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Boxee media center to hit beta next month
Media center application Boxee has grabbed a lot of headlines over the past year or two, and for good reason: Boxee provides Mac, Linux, and Windows users with an excellent solution for watching internet video on a TV. While web browsers were ...
Joost is dead, long live... no, Joost is pretty much dead
One upon a time, Joost was supposed to be the future of online video. The project was founded by the makers of Skype as a way to deliver high quality video over a peer to peer network using a standalone application because, let's face it, web ...
Air developer releases standalone Joost desktop player
Popular video site Joost has just announced the launch of their newDeveloper Paul Yanez has recreated a desktop player for popular video site Joost. To quote our own Brad Linder, "Can haz irony?" Joost started out as a desktop app, which, if you ...
First look at Boxee Alpha media center for Windows
Boxee is a media center application for Mac, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows that's based on the open source XBMC project. The Mac and Ubuntu versions of the media suite have been available to private alpha testers for a while now, and over 200,000 ...
Joost kills internet video desktop client
Two months after launching a web-based version of its online video platform, Joost is turning off its desktop client. Joost, which is the brainchild of some of the folks behind the Skype VoIP software, was originally launched to provide an ...
First on Mars - Flashy web TV aggregator
There's no shortage of places to find online video these days. Most TV networks offer full length episodes of at least a few shows, and video portals like Hulu and Joost offer content from a wide range of sources. First on Mars wants a piece of ...
Give the gift of music, e-books and more
Wondering what to get your less-than-tech-savvy friends? On a tight budget and can't buy them a PS3 or even a single Blu-ray title? Worry slightly less courtesy this cheapskates' guide to gifting content from the internet. Not everything is ...
Joost gets Flashy, works with virtually any web browser
Last month Joost started to launch a browser-based version of its online video service. Up until then, you needed to download a standalone client to watch the TV shows, movies, and video blogs served up by Joost. But last month you still needed to ...
Livestation adds more TV channels, Linux and Mac clients
It's been a while since we looked at Livestation, a video player that allows you to watch live streams of TV channels, with a heavy emphasis on news programming. While the channel selection was rather limited in February, there are now over a ...
Sling.com online video portal coming soon
It looks like Sling Media, makers of the Slingbox place-shifting hardware and software are finally preparing to launch Sling.com, a new online video portal first announced in January, 2007. TechCrunch reports that Sling Media is sending out emails ...
Joost take 2: This time it's in-browser video
As expected, Joost has launched a browser-based version of its online video service. One of the main things that set Joost apart from online video sites like YouTube and Hulu in its early days was the fact that you needed to download and install a ...
Joost to kill desktop client, provide browser-based video player?
Apparently a web browser really is the best place to watch online video. OK, that's probably not at all true. But thanks to YouTube, Hulu, and other Flash video based web sites, most users have gotten used to watching video without launching a ...
WB announces web video distribution deals, snubs Hulu
Warner Brothers is broadening its online video strategy. The company recently launched a private beta version of a web site featuring WB television programs from years gone by including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, and Friends. There's ...
TidalTV: Web video doesn't get much more TV-like
TidalTV is the latest company attempting to demonstrate that online video doesn't have to look like YouTube. While Joost takes online video away from the web browser, and Hulu embeds high quality network video on a web page, TidalTV has taken ...
Wiki lists legal uses of P2P software
It's no secret that people use peer to peer software like BitTorrent or Lime Wire to download copyrighted movies, music, and software. But that doesn't mean there aren't legitimate uses for the technology. Next time you need to explain to your ISP ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
