Hulu Media Player Adds TV-Like Interface to Hulu
While the internet is becoming a gushing digital media pipeline, people still gravitate towards media players that resemble the familiar realm of TV. Hulu, a video content provider that hosts an impressive array of Fox and NBC programming, has recently been trying to blur the line between TV and internet video content. But now a [...]
Install Only the Parts of Windows Vista You Want with vLite
Ever wished that booting up a brand new computer didn’t involve giving the “delete” key a swift workout sifting through all the garbage software the manufacturer put on there? Unfortunately, there’s no remedy for that just yet, but there is a way to sift out some of Microsoft’s garbage during a Vista install. vLite allows the [...]
Apple Hauling in More Money off iTunes than Apple TV
Price cuts are never an accident, they’re usually a desperate attempt to accomplish something (such as Toshiba's HD-DVD price cuts). So what’s Steve Jobs trying to pull by cutting Apple TV’s price by $70? Gizmodo sacrificed an Apple TV unit to iSuppli to get a rundown on how much Apple’s really making off Apple TV. Unlike [...]
New wi-DRIVE HDD Enclosure Line Serves Up More than Just Portable, Wireless Storage
Sure there’s plenty of wireless storage solutions like networkable hard drives out there, but now EDS has made their portable, wireless wi-DRIVE PX-100 and DX-225 enclosures even better. The new, petite drive enclosures are offered both in 2.5” and 1.8” flavors and have some intriguing new features. While EDS used to only showboat the original [...]
Major Labels Allowing Free P2P Music Downloads – Or Are They?
In this day and age, it seems like a tale as old as time itself: record companies vs. peer to peer file sharers. Finally, a new music download service called Qtrax has apparently struck a deal with record companies to provide free music funded by advertising. Or have they? According to Wired, Qtrax had established [...]
Netflix WatchNow Plug-In for Windows Media Center Under Development
MC Organizer Adds Cover Flow Aesthetics to Movie Collector
DVD collecting is just something I can’t master. I don’t have the slightest problem wandering into an electronics store, scooping up a few titles, swiping my card and heading home to expand my miniature DVD kingdom. The problem is I don’t keep it too organized, so instead of running my finger across a few alphabetically [...]
Plan-B for a Hard Drive Crash: Roxio BackOnTrack Online
It’s funny to think that just about all a computer’s data resides on a slab of metal that constantly spins about as fast as a normal car’s motor does when it’s about to blow up. While hard drives have evolved to be more failure proof over the years, people still back up data onto snazzy [...]