HDR-CX11E Unboxing
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in technology | No Comments »Below is a video of me unboxing the new HDR-CX11E, the European (PAL) version of the HDR-CX12. It is Sony's latest full HD record to memory stick camcorder. The unit is also capable of taking 10.2 megapixel photos. The camera comes ...
Roomba 560 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in technology | No Comments »After seeing an Engadget article about a Roomba Pacman hack I was fascinated by the idea of a robot vacuum. Being skeptical; I searched for reviews and the Wikipedia page for the Roomba for more information about how well these things ...
H.264 Video in Flash
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized, computing, funny videos, technology | 1 Comment »Adobe announced last year that the beta flash player supported H.264 video, and since then the latest Flash Player 9 release version with H.264 has rolled out and most people seem to have it installed (thanks to MySpace and other ...
Higher Video Quality for YouTube Arrives
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in technology | 2 Comments »YouTube appear to be rolling out an option allowing users to watch videos in higher quality than before (example). Not all source videos uploaded will be high quality/definition (cell phone video etc), but it appears that when a high quality video ...
Yahoo Mail, a Cesspit of Spam
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in technology | No Comments »Need I say more? Yahoo mail doesn't seem to be able to filter out the spam very well at all. Perhaps Yahoo thinks that I might benefit from various drugs and a few Nigerian 419 scams. If you're not using gmail ...
Revver.com Sells To LiveUniverse
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in technology | No Comments »Revver has apparently sold to LiveUniverse (Brad Greenspan's operation) for less than $5m, at a considerable loss to investors. "Online-video company Revver Inc., which has tried to stake out a niche by broadcasting only material that doesn't infringe on copyrights, has ...
Putfile Embedded Videos Deactivated
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in computing, technology | 1 Comment »UPDATE Jan 17th 2008: The original embedded player has been restored and is now working again. A lot of people have been messaging me about this, and I'm sorry to hear about it. It seems as though ZVUE, in their infinite wisdom, ...
Here Comes Another Bubble
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 Posted in technology | No Comments »Jay sent me this video about another dot com bubble. I thought it was hilarious, so here I am sharing it with you. [flv:another-dot-com-bubble.flv 520 295]
Donating Spare CPU Cycles to Fold@Home
Friday, November 30th, 2007 Posted in computing, technology | No Comments »If, like me, you have various computers or servers which need to be online 24/7 but aren't always using their full CPU power then consider donating your spare CPU power to a collaborative computing project for the greater good of ...
JumpTV builds $49m .ppt, $1m CDN
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in money, technology | 1 Comment »BeetTV reports that JumpTV has invested $50 million in a proprietary content delivery network (CDN), because the existing CDNs "couldn't provide what they need". Akamai is one of those existing CDNs. If you haven't dealt with Akamai before the bottom line ...