Archive for November, 2009
Automatic Captions in YouTube
YouTube is launching several new features for captioning. There are three captioning methods now. You can upload the caption file for the video. You can create a dialog file and YouTube will match the words with the text you provided. And YouTube will automatically add captions to the video. The first two are available to [...]
Video: What is Google Chrome OS?
Google announced Chrome OS today and created the video above to explain it. While I have a lot of data in the cloud I’m not sure I want everything I do on a computer to be with Google. I’m sure I’ll get over that pretty quickly if the new computers are cheap and fast. 5 [...]
Sky Player Launched Today for Windows Media Center
Sky Player for Windows Media Center is available today. While it is UK only it’s a great idea and I wish more service providers would look at this model. It allows you to stream on-demand, movies and live events straight to Windows Media Center. It doesn’t require a satellite or set-top box. I wish DirecTV [...]
AT&T Fires Back at Verizon with New Ad
The AT&T commercial above is really nothing special but it does show that they are going to go after Verizon. Today was also the day that a judge ruled that Verizon’s ads “There’s a map for that” can still be aired. Verizon’s response to AT&T about the lawsuit was that “the truth hurts”. This should [...]
Build a Cheap Boxee Box Now
Even though Boxee is going to announce details about a Boxee Box on December 7th, you can still build a cheap Boxee Box now. Lifehacker has come through again with a great how-to on building a Boxee Box for $350. That’s $150 more than the XBMC build they posted about but it is considerable more [...]
HD Media Player Battle
With all the HD media players on the market it is tough to decide which one is best. Gizmodo has a great article comparing five of the best out there. If you don’t want to read through it look at the chart breakdowns to see how they compare. They tested the WD TV Live, Seagate [...]
