I recently acquired some video files in the matroska video’ (.MKV) file format. Using VLC Player I ran one, to find that the video worked perfectly, as did the background noise but not the actual speech. I did a bit of research into the issue and it turns out that MKV files send different audio [...]
The UK’s first “illegal music downloading website” court case ended today with all charges being dropped for website OINK!’s owner and developer.
The site made over $300,000 in donations, which were claimed to be used to rent servers and eventually buy one. OINK! didn’t host any illegal files on the servers, it simply indexed music [...]
It has emerged this week that the attacks on Chinese human rights activists were made from, yes you guessed it, Internet Explorer. Microsoft’s director of Security was quoted earlier this week saying that the attacks were “targeted and limited” and were mainly “exploiting Internet Explorer 6″. Similarly, McAfee stated that the weeks attacks “showed a [...]
This has been on the minds of my collegues and I for a while now – To develop a peice of software to search through and automatically download all of your tagged photos from facebook onto your PC hard-drive.
Export Photo’s Too does this brilliantly. Install the application to your facebook profile and hit ‘Download Tagged [...]
I’ve just downloaded ‘Yelp!’ for the iPhone, a simple app which let’s you search the local (and not so local) directories for business’ and people.
I’m currently sitting in costa coffee, writing this on my phone. I searched for nearby coffee shops and costa came up as 0.0miles away, with a photo, contact details and reviews. [...]
I’ve just updated my iPhone facebook app, and noticed it now has the ability to sync your contacts with facebook friends in order to download their profile picture, birthday and other info to the contact file.
I’ve been able to do this for a while now using an app called myphone+ but never the less this [...]
So, as you may or may not know, iTunes let you download songs for a pretty good price. However I can recall spending hours searching through tracks borrowed from a uni friend to find the tracks with ‘Digital Rights Management’ (DRM) stamps! These ‘tags’ mean that the track can only be played on certain devices [...]
WordPress scheduling, it’s a wonderful thing, eh?
Things I expect this year:
New iPhone Announcement
LED TV to hit it big time
HD Broadcasting to move forwards
New processor development from Intel
Lots of unforseen techy releases!
Happy New Year!