Saturday, October 11, 2008

Jesse Guarascia in: The Suite Life on Deck



Hey, Jesse Guarascia here to bring some quality blady blah blah, I'm pretty sure you know the rest. Anyways, when you read the title it did not mean that I'm going to be in The Suite Life on Deck, it does not mean I have an interview with the Sprouse twins, it's just how I introduce myself. I guess I might as well tell you a little about it's predecessor, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Besides it having the longest name I've ever seen for a Family show, it's really not that funny.

The story revolves around Zack (Dylan Sprouse) and Cody Martin (Cole Sprouse), who's mother Carey Martin, played by Kim Rhodes, sings at the Tipton Hotel. In return from Carey singing at the Tipton, she gets a luxury hotel for her and her two boys. While they stay in the hotel they get in probably the stupidest cliches in television history. I mean really, what are the chances that the worst hotel engineer in the world develops a time machine, that works, and the boys go back and live the life they've always wanted, but notice they don't want that. That's the whole show, they do something stupid, they find that "Oooooo, watching a scary movie that traumatises me is bad.", and they try to counter-act it doing another stupid thing.

I'm sorry if all of you Astral Media fluffers, or Sprouse fluffers for that matter get mad at me, but it's true that it sucks really bad. The jokes are bullcrap and obviously the laugh box audience is just being forced with a gun to their heads until they laugh. This is probably the only show in history that runs for about 3 seasons, and gets watched, sadly, then gets a sequel that will probably get more attention than the Superbowl this year. The previews and trailers have already flooded Youtube to the point where relevant videos are getting the cold shoulder, and sadly I'm afraid this trend may lead on.

What I meant by that was, if this horrible shows preview can get thousands of views in the first couple of days, then this could lead into even worse shows like House, Scrubs, Terminator: The Sarrah Conner Chronicles, anything by Fox, any game by the EA divisions, and especially FRED, that son of a bitch. I'm just saying, if previews take over original and thought-provoking content then why don't we make the previews have some kind of legality rule, where say you can't add then to any media site without paying royalties to the owner of the preview.

Anyways that's all I have to say, thank you for reading. If you feel like bashing the hell out of me e-mail me at: internetcritic@gmail.com (BTW you can e-mail from hotmail and yahoo to GMail.) IM or AIM me at: kingbling95@hotmail.com or AIM - Loredivine

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

IC's Blogger Tutorials #2 - Sharing Audio and Folders

Hey IC here to bring you some quality information, for absolutely no pay whatsoever. Welcome back to IC's Blogger Tutorials where I'll be talking about how to share audio, be it from labeled singers or your own podcast, and how to share folders from your computer. Now here are the steps neccesary in order to add audio to your blog and/or website.

Audio Steps

#1. First take your downloaded or recorded audio, in this case it'll be a podcast so recorded audio. Then go to a hosting website the best ones in my opinion are the ones posted here. Make sure you've sign up and posted the correct audio file.

#2. Once you've uploaded your audio file be sure to get the embed code from the description of the audio player, lets say Last FM. Then if you wish to put the audio within your post, you must travel to the "Edit HTML" part of the post right next to compose at the top of the text box.

#3. Make sure you've placed it in an area of the post where it is most complimented. Then once it's up sit back, listen and enjoy. If it is a downloaded song be sure to credit the artist, and the label for legal issues.

File Sharing

#1. Be sure to put the folder is put in a place where it can be uploaded easily on your computer. Then go to a good uploaded share website, I reccomend maybe Rapidshare that seems to be the easiest to manuver through without a whole lot of trial and error.

#2. Now that it's up get the link which means you should highlight some text and click link in the posting coloum above your text box. Once you get the link place it in the Web URL section and people can click and download.

#3. Now that it's up just wait for people to download, and enjoy. For security measures, if you downloaded the file from a seperate place, I suggest you virus scan it so your and your downloaders computers do not become infected.

Thanks for reading, and happy blogging.

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Monday, October 6, 2008

IC's Blogger Tutorials #1 - Youtube Videos

Hey IC here to give you some quality information for absolutely no pay whatsoever. Hello, and welcome to my 5 part tutorial on some advanced and very easy tricks on Blogspot blogs. The first one I will speak of is how to add youtube videos directly to your post. Now this trick isn't too difficult so I'll try my best to keep this short and to the point.

Step #1: Now to get the video to show directly on your blog, you must go to the youtube video in question. Now to the right of the video (under the discription), there is a line of text that to the left of it reads "Embed", which is program language for, "to show something on a website."

Step #2: Copy and paste the "Embed" link and go back to blogger, then click new post and write everything you think is important as to why the video is their and/or talk about what you were going to talk about in the post to start with. Now go to "EDIT HTML" it's very important that you paste the code there, because if you paste it just with the text it will come up as text.
Step #3: Be sure that you pasted the "Embed" code where it is most complimented with your post. Once your done just click publish post, and your good to go. If you think the post needs some touching up you can click save as draft and edit it later. Also it's incredibly important that you credit the creator of the video for legal issues.
That's all and stay tuned for the rest of IC's Blogger Tutorials, where I'll tell you how to add counters and banners to your blog, how to move around the placement or things on your blog, and much much more. Thank you for reading, and happy blogging.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Internet Critic Reviews - Private Servers

Hey IC here to bring you some quality content, for absolutely no pay whatsoever. You play freeware online games right, of course that's why you come here so you can here my opinion on them. Do you dislike the massive amounts of grinding neccesary to be able to actually reach the top of the leaderboards. Then look no further then a private server. What people do with private servers is that they take they coding for the original game or another private server, and alter to make they game more desirable to play for long sessions. One of the flaws with this idea is the huge lack of people playing, because unless you've been playing the game for like 2 years and wanna try something new, you will not even consider looking for a new one.

What kind of games get a freeware private server, well the only ones I know of are Fly For Fun (FLYFF for short), Ragnarok or RO, and finally from what I know any game that's already free. I said FLYFF because Fly for Fun is extremely too much like World of Warcraft when it comes to the grind, so when they edit it and make a private server they always take the time to increase the experience you gain per kill. If they make a private server that entails to them having to pay for the server to stay up and hope that people donate to keep it up. Most of the time they also include all the payed for stuff you get in the original game, which therefor leads into my next point, legality.
If you do create a private server your basically stealing someone elses idea, so it's like going "Oh hey, Smosh is awesome why don't I take all of their videos and sell them on DVD." Actually that's not a bad idea. Giving all of the stuff you have to pay for, for free may be a fairly good deal but you have to consider the fact that you or someone will have to donate to keep the server up. There's only 2 reasons I can think of that would make a server be forced to drop: 1. The server host hasn't payed therefor causing them to shut-down the server, 2. The original game host (in this case it's Flyff), tells them they need to shut-down the site or they could be sued for illegal use of their game.
Well anyways that's all I have to say, thank you for reading and be sure to check out Monday-Friday this week for IC's Blogger Tutorials, where I tell you about all of the simple to extremely advanced things you can do with bloggger that most people have issues with.
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Friday, October 3, 2008

Internet Critic tries out - Yuwie



Hey you guys, IC here, it's been a while eh. Well like I said on IC and JG: Double Time, quality is key here at Internet Critic, so me and Jesse are gonna try to keep up the posts that you all love so much. Well this time to keep myself up-to-date on some of the websites on the web, I'm gonna review one, and this time it's Yuwie. O.K., before I start this review I am going to note a couple of things about the name of this site, starting off with Yuwie Fin is a phrase my younger brother uses to make his friends laugh. The only serious reason is the fact that Yuwie may have never been used, but that doesn't make it a good name, just like this links site, it's guarasciabloghome.blogspot.com where as it should have been internetcritic.blogspot.com.

Well then, right the uhh point of the website thingy. Well before you even sign-up your greeted to a nice young man by the name of .......... I really wasn't listening. Anyways it's expectable to want to physically interact to your viewers, it gains trustwortiness and makes them wanna use your site more because they feel welcome. Ok that's enough of that how about what your get from the website, well money. "What money, that's a scam someone tell CBC." Says Jack Layton of the New Democrats, well I doubt it, see what this man believes from the begginging of the handsome video, is that everyone has the 3 friends willing to sign up in the world. The amount of money isn't $10 per 5 seconds on the site or something you only get payed everytime someone looks at some of your content.

"What content?", you may ask, well basically anything internet related which is my specialty. The things you have access to post are: videos (for the youtube crowd), blogs specific to their site, pictures, and etc. etc. etc. The list can go on forever, but you have to put on alot to make alot of money becaus the more people that look at it, the more money you get. One of the issues of uploading videos or pictures it's basically free, meaning you don't have to do anything but upload videos and pictures you find on the web.

If your looking for a good way to get an iPod, TV, Music and such I reccomend trying out maybe SwagBucks, or something where a reliable source gives you proof. I don't believe in the word free, there has to be a commitment for you to make the money or get the prize, you have to be patient you can't make money online any faster than you would in the real world. All I'm saying is that there are much more realistic income making sites other than and you should try them all out because they all give some kind of income, unless it obviously lies then it's automatically fake.

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Monday, September 29, 2008

Internet Critic's - Youtube Pick of the Week

Hello you guys, IC here to bring you some quality information, for absolutely no pay. For the first time ever on this site I am proud to announce that I now have a Youtube Pick of the Week. This is primarily because I feel like 90% of the content on Youtube is viable, and I believe that people who aren't famous get credit for what they do. I mean I was once on Youtube, my name at the time was Chronicles of Gaming, I had some somewhat decent amount of video and they were good in a stupid kind of way. I eventually got banned because my content, I ranted about games and such, were flagged as spam even though they had a purpose unlike some people (yeah that's right I'm looking at you SXEPhil, and by the way I am not Defranco).

The second reason I felt like instead of talking about whatever is completely unimportant, I would try to freshen up this site by posting some original content of which I think is interesting. The first video I'm going to throw up goes to Alhorian. Over the past couple of posts actually my IC and JG: Double Time post (See here.), and I sorta compared him to Zero Punctuation, I know that's rude with Alhorian being a copy and everything but.... whateva right. Anyways, while I was talking about him I said I enjoy his content, why I'll never remember he just made me feel happy. No not like that.

So here is IC's Youtube Pick of the Week - Alhorian's Ranting Monkey: Being an Achievement Whore.



Sunday, September 28, 2008

IC Movie Reviews - The Butterfly Effect

Hey IC here to post you some quality information, for absolutely no pay whatsoever. Today as I scrolled through Star Choice's movie channels, I stopped at IFC. Playing at the time was Scary Movie, but I saw that after that my favourite movie ever was playing, The Butterfly Effect.
Well then I guess I should start on the story then.  The story starts off with Evan, a young boy who lives with his mother, who from the look of her uniform is either a stripped or a waitress. Evan goes to elementary school with his mother where she finds a picture he drew of what he wants to be when he grows up, only for him to say he doesn't remember doing it. Not just that, but many, many other events in his life are blanked out from a condition his father had, hmm didn't know craziness was hereditary. As he continues in life he starts to remember the things he had blanked out, and ultimately alters the future and his own life.

Over the course of the movie, the things he blanked out become a little more understandable. At about mid-beggining he goes to his friend Kayleigh's house to meet her father, played by Eric Stoltz. Once they go in the basement to record a "movie", he blanks out everything unto the point where Mr. Miller tells Kayleigh and Evan to get naked. When he tries to remember he tells off the father, and in that alters the past so him and Kayleigh are dating at a college.

In the movie the role of Evan is played by Logan Lerman (Age 7), then John Patrick Amedori (Age 13), then finally Ashton Kutcher, and each actor pulls off their respective role perfectly. Logan Lerman pulls off a confused blanking child perfectly, as does John Patrick Amedori pull off a memory lost teenager amazingly. The other characters effected by Evan had to be drastically changed in how they look in order to match what he did, so I have to respect the hair, make-up, and costume designers.
This movie will always be my favourite because it's a smart person movie. A smart person movie is a movie that makes you reconsider the entire human condition, and a stupid person movie is for someone who turns off The Butterfly Effect, or Hancock and loads up Meet the Spartans. That's all I have to say, thank you for reading and I will be back to update the Xbox Live Update.