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Closed Captioning For Internet Video

A new bill before Congress would add some new features to the Americans With Disabilities Act, to insure that all Americans have equal access to TV and the Internet. But the one feature that stands out is providing close captioning for Internet videos. The bill would mandate that the FCC have in place guidelines for […]

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Enable Vista Aero On Non-WDDM Video Cards - Does It Work?

Back on April 5, 2007 I wrote a piece about he Intel 915 Express Card and how it would not support Aero in Vista. [Story is here.]
So today I received a comment from reader Hubbak Khan who indicates there is a way to enable Aero on non-WDDM video cards. I personally have not tried this, […]

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AT&T Sierra Wireless Satellite - Any Advice?

I got this in an email message this morning and I am at a loss since I have no experience with satellite anything.
My problem is that I can’t get anything streaming in without waiting for long periods of buffering.  Even simple video clips on a web site or YouTube, etc.  I have a […]

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Skype - What Took So Long To Finally Get Video?

Skype is announcing with much fan fare and delight that their latest beta of Skype is going to incorporate video. One would of thought that Skype would of jumped on the video band wagon long ago, so this latest announcement begs to ask the question? What took so long?
In a TechCrunch article it states:
The peer-to-peer […]

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Google Tools To Detect Throttling By ISP’s

There seems to be several differences of opinion when it comes to Google’s new tools that they are developing to detect ISP throttling. The basic arguments seems to be if Comcast, or any other ISP, has the right to throttle back speed on what they perceive are broadband hogs. There has also been some discussion […]

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Google Video Improves The Viewing Experience

Google has improved the video experience in order to make searching and finding what you want easier.  With the ability to search through multiple result pages all the way watching a video and searching at the same time, Google is providing a new video experience. Over at their Google Video Blog, they state:
We hope that […]

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Hacked Asus Eee PC Commands A Hefty Price Tag

Over at eBay there is a hacked Asus Eee PC which according to the seller is loaded with the following features:
 

The base model is the Asus Eee PC 8GB white laptop. I hack The Asus Eee PC’s and other hardware professionally, I have a killer job! Well I hacked this Asus […]

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Is The PC Gaming Machine DOA?

I started noticing a few years ago that some titles of the newest games  were not being released for the PC. That games were being developed for the PS3, Wii and X-box that left the PC gamer wondering. Is the PC gamer a thing of the past? Then along comes AMD with some type of […]

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The $125 Upgrade - Is It For Real?

Over at PC Magazine there is an article in which the writer states that, for $125, you can upgrade a four-year-old system and have it running with the newer bad boys. The article shows how the replacing of the video card with a faster one, adding more RAM, upgrading to a DVD recorder, a wireless […]

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“Stupid Internal Microsoft Vista SP1 Video”

That is the label that is being placed on the Microsoft internal video that is currently on YouTube. I must admit that the video itself is… well… silly. It is hard to believe that people at Microsoft who are extremely intelligent could even consider this as being anything but offensive.
But you take a look and […]