According to an article today on BroadcastingCable, media giant NBC will begin offering “free” downloads of some if not all of its shows. The reason I quote free is because theses downloads, while they cost nothing, will only play in NBC’s software AND you will only be allowed to view each show for one week after [...]
For those of you who have not heard about this, Google has recently started its own 411 service and according to TechCrunch has now started promoting it through road side banner advertising. Google’s 411 service is different from some that you may be familiar with in that you do NOT have to pay for it. As [...]
Can you ever remember sitting in school as a youngster, about ready to prank one of your friends and thinking to yourself that maybe the prank you were about to pull would one day become known throughout the world? I’m sure Rick Skrenta did not think this when he was pranking his high school friends in [...]
I was looking through some news tonight and I noticed an article on Digg that sparked my attention regarding an upcoming media center software package for the Gnome desktop environment in Linux. Seeing as I just did two articles regarding building your own media center pc, I thought that this would be welcomed news for those [...]
I was reading through some technology news tonight and I stumbled across an interesting piece of FREE software called “Spiceworks“. Basically, Spiceworks is an all inclusive network management software suite that will allow you to do everything from taking inventory of your current computer hardware, to troubleshooting network issues. The software is ad supported and sponsored by a [...]
As mentioned last week, a lot of online music distributors have begun to switch away from the current DRM-Protected .WMA music download standard. The latest to switch is apparently Walmart.com which has been offering music downloads for a number of years now. According to this article on Ars Technica, Wal-Mart has begun to offer unprotected, [...]
According to an article today on Ars Technica, well known peer-to-peer company LimeWire L.L.C. has plans to open a new LEGAL music downloading website. While the music will obviously not be free to download, it will come in everyone’s favorite format, DRM-Free MP3. While this may still be a turn off to those seeking to get their music for free, it is [...]
