November 2007 Archives

This is just too great, I had to share it.

Yes, thats Electricity. Those are carefully tuned Tesla Coils. (For those who don’t know what Tesla Coils are, they’re about as close to Lightening Machines as we’ll ever get)

Read on for another video of the Geek Group explaining how these things work…

Aw, is the RIAA scared of the big bad lawyers?

Looks like the RIAA are steering clear of Harvard when it comes to their "Sue everything and everyone that they can" method of cracking down on piracy.

They must be scared... Worried that someone will see through their thinly veiled bully tactics.

If you haven't yet, you should probably head on over to the Miro website and start up the download while you read this.

Miro is a Free Open-Source Internet TV and Video Player.
Thats alot to fit into a single application. And they do it well.

Their biggest "selling point" is that they claim to be better than Joost.

They even go to the pains of listing why.

But what can you do with Miro? What is Miro all about...

Now if only the rest of the music industry would come to this obvious conclusion

Here I was, thinking the customer was always right. And the music industry has been trying to deny this for far too long now.

Congratulations to Edgar Bronfman from Warner Music for seeing the error of their ways.

One of the nicest features of MythVideo, is being able to store your collection of DVD's on your hardrive.
From there, its a simple task of selecting the Video from the Video Gallery, and hitting play.

You can fetch all the Movie's details from IMDB, including poster art and movie ratings.
This makes it much more convenient, and more useful than having to fetch the DVD from your collection to watch it.

The only downside that I can see, is that you'll start to run out of disk space very quickly, as each movie will take up between 4GB and 8GB.

I faced a few challenges in getting this working, and I'm going to try shed as much light on this as possible.

When a Movie Producer emails in to a website, and effectively says "Thanks for pirating our movie", then you know its not as bad as all those HotShot movie industry types say it is...

Perhaps the MPAA should pay a little more attention to the facts, instead of pushing hype.

I dont know about anyone else, but I'd much sooner go watch a movie on someone elses recommendation, than on the suggestings of a big flashy ad campaign.

Telkom ADSL. The perfect broadband solution for gaming, watching movies, and listening to music online.

At least, thats how Telkom advertises and sells their ADSL Broadband.

But what they really say, in the terms and conditions, is that you musn't use your ADSL.
No really.

MyBroadband has an article today, on the crazy restrictions placed on Telkom ADSL users, as stated in the Acceptable Usage Policy. Duncan McLeod also has a few comments on it.