Mick Darling's posterousAll my blogging in one spot. (mostly)Camtasia for Mac Updates with Annotations, Effects, and New Editing Tools to Spice Up Your Screencasts [Video]
Mac: Camtasia Studio was one of your favorite screencasting tools, and TechSmith, the company behind the app, updated the Mac version today to version 2.0, which includes new annotations for your screencasts and videos, blur effects so you can obscure sensitive information, visual effects to add some interest, and more. More »
Cox Communications brings live TV to the iPad![]() Cable provider Cox Communications has a new app available for subscribers that makes it possible to watch live TV shows and movies in your home -- on an iPad. The Cox TV Connect app (free, requires cable subscription) brings live shows from 35 different popular channels to the iPad. While that's just a fraction of the channel lineup carried by Cox, it's a start. A similar iPad app from Cablevision allows viewers to watch all channels available to them, but Cox VP of Video Strategy Steve Necessary told GigaOM that they're in the process of negotiating rights with TV networks to add more content to Cox TV Connect. Some cable carriers such as Comcast only provide on-demand content to subscribers, while other operators like Cablevision and Time Warner Cable are also providing subscribers with live TV. Necessary noted that "A screen is a screen is a screen" in terms of allowing consumers to watch their favorite shows regardless of what device they're looking at. Cox expects to eventually blend the functionality of Cox TV Connect and another app (Cox Mobile Connect) that lets users browse content and program their DVRs from their iPads or iPhones.
Cox Communications brings live TV to the iPad originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. How Russians Are Tracking Elections on Social MediaA YouTube video of a poll worker casting a vote for an elderly lady went viral; arrested Russian bloggers uploaded a jubilant photo from the police bus on Twitter. In Russia, a country with Europe’s highest Internet penetration, social media offers an alternative form of election coverage. “These elections are for the first time taking place in a real situation of parallel information flows – the official one and the one of mass civic networks,” noted media specialist Anna Kachkaeva. Two examples: An elderly woman waves her hands in confusion at a ballot in a viral video about parliamentary election violations. A poll worker steps in to do it for her, casting a vote for the pro-Putin United Russia party. One viewer commented: “Our country is like that old woman – silly and silent.” After complete results of the elections were announced Monday, thousands of protesters went to the streets. Bloggers posted and tweeted the gathering places of protesters. Ilya Varlamov covered these events on his Twitter feed, his blog and at Ridus, a citizen journalism news agency. Police arrested prominent blogger Alexei Navalny and Iliya Yashin, an activist from the Solidarnodst movement, along with other protesters. He snapped a picture with his iPhone and uploaded it to Twitter. “Sitting with my lads on the police bus. They all say hi,” Navalny tweeted in Russian. (An hour later, he posted a group photo of those arrested in the Izmailovo precinct. Today Navalny’s court trial was live-tweeted with photos from the courtroom. Both Yashin (in the earlier trial) and Navalny were sentenced to 15 days in jail. This parallel information network is bound to grow: Russia currently has the highest number of internet users in Europe – 50.8 million people over 15 years old – overtaking Germany, according to recent ComScore data. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, duncan1890 The Best Antivirus App for Windows [Windows App Directory]
Windows has more antivirus programs than we can count, but we keep coming back to Microsoft's own offering, Security Essentials. It's easy to use, lightweight, and does everything in the background, so you rarely need to interact with it. More »
Flowfold turns scrap sailcloth and recycled plastic into an attractive iPad 2 sleeve
The Flowfold iPad 2 case is a Kickstarter project from Charles Friedman, who also makes a wallet with the same materials. He came up with the idea for the Flowfold while working as sailmaker in Yarmouth, Maine. He used surplus sailcloth to fix his grandfather's wallet and spent the next five years perfecting the design from his home in coastal Maine. The iPad 2 case joins the wallet in his product lineup and is available online at Kickstarter. The first production run of sleeves will ship on December 14. [Via Inhabitat] Flowfold turns scrap sailcloth and recycled plastic into an attractive iPad 2 sleeve originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It?
PolygamousRanchKid sends this quote from a contentious article at CNN that questions the need for further development of TVs and the entire TV-viewing experience.
"The technology industry is absolutely bent on reinventing television. ... But nobody seems to be able to answer the big question: what exactly is so broken about TV anyway? The tech industry is filled with engineers and geeks. They naturally want to optimize the TV experience, to make it as efficient and elegant as possible, requiring the fewest number of steps to complete a particular task while offering the greatest number of amazing new features. But normal people don't think about TV that way. TV is passive. The last thing we want to do is work at it. ... As long as there's something on — anything — that is reasonably engaging, we're cool. Most of us are even OK spending a few minutes just shuffling through channels at random."
So, what do you think is broken about TV right now? Is there a point at which it'd be better for us to stand back and say: "We've done what we can with this. Let's work on something else."
Read more of this story at Slashdot. How to Learn Ruby on Rails in Boston
This is my step-by-step, extremely cheap, program for learning it. It isn’t simple, but it’s straightforward. It isn’t easy, but it’s achievable. It’ll take you between a few weeks to a few months. By the end, you’ll be comfortable writing Rails apps. Build a project you’re passionate about You need to care about the product you’re building to learn Rails well. Reading books and documentation is necessary, but not sufficient. Build a real thing as you’re learning. Set up your development and production environments Use a Mac OS X laptop. To set it up, follow the instructions for this script and these dotfiles. You should store your code at Github (starts at $7/month) and deploy your production apps to Heroku (simple apps are free). Get accounts there. While you’re developing, you’ll refer to the API docs often. So, bookmark them. Make a habit of learning a little every day Read Programming Ruby 1.9 ($25 eBook), affectionately known as “The Pickaxe”, on your own, a chapter a night. This is necessary in order to learn Ruby, the programming language. Read the Ruby on Rails guides (free), on your own, a chapter a night. This is necessary to learn Rails, the web application framework. Watch Railscasts (free), on your own, an episode a night. Just pick one that looks interesting to you. This is necessary to learn the ecosystem of third-party Ruby gems. Re-use existing components before writing your own Someone has probably already written a library to help you achieve some task. Review The Ruby Toolbox (free), then ask the option of the Boston Ruby Group mailing list (free). Don’t waste time when you’re stuck If you get an error, copy it and paste in into Google. You’ll probably get an explanation. If not, submit a question to StackOverflow (free) or the Boston Ruby Group mailing list (free). Talk to an expert in person when you need help with concepts and process If you need help understanding broader concepts or need someone to review your passion project’s codebase in person, set up time with a Rails mentor (free) or attend a Boston Ruby hackfest at the thoughtbot office on the first Tuesday night of every month. If you’re understanding parts of the Rails landscape but can’t figure out how they fit together cohesively, register for a Rails workshop on Skillshare ($50-$500) or take an intensive, two-day, hands-on thoughtbot workshop ($1,099). If you want to vent, meet other developers, or get a job as a Rails developer, go to the bar after monthly Boston Ruby meetings on the second Tuesday night of every month. It’s usually Meadhall. Good luck and happy coding! from BostInno http://bostinno.com/2011/12/05/how-to-learn-ruby-on-rails-in-boston/Cox TV Connect App for iPad Streams Live TV to Cox Customers![]() Following in the footsteps of DirecTV, Cablevision, and Time Warner, Cox Communications is now offering a free iPad App called Cox TV Connect for iPad that live TV streaming for iPad customers at home. Cox TV Connect allows you to watch popular shows LIVE, right on your iPad: - Watch TV on your iPad from anywhere in your house.Users must be a customer of both Cox TV and Cox internet service in order to be eligible to stream TV to their iPads. [App Store] Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories • Apple Testing GPU Drivers for Higher-Resolution iPhone Screens? • Computer History Museum Launches Online Steve Jobs Exhibit • Apple Releases Keynote 5.1.1 for OS X • Mophie and Rocketfish Recall iOS Device Battery Cases • Hungarian Postal Service Issues Steve Jobs Commemorations 20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART]At what other time in history have undersea cartoon creatures been compared to leggy, toned underwear models? Before you think too hard, take a look at Trendrr’s social TV chart below, where SpongeBob SquarePants and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show both logged the number-two spots. Apart from the intuitive connection between the underwater city of Bikini Bottom and, well, bikini bottoms, everything else looks pretty standard. WWE Raw and The X Factor have both topped charts past. And Lady Gaga’s “Marry the Night” video premiere on E! News made the cable cut, even though the video leaked hours beforehand. The data below is compliments of our friends at Trendrr, who measure specific TV show activity (mentions, likes, checkins) across Twitter, Facebook, GetGlue and Miso. To see daily rankings, check out Trendrr.TV Image courtesy of iStockphoto, narvikk More About: features, Social Media, social tv, social tv charts, Trendrr, TV For more Entertainment coverage:
Chumby brings app network to LG Smart TV platform, more living rooms
Chumby's app ecosystem expanded to yet another platform last week, thanks to a new partnership with LG. Under the deal, owners of LG's Smart TV-enabled devices will now be able to access more than 1,000 applications available on the Chumby app network, including a variety of news-, entertainment- and music-based tools. The Smart TV crowd can access the ecosystem right now; everyone else, meanwhile, will have to wait a bit longer. Continue reading Chumby brings app network to LG Smart TV platform, more living rooms Chumby brings app network to LG Smart TV platform, more living rooms originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments from Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/05/chumby-brings-app-network-to-lg-smart-tv-p... |
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