Tag: TED

With the first Apple iPads already shipped and on their way to customers, publishers are in a hurry to dump Flash video and switch to iPad-friendly HTML5 video. Brightcove, which provides video services for a huge number of publishers, including The New York Times and Time, just announced that it's going to be delivering HTML5 vids, starting with the New York Times. This says a lot about the ...

Augmented reality is one of those nebulous buzz phrases. Depending on who you ask or where you are, it can mean almost anything -- but one thing's for sure, no one's really sure what it means. The general idea is that there's 'more than meets the eye.' Your boring, fleshy optical orbs see a restaurant, but augmented reality can show you reviews of that restaurant, or the best dishes to eat there. ...

Open-source software is everywhere, and developers use it to speed up their development on a regular basis. This is as it should be, for the most part, assuming the developers follow the licensing for whatever open-source software (OSS) they use. Along with licensing, the open-source community is, probably rightly so, very focused on attributing credit correctly. Considering that most OSS ...

Though I hate to admit it, my "poor man's TiVo" solution consists of me checking CAT every morning to see what's new and then hitting the BitTorrent trackers to start my downloads. I know there are better ways to go about it, but what can I say, I'm a creature of habit. But speaking of better ways, Lifehacker's Adam Pash has written a brand new guide to automatically downloading your favorite TV ...

Being TiVoless, I've tried a couple programs that claim to be able to automatically download the TV shows I want to see, but have always returned to doing it manually. Ted is another such program, but it has the distinction of being a cross-platform Java app. It also seems to have a clean and simple interface, but looks like it only supports one RSS feed for each show, which may cause problems if ...