May 24, 2012
There are perfectly good reasons for not showing some of the more disgusting or shocking news images. Here are six websites that do offer unedited, completely raw footage of both news events you’ll hear about on the evening news, and some that you won’t. In every case, these sites show you more footage than you’ll ever see on TV.
May 23, 2012
Play Sopcast streams on your Linux computer, easily. With a built-in playlist including several big TV networks and support for Sopcast and other video streaming services, TV Maxe provides Linux with a better sopcasting experience than the official Windows client. Sopcast, in case you didn’t know, is a peer-to-peer (p2p) system for live streaming. This means that Sopcast is made to help anyone broadcast in real time.
April 28, 2012
Send any YouTube video to your television, instantly. It’s perfect for YouTube parties or anytime you want to comfortably watch a video from your couch. All you need to make living room dreams come true is a media center powered by XBMC and a simple browser extension. Here’s the scenario. You’re sitting on your couch, browsing the web. You stumble upon a hilarious video and you want to share it.
March 24, 2012
Download TV listings in your area to a XMLTV file you can use with your media center. It’s easy, fast and – unlike other solutions – free with mc2xml. Plus, unlike other solutions, it works in the US and Canada. This script pulls down and converts movie information from Microsoft’s servers so you can use it with whatever software you like. Even better, it’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
March 22, 2012
News channel Al Jazeera English has today released a new iPhone app for reading, watching and submitting news. The app also allows users to watch a live 24-hour stream of the Al Jazeera English news channel directly within app. iPhone users will see content from popular sections of the Al Jazeera website including breaking news, [...]
March 12, 2012
Do you love your digital collection of movies, TV shows and music, but hate using clumsy interfaces to play them on your TV? It’s time to check out Plex, the ultimate media center program. It’s amazing at what it does, but a little complex to use – you need a server and a client for it to work. If you need help figuring all this out, it’s time to download “Plex, a Manual: Your Media With Style”, the latest free guide from MakeUseOf.
February 12, 2012
I am a huge sucker for RPGs and video games in general. One thing I’ve never been too big on, though, are television series. I’m the only one. Dexter, Band of Brothers, The Wire, Firefly, etc.; there are lots of them and you’re all watching. But I just can’t keep up. What I can buy some time to definitely do is watch a short RPG remake of an episode or summary of the series. Now you’ve got all of my nerd attention.
February 9, 2012
If you love clothes, you’ve probably seen many great items on TV characters that you’ve fallen in love with and yet instantly given up any hope of ever finding anything remotely similar for yourself. This is because most people usually either forget exactly what it looked like or possibly lack the drive to search numerous stores. Now Curvio has come to the rescue by making it easy to find exactly what your favourite actors wore.
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.
January 28, 2012
Watch TV shows and movies from Hulu without leaving the comfort of your couch. If you’ve got an XBMC media center you’d be silly to not install this plugin (assuming you live in the US: Hulu is still blocked in all other countries). A couple weeks ago I discovered that Boxee on the desktop is dead. I was disappointed, but was thrilled to discover that XBMC is not only a capable replacement but better than Boxee.
