Boxee alpha 0.9.2908 released
August 28th 2008
Archive for August, 2008
Mac And PC
August 22nd 2008
I thought that after reading Maclife and MaximumPC that I’d voice my opinion on Macs.
I’ve been using a iMac for the past 2 years now and at first I thought that they were a lot better than PC’s. Over the past few months I’ve been having problems with the graphics card in my Mac and it messes up the graphics a lot, can take up to 5 times of switching it on and turning it back off again to get it working and it also freezes quite a lot.
The only reason that I like Macs over PC’s is because of OS X. Macs are way overpriced. Sure they look nice but they’re not worth hundreds of dollars more. I can’t fix the problem in my Mac for cheap because to fix the graphics problem id need a new motherboard and id be better off buying a new Mac.
People do say that PC’s can get viruses, crash and so on but I’ve never had a problem on a PC as bad as what I have on my iMac.
Below is a short video of when my Mac messes up.
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Wakoopa - Track Your Application Use
August 22nd 2008
Wakoopa is a small program that runs in the background of Windows or Mac OS X and logs the activity of applications that you use. When you go on wakoopa.com you can then see what applications you have used the most over a period of time or since you started using Wakoopa.
Just Leap In Review
August 19th 2008
Just moments after publishing the last post on Just Leap In I received my invite off them. I haven’t had to wait too long so sign up as soon as you can if you wanna try it out before it gets a little bit more popular and takes longer to receive an invite.
When you click the link in the email to activate your account you will go to the register page. It shouldn’t take anymore than 30 seconds to register and account. After you press the submit button you will be taken to another page asking you about things that you’re interested. You can skip this step.
Just Leap In - Second Life Alternative
August 19th 2008
If you’ve been playing Second Life and fancy a change then Just Leap In looks like a really good alternative. From what I’ve seen of Just Leap In so far it looks very promising and I can’t wait to try it out.
I’m still waiting for my invite off Just Leap In so for now you could read the review over at Mashable.
Yeigo Hacked
August 18th 2008
We wrote about Yeigo yesterday and when we visited it today it looks like it has been hacked by a Turkish hacker. Hopefully Yeigo can solve this and tighten up their security so that this doesn’t happen again.
Yeigo - VoIP and IM For Your Mobile Phone
August 16th 2008
Yeigo is a free application that you can download for Windows Mobile, Symbian or Java enabled phones. To start using Yeigo go to their website and then enter select your country and enter your mobile phone number. You should receive a text message from Yeigo within the next few minutes that will have a link to download the Yeigo application from their website. If you don’t receive a text message then open up the browser on your phone and go to yeigo.com.
AOL To Acquire Socialthing
August 15th 2008
Boxee Invites
August 14th 2008
Dropbox Invites
August 14th 2008
Dropbox is a website and an application for Mac OS X and Windows that allows you to upload files from your computer and share them with other people or with other computers.
When you sign up you get 2GB of storage which should be enough space for small movie files, images and text files.
We have 10 invites so the first 10 people who comment will receive an invite.