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¶ Published Friday, April 20th at 1:18 am ∞ In Entertainment, T.V., Internet ∞ No Comments »
Yesterday I got an invite from the guys at TIOTI to beta test their system. I duly went about the drill and here are my brief thoughts.
TIOTI stands for Tape It Off the Internet. It is a site that’s targeted at TV shows and provides Bit-torrent links to download shows off the net. I’m […]
¶ Published Friday, April 6th at 10:07 pm ∞ In Joost, Entertainment, Internet, Technology ∞ 6 Comments »
A review of Joost was long time coming. I had posted earlier on how it could revolutionize the way couch potatoes sit on couches and the way it could change the whole ratings system and TV programming in general. Last week I got an invite after a really, really long time to test the beta […]
¶ Published Friday, April 6th at 8:46 am ∞ In Social Networking, Murderous Humour, Orkut, Internet ∞ 4 Comments »
I am not a very ’social’ person. I take time to start talking or initiate conversations. Once past the initiation stages, my talkative instincts take over and then the pain dawns on the unfortunate listener. But I am not very social to begin with, although that hasn’t stopped me from having over 200 friends on […]
¶ Published Thursday, March 29th at 2:50 am ∞ In General Rubbish, Internet ∞ 8 Comments »
When I first saw this I felt ‘yeah right!’. Apparently its a service that pays you for surfing the net. I have seen plenty of them earlier but this one seems to have grown so much in popularity that it might be actually prove little hard to ignore. It started with much fanfare and a […]
¶ Published Saturday, March 10th at 11:57 pm ∞ In World Cup 2007, Cricket, Sports, Internet ∞ 2 Comments »
It’s a strange feeling. Just when you resign yourself to the truth that the Americans couldn’t (and would never) care less about football (soccer), you have another sporting event that most of them will never ever hear of in their lifetimes. Quite understandable, their hatred for Britishness. Baseball and American football were invented out of […]
¶ Published Monday, February 19th at 8:38 am ∞ In Entertainment, General Rubbish, Internet, Technology ∞ 4 Comments »
Yes it is precisely that. Funny this is what some random tag surfing brought me to. I’ve heard jokes about outsourcing where people talk about outsourcing almost any kind of service however insane, but not many about open source stuff. But this one beats it all!
If you’ve been to a computer show in recent months […]
¶ Published Thursday, February 15th at 11:18 pm ∞ In Entertainment, T.V., Internet, Technology ∞ 4 Comments »
The internet has slowly and surely crawled into my psyche and it is little wonder that I can live in peace even if I didn’t have a T.V at home. To be a bit more specific, it is Web 2.0 that has really brought about this change from a couch potato to a ermm… laptop […]
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