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29th
MAY
Hulu Launches Desktop App For PC And Mac
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
If you haven’t heard of Hulu, you’ve been living under a rock because even my nontech-savvy parents know what it is. In just two years, the website has significantly altered the TV/Internet landscape, and now the company is taking it one step further.Hulu has just released a desktop application that lets users access all of Hulu’s content without using a web browser. The app also works with both Windows Media Player and Apple remotes. To me, this is the soon-to-be future of television. The strange thing is that this is essentially the same idea behind what Boxee on the Apple TV, which has been thwarted by Hulu with every update to the service leading users to desperately try workarounds to continue to use Boxee. Maybe Hulu just wants to have total control over their content. But even with Boxee, you still saw the ads (Hulu’s source of income) so I don’t know why they would care. In any event, yay for Hulu Desktop. The release video is below.
23rd
MAR
Bioshock 2: YOU are Big Daddy
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Gaming
Last week, details were released for Bioshock 2. After false rumors were circulating that the Big Daddies (which were a big part of the last game) would be absent, it turns out quite the opposite is true.
You play as Big Daddy.
Not a Big Daddy, THE Big Daddy. The very first of them as a matter of fact, one who’s gained the ability to inject plasmids like the first game’s protagonist. Players will face the choice of harvesting a Little Sister for ADAM or adopting them and becoming their protector while they harvest ADAM from corpses in Rapture. Playing as a plasmid-enabled Big Daddy should help level the playing field against Bioshock 2’s new antagonists: the sleek, fast, and deadly Big Sisters.
Bioshock 2 will be hitting store shelves this winter on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
Tags: Big Daddy, Bioshock 2, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
24th
FEB
Even Ubuntu’s founder likes Windows 7
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
Oh Windows 7, is there anyone who doesn’t like you? In an interview, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and head MF in charge of popular Linux distro Ubuntu, had many nice things to say about the newest OS on the block. He says it’ll bring a new kind of competition to the table.
Microsoft has been pushing Windows on low-end PC makers by giving away XP licenses, but once 7 comes out that will seem a little ridiculous, especially considering how well 7 is likely to work with the light hardware. So later in 2009 there will actually be a value proposition in choosing Ubuntu to power a line of netbooks — at the moment XP is simply more recognizable and better-supported, and doesn’t cost much either.
But Shuttleworth had more than shop talk for 7:
They’ve put concerted attention on the user experience with the shell. I think it’s going to be a great product, and every indication is we will see it in the market sooner rather than later.
15th
FEB
What I Learned From Left 4 Dead [Zombie Apocolypse]
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Gaming
I found this humerous picture on deviant art the details the zombie apocolypse according to Left 4 Dead Valve’s latest game on that very subject. Gamers will obviously enjoy this more, but even if you haven’t played the game it’s pretty funny.
Tags: Gaming, Humor, Left 4 Dead, PC, Valve
10th
FEB
Teens Spend 31 Hours a Week Online [How do you compare?]
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
How much time do you spend online, America? [Waits for answer.] That’s funny because the average teenager spends a cool 31 hours per week online. And what does the average teen do? The usual, I guess you can say—instant message friends, surf YouTube, get homework help, view porn, etc. Just another day in Anytown, USA.
Make that Anytownshire, UK, for that’s where this data comes from. (A British research group (www.cybersentinel.co.uk) compiled the information.) It found that, on the whole, teens spend some 31 hours per week online, or, if we were to divide that evenly between the days of the week, that’s around 4.4 hours per day online. (We spend pretty much all day online at CrunchGear, from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed.)
The data breakdown isn’t exactly shocking, either: teens spend 3.5 hours a week instant messaging their friends, two hours on YouTube (two hours?), and three hours a week on homework help.
But the big number, the number that will no doubt be YELLED AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS ON ALWAYS SHOCKED ABOUT SOMETHING FOX NEWS about is the amount of time spent viewing porn. That number is one hour and forty minutes a week, on porn. That’s a heck of a lot of porn, if you consider that most porn-viewing sessions, one would think, is consumed in fits and spurts. That is, you’re not sitting there for 50 minutes at a clip watching porn, more like three-and-a-half minutes at a clip. Presumably.
Tags: Google, Instant messaging, Internet, Mac, PC, Technology, Teens, United Kingdom, United States, YouTube