Friday, June 13, 2008

Hulu – The Future of Online Video

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Once upon a time if you had a hankering for watching some old SNL skit, an old episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, or maybe last week’s Family Guy, your choices were limited… Maybe for the older stuff, you could go to the local video store and hope the TV section had what you wanted – of course you’re out of luck for anything that just aired. Or maybe you could buy a boxed DVD set – if you can find it, and if you really want to fork out that kind of money for essentially just one show. Or you possibly could root around one of the paid content Internet sites such as Apple’s iTunes or Amazon’s Unbox to see if it is being offered … for a price. Perhaps you checked out YouTube to see if maybe, hope against hope, someone posted that show that you’re hunting for, albeit it, in grainy low quality – and at only 10 minutes a shot.  Some may even go as far as to dig up a torrent seed or visit pirate websites and obtain what they want by less than legal means – something we certainly discourage!  Then along comes Hulu and everything changes.

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Sunday, June 08, 2008

Getting Social with Flock

Posted by ttblogger on 06/08 3 Click here to add Comments • Permalink
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There’s no denying that social networking is all the rage right now. The popularity of sites like MySpace and Facebook, as well as blogs, photo sharing sites, and more really attests to this.

Obviously, you need to get to those sites using a Web browser. That, strangely enough, is when things start to get a bit cumbersome. How? If you want to use any of these sites and services, you need to add and manage bookmark and/or multiple plugins (assuming, of course, that your browser supports them). To make the social Web really useful and efficient, you need to have tighter integration between sites and your browser out of the box.

That’s the promise of Flock. Billing itself as the social Web browser, Flock (according to its developers) is “a refreshing new approach to how people use and participate on the Web and simplifying social and Web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser.”

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Sunday, June 01, 2008

A Buyer’s Guide to Hard Drives

Posted by ttblogger on 06/01 15 Click here to add Comments • Permalink
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Your hard drive is arguably the most important component of your laptop or desktop computer. Without it ... well, all you have is memory, a power supply, a CPU, and a few other odds and ends. If a computer’s CPU is the brains, then the hard drive is the heart and lungs of your PC.

Sometimes, though, you might find that you need a new hard drive. But buying one isn’t always easy. There is a tangle of terminology to deal with, and there are a number of factors that you have to consider before putting your money down. Regardless of why you need a hard drive, this TechTip will arm you with the knowledge that you need to choose the one that’s right for you.

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Using Your Eee PC as an e-Book Reader

Posted by ttblogger on 05/25 5 Click here to add Comments • Permalink
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To be honest, both the reader and the geek in me would love to get their hands on a Kindle, Amazon’s e-book reader. Unfortunately, though, the Kindle isn’t available in Canada. So, if I want to read my ever-expanding library of electronic books while on the go, my choices are limited.

I could print out the books, but I’d have trouble justifying such a waste of paper. Or, I could lug my laptop computer with me, but that’s not a great solution on a crowded train or bus. But, if you’re like me and you own an Eee PC, then you have a great way of reading e-books no matter where you are. Best of all, you don’t have to shell out any more money for additional hardware or software. Everything that you need is already on the device. 

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