Tag: Beta
TIOTI (Tape It Off The Internet) Internet TV site opens up
On Monday, the "social media aggregator" TIOTI — which stands for "Tape It Off The Internet" — came out of beta and launched to the general public. It claims to offer a "one-stop source for TV content" online, aggregating the…
Joost opens the floodgates, so you can now sign up (and stop pestering me for invites)
Joost, the online TV streamer which we got quite excited about and then promptly forgot, once we discovered the joys of streaming from Joox, has just been opened up to the public officially.
It’s been in beta for quite some time, with users only able to play around with its nifty interface and sadly uninteresting TV shows, but yesterday on the Joost blog it was announced anyone can sign up. So,…
Yahoo Mash: late to the social network party, mashes up popular services into its own
Yahoo has decided, arguably a few years late, that it wants to get into the social networking game, by launching Mash. It mixes various popular elements from the most well-known social sites, including adding customised backgrounds and colour schemes, but…
Winamp 5.5 allows music to be streamed to your Nintendo Wii
As part of Winamp’s resurgence, they’re not just content with ripping off iTunes iPod compatability, oh no, they’re thinking even more outside of the box. Infact, they’re not even thinking about that box on your computer desk which houses all that software, bits, bytes and chips, they’re thinking about an entirely new box. Specifically, your Wii. Don’t get too scared now…
Shopping social networking site OSOYOU launches in beta
Surely some girls read Tech Digest, right? You’re not all hovering around Shiny Shiny getting your fix of all things pink and fluffy, are you? So hopefully there’s some of you who’ll be interested to hear that OSOYOU, the sparkly new social networking site we happen to share an office with here at Shiny Towers, just launched in beta yesterday.
Allowing you to create user profiles, drag and drop items to your wishlist using their super-cool clothes hanger, bookmark…
Competitions, competitions competitions: Mobchargers and RealPlayer beta invitations, oh my!
Another day, another brilliant couple of competitions. Incase you missed them last week, we’re giving away 20 exclusive beta invitations to RealPlayer 11, which is a brilliant piece of software allowing you to download any form of video online, so you can view it from your desktop, also a bunch of Mobchargers, which are disposable pocket-sized mobile…
20 exclusive beta invitations to RealPlayer to give away right now!
Hopefully most of you would be familiar with RealPlayer, the cross-platform media player which plays numerous multimedia formats such as MP3, MPEG4, QuickTime and Windows Media. Infact, some of you may even remember when it was launched in 1995 as RealAudio Player, one of the very first media players capable of streaming media over the internet.
With thanks to RealNetworks, we have 20 exclusive invitations for Tech Digest readers to join the private beta testing of the new RealPlayer, which lets you bookmark and download video clips you find on the web, which can be later viewed offline and even ripped to CD or DVD. Imagine being able to download all of The Smith’s music videos and rip them to a DVD! In the future, further updates to the player will also support devices, so you can download directly to your iPod or PMPs. I’m sold…
Review: Safari web-browser for Windows
As part of WWDC last night, Steve Jobs unveiled possibly the most important piece of news of the night to consumers – Safari, Apple’s very own web-browser, was to become available on Windows. Quite why any self-respecting Windows user would want to taint their hard drive with El Jobso’s machinery, and quite why Apple are interested in placing their software on Windows in the first place, no one knows. But then, the same thing was said when they announced iTunes would be available on Windows, and there’s no way in a-black-turtleneck-and-jeans heaven the iPod would have seen anywhere near the amount of success had this not been implemented.
So, we know Safari already owns 5% of the market share in web browsers – but will this new availability of the browser for Windows-users increase the popularity? Read on below for my review – and yes, I’ve tried not to wear my Bill Gates-adoration on my sleeve *too* much here, to give you the most unbias review I possibly can…
Google Translate adds new language conversion features to web searching
Google has announced that it’s added new features to Google Translate to make it easier to search for and read web pages in other languages.
Google already offers basic translation services on web pages and language phrases. Their updated system allows anyone to search for web pages in another language, and read the results in their own language.
MSN Soapbox video sharing service enters public beta
Microsoft's would-be-YouTube video service Soapbox that we first mentioned in September last year has now entered public beta testing. Though Bink.nu reckons it's only supposed to work on Internet Explorer and not Firefox (presumably on a PC), I've been able…
