Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category

Future looks bright for video ads

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Continuing in the online video theme, The Register has a story about video ads:
Future looks bright for video ads
The article talks about ad-funded online video, and video ads in web pages. Both of these are relevant to me at work.

Symbian Slingplayer In Private Beta

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Saw this on mocoNews.net this morning: Symbian Slingplayer In Private Beta
Looks interesting, even with the number of operators making video available on mobile, this allows an individual get the video content that they have available, in their home or office, delivered to their phone.
So, while they’re on a train, or waiting in an airport, etc. they can get the news, the latest soap, or the view from the security cameras at home/office. This is obviously subject to bandwidth availability and cost. (uploading from home and downloading to phone).

Friday Fun: The Internet Crash of 2007

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Saw this on LifeHacker, it’s a fun video from the onion about the Internet crashing:

Friday Fun: The Internet Crash of 2007 - Lifehacker

Today’s word from Dictionary.com: triskaidekaphobia

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Today’s word in the dictionary.com word a day feed is “triskaidekaphobia”
Nice one guys. :-)

RTÉ entertainment goes mobile - ireland.com - Breaking News - Tue, May 22, 2007

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Interesting news about RTÉ programmes on 3’s mobile network. ireland.com - Breaking News - Tue, May 22, 2007 - RTÉ entertainment goes mobile
50 cent a day doesn’t sound to bad for the amount of data. Let’s hope other data rates come down also.
(I wonder if you need a “televison reception aparatus” licence for your phone also :-)

Although, I don’t know how well a fashion program would work on such a small screen.

YouTube - Microsoft oPhone

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Very funny video: YouTube - Microsoft oPhone

[link via Furrygoat]

Brilliant!

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Scott Adams strikes again:

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070418.html

Software Development Process

Friday, February 16th, 2007

I link this Lisp comic strip

Introducing iPhone Shuffle. Life Is Random.

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

I’m not entirely sure about the iPhone, seems to be quite big for a phone. However this is a really good idea:
Introducing iPhone Shuffle. Life Is Random.

Thanks to the folks at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) for the link.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

A 2000 year old computer looks interesting BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited

I must keep a lookout for the radio program on Dec 12th