Archive for June 29, 2007

Putin Advanced Team Caught Using Counterfeit U.S. Money!

Portsmouth police received a call from the liquor store that the man and his friends were on foot, headed to the nearby Holiday Inn. Police responded to the scene. A dispatch message on the police scanner said diplomatic immunity might be involved.

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Perian 1.0 Officially Released

The free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats has just been updated and released as version 1.0. This release brings many new features/fixes such as a preference pane interface, subtitle support, Matroska/mkv support, integrated a52codec, high profile H.264 support, and much more.

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Blu-ray fencesitters: five free movies sound good?

Starting on July 1st and lasting through September 30th of this year, customers who purchase a qualifying Blu-ray player will be eligible to receive five flicks gratis through the mail. You’ll be able to choose five from a library of 21 titles, so we can’t really argue with the upside in this deal!

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Text-Based YouTube Video Player for Linux

Working on a command line Linux system and want to watch a YouTube video? Until now you were out of luck. Warren Harding has designed a program that reads in a YouTube video and plays it using ASCII text! This is a must see!

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