Wednesday, March 14, 2007

YouTube's massive copyright suit - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au

YouTube's massive copyright suit - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au: "Media conglomerate Viacom sued Google and its internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $US1 billion ($A1.27 billion) today in the biggest challenge yet to the web search leader's strategy to dominate the online video market.

The lawsuit accuses Google and its popular online video unit of 'massive intentional copyright infringement,' threatening its ambitions to turn YouTube into a major distributor of entertainment and outlet for advertising."

Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - Lifehacker

This looks useful:

Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - Lifehacker: "Putting any old video file - like the DivX/Xvid-encoded videos you've downloaded with BitTorrent - onto a DVD to play on your TV can be a daunting task. There's plenty of software that tackles this sort of thing for a price, but as a lover of open source software, free's always my first choice.

Luckily for all of us, authoring playable DVDs from just about any video file has gotten a lot easier in the open source community. This week I'm going to show you how to burn those downloaded TV shows to a DVD you can play in your living room using the free (as in speech), open source application, DVD Flick."

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

3 ways to use del.icio.us for categories in blogger - Freshblog

3 ways to use del.icio.us for categories in blogger - Freshblog: "Alright. As the title suggests, there are now 3 ways that I'm aware of to use del.icio.us for categories in blogger. All of these methods make tags that are picked up by technorati too, because Technorati tags don't have to link to technorati. They can link to del.icio.us and technorati will find them because of the rel: tag attribute. One set of tags is therefore capable of doing two things!! One more step: Each method still requires that you bookmark your post to del.icio.us, but there are one-click ways to do that too..."

Caedes Desktop Backgrounds - Photography, Abstract, 3D - Caedes Desktop Wallpaper - Caedes.net

Beautiful stuff. Free. Why look elsewhere?


Caedes Desktop Backgrounds - Photography, Abstract, 3D - Caedes Desktop Wallpaper - Caedes.net: "Welcome to Caedes, the Desktop Wallpaper and Artist Community
Caedes is a close community of artists, designers, and photographers who share their work through the medium of computer desktop wallpaper. Feel free to browse the galleries, comment on other's work, and even submit your own art when you're ready. Sign up for a free username to access all features."

del.icio.us/help/firefox

This has to be my alltime favourite firefox plugin:

NEW del.icio.us Bookmarks for Firefox

All the power of del.icio.us is now in your browser. The del.icio.us Bookmarks for Firefox extension replaces your Firefox bookmarking experience and gives you a better way to ...

  • organize your bookmarks
  • collect and retrive lots of bookmarks quickly
  • access your bookmarks collection from any computer

Cool new features:

  • Quick searching of your bookmark's tags, titles and notes
  • Get to all your bookmarks and tags in the new sidebar
  • A new bookmarks toolbar with two views for quick access to your favorite bookmarks.
del.icio.us/help/firefox