Dr. Bill | The Computer Curmudgeon
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Check out “Viidoo” and tell me what you think! IPTV… hummm?
It appears to convert TV into flash video and display it via the player. I can’t find a FAQ, but it seems pretty cool. Will it “win out” over other versions… I don’t know. But it is interesting!
Leo Laporte in his speech at the PODCAST Expo 2006 has suggested podcasters change the name of what they do from “PODCAST” to “NETCAST” in the belief this is a more accurate name than Podcasting.
Sony batteries must really stink! Whoa!
Lenovo Recalls 560,000 Sony Batteries
“In conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, both IBM and Lenovo announced that they were calling for the voluntary recall of approximately 526,000 laptop batteries manufactured by Sony. Lenovo had announced earlier this week that it was investigating reports of issues with laptops containing batteries from the manufacturer. The two companies become the fourth and fifth computer makers behind Toshiba, Apple, and Dell to recall Sony batteries due to overheating problems. Altogether, nearly 6.8 million laptops have been affected, although in fairness Toshiba’s recall of 340,000 had to do more with a defect in the laptop manufacturing itself.”
NO… not the liquid variety of Wine… the “Wine Is Not an Emulator” type. The software for Linux that allows you to run many Windows apps. Cool!
“This is release 0.9.22 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
What’s new in this release:
– The usual assortment of MSI improvements.
– Several bug fixes to the various common controls.
– Pixel shaders enabled by default in D3D.
– Various improvements to the build process.
– Many translation updates.
– Lots of bug fixes.”
I loved EvokeTV… a way to see your TV listing and interact with them via a calendar. It was awesome! But now it is gone… unless they find a venture capitalist… will someone step up? I want my EvokeTV!