I would like a website that would let me upload, and sell, a video. I don’t want to pay a monthly fee. I don’t want to have restricted downloads or bandwidth. I’d be happy if the site took say, 20% of what I charge for the video. It should be embeddable so I can put it on my blog too.
The closest thing to this I can find is lulu.com, but they’re set up more for books. There should be a site set up specifically for video and audio. Oh yeah, there should be the facility to sell audio files too.
I should be able to create my own profile page, much like on YouTube, but everything is for sale. It could work for filmmakers, web video people, and even bands and other musical apps.
There could even be a mobile app that lets people download media, and maybe a separate one that lets you record video and upload it to your profile for sale.
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I came back to the Mac around 2003. My family didn’t own one when I was growing up, but my school exclusively ran on the Macintosh. Any work I did at school, on a computer, was done on a Mac. At the time I thought the Amiga we had at home was better, after all, it connected to a big television rather than having it’s own built-in tiny monitor. After the Amiga I lived on PCs and Windows, until I started doing computery things full time, then it was time to get serious and get a Power Mac. It wasn’t long after the Mac arrived that I started learning about these things called Keynotes, all presented by this Steve Jobs guy. I found out that my version of OS X was called Panther and that there would soon be a new one called Tiger. These “Stevenotes” would happen a couple of times each year, and every time, Steve would show us something amazing that I wanted to buy. In the weeks leading up to such an event, the internet would become awash with rumours about what wonderful new device Steve would sell to us. One of these rumours was always there, every time. One of these rumours was that Apple were going to release a television. Since then, I have heard this Apple television rumour before every event. Now some people really think it’s going to happen. However I personally won’t believe it until Tim Cook is on a stage, showing it to me. So what exactly causes me issues with the Apple television? Lots of things really
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This is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the flagship Android phone made in partnership with Samsung and Google, the makers of Android. This phone is a big deal. The Nexus range are intended to be reference designs for other phone makers, something to look up to. When people compare the iPhone to Android phones, this is the model they use to do it.
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Here’s an awesome thing, I thought I’d go with something that wasn’t the iPad. Must be honest and tell you that what you’re about to read is copied directly from the press release I received yesterday, I didn’t write it. I just think that it explains pretty well everything that I was going to tell you.
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I’m kidding, I don’t really care. Get one if you want, they do look nice. Anyway, today, Apple showed us the new iPad. It looks exactly like the old iPad, except it’s faster, has a better camera, and a retina screen. It also has LTE but seeing as I couldn’t use that, I’m not fussed about that. Suffice it to say, it’s everything we expected it to be with absolutely no surprises.
I suppose if you thought that they’d build Siri into it, then you’re going to be a bit disappointed. It would have made sense to put it in there, but it makes as much sense to leave it out. It is still officially in beta, and a lot of people complain about just how well it works. Maybe it’s better off left where it is for now. Also if you were hoping for an A6 chip, you’re going to have to put up with an A5X chip. If that matters to you, I suggest taking a walk outside. It’s fast enough to do everything you want to do with it, and it’s faster than the old one. We had to expect a processor update, with all those extra retina pixels to display, it was going to need it. They were very clear in saying it has quad-core graphics. They didn’t say it was a quad-core processor. I’m not entirely sure there’s much of a difference, but it does give me the feeling that it’s a dual-core processor working with four graphics processors.
As with the upgrade from iPad 1 to iPad 2, I can’t help but feel that Apple have done the absolute bare minimum here. And let’s be honest, why should’t they? After all, I guarantee you that not one single human being is going to so disappointed by the new iPad, that they go out and buy something from Samsung or whoever else is peddling Android tablets these days.
There was also a new Apple TV that also looks exactly like the old model. Now it will give you 1080p video output, which you’ll be hard pressed to tell apart from a 720p output, but it should be there. It looked like it was going to run apps, but it doesn’t. There’s a new UI, but remember, you can download that for your second generation Apple TV.
Overall, I’d say it was a nice product launch, with a nice selection of stuff that people are going to buy in their millions.
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You can find part one of this series, which covers Sky+ HD here.
For years, Netflix has been the envy of everyone that couldn’t get it. The company started life as an internet based DVD rental service, the whole system was their idea. That idea was, that you put together a list of films that you’d like to rent on DVD. Netflix would send you the top items on your list, and replace them with other items from your list, as you returned the discs. All for a low monthly fee. In one move they eliminated every problem we had with the video rental market as it was at the time. You no longer had to go to a store, there were no late fees, and you could keep the discs as long as you wanted.
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Here is my first ever look at Windows Phone 7. I was extremely impressed to say the least, to hear more of my thoughts on the subject you might want to listen to this week’s Tech It Or Leave It.
Also, apologies for the blurriness of the video, I need a better video camera that can do close up stuff.
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As I’ve been playing with all these smartphones over the last week, it has become clear that we need a set of rules for these things to live up to. A set of criteria that allow us to decide which is a good smartphone, and which is a bad one. There are some things that everybody does with their phone and I need us to all agree on what those things are. We’ll start simple and look at the hardware. Then we’ll move on and look at the software.
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