February 3, 2010
If there’s a Playstation 2 somewhere in your closet gathering dust, chances are you have an EyeToy in there somewhere too. And if you have an EyeToy, you have a USB webcam. That’s right: the EyeToy can be used as a regular webcam on Windows XP, Linux and Mac computers. If you’ve been meaning to [...]
February 1, 2010
When I came across Autobahn (for Windows/Mac) and read about what it is capable of doing, I immediately wanted to install it and try it out. According to the website, it “optimizes your Internet connection to provide blazing fast downloads and video streams.” In the past, I wrote about how to tweak Vista to improve [...]
January 22, 2010
There’s lots of ways to watch TV online, or to watch news online. But if you want your video viewing to be an educational experience, consider watching entire university courses online. Watching free video lectures is easier to do than you might think. All around the world top-tier universities are offering videos of entire college [...]
January 20, 2010
I live in the United States and I have to say cable news here is painful to watch. Most of the stories are irrelevant Hollywood fluff, and the rest is almost entirely talking-head gibberish. In the past, we’ve offered a variety of alternative ways to keep in touch with the news online, the most recent [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
