January 17, 2010
Boxee, as you probably know, is a cross-platform media center application which you can download for free. Because it was designed specifically for the living room, it is suitable for use in conjunction with your large screen TV, with interface elements legible from the mythical 10 feet. Whether you run the application on an Apple [...]
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January 15, 2010
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: there’s no need for cable television in this day and age. The Internet is simply full of sites where you can watch TV on the Internet with your television for free; hook your television up to a computer and you can enjoy it all without paying [...]
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December 17, 2009
So you’ve taken the plunge and jailbroken your iPhone. If you’ve taken a look at all of the apps that are now available to you, there are an overwhelming number for you to choose from. A number of alternative iPhone app stores are available for your jailbroken iPhone, the largest and best supported of which [...]
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December 12, 2009
Ever since I wrote the VZOChat article, which covered how to embed your own personal videochat room into your blog, I’ve been obsessed with trying to find new uses for my new webcam. I’ve covered ways you can have some fun with video, and how to use wi-fi webcams to configure a wireless security system. [...]
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December 5, 2009
I love to watch TV, I always have and always will. But as I get older, time becomes a bigger problem. In the early part of 2000 I snatched up a TiVo to help me watch all my prime time shows when I got around to it. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 12pm ““ 2am. [...]
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December 3, 2009
The first time I came across this issue, I was attempting to send video from my laptop to my television via s-video. You see, at the time we did not have cable television (and still don’t by the way) so I was wanting to watch some YouTube videos with my wife while still working on [...]
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November 27, 2009
Update: The service is no longer available. A free downloadable application that suspiciously looks like an iPhone lying on its flank”¦that’s Dizzler. But the resemblance ends there because Dizzler is not a communication tool and the look is just the starting skin. It’s a desktop entertainment device. Or more simply let’s call it a media [...]
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November 26, 2009
There are many video sharing websites and social communities out there that let you share your videos with the entire world, but in many cases you might only want to share private home movies with family and friends. When it comes to public video sharing sites, MakeUseOf has covered the gamut, from Aibek’s review of [...]
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November 25, 2009
Way back in February, I posted a really cool tip which allowed Mac users to stream their entire iTunes library over the network and even through the Internet onto their iPhones. This involved the use of symbolic links, Terminal, converting videos into h.264 and adding them into iTunes. As cool as the tip was, there [...]
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November 21, 2009
Have you ever wanted to live like a real spy, even for just a little while? You know what I mean – traveling to exotic destinations using a handheld navigator, remotely bugging conversations or escaping peril by the skin of your teeth thanks to your trusty motion sensor gadgets. You may go to work everyday [...]
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