Tag: christmas
Zattoo offers 30 days of free broadcast quality terrestrial TV via Internet
Zattoo, the live TV streaming service that launched back in April, is running a special Christmas promotion where all registered users can get free access to broadcast quality versions of four main UK terrestrial channels plus one digital channel.
For thirty days from today, live BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4 and BBC News 24 will be streamed at 576×528 pixel, 1.5Mbps bitrate via the Zattoo service…
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 10 to 6
There’s couple of old time bargains in this, the penultimate day of our Top 100 Christmas presents countdown and a couple of slightly more expensive options too. There’s gifts for the old, gifts for the young…
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 15 to 11
Just three days left of our Top 100 Christmas presents countdown and, I’ve got to be honest here, this next five are not the cheapest in the collection, not by a log way…
GO!VIEW adds tons of videos: PSP users needn't moan about nothing to watch over Christmas
GO!VIEW has just had hundreds of hours of video content added to it, so Sony PSP owners should have a much bigger range of films and programmes to watch this Christmas.
Content includes the latest TV series such as Lost and Heroes plus classic US and British series including Knight Rider, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf and I’m Alan Partridge…
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 20 to 16
Welcome to the top 20. The end is in sight. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter. Let’s hope it doesn’t turn out to be a horde of luminescent zombies. That’s not as unlikely as it sounds, if you believe Valve. Click the hordes of slavering zombies below to begin.
100-96 | 95-91 | 90-86 | 85-81 | 80-76 | 75-71 | 70-66 | 65-61 | 60-55 | 54-51 | 50-46 | 45-41 | 40-36 | 35-31 | 30-26
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 25 to 21
As we rocket into the top 25, I wanted to ask you lot a question. What’s been your favourite gift in the lineup so far? Personally speaking, mine’s the incredibly Blik decals. I would *love* those for Christmas, though I wouldn’t be able to put them up in my rented flat, sadly. What’s your favourite? Let us know in the comments below. Click on the image of the unlikely looking present below.
100-96 | 95-91 | 90-86 | 85-81 | 80-76 | 75-71 | 70-66 | 65-61 | 60-55 | 54-51 | 50-46 | 45-41 | 40-36 | 35-31 | 30-26
Christmas Tech Trumpet: Rudolph around the world
It’s the second Christmassy Tech Trumpet, where I attempt to make vaguely musical (and festive) sounds using a variety of gadgets and computers.
Last week you got a slightly different version of O Come All Ye Faithful. This week, I’m paying tribute to Rudolph, the infamous red-nosed reindeer.
In a hat tip to Santa, who has to travel the entire globe in just one night, this version uses lyrics gleaned from multiple automatic translations from Google Translate.
The original English lyrics were translated into Bulgarian, then Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Filipino, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, and then back into English…
Top 10 Tuesday: Best Christmas Gadgets
Welcome to Top 10 Tuesday's Best Christmas Gadgets. I know it's Wednesday but I forgot to post this yesterday and I couldn't sit on a red hot feature like this for another six days.
So, a little unconventionally is TD's TTT of all the best kit to make the festive period as brilliant and ludicrously techie as it can possibly be.
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 30 to 26
Another day, another five closer to the number one best Christmas present for 2008…
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 35 to 31
Having breached the top 40 yesterday, we’re now in the gift equivalent of the pop charts. From Cliff Richard (the Birdwatching camera), via S Club Juniors (Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker) to Kanye West (Nooka Glow-in-the-dark Watch). Click on the eBook reader (Coldplay) below to begin today’s countdown.
100-96 | 95-91 | 90-86 | 85-81 | 80-76 | 75-71 | 70-66 | 65-61 | 60-55 | 54-51 | 50-46 | 45-41 | 40-36
