a post by Griffin, filed in Computer, Review, Video Games, media, program, technology on March 18th, 2008. Read the full post »
Its new segment time! Previously, I’ve been issuing news updates that consist of several stubs of stories that aren’t post-worthy individually. Well, Miscellanea isn’t exactly news, it is more like a collection of unrelated, cool stories that I want to bring to a larger audience. OK then, lets jump right into it.
First of all, Acer’s Vice President, James Wong, had said that they plan to release an open platform gaming console. To quote Gizmodo, “WTF?” Wong allegedly takes issue with the current proprietary, closed consoles that dominate the market. The console should use PC technology. I think the decision to make it entirely open platform closes off some potential money, but since it is good for the consumer, I’m fine with it. My German isn’t good enough to fully comprehend the original source, but if someone is better than Google Translator, feel free to repost it in the comments.
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a post by Griffin, filed in Computer, Review, Video, Websites, internet, media, piracy, technology on March 12th, 2008. Read the full post »
Back in October, Hulu was launched as a joint venture between Fox and NBC. The site was to offer free, ad-supported videos of popular TV shows and movies. Back then and until a couple of days ago, it was still in private beta. I managed to get an invite a couple weeks ago, and I have been enjoying the service greatly (thanks again Alec.) Read the rest of this entry »
a post by Griffin, filed in Websites, internet, media, piracy, technology on January 31st, 2008. Read the full post »
It seems that the rumors of a formal investigation were true and less than 30 minutes ago, at time of posting, four of the owners of The Pirate Bay were ordered to pay over $180,000 dollars in copyright damages each. The four said that they knew this would happen eventually, so they made sure that The Pirate Bay’s servers were spread throughout the world. Read the rest of this entry »
a post by Alec, filed in Computer, how to, media, technology on January 17th, 2008. Read the full post »
I use Skype and listen to music a lot in Songbird, the opensource media player by Mozilla. I wanted the music I am listening to to be shared with the person I was talking too so my friend suggested scrobbling from Last.fm. Natively, Songbird doesn’t support this feature, but making it work is easy. I thought scrobbling was only for Windows Media Player, iTunes and Winamp. I was wrong. Find out how to do it after the break.
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