A while back I was reading an article on Arstechnica about The Pirate Google. The Pirate Google was created as a response to the verdict in the Pirate Bay Trial. The argument was that Google indexes torrents as does the pirate bay – why isn’t anyone prosecuting Google? The Pirate Google works by appending filetype:torrent to the end [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
September 25, 2008
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Finally Some Cartoons
By Levi Senft in MediaI’ve been really disappointed by the lack of cartoons on the online video sites I’ve seen so far. Earlier in the week I was delighted to find Kewl Cartoons, an offering from DIC Entertainment. My personal favorite is Inspector Gadget. Kewl Cartoons’ player doesn’t have a full screen mode which really sucks, it has a [...]
July 24, 2008
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SideReel – More Online TV
By Levi Senft in MacSideReel is an interesting online TV site, rather than being created by big content and hosting video like hulu.com and fancast.com, SideReel acts more as a wiki linking to episodes you can watch online. SideReel’s site proclaims that it was created to overcome the short comings of standard internet video searches and have a [...]
March 6, 2008
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Clutch
By Levi Senft in MacAlthough Chicken of the VNC remains my primary means of remote controlling the media mac I’d prefer to use some sort of web interface. This is where Clutch comes in. Clutch is a web based admin for Transmission, my Bittorrent client of choice.
Clutch allows you to view progress and control the torrents Transmission [...]
Tags: Media
March 6, 2008
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Legal Bad TV
By Levi Senft in MediaIn the past few months I’ve checked out a couple of sites offering online television shows and movies. The sites are Fancast and Hulu. Both are in beta and use Flash players displaying limited commercials.
Fancast was launched by Comcast in partnership with Tivo and I’m sure others. It is also provides TV [...]
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December 11, 2007
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Getting Real Player 10
By Levi Senft in MacI was recently given some videos using the RV1.0 video codec which isn’t available for the Real Player 11 Beta on have running on my media mac. After doing some research I discovered that Real Player 10 has the codec. I went to download it from Real Player’s site, maybe there is a [...]
Tags: Media, Real Player
December 6, 2007
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My Media Mac
By Levi Senft in MacMy PC free obsession has made it into the living room. A while back I decided I wanted to hook a computer up to my TV. I started out with a Video iPod and an Apple iPod AV Cable I got from the Apple Store. This works great, my only complaint is that it takes [...]
Tags: Media