Internet video startup Myka has launched its Linux based set top Bittorrent box. The Myka set top box comes in 80 GB, 160 GB, and 500 GB high-definition versions. The boxes themselves are equipped with a built-in Bittorrent client which supports most of the video and audio formats.
The video below gives a very quick look at Myka’s playback quality, and includes an ever-so-brief look at its support for iTunes HD:
Over at digital music store CDBaby they have been making a lot of changes recently. Since the sale of the company the site itself has been going through a lot of changes. A while ago CDBaby announced to their community that they will be updating their website which is long overdue and here are early pictures of what it is going to look like.
Disclosure: Im CEO of Insomnia which owns and operates RouteNote a digital music distributor.
If you are a geek blogger like me, you would know that the having a good ranking within the most important search engines it is a big deal if you are trying to promote your blog. KPMRS (Keyword Position Monitoring Report Service) can help you with that by monitoring constantly the page rank you have with Google, Yahoo and Bing.
How to use it is very simple, you don’t even have to be registered to receive any result, you can query and get some instant results about your site and a special keyword. The free registration can also give you: Email Alerts (when position changes or when a competitor has passed you); weekly reports; and monitor for Google’s Page Rank and Alexa.
Here’s a query about my blog with a keyword that I know I have a good ranking about it:
It is pretty cool to have these results and see the differences between the search engines; and of course will be very helpful to you if you are setting up your business to evaluate the status of popularity.
Do you feel like you need a website and you have no money to create one? And you are not a developer nor a web designer to do it yourself? Well I’m pretty sure that the your next step should with Moogoo.
Moogoo is the quick choice to take when it comes to design easy and very acceptable websites and it only takes a few moments to complete. You will have several options to add different type of functionality to your site, so it won’t be the same static content. Besides doing all the design work, you can find more features:
To check on more features available, check this link.
As an important note, the payed versions are two: Personal ($4.99) and Business ($14.99). Not bad, right?
Back in February we did a quick review about a new web service called Stimator. Stimator is a real website valuation estimator.
There are six major factors involved in the calculation:
11th February 2009 = Crenk.com = $17,351
2nd July 2009 = Crenk.com = $1,657,315
Aviary has just launched Screen Capture Talon that can let you capture any webpage from any browser, by simply putting Aviary.com/ in front of the URL. You can capture a page at different resolutions or to only capture a portion of the page as well.
After capturing the page, you can edit it, add simple markup to it and save it to your desktop.
Aero Snap is a new feature which has been added to Windows 7, but its is also supported for both Windows XP and Vista. Aero Snap is a simple tool that allows the user to drag and drop any window to the top of your screen to maximise it or take it to the left or right to snap it to the side and re-size by 50 per cent.
Aero Snap is free and you can download it here.
As far as I can tell there is only one site that can still predict accurately your future page rank from Google. Their used to be iwebtool but that has stopped working and Page Rank Prediction is the only one standing.
The site itself is very simple, its just a box in which users can input their urls and then the predictor accurately predicts what your new page rank is going to be at the next update.
Page Rank Prediction is predicting that Crenk will be a page rank 5 at the next update, which is great news for us if it is true. Only time will tell and we are expecting to see a new page rank update in the next few days.
There have been a lot of people reporting about the Pirate Bay’s new video site, Techcrunch UK, Mashable and Boy Genius, but the story was broken by the leading site in the Torrent space, TorrentFreak.
The basics of the story are as follows, the Pirate Bay team has continued developing its video streaming site – which will open up to the public within 5 years. On The Video Bay users can share video clips without having to worry about getting them taken offline due to copyright violations, true Pirate Bay-style.
The Pirate Bay team themselves announced about 2 years ago that they were working on a video streaming site, but we had no idea when we would actually see something. Pirate Bay Spokesman Peter Sunde agreed that it might take a while before the site goes live and told us that “it will be done when it’s done, in the future, in like a year or five.”
Besides the Firefox Add-On official site, where anyone can download/upload the add-ons and share it with the community; you can also find Mozdev.org where there are over 250 projects related to Mozilla that are actively in motion by several developers in the mission to “establish Mozilla as a viable application development platform”.
Within the site, you will find several very interesting add-ons and plug-ins to use with Mozilla Firefox. Including the Top-50 most viewed and downloaded projects.
On this list you’ll find very, very useful tools that you can install to improve your browsing experience: Integration with Thunderbird, FTP client, autocopy highlighted text, proxy configurations, RSS reader, etc etc.
Again, another open source project that shows a lot of maturity, adding value and constant improvement. Cheers to that
Today I came across a very interesting marketplace, Gazhoo. Gazhoo is a marketplace to buy and sell documents, images, templates and more. Gazhoo seems to have everything from venture capital documents to a stock standard business agreement.
Gazhoo is a great marketplace for business professional who don’t have too much experience in the industry but are trying to get something started. Gazhoo allows users to view half of the document for free in a simple window very similar to Docstoc. Once you have viewed the document and made sure it is the one you want, then you are able to purchase at an affordable price from their very simple marketplace. Prices vary depending upon the document, but they start at about $5.00.
So if you are looking for affordable secure documents then head over to Gazhoo. However, make sure you still have them looked over by a lawyer if you are planning on releasing after your own moderations.
BlogBackupr it’s a simple and nice web app that automatically backups all your posts in your blog. It represents a very easy way for you to not worry so much about vulnerabilities in the platform, loosing data, accidental deletion, etc.
It works with all blogs that have RSS-feed, that is the minimum requirement. Among the features that you can find in this web app:
This is your administration site where you can execute all necessary tasks with the added blogs:
Go ahead, give it a try.
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