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NASA TV – A Pretty Cool View From Space

Dean — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:07:58 +0000

Sixty years ago a fuzzy image of two guy names Neil and Buzz crackled onto TVs around the world with the famous line “One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind”. Every television station seems to be going berserk showing anything remotely related to the event such as nostalgic summaries, conspiracy theories, sci-fi, interviews and documentaries. Here on Crenk however, we like to give you stuff that’s worth your time. Have you ever wondered just what the Russians and the Americans and everyone else in the International Space Station gets up to? Well now you can watch it all live.

NASA TV have set up streaming cameras in the space station that run continuously, streaming it all back down to earth onto your screen. I watched it for a few moments as a NASA technician repaired the US toilet. Apparently, it stopped working and the US astronauts had to ask the Russians if they could use their toilet. Good thing they said ‘yes’ too.

The video and sound quality are superb, keeping in mind that their being streamed from space. There is also a running commentary telling you what each astronaut is up to and why he/she is doing that. They also alternate to different positions around the Space Stations. For example, I seen a Russian chowing down on some space food, an American fixing a loo and two Canadians floating around talking to someone at home about their day.

If you’re into all that space stuff then this is worth a go. You can also get an app for Windows Sidebar in Vista that streams it onto your desk top. NASA TV is also worth a peek if you just want to see where your tax dollars end up. To have a look, click here. 7/10

WinSplit Revolution: Spilt Up Your Screen Space into Several Windows

Steven Finch — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:37:57 +0000

If you constantly have 2, 3, or 16 windows open on your computer, WinSplit Revolution can help you organize your space. This little Windows utility automatically resizes and relocates windows making it easy to stack your programs vertically, horizontally, or in little boxes.

The program isn’t really that useful if you’ve got an 800 x 600 pixel display, but if you’ve got a high resolution widescreen monitor, WinSplit Revolution can help you make the most of your space. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to various positions. For instance, one hotkey can maximize the current window, while another can unmaximize it and drag it to the left side of the screen.

ZunaVision : Stanfords New In-Movie Placement Software

Steven Finch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:17:48 +0000

Over at Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed an amazing piece of software that im sure Google will purchase very soon. The software makes it easy to place and manipulate an image into a piece of video. Thus, could allow advertising to be simply placed in any video.

It works for videos as well – you can play a video on a wall inside your video. The technology can cheaply do some of the tricks normally performed by expensive commercial editing systems.

More information at ZunaVision but first watch the demo video:

This software would be perfect for video makers who place their videos onto Youtube, because they will be able to sell advertising very simply within the videos. This would also mean that they could place their videos and promote on Bittorrent related sites, cause the content owner is drawing an income. Just a thought!

WhoIsHostingThis.com: Hosting Search

Steven Finch — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:15:50 +0000

Tonight I can across a very interesting website, WhoIsHostingThis.com. The website seems to allow you to search any site in the world and it will tell you which hosting company they use. It is not the most useful site in the world but it can be very interesting at times. Some hosting companies on the net claim to have testimonials from certain companies and now you can see if those companies still use the hosting service they recommend.

There are companies in most fields these days that are famous in the same sense as a celebrity, for example GoDaddy.com in domain registration, everyone knows who GoDaddy is. Currently who is the leader in Celeb for Hosting?