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YouTubeGet on offer for free at giveawayoftheday.com

By
Seb Mysko (Wolfstar)
on May 14, 2008 5:05 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I've just had a brilliant link Skype'd my way. Give away of the day is a relatively new initiative in the software world that offers up a new piece of kit to internet users everyday, but it's only ever available for download for 24 hours (sometimes longer, but it's obviously at the discretion of the developers). Pretty cool really... the 'word of mouth' race against the clock..

Anywhooo, with only 15 hours left, I highly recommend getting imageyour paws on YouTubeGet. It's developers say: "YouTubeGet is an all-in-one software designed to make quick and easy work to download YouTube videos and convert them. Offering a multitude of methods to acquire the video, this application has all the power you need while still remaining small and easy to use." I'm sure something in there doesn't make sense, but I've just downloaded it a few minutes ago and this is a great help! Another plus - it's going for $29.95, so if you miss the deadline it's not like it's going to break the bank.

You literally just drag the YouTube url into the add box, and choose what file you'd like to convert it into... then 'Voila' you have your video. I've just taken my current top five video's and transferred them into realplayer format - now they're sat on my ipod ready to be watched whenever I next need to kill ten minutes.

I Heart YouTube

By
Beth Kay (Wolfstar)
on April 29, 2008 3:17 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I have to admit, I love watching funny videos on YouTube. It’s my guilty pleasure when I’m stuck for something to do on a night in. Whether it’s the evil eye baby or watching some kick ass cheerleading routines, there’s always something I can find to amuse myself. So I was overjoyed when during an ad break in Friends, I saw an advert for a programme on tonight called Rude Tube on E4. Alex Zane is to present a countdown of the 50 funniest, rudest and most bizarre video clips to take the internet by storm. Finally, us addicts can watch all the best bits in one sitting and feed our need for people doing weird things on camera! E4, 10.30pm, check it out.

And to keep your appetites wet in the mean time, here’s my favourites:

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Internet video of the week - Beaker seems stuck in the 80s

By
Chris Norton (Wolfstar)
on April 28, 2008 2:03 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Mondays can be hard after a long weekend, so here is a quick video doing the rounds on the Internet which should help to cheer you up. Special thanks go to David Brain for sharing this little gem with us. To be honest I knew Beaker had a hidden talent locked in there somewhere. Britain's Got Talent look out.

The Aliens are coming to a computer near you.....

By
Chris Norton (Wolfstar)
on April 23, 2008 9:47 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Aliens_-_Colonial_MarinesDo you know Xenomorph's from your Martian's? Well dust off your pulse rifles, grab your grenade launcher and make sure all your air locks are shut tightly. Yes, Aliens is back. The best of the many Alien movies has a new follow-up in the form of a shoot-em-up game which is due out in early 2009.

Aliens: Colonial Marines follows the second movie and involves a search and rescue team investigating the lost space ship U.S.S. Sulaco, searching for Ripley, Corporal Dwayne Hicks, Private William Hudson, Private Jenette Vasquez, and the rest of the unlucky marines.

The plot sounds very exciting with Wikipedia describing the gameplay like so:

"The player controls four colonial marines, each with their own unique personality. Each marine is represented by a different class; one marine, for instance, mans the M56 smart gun as Pvt. Vasquez did in Aliens; the other primary weapons include the M240 flamethrower and the M41A pulse rifle. Each marine carries four weapons: their primary weapon, which they are defined by, their secondary weapon, grenades, and a sidearm. The player may brandish the sidearm while using the motion tracker. The player controls one marine at a time, and issues orders to the others using context-sensitive commands; the player may control any marine at any given time."

The game includes a mission to the lost space ship and I think you can be assured that it's likely to have more bugs than your average bed. Even better for those of you that enjoy gaming together you will be pleased to know that there will be a four man operation option too.

For more details check out the page on Wikipedia or get further details from the official Aliens Website.

Let's hope it's better than the rubbish Alien Vs Predator movies, but if you are like me and you loved James Cameron's second Aliens movie - it looks like this is could be the game for

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Broadband users to benefit after YouTube announces new live video streaming

By
Chris Norton (Wolfstar)
on March 4, 2008 9:05 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Internet users everywhere will soon be able to benefit from watching their favourite videos 'live' on the video sharing site YouTube.dotclearYouTube has announced that it plans to introduce live video streaming later on this year.

Steve Chen, YouTube's co-founder,comments: "We'll do it this year. Live video is something we've always wanted to do but haven't had the resources to do it correctly, but now with Google we hope to launch something this year." YouTube Live Video To Be Launched This Year

To be honest this isn't a massive surprise as many of the other video sharing services already provide video good quality streaming services but as YouTube is the dominant force in this area of the internet this is good news for us all.

Other sites like Stickam and BlogTV could now be threatened by YouTube moving into this area. I think this is a good idea for us the viewers if it starts actually streaming good quality rare bands and DJ's live from their actual gigs.

YouTube was sold to Google in October, for $1.6 billion.

I wrote about a new Yahoo service called Buzz yesterday, well it has also launched a service similar to YouTube's. However, its definitive feature is its ability to let users see the other people who are watching the same video but only if they have webcams connected to the service. I can't really think why you would want to watch the other people watching the video, unless they were your friends online and you could choose to have your own bespoke gig with a select group of people.

BBC iPlayer starting to take the Internet by storm

By
Chris Norton (Wolfstar)
on February 28, 2008 11:14 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Hi my name is Chris Norton and I work for Wolfstar and I will be writing regularly for Enlightening Broadband. I will be covering many things related to the internet which interest me and which I hope will also interest you too.

Mark Sweney from The Guardian this week wrote an interesting article reporting that internet traffic for ITV's broadband TV service had slowed over the last couple of months. This could be due to its rival the BBC's iPlayer's huge growth after the BBC invested in a hefty marketing campaign to encourage us (Web users) to get using it.

bbc-iplayer-1-home-page.jpgITV's internet video traffic apparently peaked back in November which was mainly due to its most popular shows such as X-Factor being published on it. However, since then web traffic has dropped off a cliff.

On the flip side the BBC's iPlayer service recorded a whopping 11m programmes which were  streamed/downloaded in January 2008.

I have just checked it out and currently the three most popular shows are: Ashes to Ashes (Episode 3), Torchwood (Dead Man Walking) and Dawn (Gets Naked).

With the BBC iPlayer and your broadband connection you can:

  1. Find programmes you want to catch up on or watch again from the past seven days and watch them on the website through a method known as streaming.
  2. Download and store them on your computer for up to 30 days if you have a Windows PC.
  3. Play back high quality programmes on your computer as often as you like during the time that the programme is available

I think that one of the reasons that the iPlayer has been such a phenomenon is down to the fact that every BBC radio station has been plugging it massively over the last few months and bbc.co.uk is already used by a huge number of dedicated internet users - including me. It is also a great service which seems to provide good quality content. I don't think I will be using it that regularly though as I currently use a Sharp TUR160HA Digital TV recorder to watch my television programmes - its changed the way I watch telly to be honest. I commented on it recently on my own blog.

However, if you are going to give it a whirl you can find out how you can use the iPlayer with your broadband connection by reading here.

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