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Introducing Gear Live Media’s Newest Site: FilmCrunch

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements, Home Entertainment, Movies

Okay, we get it - Tom Cruise is crazy, Brangelina rocks, and Josh Hartnett is, like, to die for. However, we think it’s time to dig a little deeper into the industry of Hollywood - and that is why we bring you the newest site in the Gear Live Media Network, FilmCrunch. Headed up by Veronica Santiago and Neil Estep, these guys will definitely lay down the law when it comes to the movies and personalities you care about most. The best part? We do it in audio and video podcasts, along with supplemental text news.

Here are some of their most recent stuff:

Of course, if you want to keep up on all their stuff automatically, you can easily subscribe to FilmCrunch in iTunes. Hey, all the cool kids are doing it - shouldn’t you?

Go give them a warm welcome, and check them out on the regular!

Major Gear Live Discussion Forums Upgrade: Feature List

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements

Alright, so in the continuing effort to make our discussion forums even better, we have just unleashed a bunch of new upgrades:

Added an ignore member feature.
Added the ability for users to report posts to moderators.
Added ability to search by member group in Advanced Search Form
Refined nomenclature for topics, replies, and posts (which is now consistently used as the sum of the topics and replies).
Fixed a bug where posting a new reply would return you to the topic’s first page instead of the last page.
Fixed a bug where an image attachment thumbnail would mistakenly increase the dimensions of the image.
Fixed a bug where deleting a user’s topics when banning them would cause other users’ posts to the affected topics to be orphaned.
Fixed a bug where merging two topics would result in the topic being set by the newer thread instead of the older one.
Fixed a bug where attachments were not being connected properly on merge or split.
Fixed a bug where a Topic’s edit date would change when any action was taken on the thread instead of only when the title or body was edited
Fixed a bug that would allow posting and editing of posts in Read Only forums.

Those are the main ones, but there are a bunch more improvements “under the hood” so to speak. Give things a test and let us know if you find anything odd!

Testing Our New Server Setup - You Can Help!

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements, Videos

Hey guys - so, in preparation for the holiday rush, with CES following afterwards, we have upgraded our server configuration. We are now hoping to stress-test the hell out of it to make sure all is well. This is where you guys come in.

We recently posted our video featuring the launch day of Nintendo Wii, which you can check out here. The video is linked to on Digg, and we are asking all of you to Digg it if you enjoy the video. If we make it to the front page of Digg, we can monitor what the huge traffic spike does to the servers, and can then adjust accordingly. Are you in?

If so, please head on over to Digg, and Digg this.

So, watch the video, and if you like it, Digg it. It will help us out more than you know, and have us fully prepared for CES 2007.

Thanks again everyone!

Vote For The Bleeding Edge In The Vloggies!

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements, Internet

Alright guys, we want to thank you for hooking us up by nominating us for The Vloggies. We made it into five categories, including Best Technology Weblog, Best Male Vlogger, Best Documentary Video, Best Viral Video, and…by golly, Best Vlog.

So first, thank you. We appreciate it, seriously. Now, let’s win something. Head on over to the vote page for The Vloggies, and simply vote for us in those respective categories. If you give us a vote, please let us know in the comments. Maybe we will make a contest out of this!

Now You Can Submit Stories To Gear Live!

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements

Yup, it’s true. We get a lot of requests from people looking to write for Gear Live. We review them all, and bring in people that we think fit in to our wacky vibe. However, we figure that some people just want to submit a story or two every now that then. For that, we have created an area where anyone can submit a story to be considered for publishing on Gear Live. In exchange for the news tips and story submissions, you will get full credit for the story (unless you choose to be anonymous,) and we will even keep a special section of the site dedicated solely to the stories you submit that have been chosen by our editors to be featured on the site. You can get to the story submission form easily by hitting the link at the top of the left-hand sidebar.

Anyone is welcome to post, so go give it a shot and let us know what you think!

Please Take The Gear Live Survey And Help Us Out, Because You Rock

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements

Alright guys and gals, we have a little survey that we are going to ask you to take for us. Whether you read Gear Live onsite, or through an RSS aggregator using the feed, we want to hear from you. We want to know who our readers are so that we can target some things towards what you are interested in. Care to help do that? Awesome. Even if you don’t, though, it would still be much appreciated - and it only takes a minute or two.

Seriously, this will be a big help in driving our editorial strategy going forward. You know you wanna be a part of that!

Read More | Gear Live Survey

Please Take The Gear Live Survey And Help Us Out, Because You Rock

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements

EDIT: Okay, the survey is back up - thanks for pointing out that it was down:

Alright guys and gals, we have a little survey that we are going to ask you to take for us. Whether you read Gear Live onsite, or through an RSS aggregator using the feed, we want to hear from you. We want to know who our readers are so that we can target some things towards what you are interested in. Care to help do that? Awesome. Even if you don’t, though, it would still be much appreciated - and it only takes a minute or two.

Seriously, this will be a big help in driving our editorial strategy going forward. You know you wanna be a part of that!

Read More | Gear Live Survey

Please Take The Gear Live Survey And Help Us Out! (Fixed!)

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements

EDIT: Okay, the survey is back up - thanks for pointing out that it was down:

Alright guys and gals, we have a little survey that we are going to ask you to take for us. Whether you read Gear Live onsite, or through an RSS aggregator using the feed, we want to hear from you. We want to know who our readers are so that we can target some things towards what you are interested in. Care to help do that? Awesome. Even if you don’t, though, it would still be much appreciated - and it only takes a minute or two.

Seriously, this will be a big help in driving our editorial strategy going forward. You know you wanna be a part of that!

Read More | Gear Live Survey

Survey Time: We Need Your Help!

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements

Alright guys and gals, we have a little survey that we are going to ask you to take for us. Whether you read Gear Live onsite, or through an RSS aggregator using the feed, we want to hear from you. We want to know who our readers are so that we can target some things towards what you are interested in. Care to help do that? Awesome. Even if you don’t, though, it would still be much appreciated - and it only takes a minute or two.

Read More | Gear Live Survey

Introducing Gear Live

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements

Gear Live is a trend-setting web magazine, launched in June 2004, devoted to the high tech lifestyle. We provide news, previews, reviews, commentaries, and more on all your favorite gadgets, electronics, and tech trends. Our readers enjoy our timely coverage, and honest approach.

Gear Live is written and edited by Andru Edwards, along with East Coast correspondent Hector Martinez, and Music Columnist Greg Norton. The site is part of the I4U Network.

If you have a question, comment, or a news story, feel free to contact Gear Live at submit@gearlive.com.

Gear Live is committed to providing in-depth, thorough product reviews. If you have a product you would like us to review, drop us a line at press@gearlive.com.