Oct 27, 2010 | mail, Microsoft, photos, software, video, Vista, web_services, Windows Live, Windows7
The good news is that Microsoft has released Windows Live Essentials 2011, an updated collection of free programs that are well designed and useful additions to Vista and Windows 7. The bad news is that you almost certainly don’t want all of them, and Microsoft has...
Oct 17, 2010 | Facebook, humor, Internet, video
Ze Frank has been doing interesting online experiments for almost ten years. He delivered a talk about some of his projects to a TED conference a few months ago; if you can find 20 minutes to watch it, you might come out feeling a little better about community and...
Oct 17, 2010 | bruceb, humor, video
Now I know the answer to a lingering question: if I embed videos into a news post and send it out to my email subscribers, the video links will just vanish. Poof! Nothing to click on. You’ll have a better idea of what the Ze Frank post is about if you visit the news...
Sep 22, 2010 | Google, mobile, phone, software, video, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Google Voice Interlude – Background About Voice And Data Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 2 Skype is best known for its program that runs on a computer to call other Skype users for...
May 3, 2010 | business, DRM, video
Ah, Avatar. Extraordinary movie-making, one of the prettiest movies ever to hit the screen. The perfect movie for your new Blu-Ray player and HD TV – it will look splendid. Well, that’s if it will play. And if the disc in the stores now is the one you want to buy....
Apr 25, 2010 | audio, photos, remote, software, video
Long time readers know that periodically I mention J River Media Center, the program I’ve used for many years to organize my embarrassingly large music library. If you’re not familiar with the program, then please go read my write-up a few months ago, where I tried to...
