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Airman tells of night he was ordered to shoot down UFO

Fifty years later, now that Britain has released its X-Files, American jet fighter pilot Milton Torres is telling the story of what happened the night he was ordered to fire on a UFO. "I shall never forget it, and for the last 50 years I have been waiting for an...

Tags: Richard Koman, Airman, Blip, Radar, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing

Blog posts 2008-10-21

.Mac performance concerns in Europe

.Mac performance concerns in EuropeSame thing happens in the US with uploadsMany people, me included, have been complaining to Apple about lackluster upload speeds to .mac. Only with large files can one get a throughput speed at 2/3 of ISP cap. With many small files, blog & website updates, you...

Tags: Desktops, Web technology, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Mac performance, blip, performance

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Dance of the blips

Loopt, Inc and Sprint Nextel the cellular carrier have announced a provocative new service that "scans" a 25-mile radius around you and supplies a real-time map of your buddies locations. Its symmetrical, of course: If you can see someone, that someone can see you.So what?This isnt the first cellular monitoring...

Tags: blip, General, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Additional Resources

Hands on with new Roku Channel Store; is cable TV still worth the cost?

I've been testing out the Roku HD-XR and just this last weekend was sent some beta bits for their newly announced Roku Channel Store. The Roku Channel Store is available via a software update on all three Roku players, the Roku SD, Roku HD original, and Roku HD-XR. After the...

Tags: Cable Television, Roku Inc., Roku Channel Store, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Memory, Flash Memory, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Roku becomes cloud-enabled with new Roku Channel Store and Developer SDK

The new Roku Channel Store, which is being rolled out to all Roku devices, will greatly expand the capabilities of the $99 set-top on-demand streaming device. Late Sunday night, Roku announced that its players would now have a "Channel...

Tags: Developer, SDK, Roku Inc., Roku Channel Store, Managed Hosting, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Podcasts, Marketing, Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-11-22

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Free FLV Converter 6.7.4 (Windows)

Get your favorite online videos easier than ever with this free software. You will be able to search videos without opening your browser and watch them using the built-in video player. This freeware can convert FLV files to AVI, iPod (MPEG4 or H.264), iPhone, 3GP, PSP, or MP3 audio only....

Tags: FLV, Microsoft Windows, Video, Koyote Soft, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Video Download Toolbar 1.6 (Windows)

Video Download Toolbar is a Youtube downloader that allows even the most demanding users to download all FLV videos in 1 click. The best videos from the most popular Web sites as YouTube, Google, MySpace, IFilm, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Break, blip.tv, vidiLife, CollegeHumor, Sike, CurrentTV, directly to your computer in the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Video Download, Video Download Toolbar, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Movavi Flash Converter 2.9.2 (Windows)

Movavi Flash Converter - the ideal tool for downloading video from YouTube, Google and other popular video-sharing websites and converting Flash (.flv) videos to any format for any device. With Movavi Flash Converter, in just a couple of minutes, you can save Flash video even in HD to your iPod,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, MOVAVI, Flash, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Windows and Office cash cows take a hit in Microsoft's first quarter

BURN BABY BURNNice to see Microsoft start the downward spiral.Don't get too happy...Every company has a blip in its future - just wait until the next quarter.When you're on top the only way is down.Happened to all those on top at some point....IBMNovellGMLotusLike so many other companies?But then again, the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NOW IT, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

A billion streamed videos per day, $0 in bandwidth costs

A professionalA professional would be able to help design the sexiest dress. There are several online outlets that sell beautiful prom dresses . These websites also provide information about choosing the right kind of prom dress and also help to design one. These include dresses from popular designers like Jovani,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Routers & switches, Network technology, bandwidth cost, dress, Google Inc., Daisy, video

Discussion threads 2009-10-17

IVC - Internet Video Converter (Standard) 2.50 (Windows)

Internet Video Converter makes it possible to convert the popular video formats thanks to a simple, complete, and effective interface managing open source software. It deals with MPEG video formats, flash video FLV and SWF, DV, QuickTime, Windows Media Video, MJPEG, Apple TV, AVI (DivX, Xvid, and H264), mobile phone,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Internet Video, Video, IVCSOFT, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-21

VideoVangelist 2.1.6 (Mac)

The new standard for video conversion on the Mac is "VideoVangelist". Only VideoVangelist gives you the flexibility to convert video between formats from virtually any format. Features: Rip and convert VIDEO_TS folders and DVD's. Either ripping an entire feature or chapters at a time. Download and convert video from the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, Whimsplucky Software, Library Codec, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-17

Gen X/GenY/Enterprise 2.0: are the naysayers right?

It seems that analyst firm Forrester has woken up to the fact that Gen Y are not the big movers and shakers that we've been told the last couple of years. According to Read Write Web Enterprise: A favorite argument among those who talk about...

Tags: Generation X, Generation Y, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Web2 Delight 1.7.127 (Mac)

Web2 Delight price reduced to $9.95 Web2 Delight allows you to locate, view and transfer your favorite videos from YouTube, Veoh, blip.tv and photos from Flickr, Picasa, Webshots and Photobucket to your iPods and iPhone. It allows you to organize the videos/photos into custom collections, create slideshows, burn the collections...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Video, Photograph, Global Delight Technologies, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Ares Tube 3.2 (Windows)

Download video movies from youtube, google video, Blip Tv, Daily Motion and metacafe to local video formats (IPOD, MP4, MPEG, and AVI). Ares Tube optionally will export your videos, to your iTunes plattform. Just browse to the desired video and click Add to download list. Now includes support to Angry...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Ares Tube, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-05

Snow Leopard geared for multicore future

You do realize that...You do realize that GCD is just a combination of 2 technologies that already existed previously on other platforms, right?a) Apple finally added "closures", aka "anonymous methods" or "lambda expressions" to Objective-C. Other languages have had this for many many years, and it is what you need...

Tags: Apple Inc., multi-core

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard cuts support for legacy Palm OS devices

Even more anti-competitive moves by Apple against PalmFirst they sabotage the Pre, then they remove support for all other Palm devices, all because Palm [b]dared[/b] create a smartphone. Folks, this is anti-competitive, plain and simple.Cue the double standards..."Legacy" Palm OS devices?!What's a "legacy PalmOS device"? Aren't ALL PalmOS devices...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Mobile applications, Operating systems, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Palm Inc., Palm OS, Pre, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Packaged software, an accident of history

"government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web Standard, software, accident

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

VideoVangelist 2.1.2 (Mac)

The new standard for video conversion on the Mac is "VideoVangelist". Only VideoVangelist gives you the flexibility to convert video between formats from virtually any format. Features: Rip and convert VIDEO_TS folders and DVD's. Either ripping an entire feature or chapters at a time. Download and convert video from the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, Whimsplucky Software, Library Codec, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-16