Cycorder Corrupt Video Repair Service

I tweeted it out yesterday but I’d like to inform you all that I have started a service which means you can get corrupted cycorder videos fixed very quickly and very cheaply.

If you’ve ever used Cycorder and got a call during a video you know how annoying it is when you go to the video and it won’t play. No matter how hard you try it won’t play back. Some people simply give up, others pay quite a lot of money to a repair company.

Today I come to you with the cheap alternative, it’s obviously early stages and I might start a website up and everything specifically for the service soon but for now it’s a referral based service. So if you have coruppted cycorder videos you want fixed or know someone who does I will get them fixed and back to you within less than 1 hour after payment in most cases.

Here’s how it works:

Upload the video to WeTransfer (Up to 2GB)
Send the file to sbraidley [at] yahoo.co.uk (I will set up a email address for it later but for now use that one)
I will then download and fix the file and email you with a quote of price and a screenshot of the video for proof if requested.
Send the payment via PayPal and once payment is received I will immediately upload the file back to WeTransfer for you to download.
You now have your fixed video.

At the minute this is just a small project I’m running to see how many people will be use the service. The pricing is very reasonable and official pricing will be announced later. If you want to get a quote before you send the file, email me at the address provided with the size of the file and I’ll get back to you. Also bulk pricing will be cheaper so if you have 10 videos you can get them all done at once for cheaper than separately. It is mainly aimed at cycorder videos but I might be able to fix any .mov file.

Note: Some videos have audio sync issues which I won’t fix as part of the service but it’s quite simple to do.

A Little Update..

It’s been a while since I’ve updated but I have some news for all of you. First of all I only have 3 more exams left, so in a weeks time they will all be over and I can resume to a normal blogging routine which I haven’t done since January.

Second of all I’m getting my MacBook tomorrow, I thought I’d have to wait till my birthday in September to afford one but my brothers lent me the £800 to get one. So I can start work on Apps now as well.

Thirdly, Formspring have allowed me to be part of the private beta of the APIs so I can start work on a formspring client. Also hopefully in the next few weeks I should get my bonus so I can become a developer and sell on the App Store and also in July I’m opening up my website, so an exciting next few months. And until my website is opened this will be the main place to find out about news about developments and general news.

Oh and the last thing to note is the blog has reached 150,000 hits, thanks!

R5 DVD Release Dates (May 2010 – November 2010)

Check the R5 Release Dates page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010 and include Blu-Ray dates).

May 2010
Date Night – 13^th May 2010
Greenberg – 13^th May 2010
Extraordinary Mesaures – 13^th May 2010
Kick-Ass – 13^th May 2010
I Love You Phillip Morris – 13^th May 2010
The Spy Next Door – 13^th May 2010
Valentine’s Day – 18^th May 2010
The Blind Side – 18^th May 2010
Turtle: The Incredible Journey – 20^th May 2010
The Back-up Plan – 27^th May 2010
In My Sleep – May 2010
Fish Tank – May 2010
Everybody’s Fine – May 2010
L’arnacoeur – May 2010

June 2010
Preacher’s Kid – 1^st June 2010
Everybody’s Fine – 1^st June 2010 (Second Date)
Alice in Wonderland – 1^st June 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 3^rd June 2010
Love at First Hiccup – 9^th June 2010
My Name Is Khan – 10^th June 2010
Date Night – 10^th June 2010 (Second Date)
When in Rome – 15^th June 2010
Valentines Day – 15^th June 2010 (Second Date)
Flicka 2 – June 17^th 2010
The Wolfman – 22^nd June 2010
The Book of Eli – 24^th June 2010
Cop Out – June 2010
The Lovely Bones – June 2010
Invictus – June 2010

July 2010
Marmaduke – 1^stJuly 2010
The A-Team – 8^th July 2010
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits – July 29^th 2010
Please Give – July 29^th 2010
Clash of the Titans – July 2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – July 2010
Green Zone – July 2010
She’s Out of My League – July 2010
An Invisible Sign of My Own – July 2010
All’s Faire in Love – July 2010

August 2010
Knight and Day – 5^th August 2010
Predators – 12^th August 2010
Unthinkable – 19^th August 2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street – August 2010
Clash of the Titans – August 2010
Animals United – August 2010
She’s Out of My League – August 2010
Cop Out – August 2010 (Second Date)
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits – August 2010 (Second Date)

September 2010
Date Night – 30^th September 2010 (Second Date)
Barbie Fashion Fairytale – September 2010
Young Americans – September 2010
Robin Hood – September 2010
Sex and the City 2 – September 2010
13 – September 2010
Wrong Turn at Tahoe – September 2010

October 2010
Takers – 22^nd October 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 28^th October 2010
Leap Year – October 2010
Jonah Hex – October 2010
Repo Men – October 2010
Get Him to the Greek – October 2010
The Killer Inside Me – October 2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street – October 2010
My Name Is Khan – October 2010
Orlando – October 2010

November 2010
Predators – 11^th November 2010 (Second Date)
Despicable Me – November 2010
Iron Man 2 – November 2010
How to Train Your Dragon – November 2010
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore – November 2010
The Last Airbender – November 2010
Shrek Forever After – November 2010
Machete – November 2010
Sex and the City 2 – November 2010
Charlie St. Cloud – November 2010

Updated: 19^th May 2010

For the rest of the dates go to http://tinyurl.com/r5dates

Note: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.

Spirit Released for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad

The day has finally come, comex has released Spirit, the first userland jailbreak since the 1.x era. It runs on the latest iPhone OS firmwares (3.1.2, 3.1.3 and 3.2). Spirit is an untethered jailbreak which comes as great news to many 3rd generation iPod Touch & iPhone 3GS users who have the MC models who were stuck with a tethered jailbreak for months.

It works on all the iDevices but on the iPad, all this is still sort of beta. Some packages in Cydia, not designed for iPad, might screw up your system and require you to restore.

You can download it from SpiritJB.com

R5 DVD Release Dates (April 2010 – September 2010)

Check the R5 Release Dates page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010 and include Blu-Ray dates).

April 2010
Frozen – 1^st April 2010
Brothers – 8^th April 2010
Serious Moonlight – 8^th April 2010
The Descent: Part 2 – 8^th April 2010
The Bounty Hunter – 15^th April 2010
Avatar – 22^nd April 2010
The Boys Are Back – 22^nd April 2010
The Crazies – 22^nd April 2010
L’immortel – 29^th April 2010
The Road – April 2010
Costa Rican Summer – April 2010
L’arnacoeur – April 2010
Dear John – April 2010

May 2010
Date Night – 13^th May 2010
Greenberg – 13^th May 2010
Extraordinary Mesaures – 13^th May 2010
Kick-Ass – 13^th May 2010
I Love You Phillip Morris – 13^th May 2010
Valentine’s Day – 18^th May 2010
The Blind Side – 18^th May 2010
Alice in Wonderland – 25^th May 2010
The Back-up Plan – 27^th May 2010
In My Sleep – May 2010
Fish Tank – May 2010
Everybody’s Fine – May 2010

June 2010
Preacher’s Kid – 1^st June 2010
Everybody’s Fine – 1^st June 2010 (Second Date)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 3^rd June 2010
My Name Is Khan – 10^th June 2010
Date Night – 10^th June 2010 (Second Date)
When in Rome – 15^th June 2010
Valentines Day – 15^th June 2010 (Second Date)
The Wolfman – 22^nd June 2010
The Book of Eli – 24^th June 2010
Cop Out – June 2010
The Lovely Bones – June 2010
Invictus – June 2010

July 2010
Marmaduke – 1^stJuly 2010
The A-Team – 8^th July 2010
Clash of the Titans – July 2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – July 2010
Green Zone – July 2010
She’s Out of My League – July 2010
An Invisible Sign of My Own – July 2010

August 2010
Knight and Day – 5^th August 2010
Predators – 12^th August 2010
Unthinkable – 19^th August 2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street – August 2010
Clash of the Titans – August 2010

September 2010
Barbie Fashion Fairytale – September 2010
Young Americans – September 2010
Robin Hood – September 2010
Sex and the City 2 – September 2010
13 – September 2010

Updated: 17^th April 2010

For the rest of the dates go to http://tinyurl.com/r5dates

Note: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.

Connection Issues

I have a lot of posts to publish and R5 dates but due to Virgin Media, I haven’t had internet since Saturday. However there meant to be coming round tomorrow so I’ll hopefully be able to update the list tomorrow. Keep your eyes on this page.

UK iPad Launch To Be On April 24th?

The UK release date of the iPad is still not confirmed. Sources have pointed to an exact date of the 24th of April for the iPad to go on sale in the UK. Two different sources have both confirmed the date, one of them claiming to be an Apple employee. The other source says that Apple store staff are not allowed to take holiday on the 24th but they haven’t be told why. The same date has also been set for Canada also.

iPad Jailbroken & Cydia Running

MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev-Team has revealed a video showing a successful jailbreak of the iPad. The new hack exploits a bug found on the 3.2 version of the iPad OS, however with the iPhone OS 4.0 being previewed on April 8th plans for a release of this jailbreak might be changed so that Apple can’t patch the bug. In a recent picture it shows Cydia running on the device.

Apple Sells 300,000+ iPads on Launch Day

On the iPad launch day over 300,000 iPads were sold. Also on launch day iPad users have downloaded over a million apps and over 250,000 eBooks from the iBookstore. Steve Jobs himself said that “iPad users, on average, downloaded more than three apps and close to one book within hours of unpacking their new iPad.”

The numbers go against certain Piper-Jaffray’s analytical predictions that called for up to 600,000 to 700,000 iPads to be sold on launch day.

Updates Coming Next Week!

So I said a few weeks back about all the posts, reviews etc. that were going to be put on the blog. Well as of yet I’ve not really had the time to do all this but I have a 2 weeks away from college starting next week in which I’ll have more time to work on the blog and resume normal posting rountines like before. I hope to post at least 2 posts a day and a review every few days etc.

Keep coming back to check the new content and thanks for your patience.