James Wynn

After being very irritated for some time at the lack of support for videos inside wordpress, I finally stumbled upon a plugin that makes it seamless. It supports YouTube, Google Video, IFilm, .mov, .mpg, and .wmv and it integrates it all right into the graphical editor. It allows you to post a movie to wordpress with just a single click. Viper007bond is a genius. Track down Video QuickTags over at geeklimit.

It appears that there has recently been a leak of a new version of Google Talk.  This new version doesnt seem to have a lot of new features, which is probably why it isnt a public release.  The new version sports support for avatars and a little icon at the bottom that displays the number of unread emails you have.  This is kinda cool in itself, but I wish they would spend their time working on other things.

It seems I’m not the only one that thinks Google’s time could be better spent.  Some people at Festoon have released a plugin for gTalk that adds support for video chat.   And I’ve heard from over at Reseize.com that there is a company making a VOIP plugin called Talqer that allows you to make outgoing and incoming calls similar to Skype’s and Yahoo’s services, albiet at a cheaper rate.

This post has both inspired me and given me great relief.  I’ve been searching the internet for some good progress in technology, and finally I have stumbled across it.  Two awesome little tools when hooked up allow you to find and keep up-to-date on all of your favorite tv shows.  Who needs DVR!?  With Democracy Player and tvrss.net finding and keeping up to date on your favorite tv shows is simple and automatic.  Step one, find the a feed on tvrss. Step two, enter that feed into Democracy Player and start the download.  Step three, enjoy your shows everyday!

UPDATE:  After playing with Democracy Player a bit I’ve found it does not manage torrents very well.  It is best to download torrents with something like utorrent (which will handle rss feeds nicely) and then watch them from some other program.  DP still provides access to tons of other quality content though.

Now these guys at Tiki Bar TV are truely indie. I havent found something this entertaining being freely distributed for a long time. Great work.