Just press ”SELECT” on your remote when you see the Start Over prompt and you can restart a show already in progress. It’s easy and it’s free with your Digital Cable service.
Microsoft have been extremely quiet in recent weeks about their proposed browser ballot screen for Windows 7 users in the EU. Finally today they made some announcements, as has been reported by Mary-Jo Foley.
The ballot screen, see above, will be delivered via Windows Update. This means it looks as if Internet Explorer will initially be available after installing Windows 7. Indeed in the screenshot above they say…
Flash 10 already supports HD video on the desktop, but 10.1 — announced this week at Adobe’s MAX conference in Los Angeles — is being billed the first to really reap the full benefits of the Open Screen Project by unifying feature sets across a wide variety of platforms on the desktop, the laptop, and the pocket. As usual, Windows, Mac, and Linux will all get hooked up with the latest release, but public betas of 10.1 for Windows Mobile and webOS will be hitting before the end of the year as well followed by Android and Symbian in “early” 2010. RIM’s also gotten official with its rumored membership in the Open Screen Project, though the lack of a timeline for 10.1 support in BlackBerry OS is a stark reminder of the long technical road that lies ahead for Waterloo as it tries to match the smartphone competition tit-for-tat in the multimedia space. At the end of the day, mobile Flash means nothing without the horsepower to properly drive it, so let’s hope that Tegra, Snapdragon, and next-generation architectures like OMAP4 start to come on board en masse just as these builds come out of beta.
Speaking of fast chipsets, the other big news out of the show is that Flash 10.1 will take advantage of GPU acceleration on a number of key mobile platforms, including both nVidia’s Tegra and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon alongside ION for smooth (well, theoretically smooth) 720p and 1080p video on the latest generation of netbooks and smartbooks.
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I know most of my readers are pretty tech savvy, but for those of you who are thinking “Hey this Finallyfast.com looks like it could really help me out!” let me point a few things out to you. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s amazing how easy it is to spread a rumor these days. Somebody from Thestreet.com, who probably doesn’t like the Palm Pre, spread a rumor last week that Verizon was reconsidering carrying the Pre because of low sales. The rumor soon became “fact” when spread to several legit websites.
We can confidently tell you that Verizon will be carrying the Palm Pre the first quarter of 2010. Read the rest of this entry »