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Flashback: Park(ing) Day 2008 21 Nov 2010 | 08:10 pm
I was just looking through our Press collection of posts, and noticed that I never posted about one of our best events - Park(ing) Day, 2008. It’s now a couple of years old, but I still found the arti...
We’re In Sunday’s Age 21 Nov 2010 | 07:08 pm
The video store isn’t dying .. it’s just evolving That’s from ‘New Recipes for Couch Potatoes’, Sun 21/11, in the Age’s ‘Living By Design’ lift out magazine. Glossy stock too! Click here to see a sca...
Oovie grabs the spotlight, Blockbuster defensive 20 Nov 2010 | 01:19 pm
Paul Uniacke of Blockbuster: What does Telstra know about movies? .. what does Playstation know about movies? Blockbuster has been in the movie space for over 20 years … Last week A Current Affair r...
US Blockbuster file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 7 Nov 2010 | 01:46 pm
Ok .. this is old news now. Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the US on 23rd of September. Why? Because Blockbuster owed it’s debtors around 1 billion dollars. Yes that’s 1 billion. With...
Chrome and Safari - Welcome At Last 25 Oct 2010 | 12:59 pm
Finally we are at peace with the newest (now not so new) browser kids on the block - Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari! Go on .. hit applebox.com.au with Chrome and click ‘Browse DVDs’. Admittedly w...
Safari .. I like you 28 Jun 2010 | 01:24 am
Yes I know, our catalogue doesn’t work with Safari. When I began developing the ‘box (6 years ago now .. yikes that’s hard to believe) Safari was just awful. Hard to debug, poor support for the latest...
Christmas Newsletter is Out 23 Dec 2009 | 03:11 am
Happy Christmas all! Take a 5 minute break, chillax and read our newsletter here.
Playing around with fonts 24 Nov 2009 | 02:29 am
It’s 12.30am and here I am … playing around with fonts. That’s Rockwell in the post title, Myriad Pro in the text. Not sure how many people will actually see those, or what they fall back to. Ok … bac...
Belmore Biodynamic Meats 7 Nov 2009 | 04:31 pm
A quick tip for anyone looking for organic meat around our fair store .. drive the 5 or 6kms to Thornbury to Belmore Biodynamic Meat. I spoke to the guy standing proudly on the front page of their web...
Blu-ray Wins. Period. 6 Oct 2009 | 12:05 am
Our Blu-ray collection here at APPLEBOX is continuing to grow .. 104 titles and counting .. and I’m working my way through all of them. Blu-ray is the best format to watch movies in. Period. Dramas, A...
