Archive for 'video' Category

The Matrix Runs on Windows

By Surferbill - Last updated: Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The Matrix Runs on Windows – CollegeHumor video. Pretty good for a bunch of people who can’t spell humour.

Jim Dale reads Harry Potter

By Surferbill - Last updated: Saturday, November 8, 2008

Jim Dale reads Harry Potter at Barnes & Noble.

Google must divulge YouTube logs

By Surferbill - Last updated: Thursday, July 3, 2008

The BBC reports: “Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a ‘set-back to [...]

TinEye does for images, what Google does for text

By Surferbill - Last updated: Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Amber MacArthur has made a great video demoing TinEye. TinEye does for images, what Google does for text. You give it an image, either by uploading or pointing to an image hosted on the web, and TinEye finds all copies of that image online, including variations on the image. Take a look at the video [...]

Firefox: Open a Search in a New Tab

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, May 5, 2008

Revision3‘s Tekzilla has a great daily tip on how to open a search in a new tab in Firefox: open a new tab type about:config in the address bar and press return in the filter bar, enter browser.search.openintab double click the entry in the list to set it to true restart Firefox for it to [...]

GTA 4 Animation Technology

By Surferbill - Last updated: Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Here’s a video of NaturalMotion’s euphoria animation technology used in GTA 4.

Charlie The Unicorn – Very Surreal

By Surferbill - Last updated: Sunday, April 27, 2008

Wow… and I thought Weebl and Bob were surreal. Charlie The Unicorn Part One Charlie The Unicorn Part Two

Listen to the Techie

By Surferbill - Last updated: Friday, April 18, 2008

Dell says, “Listen to the Techie.”

An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, April 15, 2008

An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

Best April Fool this year – BBC – Penguins

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, April 1, 2008

The BBC came up with the best April Fool this year: There’s also a ‘making of’ video up on the iPlayer site (but only until 8th April, so hurry). Oh, and then there’s the worst April Fool’s gag this year.