Byte Into It - 5th June 08

It’s raining cheap laptops
Two major Taiwan computer sellers have launched low-priced mini laptops at Asia’s biggest computer show on Tuesday, both forecasting the shipment of millions of units this year.
Asustek Computer announced improvements to its successful “Eee PC” family at the opening of the five-day exhibition better known as Taipei Computex.
“We’ve made some adjustments following [...]

Byte Into It - 19 Mar 08

First Look: LimeWire Music Store beta short on selection
The first thing to note about the LimeWire Store is that it is currently web-only. The company expects eventual integration with its open source P2P desktop client, but no specific timeline for that feature has been announced yet. For now, users can browse through LimeWire’s [...]

Byte Into It - 3 Oct 2007

Watch High Quality Television over the Internet with Joost | Lifehacker Australia
Windows/Mac: Freeware streaming television application Joost has released the 1.0 beta of their snappy, attractive on-demand video player.
Power Up OpenOffice.org with Writer’s Tools | Lifehacker Australia
Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The Writer’s Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office [...]

Byte Into It 15th May 2007

SuperMoviesDownload: The YouTube Virus
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Byte Into It 2nd May 2007

The Digg Rebellion
http://www.designprophet.co.uk/?p=20
http://09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com/
Google says a $1bn copyright action from MTV-owner Viacom against YouTube “threatens” internet use:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/6613931.stm

Computer maker Dell selects Ubuntu as operating system for its Linux-range of
computers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/6610901.stm

On-demand video service Joost - backed by the founders of Skype - launches its
service commercially:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/6612199.stm
TV shows such as Doctor Who will be made available on-demand as the [...]

Byte Into It 25th Apr 2007

PS3 and realtime tv video downloads in Australia
“By snapping up a million dollar share of struggling ReelTime.tv, Sony may spark a video on demand war with Australia’s 800 pound internet gorilla - Telstra Bigpond.”
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11569/1085/
Supreme Commander
State of the art hardware pushing entertainment! You really need the latest and greatest hardware to get the most from [...]

Byte Into It, 5th Apr 2007

Blogs, Blogs, Blogs!
This week we talked about blogs. What they are, how to make them and some of our favourites.
Technorati - The Blog index / search engine
http://technorati.com/
Blogger - Where it kinda kicked off
http://www.blogger.com
WordPress - Blogging applications and blog host
http://www.wordpress.com
MoveableType - Blogging applications
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/
Drupal - Open source content management system
http://www.drupal.org/
Sage - RSS reader for Firefox
http://sage.mozdev.org/
XML
XML’s primary [...]