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Miley Cyrus starts her new documentary by saying, “I don’t apologize for anything,” setting a defiant tone that underscores the entirety of the project. “Miley: The Movement” is the movie that MTV made for — and with — Cyrus, and while it positions itself as a behind-the-scenes look into the pop star’s controversial year of mostly naked and racially complicated music videos and performances, viewers may be hard-pressed to walk away with new knowledge about the singer.

Sure, there’s Miley saying she thought she would be in a band (“like Paramore”) and that she’s “a part of history” (“The way I am about Britney, some people are that way about me”) and a “strategic hot mess.” But as a question and answer session at a press screening with MTV executives revealed, “Miley: The Movement” was created with the input of Cyrus and her team. The film focuses heavily on the MTV Video Music Awards, which are presented as the holy grail of music, and doesn’t include Liam Hemsworth (Cyrus’ now ex-fiance) or Billy Ray Cyrus (her country singer superstar dad), nor does it address any accusations of cultural appropriation levied against Miley.

It does, however, include one line that prompted uncomfortable laughter at the aforementioned screening. Miley’s mother, Tish Cyrus, appears often in the movie and notes that “all of a sudden, Miley was friends with all these … people.” She then goes on to discuss a studio encounter with Juicy J, the southern rapper whose musical stylings have informed a number of Miley’s aesthetic decisions as of late (he’s the dude whose show she famously “twerked” at). The way Tish marvels at her young, white daughter hanging out with black performers is so awkward that it almost feels like MTV is trolling us by not cutting the soundbite from the final edit.

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Coca-Cola’s 13-year tenure as “Best Global Brand” is over, however the new leader shouldn’t really surprise you. Apple knocked Penelope Cruz’s favorite soft drink from the number one spot on Interbrands’ annual valuation report, but after posting massive revenues time and again — including a company-record $54.5 billion in January — this isn’t too startling. Cook and friends started their ascent at the eighth spot in 2011, and climbed to second place in 2012 before stealing the top prize in the latest list. Interbrand pegs Cupertino’s brand valuation at $98.3 billion, which isn’t exactly pocket change. Don’t cry for the Sprite-maker though, it’s still on the podium according to The New York Times, but behind another tech-powerhouse: Google.

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Via: The New York Times

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“Breaking Bad” is over. It’s done. OMG, what did you think?

HuffPost TV asked the same question of TV critics and fans, and they all shared their immediate reaction to the “Breaking Bad” series finale with us via Instagram video.

Check out the reactions below — ranging from stunned silence to tears to pure “yeah, b*tch!” elation — to see what we all thought. Consider it catharsis. Or group therapy. Just don’t miss out on a single one:

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This article was written on August 12, 2011 by CyberNet.

I love the way Microsoft integrated the quick window resizing in Windows 7, and so I started looking around for something similar on the Mac since I frequently work with two windows side-by-side. Not only did I find an app, Moom, for my Mac that would let me resize my windows, but it also blew away any expectations I had for such a utility.

It’s hard to do Moom justice without you actually trying it out (there is a free trial on their site), but I’ll do my best. Moom gets activated by hovering over the green zoom button located on each window. By default you’ll see pre-defined options to move/resize a window to the left half, right half, top half, bottom half, or full screen. If you click and drag on one of those icons you’ll notice that the icon changes to quarter segments. For example, in the screenshot above I clicked and dragged down on the “left half” icon which turned it into the bottom left quarter icon. If I would have clicked and dragged up it would have turned into a top left quarter icon.

The slickness doesn’t stop there though. You can add the optional grid to the popout menu, which I highly recommend. The number of boxes are customizable, but I found their default 6×4 grid to be just right on my 27″ iMac. To use this you just click and drag on the area/size you want for the window, and Moom will make sure the window gets put into that position. You’ll also notice in the screenshot that some of the boxes are shaded different colors. These are used to represent where the window is already located: the solid white box means that the window already occupies that portion of the screen, and the other shades of gray mean that the window only occupies a fraction of that space. Very slick!

Keyboard junkies aren’t left out in the dark either. There are plenty of customizable keyboard shortcuts, such as for moving a window to another monitor, available for you to play with. An unexpected use I found with Moom is that using these keyboard shortcuts you can gather up some of those off-screen windows that appear on a monitor that isn’t connected to your machine anymore.

Before I tried Moom I was thinking “$5 for an app that just resizes window?”, but it didn’t take long for me to change my tune to “this is just $5?”.

Moom Homepage (Mac only, $5 in the Mac App Store – trial available at the homepage)

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The Nintendo Wii U is hardly selling like hotcakes although we’re not sure why. The Wii U has plenty of fun titles, but we guess it is not seen as a “hardcore” console compared to the likes of the Xbox or PlayStation. In any case it seems that Nintendo will be attempting to create more awareness of the console and will be partnering up with UK retailer, Tesco, in an attempt to do so and address the problem of how “many people out there that don’t know what this is.” This is according to Nintendo UK’s marketing director, Shelly Pearce, who spoke with the folks over at MCV.

In order to raise awareness of the Wii U console and some of its features and capabilities, Nintendo will be purchase in-store space at Tesco, along with a five-page flier that will be sent to about 300,000 Tesco customers who have previously purchased a Nintendo Wii (the Wii U’s predecessor), along with coupons for certain games. According to Pearce, “There was a big misconception at launch about what Wii U is […] And one of the big messages is that this is a new console and a new controller.” In any case we’re not sure if this strategy will work for Nintendo but given that the PS4 and Xbox One will be released in the next couple of months, we guess it can’t hurt if Nintendo gave it their all from now until then.

Nintendo UK Planning To Raise Wii U Awareness In Tesco original content from Ubergizmo.