Monday, March 31, 2008

Another iPhone Tip: Toss your Cookies

Here is another tip to add to my Top 18 Apple iPhone Tips. If you use Safari a lot on your iPhone, maybe it is time to clear out your history, cookies, and cache.

Here is how you do it:
1. Click on the Settings icon.
2. Scroll down and click on Safari.
3. At the bottom of the Safari page, you will see Clear History, Clear Cookies, and Clear Cache.
4. Click on each one of these. It will asked 'Are you sure?', then click Clear.

By Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com

Top 10 Box Office Hits and their Distributors

It seems like every major studio has at least one successful movie. The top ten motion picture box office hits for the end of the first quarter, and the companies that distribute them, are as follows:

21 distributed by Columbia Pictures, which is owned by Sony Corp. (SNE). PE of 15.5, PEG of 0.92, and yield of 0.5%.

Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation subsidiary of News Corp. (NWS-A). PE is 18, PEG is 1.06, yield is 0.6%.

Superhero Movie Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., subsidiary of Sony, and Comcast Corp. (CMCSA). PE is 23, PEG is 1.42, and yield is 1.3%.

Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF). Forward PE of 28.

Drillbit Taylor Paramount Pictures owned by Viacom, Inc. (VIA-B). PE is 15.

Shutter Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation subsidiary of News Corp. (NWS-A).

10,000 B.C. Warner Bros. Entertainment, subsidiary of Time Warner (TWX). PE is 12, PEG is 0.95, yield is 1.8%.

Stop-Loss Paramount Pictures owned by Viacom.

College Road Trip Walt Disney Pictures (DIS). PE is 15, PEG is 1.04, and the yield is 1.1%.

The Bank Job Lions Gate Entertainment.

Author owns NWS-A, TWX, and DIS.

By Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com

Alternative Energy Wind Bags

A British scientist, Professor Seamus Garvey, has a plan to use wind energy to fill up giant balloons with compressed air that would be stored on the ocean's floor. The air would be released from the energy bags when needed to generate power. One major utility, E ON AG (EONAF.PK), which trades on many European stock exchanges and on the Pink Sheets in the U.S., is so impressed with the idea that they have invested in the project.

Ryanair CEO Didn't Bet on Own Horse: Lost 33-1 Odds

Speaking of airlines, Michael O'Leary, the CEO of Ryanair Holdings plc (RYAAY), the noted Irish airline, didn't bother to bet on his own horse which was racing in the Irish Grand National. The horse, Hear The Echo, won and paid odds of 33 to 1.

Author owns RYAAY.