Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

On-My.TV is a customizable online calendar with almost every single TV show currently airing in the major TV networks. This very simple online tool allows you to quickly create a user account and customize which shows appear on your monthly calendar. It also let's you know if there are any new shows added to ... Full story

The Pirate Bay foursome, founders and administrators of one of the biggest Bittorrent trackers in the world, were handed today a guilty verdict with 1 year in jail included. "The Stockholm district court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws," the court said in a statement. "The court has ... Full story

Walker, Texas Ranger star actor and martial-arts master Chuck Norris says that the Texans want an independent state and that he's the man to run the place! After being the Texas Ranger Norris volunteered to run as Texas' first president, after discussing the possibility of the state seceding from U.S. control during a rant on CNN.com's political ... Full story

HandBrake is a media converter that takes almost any format you throw at it and outputs a file compatible with most of the popular non-regular formats (PSP, PS3, XBOX360, AppleTV, iPod, iPhone, etc). This universal-input media converter allows you to take practically any video format as a source and convert it to a wide ... Full story

Unlike the last post, this one comes directly from the official Last.fm blog, where Richard Jones announces that the online radio will soon have a monthly subscription fee of €3 if you want to continue to listening to music wherever you are (and have an internet connection). This will ... Full story

The popular tv-show MacGyver, which ran from 1985 to 1992 on ABC is being developed as a feature film for New Line, according to Reuters. Richard Dean Anderson (Stargate: Atlantis and SG-1) starred as the secret agent for the Phoenix Foundation who frequently would escape from ... Full story

I recently got a new work phone for development (*cof*fun!*cof*), an Apple iPhone 3G 16GB and naturally I started to get almost every free app I could get my hands on and googling everything I could about this device. Up until now I'm loving things definitely seem to be getting more interesting lately ... Full story

Michael Palin and Terry Jones will be seeing for the first time the 30-year-old movie Life of Brian in Aberystwyth, west Wales later this month. This is happening because, up until now, the movie was banned from screening in the town theaters. The ban ... Full story

Liverpool Hope University launched a Master of Arts degree in The Beatles. The course "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society" consists of four 12-week taught modules, a dissertation and, according to the University, it is the first of it's kind in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world. "There have been over ... Full story

From what I'm gathering, there seems to be quite the amount of people getting the "Your soundcard is either busy or not present." error when trying to listen to last.fm's radio. I didn't pay much attention to it until it started happening on a more regular basis and, well, annoying me. At first it ... Full story