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Month: September 2009 (page 3 of 4)

Redux: An Awesome Way to Waste Time

Image representing Redux as depicted in CrunchBase 

Recently, I was lucky enough to get an invitation to the beta of real-time video-sharing service, Redux. So far, the experience has been awesome! Redux has provided me with an easy way to discover and share video from all over the web. By connecting me with multiple users and groups sharing all manner of interesting things (from funny, to serious, to music, to downright strange), I can watch video from YouTube, MetaCafe, Funny or Die, College Humor, Hulu (if I were in the US…), Viddler, blip.tv and more (see image for full list). Other services are supported as well, but you get linked out to another window with a handy Redux title overlay that you can use to continue to share and comment from.

Redux supported services

All of this is updated in my personal stream, in real time, where I can comment on the fly while watching the videos I choose; as well as thumb up content, share on Twitter and Facebook, and follow  users and groups that share videos that are more to my taste.

Perhaps my favourite feature, though, is TV Mode, which I will explain in a moment. First, I have something for you folks! Redux is still in closed beta, but the community is already thriving. I happen to have some 12 invitations left and I may be able to get more. I’ll let you know how you can get your hands on them after the jump.

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Posterous Digest – Affordable GPS, and Google Voice Improvements

40techposterous It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter.  Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following items:

 

Turn By Turn GPS Navigation for GPS for $35 Bucks?? — CoPilot Live 8 – An affordable GPS app for the iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile (Touchscreen and Smartphone) looks intriguing, given the price.

Google is Listening to My Google Voice Suggestions – Google has made some improvements to Google Voice that address two of our earlier concerns.

 

If any of those headlines interest you, check out the 40Tech Posterous site.


Would LastPass Stand Up to a Password Cracker?

lastpass Last week, Lifehacker posted an article detailing how to recover your Firefox master password using a freeware password recovery tool, Firemaster.  Firemaster generates password guesses on the fly, coupled with other procedures, to rapidly attempt to crack your password.  If you lose your master password, you lose access to ALL of your passwords, so being able to recover it is great, right?  Maybe not.  If you can use Firemaster to crack your password, so can anyone who has access to your computer.

A few months ago, we took a look at three password managers, and fell in love with LastPass.  How would LastPass hold up to tools like Firemaster? Read more


Play High-End Games on Your Low-End Computer

OnLive Game Service The beta program for streaming gaming service OnLive started last week.  Not far behind OnLive is Gaikai.  Both services claim to bring high-end video games to low-end hardware, by streaming the graphics to you via your broadband connection.

Because all of the "heavy lifting" is done on OnLive or Gaikai’s servers, the system requirements for end users are low.  In fact, the OnLive website claims that "[a]ll you need is a PC running a current version of Windows XP® or Vista®, or an Intel®-based Mac running a current version of OS X."  Similarly, Gaikai’s site claims that "you can play the latest cutting-edge games anywhere there’s an internet connection – on any computer, even if it’s a few years old and misses 3D graphics hardware."  Such impressive claims raise more than a few questions. Read more


Be a (HTC) Hero — Android-ilize your Windows Mobile Phone with PointSense

PointSense Suite V2 by BlueOcean | HTC Sense UI clone HTC has been knocking the socks off of the Windows Mobile universe for a while now with increasingly beautiful and functional UI (user interface) designs for their Windows Mobile phones. Now they have done it again with the release of the HTC Hero and the very spiffy Sense UI design. The only problem is, the Hero is an Android phone, and Sense UI (for the moment) is only on Android as well. Not to be out-modded, the Windows Mobile user-developer communities dove in headfirst in various attempts to clone, or at least nearly match, the Sense interface. Of the many themes and mods that surfaced, the PointSense Suite, built on the very slick and finger-friendly Pointui Home 2 interface, stands out as one of the best.

Video, screenshots and installation tips below.

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