Have you ever been watching videos, sporting events, a group of children, Team Fortress 2, or a cat and just thought to yourself "Now if this just had some Yakety-Sax music in the background this would be hilarious!"? Yes? Well, then here are two websites you need to know! The Benny Hillifier can add the Yakety Sax to any YouTube video and Tube Dubber can add any audio file … [Read more...]
In Less Than 24 Hours, Netflix Offends Canadians and Americans Separately; Apologizes
September 22nd was a bad day to be Netflix. In all reality, it should have been a good day because Netflix launched their streaming service in Canada. More customers means more chances for revenue. Instead, Netflix managed to insult Canadians and Americans during this single launch event. They called Americans self-absorbed and tried to persuade Canadians to subscribe by hiring … [Read more...]
Netflix Coming To The Great White North (Canada)
On the bottom of the Netflix website login you'll now find a button to switch to Canada. You can also head over to www.netflix.ca to find the site and updates (although you'll normally be redirected to the US site if that's where you hail from). The site proclaims Netflix is "Coming this fall to Canada!" Along with the website, an e-mail was sent out to Netflix Affiliates … [Read more...]
YouTube’s Life In A Day Project
Google has a huge project coming up on YouTube on July 24th that requires your involvement and the YouTube logo has been helpfully reminding us about. From the YouTube Life In A Day site: One world. 24 hours. 6 billion perspectives. Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 … [Read more...]
Avi2Dvd and DVD Flick – Converting Videos (.avi) to DVDs
At one end of the house, I have a Sony PS3 that can stream videos from my PC connected to a TV that can also play Divx and Xvid files from a USB drive. At the other end of the house, I have just a standard TV and a DVD player. Of course, since I can't do something in one place, that's where I want to do it. So, the task was to come up with a way to play .avi files on a standard … [Read more...]