Archive for February, 2010
20 Photoshop Alternatives On Photoshops 20th Birthday
To celebrate photoshop turning 20 I’m providing a list of 20 alternatives. I only included 2 paid apps, one for Windows and one for Mac. Happy Birthday Photoshop! 1. Picnik – Web-based photo editing. Connects with services like Picasa, Flickr and Facebook to grab your photos. There is a free account or a paid premium [...]
Video: Olympic IT Group
The video doesn’t show all the computers, servers and storage but it’s still cool to hear how much they have. Who would have thought it would take 6,000 PCs, 800 servers and 130 terabytes to bring the world the Olympics online. More at Cnet
Build a Cheap Whole-House Speaker System
Whole-House speaker systems can cost many thousands of dollars. There are some cheaper solutions but this post at Lifehacker doesn’t get much cheaper. It uses existing phone wiring in the house to distribute the audio signals. You just need powered speakers at the other end. It’s not the easiest and their directions require some soldering [...]
Control FiOS TV From Your Droid or Imagio
Verizon has released a remote control app for the Droid and Imagio. It acts as a TV remote allowing you to change channels, record, pause and anything else your remote can do. It does all that over wireless in your home. Another really cool feature is that it will allow you to stream pictures from [...]
Air Video Streams Videos to Your iPhone
Air Video is a application on Windows or Mac that allows you to stream videos to your iPhone or iPod Touch. The file format doesn’t matter as it will convert it live for you to stream. It reminds me a lot of Orb but more simplistic. If you just want to stream videos the Air [...]
Boxee Updates Beta
Boxee has updated the latest beta build for the general public. The have fixed over 500 things in the new version. There were also some new things added as well. * Multilingual keyboard support: under settings->appearance->region to add keyboards * Significantly improved video quality of our DXVA support * Regained support for older graphics cards [...]
