webDotWiz is 82% blog addicted…

…well, that’s what the results of the questionnaire point to – and there’s a certificate to prove it 82%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Mingle2 – Blog addiction test Oops, Live Writer doesn’t quite properly handle the HTML code to post in from doing the blog addiction test – may get time to have a [...]

Soapbox on MSN Video now open to everybody

The Soapbox team have just announced that Soapbox on MSN Video (soapbox.msn.com) is now open to the world, i.e., a Windows Live ID is no longer required to sign in to view videos – just go to the site and view to your heart’s content. However, if you’re going to upload your own videos, or [...]

Soapbox on MSN Video – new version now available

The Soapbox team announced a few hours ago the next generation of Soapbox on MSN Video (soapbox.msn.com). There are some good screenshots on the Soapbox team Space and they show up better than here since their Space is using a wide layout for their blog so go and have a look. webDotWiz hasn’t gone through [...]

Talking How Much Better Is High Definition Video?

Has links to a couple of demos where you can see the same movie rendered as DVD alongside rendered as HD DVD.   Casino Royale – look at the horse and the bikini. Serenity – look at the lights on the ships.   Quote Steve Rowe’s Blog : How Much Better Is High Definition Video?

New Soapbox video player

Via The Soapbox Team Space. The latest Soapbox video player gadget for Live Spaces and Live.com is the most comprehensive one available and it’s worth the bit of pain to remove others on your Space or Live.com page and replace it with this latest one. To install it on your own Space, click the blue [...]

MSN Soapbox now available to everybody

The days of waiting and hoping your invite would come through so you could view, upload, share, and use the other features on MSN Soapbox Video, are over – MSN Soapbox is now open to everybody as a public trial. Just go to http://soapbox.msn.com, sign in with your Live ID (if you haven’t already through Live [...]

Consumer Electronics Show 2007 opens

This afternoon at 1.30 pm (Australian Eastern Summer Time) Bill Gates made the keynote presentation. webDotWiz watched the stream in Windows Media Player at a whole 100 kbits/sec on his ISDN connection – the audio was ok but, naturally, the video was awful at that speed (other streaming speeds were 500 and 200 kbits/sec). This [...]

Soapbox nickname prob fixed

Apparently some Soapbox users had a problem with some sort of mixup with nicknames (one webDotWizard Webmaster had the prob). The good news is that the problem is fixed – see here for more info. By the way, one indicator of the nickname problem is you can’t access your contact card, i.e., when you hover [...]

Soapbox site updated

Just when the webDotWizards on Friday morning were preparing to upload some of their videos to Soapbox, they were greeted with a message to say that the site was being updated. Well, it looks as though the changes will be beneficial so inconvenience can be put aside. Anyway, that gave them some time to have [...]

Channel Ten to offer program downloads

Via Frank Arrigo, from an article on the Sydney Morning Herald site this evening (06-Dec-2006): Network Ten will begin making entire television programs available for download immediately after they air from early in the new year. Frank has a couple of questions: What format What platform Which programs Will it be free or is it [...]