Oscar's Web Thank-You Cam a TV timesaver
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth story in this year's Oscar Insider series, a behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Awards.
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Producers take heart: It just got a little easier to put your hands on an Oscar.
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If you weren't able to make it to this year's just passed php|works conference in Atlanta, you missed out on the keynote that Marco Tabini, founder of php|architect gave at the start of the conference. Fortunately, he's posted the video of it on his blog:   What they didn't tell me, however, is that they had arranged for a simple (but, as you will see, very effective) web-based system that allowed members of the audience to submit "captions" to the screen as I was speaking. The results were, of course, hilarious - mostly because they "forgot" to tell me about the idea until a few days after.   Be sure to check out the video of the video for some great one-liners.
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Monday, TiVo said it will allow users to stay up to date on their favorite online videos much like they do with traditional television programs.
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Blog: The Web has allowed short, funny video clips to proliferate, but the novelty of this one is that it's only 5 seconds long--and hilarious.
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The creator of a new video recorder, has invited skilled users to customize or âhackâ its device and share the improvements with others.
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Youâve downloaded a file from the web and you canât remember where it came from. No problem â read this weekâs tip to see how you can easily find out.
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Review Quality telly for your laptop?
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Questions will come via video submitted by ordinary people through the video-sharing Web site.
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Here's a screen shot of the HTML source.  Looks like it's trying to serve some kind of ActiveX control. Happy to be using a Mac.  PS: Scoble just showed up and TM works on his cell phone so there's something weird going on.
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Also: Hollywood hints at digital film system. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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A critical bug in the way the Firefox browser works with QuickTime media files is now fixed in today's update.
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Opening the "processing key" that protects high-def DVDs is surprisingly simple. Happy Valentine's Day, AACS. In Gadget Lab.
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The TV networks have begun to put programs on the Web. The selections are crisp, clear, legal and free. But there arenât many choices, and they donât stay on the Web long enough.
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Also: Color Sudoku game adds twist to computing. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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This is a release bulletin for the Simple Comments script. It includes a few new features, including the implementation of site section support, direct support for administrator authentication, immediate publishing, date time formatting and more. It also squashes several bugs. By Dan Ragle. 0920
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Recently I had lots of time on my hands visiting relatives and in-laws. Most of the time I was able to get an Internet connection. Sometimes I had to leech my connection from unsecured wireless access points. Some of my relatives and friends posted videos on youtube.com but they wanted to save other flash videos on their hard drive or USB drive. At first this can be frustrating if you don't understand what is going on. So I decided to download them the hard way. For the faint-of-heart, you can scroll all the way to the bottom of the article for the easy way to download flash video and audio files.    Why do this the hard way?  First I wanted to understand why it was less than straight forward to do. I understand why proprietary software developers are scared right now. Software is slowly moving to Internet applications. As most of you know, the Internet is wide open, even SSH and SSL to some degree.    With youtube.com, Google video and some of the more popular video sites you can download and install software to automatically grab the video or audio flash file. However, I had a lot of time on my hands and there are many sites where a video downloader does not work for the particular site.    If you find doing it yourself interesting then here's one way to download flash video files. Keep in mind this only works with embedded flash video or audio streams.