I like competition because we, as consumers benefit directly from it. I especially like the new competition to del.icio.us, the popular social online bookmarking service. Mister-Wong.de has been hugely popular in Europe and I have been in their closed-beta for over a month. I was really excited because I have been looking for a better […]
Tag Archives: video
Broadcast your skills with Sclipo
I turn to the internet to for learning a lot of things I am new to. Some times I look up tips or try to find a better way to do the things I do. You can read manuals after manuals and still may not get the hang of it, but if you watched someone […]
Free Online Screen Recorder – ScreenToaster
Sharing screencasts are the in-thing now. Screencats make sharing information visually that much more powerful. It can come in handy for many situations.And this is especially true for bloggers doing short video or tutorial. ScreenToaster is an online screen recording tool that doesn’t need anything installed in your computer. Yes, that’s the beauty of it. […]
Roku Introducing New HD Capable Device
Playstation 3 owners like myself are ecstatic that Netflix instant streaming to PS3 is finally coming. PS3 owners can stream media from their computer to their television with media servers like Tversity. If you don’t have a Playstation 3 or a similar device, you could still get Netflix Instant Movie streaming to your TV with […]
What is that Orange button? – RSS for everyone
The timing couldn’t have been perfect. Today, ShanKri-la’s subscribers as you can see is at 100! (definitely a big milestone for us) I know when I discovered what RSS does and started using it, I opened myself up to a whole new world in the internet. I religiously try to make my friends use two […]
Best Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 Mega Zoom Camera Deal
Are you doing your last minute Christmas shopping? Read on and see how you can get a free 2-day shipping for this amazing Superzoom camera. I am a big Canon fan and own a Canon Rebel T1i and a Canon Powershot SX10 IS. I have written several posts on camera deals here. Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 […]
Animoto – End of the Slideshows Era
Image slideshows have been around for a while. We are used to wading through the monotone pace of image slidheshows from our albums in computer or photo services such as Flickr, Picasa, etc. Animoto aims to put an end to image slideshows as we know it. Animoto is a web application that takes your images […]
Friday Fun: Blabberize Any Picture
Blabberize is a funny web application where you upload a picture and select the mouth and attach a sound clip and make a talking video clip of anything. Nothing more to it. You can upload your picture or your friend’s or for that matter even your dog and make them/it talk. Check this clip I […]
ScreenToaster Gets Audio Recording
We looked at the budding and promising service ScreenToaster review back in Nov’08. ScreenToaster is an online screen recording tool that doesn’t require you to install any software in your computer. The only requirement is to have Java installed in your browser and you can use this in Windows, Mac OS X or Linux! It […]
Light Painting WiFi Signals [video]
We are surrounded by invisible WiFi signals and may more signals around us. This is especially true in urban settings. The team at YOUrban.no (Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen, Einar Sneve Martinussen) has conjured up an instrument that shows the WiFi signals as a bulbs lighting up in a rod depending on the strength of the […]
Google Reader in Plain English [video]
After the popular video by Common Craft explaining RSS to everyone, Google Reader team had hired Common Craft to explain Google Reader in a minute. If you’d like to learn What is RSS? first, click on that link to watch that first. Here is that lucid video. (if you are in a feed reader, click […]
Conan O’Brien Takes a Dig At Apple Final Cut Pro X [Video]
Apple just recently released Final Cut Pro X. But, it has been seeing a huge amount of backlash from professional video editors. Apparently Apple has removed a bunch of basic editing features publishers have been using for years. In fact, you know this is huge when Conan O’Brien makes a video making fun of Apple. […]
Final Cut Pro X Available Now in Mac App Store
Apple just released the latest Final Cut Pro video editing software to the Mac App Store. Final Cut Pro X is priced at $299. Along with Final Cut Pro 10, Apple has also released Motion 5 – motion graphics creation tool and Compressor 4 – an advanced media encoder. They both cost $49.99 each. If […]
Amazing Time Lapse Video on Nature [Video]
Even if you are not a huge fan of nature, this video will make you appreciate the beauty in everything around us. The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo. Inspirational stuff like this video is what kindles my interest in photography time and time again. Here is a total lunar eclipse time lapse video and […]
Stream Movies, Music From Desktop to iPhone, iPad, Android with Plex
I have used a couple of media servers to stream my movies and music collection from my desktop to our Sony Playstation 3 and watch it in our big screen TV. TVersity and PS3 Media Server have worked well for their purpose. I have also dabbled with XMBC a little. However, with our 2 week […]
