Discovery Space Shuttle had it’s last launch and made it’s way to the International Space Station last week. Someone got a rare opportunity to witness the launch from an airplane flying over and caught the entire launch on video. Here it is without further adieu. Pretty cool, isn’t it?
Discovery Space Shuttle Launch – View From Airplane [video]
on March 2, 2011 in Tech for Life, Web Apps, Youtube
NASA Captures the Historic Winter Storm Across US [Video]
on February 3, 2011 in Tech for Life
Everyone has been talking about the historic snowstorm that just left most of the states in the US shoveling hard. We got around 13” here in Michigan. But, it is pretty cool to see this whole system move across over 2100 miles in the US! Wasn’t that just awesome to watch?

Create Funny Christmas Videos With JibJab
on December 19, 2009 in Featured, Flash Games, Household, Life matters, Tech for Life, Web Apps
Update: 12/19/2010 JibJab is known for their customizable funny videos. And they bring out special videos for Christmas season. JibJab lets you create fun videos customized with your own faces from pictures you upload. You can then share that video with your friends and family taking the greeting card to the next level. Holiday Rock is […]

Free Open Source Screencasting Software – CamStudio
on December 16, 2009 in Blogging, Featured, Tech for Life, Windows, Windows Freeware
If you have been looking for a screencasting tool, look no further. CamStudio is a free and open source screencasting tool. CamStudio can record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create an AVI video files. Also, it comes with a built-in SWF producer that can convert the AVI files into bandwidth friendly […]

Jinni Goes Public With More Features
on October 7, 2009 in Tech for Life
I just reviewed Jinni – the intelligent movie recommendation engine last week. It was in a closed private beta but Jinni has opened to public since. As Jinni was opened for public signups, it also added a few additional features. Jinni got social – automatically connect with people you invited, check neighbors, follow interesting movie […]

What is Dropbox? Awesome Video
on October 6, 2009 in Dropbox, Tech for Life
Dropbox is one of my favorite web services. Regular readers here probably have seen a lot of posts on Dropbox. But, if you are still wondering What is Dropbox, wonder no more. Common Craft are known for their simple videos that can explain complex concepts very easily and they have done one for Dropbox. Did […]

Jinni Gives Intelligent Movie Recommendations
on October 2, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life
Do you scour through sites like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, etc to find a good movie to watch tonight? What if you could tell someone what kind of “movie mood” you are in and you got recommendations? Jinni is a new web service that does just that. Here’s a short brief about what Jinni is Jinni […]

Flickroom – Awesome Adobe Air Desktop App for Flickr
on October 1, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life
I love Adobe Air apps that bring web applications right to your desktop in slick and easy to use interfaces. Flickroom is also an Adobe Air application (beta) that beings the most popular photo-sharing site in the Internet, Flickr, to your desktop. Flickroom is shiny, dark and very intuitive to use. If you are a […]

Free Video to Flash Converter
on September 16, 2009 in Tech for Life
I was looking to convert some avi files to flash format to publish to web. A colleague showed me this cool free tool that lets you do it painlessly. DVDVideoSoft.com offers a free tool – Free Video to Flash Converter on their website. It is a 12.2 MB download and once installed just launch the […]

Watch Movies Online for Free, Legally
on August 28, 2009 in Household, Tech for Life
Subconsciously I have started to write about entertainment related stuff on Fridays. Especially about watching movies online. If you feel squaemish about watching movies online in questionable sites, this post is for you. You can watch movies online for free, legally. Speedcine is a site that indexes thousands of movies in their database with links […]

HD-Trailers: Download HD Movie Trailers
on July 24, 2009 in Household
My wife and I are avid movie watchers and we try to keep on the up and up of recent movies. We sometimes download HD trailers from the PS3 network and watch it on our Sony Bravia. Now, that I have set up TVersity to stream movies to my PS3 from my desktop, I can […]

Turn Your Computer Into A Web Server with Opera Unite
on June 26, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life
I try to dedicate Fridays to entertainment/media related posts in the spirit of the upcoming weekend. Today, I have something for you that is pretty exciting and takes web browsers into the next league. I use TVersity media server to stream music, movies and pictures in my computer to my Sony Bravia via Playstation 3. […]

Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 09-04-30
on April 30, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life
Firefox 3.5 beta 4 made its appearance this week along with the swine flu outbreak google maps mashups. Firefox 3.5 beta 4 introduced 2 cool new features – Private browsing mode and Undo closed window. Both work really nice. Let’s look at a few Firefox extensions this week OutWit Images: You can collect images from […]

Free Horror Movies Online: FEARNet
on April 3, 2009 in Household
Following the entertainment theme of my last post where I showed how to stream your digital media to your HDTV using TVersity, here is another one on movies. If you are a fan of horror films, videos, tv shows, FEARNet is a site to visit. FEARNet is an online network for horror movies, videos, news […]

Queued – Netflix Queue in your Desktop
on February 23, 2009 in Tech for Life
Queued brings your Netflix queue to your desktop allowing you to quicky, view and modify your queue. It also lets you search for movies and add it your queue.
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