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Hot on the Heels of Joost comes Babelgum

Babelgum

 

has just launched its first Beta of its player. This is the latest wave of technology waiting in the wings to shake up the broadcast industry. Possibly best described as "The Long Tail" of TV it is a peer to peer technology which focuses on the niche TV consumer. They have collated a wide range of viewing content - if you are a Madness fan or just curious, sign up for the Beta and check out the music section, www.babelgum.com .
 
British Free to Air Satellite TV in the South of France

British Free to Air Satellite TV in the South of France

With all the excitement of TNT and Internet TV it is easy to forget Free to Air Satellite TV and it is very straight forward to recieve UK Free to Air Satelitte TV in the South of France. Free to Air includes all the BBC channels, ITV and Film 4 (don't forget all the Radio), you will need a 80cm + dish and some where to put it. The dish should be aligned 28 deg east which in lay mans terms means face south and turn 28 degrees to the left. The elevation is approx 38 degrees, to fine tune twist the the head anti-clockise (looking from the back) by 10 degrees in the Nice - Cannes area et Voila all the BBC, ITV and Film 4 you want. There are some very reasonable Free to Air kits available in Castorama and Leroy Merlin.
 
Free Joins the Long Tail of TV

Free Joins the Long Tail of TV

 

"Free" www.free.fr the 2nd largest ADSL provider in France, has added the facility to allow viewers of its broad band TV service to become producers of their own viewing content. Now you can take any video that you have made and place it on a TV channel so it can be viewed on Television by all. Just tune into channel 13 on the Free HD TV box and you will enter a world of huge possibilities to become your own production and distribution company. To input your film footage you can attach a camera or video device to the HD TV Box with an cable and upload it centrally, et voila! Traditionally PC's and the Internet have been the building blocks of the Long Tail of consummerism as it enabled a greater amount of producers to create content and distribute it easily. "Free" have made a major step into the consummer market as they have effectively taken the PC out of the equation.

 
Free HD set top box as a Multimedia HUB

Free HD set top box as a Multimedia HUB

 

The Free HD set top box has a facilty that allows it to play content held on a PC or a Mac be it video, audio or pictures. It does this in conjunction with a software called FreePlayer, simply run the software on the PC/Mac where the content is held. On the free web site accept the licence agreement with Free and make sure the IP address of the PC/Mac is the same as the IP address for FreePlayer in your Free router configuration. Go to the TV switch on the Free TV and click the FreePlayer option and the file configuration of your PC/Mac should be shown on the TV, navigate to the desired content and press play.

 
Joomla 1.0.13 & Joomla 1.5 RC1 is out

The latest releases of the Joomla CMS packages are out, the current stable release is 1.0.13 http://www.joomla.org/ this has some:

minor security fixes

  • Improved password storage system
  • Easier control over Register Globals Emulation
  • An Itemid backwards compatibility setting
  • Improved administrative session security
  • Improved HTTP/HTTPS switchover support
The other news is Joomla 1.5 has gone to RC1, this is a major build and a move from Joomla's Mambo roots more about 1.5 as it goes Gold.
 
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