Sunday, September 30, 2007

Week In Review

It's almost Monday & Time to Review the past weeks posts.  If you missed any of the blog posts from the past week here's a quick summary:

The Coolest Photo Editing Tool Online: Resize and ReMake Photos with Rsizr

I was browsing digg this morning and ran across what I think might be the most amazing, free web tool available today for photo editing. This web application is called Rsizr and is very similar to the "seam carving" tool I saw demo'd at Robert Scoble's blog (you can see the…

Beyond TV 4.7 Released

btvlogo Snapstream officially released the latest version of their flagship Home Theater PC software, Beyond TV today - now out of beta. There are several improvements and some very nice feature upgrades in this version.  Here's a list of some of the bigger ones: Faster HDHomeRun Tuner - QAM…

Get Your Free Full Length Movies at Google Video?

Its not talked about all that much, but for a while now there have been a pretty significant number of full-length feature movies available for you to watch streamed online for free with little or no fear of getting in trouble (like you can with torrents for example.)  Where are these movies you…

Hack Your Wifi Antenna for 5 Cents and Extend Your Range

Today we have an interesting hack that involves taking your standard WiFi antenna and for five cents converts it into something like those $30 range extender antennas you can buy.  It involves the following tools & supplies:  small gauge solid copper wire, a drywall screw a little soldering…

Fall 2007 TV Season Changes - Already

We've just barely begun the Fall 2007 TV Season and there is already a likely casualty: Country Music Reality Show, Nashville has been pulled by Fox for the time being after only two shows.  Don't expect to see that one come back anytime soon. In other TV news, the Eureka Fans will be…

Good Reads: Recommended Stories For Midweek

It's Wednesday and I'm buried with work so I'll share some of the good reads I've stumbled upon over the past few days.  Enjoy!     DirecTV rolling out new HD channels - I'm growing ever so envious of those with more HD channels New V2 Vista Media Center Extenders…

Amazon Begins War with iTunes with Strong Start

Do you own a portable media player?  Possibly an iPod, Zune, Zen or whatever MP3 player?  This week Amazon came out of the gates running with a very strong start in the digital tunes store war that pits Amazon vs. iTunes. Amazon announced their AmazonMP3 beta Tuesday morning and proudly called it…

Mark Cuban on Dancing With The Stars: Will You Be Watching?

When I heard that Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, founder of Audionet ( that company that became Broadcast.com and sold to Yahoo and made him $5.9B ) Chairman of HDNet and writer of one of the more intelligent and interesting blogs ( Blog Maverick ) was going to be a contestant on…

Neighborhood Reconnaissance - Two Map Mashups To Find Bad Neighbors

Lets say you're planning to move to a new neighborhood and want to know about the bad neighbors before you commit to renting or buying that house.  Or you already live in a neighborhood and want to know about the "bad seeds" nearby.  There are two different maps mashups that give you…

Echostar Acquires Sling Media for Approximately $380 Million

I learned from Dave Zatz that Echostar Communications Company, the company know for its Dish Network Satellite TV will acquire Sling Media for approximately $380 Million.  Sling Media is the maker of the Slingbox and Slingplayer which allow you to placeshift your TV programming from your home…

Geography Tetris - United States, Europe, UK France Japan Africa Netherlands South Carolina

Just last month I told you about the tetris game for geography.  Well they are continuing to expand the game into new locations.  Now in addition to the US States version; there are also the following versions:  Europe, France, UK, Japan, Africa, Netherlands and even a South Carolina-pick-the-county version.....

Games That Flickr Plays - 12 Cool Games That Use Flickr

UltimateFlickrTools Flickr is one of the most popular online photo sites on the web.  One of the reasons for that is the incredible amount of free, 3rd party tools that use or run using flickr.