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If you're a Windows Media Center user then you, no doubt, are disappointed by Hulu's snubbing of the platform. You probably also have waited for Boxee to arrive. After all, Netflix jumped on board about a year ago. Why not the other major players? Netflix is always quick to jump into whatever platform they can get themselves on. They get
Once you've add the sites you want, then you can set them up the way you want. Each application can be use to its fullest within Seesmic. You can go through your Google subscriptions, view YouTube videos, keep up with your Facebook friends and Twitter without ever leaving the Seesmic desktop application. When you write a post, you can easily choose which client or clients you want to send it too. You can also keep up with Twitter trends and do searches. There are a couple of problems I have run into while using the application, first I haven't been able to get the Last.fm application working. I just set up a new Last.fm account recently, so the problem maybe on my end, I am just not sure. The second problem is you do have to install Microsoft's Silverlight to use it, so Linux users are out of luck at this time. It is also not very practical on a small screen, unless you like to scroll back and forth. It would be interesting to know how many people actually use multiple sites within the Seesmic application. Is this something that people want or are they looking for something more simple. I think a lot of people would see this as a clear case of information overload and a bit overwhelming. I am not one of those people however, I love having everything right in front of me, I do wish that the applications Identi.ca or Status.net were available within Seesmic, hopefully they will be soon.
On September 8th Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court handed down a ruling which could shake up copyright holders around the world and probably scared the heck out of such outfits as the RIAA and MPAA. In a nutshell, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that IP addresses are personal information, and therefore, fall under the country's strict privacy laws, and may not
More bandwidth! I want more bandwidth! If I yell, can I get it? No? How about if I ask nicely? Lots of us have yelled AND asked nicely. And in a year or so, we might just be able to get it. At least, another way of getting it. The FCC is prepared to vote on the provisions associated with
I share with you early on in the show, why I screamed no over the weekend some of you had troubles downloading the last show and that was part of it. Watch your ears at the end as I share a special audio No :).. This one is packed to the rim folks with lots of tech and assorted goodies.
Energizer is releasing a new inductive charging system this October at Target stores and on Target.com. It's officially called “Energizer Inductive Charger” The new charging pad will charge any QI (Pronounced Chee) enabled device or a device with a QI accessory. Energizer will have the first two of these accessories available at the same time. They are starting with the
If you want to share large files, then you already know that email is NOT your friend. Many email services have file size limits - frequently 10MB. If you have looked further then you also know of the services available to help you share larger files such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, EasyShare, FileSonic, and FileFactory. Some of these services actually pay
When Steve Jobs introduced the new Apple TV he said something in his comments that really pissed me off. In fact the way he said it, reminded me of individuals that thinks their opinion on all things is superior to others you know the type. For the past 6 years new media, and podcasting has changed the landscape forever on
I hope you will join me here at Geek News Central Saturday 9-11 at 9am Pacific and 12 Noon Eastern for the very first "Morning Tech Show" my guests will be Rob Greenlee from Zune and Andy McCaskey from SDR News. I look forward to launching a new show here at Geek News Central.
The Morning Tech Show launches on Saturday with guest Rob Greenlee, Podcast Director at Zune & Andy McCaskey of SDR News. We will start at 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern for a variety of topics, some surrounding tech and other topics of interest. Join me here at GeekNewsCentral.com We will have a variety of guest on week to week. These companies
Today, surprising everyone, Apple sent out a press release saying they have changed their developer's license agreement and now allow third-party development tools for creating iOS apps. This is big news because it clears the uncertainty for third party dev tool manufacturers. Back when Apple first announced the restrictions (in section 3.3.1), it seemed to be aimed directly at Adobe
The way Google search worked yesterday is you would start typing in an inquiry such as Indian restaurants and after you had typed in Indian res you would see a list with the words Indian restaurants and the nearby cities and towns. You would then have to arrow down to the one you wanted, hit enter and then you would get the search results for Indian restaurants in that city. You then have to click on your choice to go to the page. If you think about you are looking at about four steps to get to the page you want. What instant search does is speed this process up. If instant search is turned on when you go to www.google.com and start typing Indian restaurant, you will notice as you are typing some grey letters start to appear as it tries to guess what you are searching for. If the grey letters are completing what you are looking for you can hit tab and it will give you that search result page. Then you can click on the result you want and go to the page. If instead of hitting tab you hit the down arrow you will notice the search page changes to match your choice once you hit the one you want if you hit the right arrow key, it will automatically take you to the first search entry on the page.
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