September 4, 2012
Going abroad? Boarding a plane? You can now take BBC content with you anywhere you go, with the BBC iPlayer’s new download feature. Up until now, you could only stream content on iPlayer, requiring a Wi-Fi or 3G connection at all times. With the new feature, you can choose which content you want to download to your device, and watch it without any connection, no matter where you are in the world.
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August 5, 2012
Unhappy TV-viewing Olympics fans can now instead watch the BBC iPlayer Olympic broadcast for free using UnoTelly's simple DNS-based service. UnoTelly have set up a decidated DNS, which anyone worldwide can use to gain high-speed access to the BBC iPlayer in order to watch the Olympics.
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June 26, 2012
Those of us who spend a lot of time online often choose to view TV and films on the computer instead of on their TV. In fact, often these days the computer is the TV. Sadly though, some of the world's best content is restricted to certain countries, without the option of allowing citizens elsewhere to just pay for access. Instead they seem content to allow third parties to profit by offering perfectly legal hacks.
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June 11, 2012
British comedy is typified by dry wit, slapstick visuals and strong comic actors. BBC comedy should, in theory, take the best of what is already a strong bunch and highlight the very best - and that’s what I’ve tried to do here. All of these shows can still have you in fits of laughter to this day.
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February 9, 2012
The Internet is becoming an increasingly important source for content of all media. There are legal and not-so-legal ways of listening to music, watching television and movies, playing games, and obtaining software. All via a simple broadband connection. You don't even need a computer these days thanks to the range of devices which you can hook up to the Web in order to transform them from dumb to smart.
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January 20, 2012
BBC GoodFood is an add-on for Chrome, that goes along with the BBC GoodFood website. It is not, however, a clone of the website. The add-on features its own unique UI, stunning hi-resolution photographs of food (a-la Food Porn Daily) and live, instant recipe search from a collection of over 160 recipes.
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July 30, 2011
The BBC's popular on-demand catch up service iPlayer has been released to the international community for a monthly fee. The app itself is free to download but use of the service will cost users €6.99 per month or €49.99 for the entire year. At present the service is only available in Europe in the following countries.
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March 17, 2010
The BBC (or the British Broadcasting Corporation) has an interesting tagline that precisely describes what it does – The BBC “informs, educates and entertains – wherever you are, whatever your age”. The “˜wherever’ and “˜whatever’ part especially held true for a child growing up in India. My general awareness of the world around me went up [...]
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January 26, 2010
Today, news are reported from all over the globe and there is no shortage of diversity. Entire TV channels have been dedicated to reporting the latest developments. You could probably watch, read, and listen to news all day every day without ever getting the same story twice. Of course that’s not an option, so you [...]
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September 30, 2009
At first look, it seems strange that a name like BBC is prefixed with a web service that calls itself BBC Memoryshare and that stores and replays personal memory bits like a social sharing site. But, doesn’t memory of events past translate into history? Personal memoirs provide us with lessons in history that a classroom [...]
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September 18, 2009
Last night, Mark had a problem – like even the most tech-savvy guys do, from time to time. However hard he tried, he just couldn’t download audio from the BBC iPlayer broadcasts. It was ridiculous to see the hundreds, if not thousands of how-to’s on downloading media from YouTube, but hardly a single one about [...]
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