The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is having a field-day with this one! They’re after Peekvid and YouTVPC, looking to shut down both sites for streaming copyrighted material for free. Both sites have become pretty popular recently (53,000 unique visitors per day for Peekvid), which helps to explain why the MPAA is going after them.
Mozilla has finally done it! The one feature that I wanted the most in Thunderbird 2 has finally made its way into the nightly builds of Thunderbird 3: Tabs! It was a sad realization when I knew there was no chance of tabs making it into Thunderbird 2, and I almost thought that they scrapped the idea all together.
MySpace TV has launched. Go take a look for yourself and the first thing you’ll probably notice is that it has a very familiar resemblance of YouTube. Yep, MySpaceTV blatantly copied YouTube in more ways than one. While it makes sense for MySpace to take a video-sharing route, they could’ve at least put some effort into making the site their own.
It’s one day before the launch of the iPhone and more details are emerging from Apple, and news around the Web continues to be abundant. There’s lots to cover today, so we’ll just sum it up.
I just went over to the Google Maps page and noticed a new feature that said "" Curiosity got the best of me so I decided to try it out to see what it did, and after creating a route I noticed that I can make Google Maps go the way I want it to when giving directions. Check it out in this very quick video that I put together:
Two big calendar releases within 24-hours...first Sunbird/Lightning and now this! Calgoo is out of the testing stages and has moved on to their first major version, and unexpectedly turned to paid software ($25 per year).
Google has now branched their Desktop Search application across all of the major operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new Beta for Linux just hit the Web today and runs on KDE or GNOME under Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, or Red Flag 5. I’m sure those are just the minimum requirements and that it would run fine on Ubuntu 7.06 as well.
The last several months I have been using Windows Vista, and I’ve really gotten used to having my sidebar filled with gadgets.
Geotagging photos is something that I never got into doing until recently. I have a Flickr account and I went through my 5,000+ photos adding locations of where they were taken. Surprisingly it didn’t take me all that long, but I also didn’t go that in-depth with geotagging.
