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Get movie stills to your Samsung Frame
After purchasing a Samsung Frame, I wanted to do more with it and had no desire to give Samsung more money for its Art store. Discover how I used it to render stills from your favorite movies, using open source.
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Security isn’t something you … add
The importance of integrating security into the core of construction and architecture cannot be overstated. Both play a crucial role in efficiency and protection. As a Chief Technology Officer, it’s essential to consider security at every step, from identifying attack surfaces to ensuring adequate monitoring and reaction capabilities. Security should be the foundation of everything built or integrated, involving the entire team.
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Vision without a plan is just a dream
We all dream of a better future, but few take steps to make it real. As a CTO, turning a vision into reality is crucial. Assessing the current environment, planning, and ensuring a realistic path to completion are vital. Success lies in execution and delivering tangible results, shaping your leadership ability. Without a realistic path, the vision remains just a dream.
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Pixels (2015)
This movie has all the ingredients to make this a complete and utter waste of time and money. Adam Sandler staring should be everything you need to know. But it gets better, an alien race, takes on the form of the arcade games from the early 1980′s to invade the planet using pixelated boxes of energy. Oh, and did I mention we have Kevin James as the POTUS? Watch…
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
This absolute gem of a movie from the very talented Mike Myers broke the mold when it came to parodies. In fact to call this a parody is being disingenuous, because this movie stands on its own two feet, even if you don’t know all the back references to the early James Bond outings. Playing the British super swinging 1960′s super agent that is then frozen only to be thawed out…
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San Andreas (2015)
This movie I walked into with my eyes wide open and with full expectation this was going to be a cheesy Sharknado type of disaster flick. The full on B style movie with awful laughable special effects and a lame story line. Boy was I surprised. Relatively lame story line aside for the moment, from the opening scene of the girl driving over the cliff and the Rock coming in…
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Terminator Genisys (2015)
Can you believe this is my 50th movie review in this movie-a-day-for-a-year series? What a better way to mark this milestone with a good old fashioned post-Governor Arnie terminator romp? We can all agree that the first Terminator, from James Cameron, out 31 years ago, truly set the standard and put Arnold into the big league movie stars. There has been a number of reboots of this series, including a…
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Z for Zachariah (2015)
Post nuclear war and very few human survivors are left. We open up with Ann (Margot Robbie) taking various things from an abandoned town in her radiation suit. She then walks out far enough into the country and gets rid of the suit – clearly setting up that there is an area that for some reason is not bathed in radiation. She goes about her lonely existence, when she happens…
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Results (2015)
Where do you even begin with this train wreck of a romantic comedy? Though, if we look at it as infomercial for how fit and trim Guy Pearce is then we have a winner. So the setup is around a private fitness center run by the aforementioned Mr Pearce. He, Trevor, is very passionate about his mission statement that getting fit is more than just the physical body. He…
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
This is one of those movies that creeps up on you over the years. While not an instant hit at the box office on its arrival, it has attained cult status as we learn to appreciate some of the in-jokes and references to the science fiction convention sub culture. The basic premise of the story is simple; you have a bunch of TV stars who are still trading on their…
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Jurassic World (2015)
Here we go again with the CGI dinosaurs 22 years from the first outing. This time we have a brand new theme park that is built upon the old Jurassic Park location. So plenty of opportunity to have the odd nod back to the original movie, complete with buildings named after the late John Hammond (Richard Attenborough). The story is pretty much the same, the messing around with DNA has…
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Gallipoli (1981)
This movie is about the famous failed World War One military operation to attack Gallipoli as told from the prospective of the Australian army. The movie started off life as a 2 part mini-series that was later edited into a feature length. The first half of the movie is the back story of all the characters who find themselves signing up to the war effort. It is by’n’large seen…
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