Slingplayer 1.2 Beta on the Loose
In contrast to last week’s heart breaking announcement from Sling Media that the Mac version of their SlingPlayer software had been delayed, today we get word that the beta of version SlingPlayer 1.2 for Windows is now available in the U.S. What can users expect from this release, which runs in tandem with Sling Media’s…
Windows 98 Hole Will Kill Us All
Not huge news, but if you’re anything like me, you’re probably still triple-booting Windows 98, 98 SE, and ME just for the old-timey masochistic thrill of it all. Well, it appears that Microsoft will officially stop supporting these operating systems on July 11 and they all contain a security hole so big that it will…
AIM Developer’s Kit Available
I have a love/hate relationship with AIM. On one hand, the tech folks are great and they’ve done quite a bit to make things easier for folks who might want to implement their protocols in software and, on the other hand, the marketing folks still think AIM is a great Trojan horse to convince people…
YouOS: Wha?
I love lots of heavy Ajax stuff as much as the next guy, but this is crazy. It’s essentially a web-based OS with lots of little sub-prgrams and all kinds of UI cred. It’s such a good idea you can almost smell Google’s heady musk wafting under the door. Just signed up for a full…
RoamMinder
I’ve been hunting for ways to sync the various phones I try out with the various pieces of software I use—I’m being purposely vague because all these different phones have different ways of interacting with Windows and Mac OS. A kind reader sent us in this link for the RoamMinder which SMSes Outlook reminders to…
The Pirate Bay is Back
Figured we’d just post an update about TPB. They’re back and they’re better than ever. Best of all, the TPB team is actually pretty smart. BoingBoing posted a podcast of a talk they held at the Reboot conference in Denmark where they said: https://gizmodo.com/the-pirate-bay-im-not-dead-yet-177974 For the copyright industry, it is of extreme importance to keep…
SlingPlayer for Mac Delayed Until September, Dozens Upset
Announced back in January at CES, the Mac version of the SlingPlayer software has been delayed by some 90 days until September. Originally scheduled to come out sometime in the second quarter of this year, Sling Media says that, since Mac users are used to software that meets their high standards, the company decided to…
The Pirate Bay: I’m Not Dead Yet
We kind of figured this would happen, but it’s so nice to know that the MPAA already put out a press release (it’s a big fat PDF… go get ’em, kids) saying it has the Pirate Bay’s testes on a platter while those same testes are safely ensconced in TPB’s pirate pantaloons. There is a…
Vista Beta 2 Tour
Ars has a great in-depth piece on Vista Beta 2. We still haven’t got our copy—nor are we holding our breath—but it’s clearly an important look at an OS that, for better or worse, will soon be taking over our lives. I want to be the first to get Ultimate Vista status with my 6-GHz…