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There are two ways to watch TV using torrents.
The easiest is to download an entire season in one go, the other is to download episodes individually as they air in the U.S.
Downloading a season is perfect for shows you’re way behind on, or missed completely. However, what invariably happens is that you end up overtaking your local TV network, leaving [...]

Bittorrent Guide

In response to a number of requests, here’s everything you need to know to get started with downloading using Bittorrent.
A lot of people get put off using torrents because they think it’s too complicated, but the fact is you can get going with fairly limited knowledge. As you build up a greater understanding you’ll be in a [...]

Do Music Labels have a clue ?

Within a couple of days of each other, Sony BMG and Universal Music have made announcements which makes you wonder if they actually understand this whole Interwebthingy.
Both companies will be releasing the very cleverly named ‘Ringle’ CD which will retail at $6 in the US. UK pricing is unconfirmed, but recent examples suggest that companies [...]

ET Quake Wars Demo

Download the demo from one of the following locations :
File Front
4Players.de
ActionTrip
Fileshack
Nvidia
Gamers Hell
i3d.net
Turkey Files
Official .torrent
Important note for ATI users: You must download and install this hotfix in order to be able to run the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars demo. The next revision of the ATI drivers is going to include the hotfix.

ET : Quake Wars Demo Released

On Monday 10th September the Enemy Territory:Quake Wars Demo, which contains one finished map, is set for release.
This is good news. When the demo for ET (ET:QW’s predecessor) came out it also contained one map, Fuel Dump, which gave players a chance to adapt to the gameplay without being confused by changing objectives and spawn [...]

Next TV announced

Yet another IPTV application was announced yesterday with the HP/DAVE Networks offering, NEXT TV.
If you think you’ve heard all this before, you probably have :
NEXT.TV Press Release (Sept 5th, 2007)
NEXT.TV brings together advertisers, content owners and viewers in an easy to use entertainment driven environment.
NEXT.TV can be accessed with a wired or wireless broadband [...]

Silverlight Released

Microsoft Silverlight, widely touted as the ‘Flash-Killer’ was officially released today.
There has been talk about this for a number of months, along with some impressive case studies, and in a Press Release today the ‘cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web’ was launched.
A full comparison between Silverlight and Flash is lengthy [...]

New iPods announced

3 new iPods were announced today. The iPod nano, the iPod classic and the iPod touch.
Let’s start off with a table to summarise the technical specs :

The Zen is in there for comparison. Which I’ll come to later.
In the meantime, as you may imagine, initial feedback is very mixed. The decision to release an iPhone-style [...]

Zen > iPod

There’s been a lot of talk about ‘iPod-killers’ but the whole thing is a bit pointless since there are way too many Apple fanboys out there.
Let’s instead talk about a device which is clearly superior, the Creative Zen (click for video demo). This device has only just been announced and won’t be available until the [...]