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Malibu Shark Attack

Malibu Shark Attack, Fango spoke to longtime New Zealand producer Dale Bradley, who tackled his first job in Australia with MALIBU SHARK ATTACK, a killer-fish film that lensed in Queensland under the title GOBLIN SHARK ATTACK and premieres on the Sci Fi Channel (which co-produced the movie, and is soon to be known as Syfy) this summer. Bradley passed on a couple of production pics (see them below), and explains the flick’s odd original moniker.

The onscreen predators “are based on a species called goblin sharks [see art at bottom], which don’t look like your normal great white,” Bradley tells us. “They’re very fearsome-looking creatures. Ours are actually larger than the real thing, but modeled on them for the look that the CG company created. People do catch these things, but ours are monsters that get released from a big underground cavern during a seaquake. The resulting tsunami washes them ashore. Not only do car parks and basements get flooded, but we have sharks inside the buildings as well. There’s a recipe for something cool there.”

This production, whose plot is quite similar to that of the subsequently announced Russell Mulcahy project BAIT (see item here) stars local-born LA FEMME NIKITA star Peta Wilson as lifeguard heroine Heather. Her fellow cast members include Warren Christie, FINAL DESTINATION 3’s Chelan Simmons, BLOOD ANGELS’ Sonya Salomaa, Rachel Barton, Remi Broadway, Jeff Gannon and UNDEAD’s Mungo McKay. The director is BLOOD OF BEASTS’ David Lister, with previously announced helmer Brian Trenchard-Smith remaining on board as a producer.

“The central characters are lifeguards on Malibu Beach,” Bradley explains, “who survive the wave but get trapped under their building. The sharks know they are there and break in. There’s another great location—a construction site that’s also flooded—and the survivors manage to escape there, thinking it’s safe. But next thing, the sharks bash down the roller doors and swim inside, so they’re trapped in the basement. We’ve got a bit of ALIEN in there, and some good mayhem: amputations, people chopped in half. We shot one today featuring some lovely prosthetic work by makeup artist Sharon Robberts where a guy has lost both his legs. We’ve got another scene that’s a bit of a homage to JAWS 3-D, where a parasailor gets into all sorts of trouble and ends up being half the man he used to be.”

iTunes Trojan Horse Small.Bog: iTunes Virus Alert

AVG today has a truly alarming alert for iTunes users – a virus. An iTunes virus is very unlikely to exist. iTunes installations are secure and are free of viruses or spywares. iTunes is one legit app that doesn’t need to include malicious codes like the so-called “trojan horse small.bog“.

If you have encountered this “iTunes virus” aka iTunes Trojan Horse Small.Bog, don’t give in to the prompts or alerts you’ve received from AVG Antivirus software (if you haven’t done so yet). This is clearly a false positive and should be ignored. If you quarantine or remove all the alleged viruses it found in iTunes, your iTunes installation will get screwed. Re-installation though is easy but why waste more time?

To ignore the iTunes virus warning alert, proceed to Resident Shield -> Manage Exceptions -> Add Path (to iTunes and iPod directories), i.e., C:\Program Files\iTunes as well as C:\Program Files\iPod. Nod32 ESET doesn’t recognize any iTunes virus or any trojan horse (small.bog) and it has a free edition like AVG. We suggest you try this antivirus software if you’ve decided to uninstall AVG. Just a friendly suggestion.

Also, if you’re wondering if this error in detecting the iTunes virus mentioned above, read more about the fake alerts given by Home Antivirus 2010 (removal instructions also discussed) and you’ll see that antivirus softwares really do screw up.

Source : kokeytechnologi.com

Federer getting big support in greatest-ever debate

The now greatest player ever was bruised, but he wasn't beaten yet.

After sustaining a barrage of aces, groundstroke winners and crisp volleys, Roger Federer faced two break points at 8-8 in the fifth set against American Andy Roddick, who was surely playing the Grand Slam match of his life in Sunday's Wimbledon final.

Andy Roddick gave Roger Federer all he could handle in the Wimbledon final. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

But Federer did not want to walk away from the final like he did last year, his face splattered with tears after a wrenching 9-7 loss in the fifth set to Rafael Nadal. So this time, he responded, cracking a wicked service winner, launching another service bullet and then taking Roddick's next return and ripping a swing volley winner.

He eventually held to 9-8 and then the clock began to tick loudly on the American's tired legs. He hadn't been broken in the match to that point and, even after blowing the second set tiebreaker, looked like the better and more consistent player on the day.

But that was Federer across the net from him, the same man who for good reason owned an 18-2 record against him coming into the match, who had beaten him at seven previous majors, including three times at Wimbledon.

The Swiss kept serving the daylight out of London and Roddick, and Roddick sensed that Federer was growing a bit more confident returning too.

"He was having trouble picking up my serve today for the first time ever," Roddick said. "He just stayed the course. You didn't even get a sense that he was even really frustrated by it. ... He gets a lot of credit for a lot of things, but not a lot of the time is how many matches he kind of digs deep and toughs out."

Roddick later got out of a hole to even the longest men's final (in terms of total games) at 14-14 with two searing service winners. He had held serve from behind facing match games on 10 straight occasions. Even the toughest of men weaken at the thought of it.

"You just keep going," Roddick said. "Looking back it seems like a lot, but each time it was just a point, and then another one and then another one. I guess it added up after a while."

But then Federer easily held again to 15-14, and with the shadows creeping over the court, the tension became too much for the 2003 U.S. Open champion. Roddick had worked diligently all year at improving his all-around game in order to re-enter the top-five conversation, but the man who was on the verge of cracking Pete Sampras' record of 14 Slam crowns seemed lighter of foot and certainly more sure of his place in history.

Roddick finally cracked. He couldn't convert two game points when he committed two backhand errors and at deuce, Federer half-framed a backhand return that Roddick butchered on his forehand side. On the Swiss' first match point, Roddick framed an easy forehand into the sky and way wide.

Federer roared in celebration after the 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6,16-14 victory as Sampras — who had flown all night from his home in Los Angeles — clapped mightily for his friend and all Roddick could do after his heroic effort was return to his chair and reflect with tears in his eyes on what might have been after 4 hours and 16 minutes of brilliant, nail-biting theater.

"It's hard," said Federer, who ended the match with 50 aces and 107 winners overall. "Sports or tennis is cruel sometimes. I went through some five setters in Grand Slam finals too and ended up losing. But I think he did great. He's not going to let his head hang down."

Had Roddick taken care of set points in the second set tiebreaker, Wimbledon might have had a new champion, but down 6-2, Federer came up with an amazing series of shots, while Roddick gagged on a huge one. After Federer had nailed a backhand half volley winner, an ace and service winner to get to 5-6, Roddick approached the net and looked at an easy high backhand volley, but seized up and hit it well wide.

"When he first hit it, I thought I wasn't gonna play it., Roddick recalled. "Last minute, it looked like it started dropping. I couldn't get my racquet around on it."

The match might have been decided there, as Federer went on to seize the next two points and the set. Federer later admitted that it would have been extremely difficult to come from two sets down with the way that the American was serving.

But Roddick continued to stay the course, battling his way into a third set tiebreaker which Federer won with a forehand crosscourt winner, and grabbing the fourth set when he broke Federer early with a screaming backhand down the line and then held firm.

"We're human. We're not cyborgs," said Roddick, who ended the match with 74 winners and only 33 unforced errors. "You know, at that point there's two options: You lay down or you keep going. The second option sounded better to me."

The same option sounded just as good to Federer, who has now rewritten the history books. After his record-setting 15th major, should Federer be called the greatest ever? There are varied opinions on the topic, as it's nearly impossible to compare him with pre-Open Era players, many of whom were forced to miss majors.

Moreover, there remains the one black mark against him — his 7-13 record against his primary rival — Nadal, who was unable to defend his Wimbledon title due to a knee injury.

But as Federer says, injuries are part of the game and he himself had to deal with a bout of mononucleosis as well as a back injury. Without question, until Federer turns his rivalry against the younger Spaniard around, some will question whether he deserves the greatest of all time moniker.

Federer, though, points out that Nadal's health is not his fault.

"Tennis, that's the way it goes," said Federer, who is once again the world's No. 1 player. "Everybody expected (Andy) Murray to be in the finals. He wasn't there. It's not the mistake of the one who wins at the end."

Even though Sampras is friendly with Roddick, he more than backed up his buddy Federer's claim to greatness, saying that everyone should now take a bow to the Swiss, who was won majors on all four surfaces.

"The critics say (Rod) Laver, and Nadal beat him a few times in majors, but he's won all the majors, he's going to win a few more here, so in my book he is (the greatest)," Sampras said.

Former three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker backed Sampras up: "Winning the French Open and in doing so collecting all four Grand Slam trophies, in my opinion, has made him the greatest player in history."

The 27-year-old still has a few more things to accomplish on the court — attempting to win his sixth straight U.S. Open title, winning Davis Cup for the first time, getting after Nadal again.

But on Sunday at the All England Club, he wanted to dispel a myth — that's he's too cool and collected and lacks inner fire. When asked what quality was key in his 15 major wins, he brought up one that isn't discussed very much.

"Just the fight, because I'm famous for being all casual and relaxed out there, not showing much."