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Crackle Available for Mobile Devices

I downloaded Crackle on the iPad and let’s say I am rather disappointed. I might not be so disappointed if it wasn’t over marketed. First the number of movies are limited. Out of that limited number most are either clips or highlights. Those movies that are full length are at least 30 to 40 years old. The same is true

Watch the Videos Your Friends Share on Showyou

With the advent of Airplay for the Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and ipod Touch video applications are beginning to appear in the App Store that take advantage of it. Showyou is one of these apps. On the iPad Showyou takes the videos that the people you are following on Twitter and Facebook are sharing and presents them in a beautiful

Poster for WebOS and the HP Palm Pre

As regular listeners to the podcast will know, the Geek News Central website is powered by Wordpress. Until now, I've always used the web interface to write posts. "It works" is about the kindest thing you can say about it. Browsing the Palm App Catalog, I came across Poster for Wordpress, an app that allows blogging from the Palm Pre

Rdio

I am on the look out for new music and I want to hear it before I buy it. At this point of time I have iTunes and Pandora. I like them both, but they both have their weaknesses. iTunes is great way to store music you already own, but it's not very good at finding new music. The iTunes

MLB.TV and MLB.com At Bat 11 are Back

Today, April 1 is the second day of the baseball season and I was all set to watch the Red Sox on MLB.TV. I had paid the $119 for the premium subscription and had updated the MLB.TV app on the Roku . I fired up the Roku  and selected MLB.TV and then I selected the Red Sox vs Rangers. It started

The Art Of The Sale

Since the advent of the VCR, the adage has been to look to the pornography industry to see what would happen – which formats would take off, what business models might work, etc., etc., etc. While the pornography industry did seem to be the first on the block to figure out how to make e-commerce work, do they still lead

Pocket Computers As Learning Devices

Normally I have very little interest in games. However, a friend got me to install an app on my iPod called “Words With Friends,” an iOS/Android cross-platform app that allows games between people and utilizes push notification to let you know when it’s your turn to play. This allows for asynchronous play in spare moments. That caused me to start