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Netflix for UK

marksy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:49:54 +0000

Out of nowhere, Netflix just landed in the UK, rivalling longtime assholes Lovefilm. I’ve just signed up for their 30 day trial, and at £6/month for all you want TV/Movies (from their not-so-amazing but okaaaay library) it beats Lovefilm’s shitty £10/month disc rental method with limited shitty streaming that buffers all the time. It’ll be great competition rivalry though.

One downfall is they only support Mac and PC for the desktop, no Linux support yet. However they also support Apple TV, PS3, Xbox, and Wii.

Hey look, they even have Outrageous Fortune:

Watch US TV via Firefox

marksy — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:58:11 +0000

Penx just showed me a neat plugin hack for FireFox to enable watching content from the United States.

Download Modify Headers from the Firefox Addons repository, install, restart browser.

Then from the menubar, select Tools > Modify Headers. Under the first tab ‘headers’ click the drop down ‘select action’ and change it to ‘Add’.

Next in ‘Header name’, type ‘X-Forwarded-For’.

In ‘Value’ type in ’12.13.14.15′

Done. Check Comedy Central or Hulu and watch your favourite clips.

Stephen Colbert compares gays to smoking

marksy — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:21:52 +0000

Satyrical humor at it’s best:

If you can’t see the video above, upgrade your browser please – you living life in the past

5 Ghosts I

marksy — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:44:40 +0000

Can’t see the video? Upgrade to Safari, Chrome, Firefox.

SSH Tunnel to watch Hulu etc

marksy — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:38:46 +0000

If you are living outside of the US and want to watch those TV shows offered to the Americans, you can. There are a couple of ways to do this, using a proxy via SSH is a great way to keep this going in the background.

I use Boxee which has access to great content, unfortunately some shows such as South Park and Comedy Central are blocked due to geolocation.

I’ve found this article to be a great help for OS X users (using Terminal) to tunnel into a US-based server (mine being Dreamhost). This can be pretty slow, so you’d prolly have to paid some notes for a fast server.

link by Doc Logic (MacApper)

Online bittorrent service hides your warez

marksy — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:33:16 +0000

New service put.io is a commercial service which has allows you to download torrents using their servers, store the files and then later download them to your computer, or stream them to your iPhone, without a trace.

Obviously you must agree to the terms and conditions, which probably have some sort of ass-covering legalities such as the DMCA.

The service is extremely fast. Collecting an 8gb torrent took only about 10mins. Then downloading it took me about 2 hours. The service also has some sort of realtime transcoding going on too. It can convert most types of video/audio to suite streaming.

The servers are based in The Netherlands, security and privacy is pretty tip top. On their website they state:

Your files are your business. We do not log your location, isp or ip address.

SSL can be configured in the users account panel.

Prices start at $US4.90 for 10gb storage and 10gb bandwidth.

And… There’s a Boxee plugin too.

How I imagine the universe works.

marksy — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:27:23 +0000

Futurama is an amazing TV cartoon. However, it’s more than silly jokes. They actually use precise maths and science in their shows, right down to the minute details.

A recent episode was broadcast which is the same idea i have about how the universe works. How the big bang happens, then forms galaxies, then planets, then life. Life dies, planets die, suns die, galaxies implode, universe implodes. Then suddenly, BANG. Another big bang happens. And the same sequence of events follows.

I like this.

New iPhone & Futurama today

marksy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:54:31 +0000

Whaaaaat? Yes, that’s right. A new series of Futurama airs in the States tonight (9pm) on Comedy Central. So it should be turning up on iTunes or bit torrent soon.

Also today is the day iPhone 4 should be arriving. There’s such a demand for them that shipping has been pushed back to 3 weeks.

Deftones release Rocket Skates music video in HD for free

marksy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:04:29 +0000

The Deftones latest single out is Rocket Skates for the up coming album Diamond Eyes. They’ve just released their latest single as HD for free – however it’s a QuickTime MOV file. Not MP4 or something that everyone can play/enjoy.

So I’ve created an MKV for those who don’t like/use QuickTime.

Free PlayStation 3 media server

marksy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:25:21 +0000

If you own a PS3 and have trouble finding a decent media server, check out ps3MediaServer http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

Apparently it’s supposed to be easy to setup and get running. I’m not entirely sure how it works, but look forward to having a tinker once i get my PS3. One day…

It transcodes MKV and other foreign files to the PS3 in realtime, over wifi or ethernet. You’ve got full control over the video and audio settings too which looks nice.