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Last time we looked at making your HTML5 video degrade to a flash player.  This post will look at how to default to the flash player and fall back to links to the HTML5 video for the smaller segment that do not have flash enabled on their browser or are viewing on their iPhone [...]

Distributing a video product can be very simple. I just shoot a video with my iPhone. Touch the share button. Touch the ‘Send to YouTube’ button and I’m done.
But if one wishes to produce a regular video program or include video elements in one’s web page or blog then [...]

At the XBMC site they have posted:
“Next up is the merge from the addons branch, the underpinning of the new addons manager (go figure) as well as the basis for the PVR frontend branch. Once finished, though still a ways out, this will add the capability of extending XBMC from the couch. No need to [...]

Read this humming “Islands in the Stream” sung by Kenny and Dolly, cause that’s how I’m writing it.  Over at Lifehacker, they’re putting on another one of their “Hive Five” posts where their readers pick the best five of something and this time it is all about streaming music.  The main theme of streaming music [...]

Maybe my wife hates me.  Maybe she hated hearing me boast about how my iPhone has this app or that one.  Maybe she got tired of hearing me say, “Oh, let me tell you the answer to your question” as I Googled the topics at parties.  (Oh, yeah, I’m definitely the geekiest guy there.)   So [...]

Coming soon | XBMC.  Way down at the bottom of this news release is something that could be a game changer.   Two criticisms I have had of XBMC are 1) lack of A Boxee-style internet TV interface and, 2) it doesn’t play nicely with TV tuners.  It sounds like at least one of those needs [...]

Boxee Blog » Boxee responds to NBC’s Jeff Zucker.  In case you haven’t heard, the reason Hulu-NBC has been messing around with Boxee’s access is because their CEO, Jeff Zucker,  is a schmuck surrounded by lawyers and kiss ups who are also schmucks.  Since when is watching Hulu through a specific browser illegal?  As mentioned [...]

Streaming television is a wonderful thing. When the DVR’s electronic program guide (EPG) is thrown off by a football game, you haven’t missed the show. Can’t afford the internet and cable TV? You haven’t missed the show (unless it’s The Mentalist). You can watch it online. I use them all: [...]

If you are anything like me, when you hit Google reader this morning, most of the posts were about Jobs’ new iPad Kindle Killer.    Yes, I love my iPhone (sorry AT&T none of that bleeds over to you).  But I am not an Apple worshipper or hater.  I guess you could say I am [...]

I want to watch anything I want to watch on my big screen (instantly) or iPhone (easily).  Believe it or not, I am almost there.  Today I’ll focus on the big screen.  After building a Windows 7 HTPC with HDMI networked to 1TB NAS drive via LAN, I am nearly there.  While waiting for the [...]