen upwards (or those who pay attention to the tutorial before using the phone).

All in all the Z10 is a pretty swanky device with more that enough power to take on the giants of today's smartphone wars and I hope to spend more time with it but what I'm really waiting for is the Q10 with its hardware keyboard which will no doubt be up to the usual epic Blackberry standards.