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A quick post after having received an invite from TechCrunch to try out the Wix-experience beta. I was a little skeptical, but for what its purpose is I am content and even a little excited. It provides some nifty widget creation options, and allows for a number of customizations. Currently I have just scraped the [...]

I finally got around to testing my first of Aviary‘s web-based applications, codenamed Phoenix. I really like what I see. Built intuitively with an interface similar to Photoshop or GIMP, Phoenix is a niftly flash based Image Editor. I was impressed by their teaser back in July, and must admit this first tool alone was [...]

For years I have been listening to internet radio stations across the globe to fit my personal listening preferances, and escape all the commercials on my local FM radio. I bumped into Last.fm a couple of months ago and I have not turned back since. Last.fm – the social music revolution (Last.fm About Us). You [...]

Joost is another online TV solution. It combines both software and content, with a dosage of advertising. In April I gave Joost beta my first try. I tried it on a relativly fast PC’s with more than enough bandwidth. But I was constantly disappointed with the CPU usage and bandwidth the program required. Their content [...]

The “internet tv” and video player Miro, previously known as Democracy has caught my attention lately. I tried Democracy for the first time more than a year ago. My first impression was OK. Considering the fact that I can’t afford to keep up with the latest hardware updates, I tried it on a little older [...]

Another of NRK’s employees’ “inventions” is the multi-camera server recorder. Normally when capturing video material you can just capture one camera’s stream to the computer/hard disk at a time. So previously when I wanted to capture two cameras live I had to route each camera to a different computer, and then synchronize with TC (timecode). [...]