Archive for March, 2005

MSN Lauches Video Downloads

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

If you’re not in the know enough to find torrents of first run movies, you’ve probably been wondering what people do with Portable Media Payers. Wonder no longer - Microsoft has launched their video download service. MSN Video download generically claims to offer the latest news, sports, and entertainment for $19.95, all you […]

Spell with Flickr

Monday, March 28th, 2005

This is pretty cool. Kastner has created some code which queries Flickr some text that you input and gets you images of that text as the output. Don’t be shy. Try it out, here.

TiVo Serving up Ads on Fast Forward?

Monday, March 28th, 2005

While I have yet to see it myself, the TiVo Community Forums are buzzing with chatter that TiVo has begun implementing the Ads on Fast Forward program which overlays an advertisement on your television as you fast forward through commercials. These advertisements are TiVo’s latest strategy to turning a profit, something the company has […]

Use Regular Memory Sticks with your PSP

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

A reader over at PSP-Vault has figured out a way to use standard sized Memory Sticks with his Sony PSP. It isn’t pretty, but by using a $30 Memory Stick Expansion Jacket originally intended for the Sony Ericsson P800, it can be done.
Read the complete How To here: PSP-Vault.com
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How To Get eBooks on your […]

DRMless Interface to the iTunes Music Store

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Once again, DRM-evading Jon Lech Johnasen has thwarted Stevie and Apple. “DVD Jon” has, this time, created PyMusique, a “fair interface to the iTunes music store.” Apparently iTunes does not encrypt a song, until the download takes place. This allows for PyMusique to sneak between your transaction and iTunes enabling a DRM-free […]