Hulu is an American online company and partially ad-supported streaming service offering a selection of TV shows, clips, movies, and other streaming media on Hulu.com. Hulu subscribers can access episodes in HD (when available) from ABC, the CW, Fox, and NBC the day after they air, using Internet-connected computers, game consoles, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets,…
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Netflix, The Old Reliable
Netflix is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in all of Australia, New Zealand, South America, Japan, North America and parts of Europe (Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland and United Kingdom), and of flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States, where mailed…
Lynda training free with library card!
You can use Lynda.com for free if you have a Louisville Free Public Library card. Lynda.com is an online education company offering thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills. Founded in 1995 by Bruce Heavin, Lynda Weinman, the company produces video tutorials taught by industry experts. I have been a paying Lynda.com user…
Watch TV and Movies On Your Computer
Every knows about YouTube and Netflix by now but did you know there are lots of places to get streaming and downloadable video. These are just a few: YouTube – See videos on any topic from all over the world for free. Vimeo – See hi-quality videos and movies mostly free. NetFlix – Watch TV…
Create Post and Pages Within WordPress
Creating post in WordPess is very easy. It is comparable to creating a document in “MS Word”. There are several types of media that you may insert into a post like text, contact forms, polls, images, audio, and video. For audio and video you must purchase an upgrade but there is a work-a-round. You can…
What is Evernote?
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A “note” can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten “ink” note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given…
Chromecast
Chromecast is a new, fun and inexpensive way for you to watch Internet-based programming on your television. It is a dongle that you plug into your TV’s HDMI port that can be controlled from any electronic device (computer, tablet or phone) running the Chromecast app. You browse to the video that you want to play on…
Skype
Skype is a proprietary Voice over IP service and software application. First released in 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed Kazaa. Since 2003 it has become a very popular application with 600 million users world wide. It 2011 it was purchase be Microsoft for $8.5 billion….
Cutting The Cord, Part 2
At an early Internet SIG we learned that you could get TV programming on your computer over the Internet. I also mentioned that you can play this programming on your TV. This month we will look at this again with infosys on the Internet ready entertainment hardware (TVs and players of all kinds).
