Tech-World Podcast Episode 64 was released and this week we introduced a new Live stream/Video Recorded edition of the podcast layered with audio from our co-hosts we hope in the future to get better quality and other stream synced into the video feed.
You can listen to it : http://podcast.adrianstech.com/2010/02/tech-world-podcast-64-open-internet-for-all/
For Video: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/podcast.adrianstech.com/media/twp/twp064.mp4
For story links: http://delicous.com/kidguru/twp64
Note, this only works with Windows 7. If you had been testing Mozilla Firefox 3.6’s betas, you would know that it had Taskbar/Superbar Previous on it, like on IE 8. Yesterday, I was searching around on about:config, to see if I find something fun to mess around, but instead, I found out the following name:
“browser.taskbar.previews.enable”, and it was defined as “false”. So all you do to enable the taskbar previews, is just to change it to true.
And voilá! You have it enabled again, and you can see a screenshot of it below:
So, thanks for watching this quick Firefox tip, and I will see you later.
As I’m sure all of you have noticed, recently YouTube has recent introduced a new video player. It features a sleeker design with an updated “HD” button. The the new player let’s you decide between 360/480/720P and 1080P. Yes this is nice, but why? What is the need for a 320P and 480P version of every video? There is a very minimal difference in actual video size (Mb’s and Gb’s) between 480P and 360P. So why not go with the higher quality. I’m sure that the 360P version of videos is for mobile phones, but then why show them for an option online?
Why can they just do like before with an “SD” and “HD” button? SD would be 480P and HD would be 720P by default, unless the video also had a 1080P option. How is my grandmother supposed to know the difference between 360, 480, 720, and 1080P? She does know the difference between HD and SD, but now am I supposed to tell her click on the highest number?
I know I’m making this a bigger deal than it is, but it kind of annoys me. Tell me what you think in the comments.
As you may have noticed the site has been experiencing some downtime and a lack of content lately. This is because we recently switched servers to better cope with our needs. We have upgraded to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) with Hostgator to accommodate our teamspeak server alongside our websites. Now we have a more powerful plan, so we don’t have to host our teamspeak server with another provider. Currently the teamspeak server is down and I’m working on setting up the new Teamspeak 3 software on the server. This should be up by the weekend (I’ll tweet the info when it’s up). Also now that we have our own IP’s we can map the teamspeak server to our domain meaning that instead of entering in an IP for the teamspeak server you could just enter in adrianstech.com to simplify things.
Also as you may have noticed the site is using a new theme. I could not get the post thumbnails on the previous theme working, so I decided to try a new one. I’m not sure if kidguru likes the new theme or not so it may be around for only a short while. If you like this theme or would rather see the old one please leave a comment!
Thanks, and sorry for any inconveniences this downtime may have caused you.
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