The New AOL Desktop For Mac! - Incredible!

Well you would never guess what i am typing from right now. The new up to date AOL Desktop for Mac. I never thought they would make another Mac client, but they have. And this one seriously is everything it was back in the day, and just as exciting to me. There are so many new features that i cant even go over all of them if i tried. I will outline some of them though. P.S. - Thank you TUAW!

The Amazing Features!

Overall Interface - The first thing, the original Mac only interface is still here. The toolbar on the top that you can move around. The background is the desktop just like with Photoshop compared to the Windows OS. That was always my favorite thing about the Mac. AOL being like that was actually the main reason i wanted to switch to a Mac the first time i got to use one.

AIM - You will notice at start that you can now sign on with your AIM screen name. Before, AIM and AOL used to be different screen names due to the different password requirements, they wouldn’t let you sign on to AOL with an AIM account, but not vice versa. The AIM buddy list comes up right on the right side when you sign in, and its different from iChat, AIM For Windows, AIM for Mac, and everything else. Its a brand new instant messenger. You can search your buddy list, search even your friends AIM profiles! There are new mobile icons, new idle icons, new everything! By default, showing offline buddies inline is enabled and makes a mess of your buddy list. But go up to AIM in the menu bar to fix that.

The Legit Toolbar - You remember the original AOL toolbar that was so easy to use and everyone used it proudly? Well its back, and its redesigned. It looks perfect. Icons on the left outline three simple things you can do with your time within the AOL Desktop. Mail, IM, and Web. So simple, Mail brings up in a second the inline mail application that is also just as simple as it used to be! IM brings up your buddy list, and Web brings up the inline web browser that works incredibly and i will speak of that later. To the right of those simple icons are Welcome, News, Finance, Chat, Music, Television, Movies, People, Living, Sports, and Mapquest? Then there is Feedback, and Sign Out with a Search field for the web next to it.

Toolbar Update - The toolbar is completely customizable! Check it out here!

The Amazing Browser - When i popped up WordPress to write this post, i noticed it was fast as hell. So i tried a few more webpages, and wow is this thing fast. I want to see the benchmarks compared to Safari and Firefox when they appear. It goes with the Leopard interface and has perfectly designed buttons to throw on you. It now has tabs as well. (Yes, tabs. Its amazing i know. AOL has been away for so long!)

Browser Update - You don’t need to sign in to browse the web! Also, there is now a bookmarks bar just like Firefox and Safari.

Extras - Here i will just randomly throw out some small features that are actually awesome to some of us old AOL users! You will notice Chat is back! For awhile chat didn’t work, and then they removed it from the Windows and Mac versions of AOL. Its back, with a brand new AOL Chat Rooms online page that I’m going to dwell into the second this post is over to bring back old memories. You can now go up to AIM in the menu bar and search buddy profiles! Through all of the profiles, you can search for anything. There’s a really new feature. There you have it.

What I Think About All Of This Madness!

To me, this is all just madness. Bringing back so many old memories using the AOL Desktop client. I was insanely excited to write this post because I’m a huge fan of AOL. It feels good to see AOL back in style, integrating AIM these days. AIM used to be above AOL to the point where people didn’t even know what it stood for anymore. They just did instant messaging.

AOL has really brought the thunder here people. An amazingly easy to use client that will bring back more than memories when your using it. All beefed up and freshened up for the Web 2.0 era. I look forward to hearing about what everyone think of the new AOL Desktop 1.0 For Mac!

Oh, almost forgot. I wanted to just mention that we have all been waiting impatiently for about 5 years? To receive a new AIM client from AOL on the Macintosh. I know.. I know. Poor Mac users. We know that you Windows people get to have the shiny AIM client all the time but now we have this! And check this out, and you will envy out AOL client!

Here is a perfect screenshot!

Overall Update (Cons)

Getting Booted - Ok, so after using it a lot I’ve clearly noticed some first big release bugs. The first thing that doesn’t tickle my fancy so much is the fact that it loves to sign you off one time after another. it doesn’t happen constantly, but when it does it tends to do it back to back a few times. Its been years since I’ve gotten “booted” off the net! Since the dial-up days actually.

AIM Functionality - Now overall the AIM client built into this desktop client is awesome. Although, AOL cannot seem to produce a client for the Mac that is identical to the Windows version. The Windows version of all AIM clients specifically have been so much more full featured than the Mac versions. Why do you do this to us? All the others seem to produce their apps so perfectly the same on Mac as Windows! Why can’t you do this for us like everyone else AOL? When you look at the buddy list you don’t even have a clue who’s online and who is away. You can’t notice who just signed on, or off without noticing a buddy appearing or just disappearing. Another thing, is the AIM expressions. You can’t seem to get rid of them even if you select NO EXPRESSION, or ‘Reset’. The AIM functionality lacks very much.

Conclusion (Cons) - I didn’t expect there to be too many flaws in this release seeing as there were fifteen betas before the release of 1.0. They should have taken into consideration how much potential they had with releasing a new Mac application. Did they not notice that they haven’t released a Mac application in years? I sure have. I’ve been waiting for an AIM client that lives up to the Windows version for years. iChat doesn’t cut it, and either does Adium. They have their perks, but they don’t cut it.

Have you tried it yet? If so what do you think?

Socialthing! - The Perfect Social.. Thing!

I think this will be the third time I’ve said that Twitter has worked its magic and somehow got me an invite to a new beta. Its always that way. But this one, I’m extra excited about. Here i will give you the usual ups and downs of a startup including why its the perfect social.. thing!

Lets start by looking at the big picture. Socialthing is a new beta startup used for keeping all of your social networking accounts in one easy and accessible place. Let me tell you, it does this very well. Its probably one of the cleanest and easy to use sites I’ve been on in awhile. Lets start looking into it.

How It Works!

When you log in to Socialthing you will see three tabs on the right and a lifestream button on the left. When you go into the settings tab, you can choose your lifestream settings including wether or not to show your own updates. It will show you all of the accounts you are able to register for Socialthing. So far there is Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, Flickr, Pownce, and LiveJournal. These are the services you can register with Socialthing so far. There are more coming though which brings me to the next tab.

When you click the vote tab, you will have a giant list of social networking websites that Socialthing wants your feedback on. (Wether or not to add it to their list of services.) There are tons of services on the list, and tons of votes for them. There is another box to the right showing you the networks they are currently focused on adding to their list. Those networks are Del.Icio.Us, Digg, Last.FM, Myspace, and YouTube.

The last tab on the right is the post tab. This is where you can go to post to all of your accounts. You can post to them all at the same time or you can select them individually. You could select to only post to Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal. You could leave out Pownce if you wanted to. (Not that I’m hating on Pownce at all.)

Then to the left, you have your lifestream tab. This is where all your friend’s (If you choose) updates will be shown, including yours. (If you choose) You can go to the settings tab to pick how you want the updates to be displayed as well, so you have full customization. There is also a little refresh button on the lifestream tab to refresh your updates list.

What I Think About Socialthing!

Well, overall i think its an amazing service. The perfect social.. thing! in fact. When it opens from beta, i guarantee it will put Friendfeed in the deadpool. There is only two things Socialthing really has over Friendfeed that kills it. The beautiful interface, and the updates from friends already on all of your network accounts. Here is what i mean. On Friendfeed you subscribe to a person and their updates. On Socialthing you log in to your network accounts and already have all of your subscribed friends in your lifestream. Its that simple, and Friendfeed should be ashamed!

Here is a great post about how Friendfeed is a joke!

To conclude this amazing service’s review, i would just like to say that Socialthing is going to be absolutely HUGE when all the services get added. Everyone will use it, and the need to go directly to any website to post will be completely unnecessary. This really is a big thing for the internet, and I’m sure everyone will realize this when it comes out of beta. This site has incredible potential to be the biggest thing on the internet, we just have to give it time to grow! Hurry it up Socialthing!

Update - So I’ve been using Socialthing a lot now, and the one thing that seems to not go my way most of the time is loading Pownce! I get this error all the time. Anyone else? Also, it allows me to post to Pownce with much ease, but still won’t load them in the lifestream. Update 2 - Now that i think of it, its still in beta so there is some things to be resolved. Oh Vimeo and Flickr tend to not work as well. Update 3 - It seems most of the services are now working!

Have you seen the amazingness of Socialthing! yet?

Monday In The News, May 12

Today, May 12 i woke up with a bunch of great news in my face that i just had to throw at everyone all at once. I’m not creating a million posts today. So here is a ‘Links‘ post for todays news.

HBO TV Series Coming To iTunes?

Today i woke up and checked my RSS feeds to find that Mashable posts about HBO coming to iTunes. Hell, that is enough of a headline for me already. Last week i posted about Cocaine Cowboys becoming an HBO series, and how great it would be to see that on iTunes (If that really happens, i just think it will be really good).

When it comes to watching TV, all i watch is HBO. Its got the movies, and its got some great series. HBO is home for shows like In Treatment, The Wire, Oz, John Adams, and many other great shows. This story is about the shows, not the movies. HBO doesn’t really have anything to give when it comes to feature films. iTunes has its connections for films already, but HBO has great some great shows.

Mashable also says that there will be some sort of flexible pricing plan for HBO shows that could change Apples overall pricing plan on TV shows.

Update - HBO is now sharing their shows on iTunes! just one day after i posted the details, Engadget nailed it in the morning. So go check out HBO on iTunes!

Full details here.

Blackberry ‘Bold’ 9000 Gets Official On AT&T First.

RIM (Research In Motion), the creator of the Blackberry has confirmed the release (not the release date) of the Blackberry 9000 ‘Bold’ and boy is this thing sick. The first carrier it will be on in the US will of course be AT&T which is perfect for me because i plan to switch early next month.

This product is really no joke. After i checked out all the other Blackberry’s and even Palm’s selection of smart phones, nothing came close to this thing. The interface just looks incredible and the body is glossy, and the keys even have curves on them for easier typing.

Update - Mashable reports that Microsoft partnered with RIM to integrate Windows Live into the Blackberry. I’m not sure if that is relevant for the 9000’s sake, but something great for RIM’s Blackberry in general. We will see until summertime when Windows Live begins getting incorporated with Blackberry’s.

Here are pictures and full details!

Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote June 9th!

MacRumors reports that WWDC 08’s keynote will be given by Steve Jobs like usual, on June 9th. This is great news because WWDC I’m sure will roll out huge goodies. If the new iPhone doesn’t hit before then, it will almost definitely hit at WWDC.

Whenever Steve Jobs gives a keynote, something comes out. End of story. Something awesome, or sometimes very lame. But even if it stinks, you will somehow learn to love it. So now await all of the WWDC rumors in the next few weeks. There will be many of them like always!

Update - This is not officially confirmed by Apple but is most likely.

Full details.

The X-Files “I Want To Believe” Movie Trailer!

This is the news of the day for me people! I’ve been awaiting more on this new X-Files movie ever since i heard about it here. The release date for this new movie is July 25th of this year! I’ve had it in my calendar for months and months now, awaiting some more news.

Now the trailer isn’t too spectacular, but once i heard the epic original X-Files theme music, i knew they meant business. This movie is going to kick ass just like the series and just like the first movie! (Which is now available on iTunes for those weirdos that haven’t seen it) What i love what they weren’t afraid to do at all, was bring back the original cast. I bet if the actors wouldn’t come back for a sequel, the sequel wouldn’t have happened at all, but it is now a reality and its official.

Trailer can be viewed here!

Uwe Boll To Direct Grand Theft Auto Movie?

Ok, this i had to add to my list of May 12 news. Boll says that he could make this a better movie with an R rating and $30 million dollars than Michael Bay could with $150 million dollars and a PG-13 rating. Now i have to say if you don’t disagree and agree than you are crazy.

Ok Uwe Boll makes horrible movies. Michael Bay makes good ones, BUT this is not a movie for Michael Bay. No way could he slap a PG-13 on a movie based on Grand Theft Auto the video game. No way in hell could he ever pull it off correctly. GTA has the potential for an R rating. Without it, it would be a piece of crap. I don’t think you could mess something up that bad, ever.

So as an open statement, i think neither of them should do it. I don’t want to see a bad movie, and i sure as hell don’t want to see a movie like this with a wimp PG-13. Am i right or am i right?

Full Details here.

Incredible news for a Monday correct?

My Thoughts - This Week So Far In Movies

So far this week, their has been an array of great news about the film world. I’m going to shed my opinion on a few stories i have heard, and things that i have seen in movies this week so far. There are some bad, and some very cool things on their way from the film industry.

The Cast Of G.I. Joe

The cast of the upcoming G.I. Joe film has been announced. I’m not too fond of all the actors that are in the cast that was released, so I’m only going to talk about the ones that i do know, and what i think about them being in the film. Here are some thoughts.

For one, Dennis Quaid. I think Quaid being a part of this film is an awesome thing. Hes good in every movie he plays, so you already just know there wont be a problem with his acting at all. Hes very good at what he does, and there is not much to say about that. Hes playing a general in the movie, and its easy to see Quaid being great at that. Hes good at being a high figure.

The next is Channing Tatum. Now I’ve only seen him in a few films, but to me he doesn’t seem like the big actor a lot of people put him out to be. His role in Supercross back in 2005 i thought was one of the corniest performances that I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure if he was huge back then though. Hes still not a huge actor, but hes up there. Hes just got the look i guess. I can guarantee hes going to be that snobby tough guy in the film. In the film his name is Duke. I mean come on?

Last but not least, Marlon Wayans. He plays a ranked sergeant in the film named Ripcord. Ripcord? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that name in my life. Probably a nickname but let it slide. I’m hoping they don’t fail at bringing him into the film with a comedic touch. I don’t think i would like a performance from any of the Wayans brothers if they weren’t in it to be comedians. I could see a movie like G.I. Joe being humorless. But if they can pull it off, power to em. But i don’t think they can.

Go here or here for full details on the cast.

Noise With Tim Robbins

Noise is about a man who just plainly, hates car alarms. The main character is played by Tim Robbins from The Shawshank Redemption. Robbins is an amazing actor to this day even. If you have seen The Shawshank Redemption, you would know. He has won Academy Awards for his work as an actor. Anyway, his character hates car alarms, and it drives him crazy throughout the movie, and he ends up creating a name for himself as a criminal smashing every car that lets off an alarm.

The trailer for the movie is out and I’m sure many will be very pleased with how good this movie really looks. It looks hilarious for a movie with Tim Robbins as the main character. He has done some somewhat funny films, but hes mainly a serious guy. I’m very pleased with how good this movie looks, and i think many others will be too. Be sure to check out the trailer!

View the trailer for Noise here.

Marvel Announces Next Four Films

Ok i have but only one good thing to say about this. The one good thing about what Marvel has announced is that there will be an Iron Man sequel. I have yet to see the first one, but i know its going to be good. I enjoy movies that are hyped like this one. I went and saw Cloverfield because of the hype, not even the movie itself. Now right into the bad and annoying stuff!

Marvel announced Thor, Captain America, and The Avengers! I’m not fans of any of those comical pieces of crap. I’m just not a comic kind of guy. Some cool comic-to-movie films will come out and i will enjoy them, but not for the most part. That is not even the general reason i don’t care for this news whatsoever. The reason is this, why do they have to make so damn many of them? Until they make one that is actually worth watching? I mean a few were awesome, don’t get me wrong, but for the most part they just aren’t as awesome as they think.

That is really all i had to say about that. Full details and release dates here.

Anchorman 2 Is Confirmed

I guess back in February, there was a rumor that Will Ferrel wanted to bring back the hilarious character of Ron Burgundy. That was good news in itself because Ron Burgundy really was no joke. Anchorman was such a good movie, and it was on HBO every night for me to watch every night.

So now it has been confirmed that Ron Burgundy and the news team will return for a sequel! I’m very excited to see the news team back in action again. This is just one of those sequels that you couldn’t miss for the world. This is one of my favorite characters Will Ferrel has ever played, from what i have seen so far.

Full details on the sequel to Anchorman here.

So what do you think of this weeks movie news so far?

Jott Beta Review - Get Simple Back!

So i sent a request for an invite to Twitterfone, and mentioned it on Twitter. One of my buddies pointed out that Jott had the same functionality. I signed up and wow does it work good. I hate to see great services like Jott slip under my awesome website radar. Here is what Jott can do!

I signed up over the phone. I called the number so they could text my phone with a password i could use to login on the website. I went to Jott and entered the password, along with my cell phone number. It matched up, so they let me in and i could start Jotting. It was very easy to signed up, and i thought it was awesome how i didn’t have to be on the computer to do it.

With Jott, you can ‘Jott stuff down.’ You can create a ‘Jott’ in many different ways. You can use it to send an email to yourself, send text message reminders to yourself, create a to-do list, Jott to someone else or a group of contacts, and the best one - Jott to a link! Let me explain that more.

Jotting to a link means that you can use your cell phone to call in to Jott, and have it translate from voice to text to many different web services. You can Jott to your WordPress account, Twitter, Blogger, and you can create your own link to Jott to. Its incredible how you can voice blog right from your cell phone. Now i think Qik has that functionality, and i know Twitterfone has the Twitter functionality. So this is a combination of both, therefor its still awesome. Qik does have some ups, but thats another story.

Update - I meant Utterz. Maybe Qik does have that functionality then. Utterz has a lot of the same features that Jott has after looking at it. Utterz seems like an awesome service, and I’ve seen it put to good use many times from 1938media. Look to the next update for my experience with Utterz.

Update 2 - So i joined Utterz to see if i would prefer it over Jott, and i really do like the service, but they give you 10 minutes before they post it just in case you want to add video or pictures. Since i don’t post any pictures or videos, posting it right away would be more my thing. Unfortunately i can’t have that as an option. I’m going with Jott for sure when i want to post audio, and reminders.

Update 3 - I’m not going to compare Jott with Twitterfone because i don’t have an invite, but it seems that Twitterfone does the same exact thing as Jott. But what i have noticed on Twitter, is that Jott most of the time gets the speech-to-text correct, and with Twitterfone users i see a question mark all the time because it couldn’t recognize anything they were saying. So if you were to pick between the two, pick Jott because it works better and has a bunch more features then just Twitter.

I tested out the Jotting to Twitter so far because thats the reason i joined. I was looking for a site that could call into Twitter and translate to text, and post to my account. Now this feature is handled better than i thought. When you call in and Jott to Twitter, included in the Tweet is a link. In that link holds the text of your Jott, and a small audio icon. Jott records your Tweet audio. You can click on the icon and play the audio recorded via phone. I thought that was awesome. People get to hear your voice.

Jott is also very organized. Its very good at organizing your Jotts as well. On the front page when your logged in, their is a list of all your Jotts. What i thought was worth talking about on this subject was that you can set the priority of your reminders, cross them out if you don’t need to be reminded anymore, and you can set alerts for each Jott. You are able to schedule another reminder for each Jott that you create.

You can Jott from your phone, or just Jott on the web. So you can set reminders without having to use the phone, or you can set reminders without having to be on the computer. Either way, its a fantastic service, and i recommend that everyone use it. Thanks to buddies on Twitter, i was able to find this great tool that i will probably use all the time. Having a formal way of setting reminders for myself besides just writing stuff down in text-edit i think, is pretty damn cool.

Listen To My Test Jott | View My Test Jott To Twitter

Do you prefer Utterz or Jott if you have tried them both?

New ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ In Pre-Production!

While i was writing my last post, i had to look up Michael Bay on IMDB, and while on his page i realized an amazing group of words on the top of his page. The words read “Nightmare On Elm Street 2010.” Michael bay will be producing it. He is also producing the new Friday The 13th Remake (see this post).

Wes Craven of course, will be writing the 2010 film. The movie is in pre-production, so there isn’t too many details about it, but we know its confirmed and coming. To keep up with this movie visit the IMDB page to find out full details as they arise on the internet. And most likely, we will see the infamous Robert Englund (of course) playing Freddy Krueger in this film.

Its IMDB page reads, “A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.” So the same as the Friday The 13th remake, but a different classic!

Update - For the new Friday The 13th movie coming out, they said it will have an R-Rating and all the blood and guts it will take to honor the original. So far, there hasn’t been any word on how it will go with this new Nightmare On Elm Street film. In order to honor the original in this case, they would have to do some crazy things. Freddy vs. Jason, was not that crazy. Once they bring back how they used to make it back in the day with insane blood and gore, then.. they will have honored the original.

What do you think about remaking two classic/epic horror films?

Cocaine Cowboys To Become HBO Series?

The reason i found this news so exciting, is that just recently i found out about Cocaine Cowboys, and just recently have i viewed the movie. I loved it, and thought it was one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a long time. It takes a good one to get me interested in doc’s.

/Film reports that the documentary ‘Cocaine Cowboys‘ from director Bill Corben, might become a TV drama series on HBO. Get this, Jerry Bruckheimer (Producer of the upcoming Prince of Persia - Sands of Time) and Michael Bay (Transformers) may be the ones behind it.

Cocaine Cowboys follows a story of a few people that were joined in the Cocaine boom in South Beach, Miami Florida in the 70’s - 80’s. The events that inspired Brain DePalma’s ‘Scarface‘. It’s an amazing documentary and i think everyone should see it now. Its available on torrent somewhere on the web.

Personally, after seeing the documentary itself, i think it would be an amazing idea to adapt it to an HBO drama series. I’m not a big TV fan, but if this went to the screen i would be addicted to it. I’m sure it would be bigger and better than The Wire, and all those mainstream shows.

Update - Well i forgot to talk about the sequel, so here it goes. Billy Corben is in the midst of creating a sequel to Cocaine Cowboys. It will start where the first left off, With the arrest of the ‘Godmother’ - the woman that was in charge of it all. The Cocaine Queen who was sent to jail for life. Someone sent in a fan letter to her while she was in jail, and they ended up becoming a millionaire after she led him to where the drugs were located and who to hook up with on the outside. I guess the sequel is about how he did all her work from the outside for her and brought in tons of cash because she was in jail for life. So the crime and drug smuggling never really stopped even by eliminating the main ‘honchos’.

Here is the sequel’s IMDB page.

Do you think it should be adapted to a HBO drama?

Taco HTML Edit 1.7.3 For Mac

Looking for the perfect HTML editor? Well recently i came across Taco HTML Edit, (Mac only) and its a very promising program i just had to blog about. By default the text is nice and big so it makes it easy as heck to read. Everything is editable of course, so if you like your text small, no problem.

The main feature i posted this blog for is the live preview function. As your editing your HTML, you can click the live preview button and up pops another window splitting a preview and your HTML vertically. There is a refresh button, but you will notice that as you edit your code, it changes live after you stop typing something. There is also a button for browser previewing.

There is a find button, and a batch find button, to find multiple words or pieces of code at a time. Each one of these features allows it to tower over some web code editing applications. I know I’m going to be using this over many other programs in the future. Besides its crap load of unique and awesome features, it now works with Leopard, so everyone can enjoy using it.

Update - There is actually 2 downsides to using this application over some others. The first is that the built in browser for live viewing isn’t that good at all, and some JavaScript objects don’t even show up. The other downside is that there is no pop-up tag editing. So when you start typing something, you wont get a pop-up list of possible tags to use for any certain syntax.

Oh, and its FREE.

New Dark Knight Movie Trailer!

Here is the new Dark Knight movie trailer. There’s really only one thing i want to say about it. The movie looks awesome, and its going to be epic because of the death of Heath Ledger. He plays The Joker, and his performance looks incredible and seems to be a turning point in his acting career. Its not cool at all that he had to pass away at this time. Anyway, check this out.

Update - /Film points out many great aspects of the trailer. ‘The Scarecrow’ from Batman Begins is viewable for a second in the trailer. (In the car Batman jumps on top of) You can see ‘Two Face’ briefly, just enough to see his face is scarred. You also get to see how Harvey Dent becomes ‘Two Face.’

This movie comes out July 18th in theaters.

iTunes Movies Released On DVD Release Date!

When you visit the iTunes Store now, you will notice a few new banner ads and movie posters that say “New Release Movie.” That means that its a movie that has been released on iTunes at the same time of its DVD release. Most of them are starting at $14.99.

This is more amazing news than you think. In simple terms, iTunes is no longer a bad place to get your movies. Well, maybe. $14.99 is pretty tough even for a DVD release movie. BUT these aren’t rentals. They are to buy the movie. So i guess we can let Apple win this time!

New movies on the store include Cloverfield, There Will Be Blood, Alvin And The Chipmunks, I Am Legend, One Missed Call, Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story, and MORE! This is an awesome move by Apple no matter which way you look at it. More movies on iTunes. Sounds good to me!

“Starting today, movie fans can purchase new releases from major film studios and premier independent studios on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios.” Stolen from Apple’s ‘Hot News‘ PR excerpt.