As more and more pay television providers argue with content owners over prices, now is the perfect time for streaming services like Hulu and Netflix to capitalize. At just under $20/month for Hulu Plus and a basic Netflix plan, economically, it’s just better. (If you can deal with losing a few programs and stations.) Hulu [...]
With the introduction of FaceTime for Mac, it’s important that Skype does what it can to stay one-step ahead of its competitors. It’s great to see the Skype team not forget about its Mac users. Mac users get both an upgrade to the group chat video calling features already in Windows and more Mac-like looks [...]
Services free elsewhere still requires a Xbox LIVE Gold account.
Moving along in my transition from Posterous to WordPress, I’ve taken on a lot of backend responsibility for my site. Not only do I have to manage a database and files that go along with this site, but I’m also having to worry about its security as well. There are a few things that can [...]
I just couldn’t pass up commenting on this. Source: http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/11/01/directv-drops-g4/ DirecTV will not carry G4 anymore after negotiations between the satellite provider and G4′s parent company, Comcast, ended Sunday. … According to a statement from G4, “…they [DirectTV] still plan to drop the network and deny G4 fans the only network that focuses on the [...]
Earlier this year, I gave Windows Live Sync 2011 beta a try and came away unimpressed and rather annoyed. Since then, Live Sync has come out of beta, been renamed Live Mesh, and has its synced storage size increased from 2GB to 5GB. Have the previous bugs been fixed? Is the 5GB of space enough [...]
Google released a new stable version of its popular Chrome web browser today. For some reason, Chrome didn’t like my profile, so I deleted it and went back to set up the syncing preferences to get all my bookmarks back. While in the sync settings, I noticed a new option available. You now have the [...]