Tag: Internet
Microsoft is rolling out the public beta of Internet TV for Windows Vista Media Center today. If you've got a machine running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate, a new option should pop up inside of your media center interface, cleverly titled "Internet TV."
At launch, there will be 100 hours of programming available from MSN Video. The service is free, but ad-supported, meaning you'll have to put up with some 15 and 30 second spots here and there.
Here's some of the content available:
.Full length episodes of TV shows...
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All it took to wipe out some of the Internet's biggest sites Tuesday was some faulty PG&E electrical breakers that caused a blackout in downtown San Francisco.
Some of the Web's hottest destinations - Craigslist, Yelp, Second Life - were suddenly inaccessible from San Mateo to Singapore after back-up generators failed at the facility housing their computer equipment.
Although mostly fixed within 12 hours, the incident shows how easy it is to send major swaths of the online world to the dark ages. Sites that millions of people rely on...
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Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space. With Photosynth you can:
* walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle;
* seamlessly zoom in or out of a photograph even if it's gigapixels in size;
* see where pictures were taken in relation to one another;
* find similar photos to the one you’re currently viewing;
* explore a custom tour or see where you’ve been; or
* send a collection to a friend.
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