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Just in time for Halloween (well it came out a little while ago) Lightroom 3 Beta is now ready for Download. Lightroom is one of my favorite apps, I love the ease of it. Seems Adobe is wasting no time in prepping up the next version and they want input. Just like the previous version this one is ready for a test drive.

I guess I will have to download it and check it out.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/

I was just looking back at an some of my old posts from Halloween and found one from 2007 where I bought my two 500GB drives for $99 each; a whole terabyte for $200. 1 Terabyte = $200

Ironically, I just bought a new 1TB drive (I keep needing to expand) which cost me a mere $109. Another Western Digital external drive, but in 1TB capacity this time. Funny, for the same $200 I can now get 2TB of space in a mirror versus just the 1TB I got last time. And of course in another year from now, it’ll be 2TB drives for $109 or less.

Funny how many terabytes of space I have now, and I still feel like I need more.

First off, the jittery camera work and swinging camera motions made me somewhat motion sick. About halfway through the movie I felt queasy and light headed. Just fair warning if you’re susceptible to motion sickness you need to prepare yourself.

I went and saw this movie last night and for a low budget film this kicks ass! To get a sense of what you’re in for it’s a movie length episode of Ghost Hunters or Ghost Adventures. Toss in a little Blair Witch action and you’re good to go.

I won’t go into any of the details of the movie since that would spoil it, but the premise is simple: Micah and Kate are experiencing something odd in their home and Micah goes out and buys a video camera to document what’s going on. He puts the camera on a tripod lets it run through the night. We are watching the footage that has been found after all the events have taken place.

It starts off mostly as a game, Micah wanting to capture something and make his girlfriend feel better about living with him. But something is happening, and the lack of sleep and helplessness starts to take its toll and soon the couple is tired, scared and desperate. They begin to lash out at each other which seems to feed this entity and soon it’s all spiraling out of control.

We’ll leave it there for the details of the movie. Half the experience is seeing it all unfold. I had a great time watching this, despite the motion sickness caused by the jerky camera motions. I’m not thrilled with the ending though, I thought it would have been done better. We won’t go into the details, at least not yet, but I think it went a little too Hollywood and broke with the spirit of the rest of the movie. But that aside this is good stuff and it shows that if you have a worthwhile story you don’t need $100 million in special effects.

If you have any interest in the paranormal, enjoy Ghost Hunters or Ghost Adventures or thought The Blair Witch Project was good then you’ll have a fun time with this one. Lots of bizarre things going on and you’re constantly scanning the screen to see what’s coming.

Definitely worth seeing!