The BBC has announced that a download version of its iPlayer software will be available for Mac users by the end of 2008. Currently only Windows users can use the download version whilst a hastily launched by more widely used streaming service became available in November 2007 which enabled Mac and Linux and [...]
The BBC has revealed that more than a million people have used their on-line iPlayer since December 25th with more than 3.5 million programmes watched on-line.
Streaming Option Popularity
The interesting nugget of information is that the number of people streaming content outnumbers those downloading by a ration of 8:1.
The streaming option was only added shortly before [...]
gOS - the Ubuntu derived alternative free linux desktop OS that caused a bit of a splash a while back has finally released version 2 of their E17 modified desktop which continues to be focused around Web applications from google and others. The release was slightly delayed today and currently iso downloads are via [...]
Blimey, the controversial BBC iPlayer is finally available for us renegade Mac and Linux users albeit as a flash based streaming service with no download option. My partner has played one of the catch-up offerings at full screen on a 19″ widescreen monitor and it looks OK when sat at a sensible viewing distance [...]
I’ve been loading Xubuntu onto some computers for donation purposes and have found that there’s a fairly serious fault that occurs. It looks like it’s an xorg error dependent on your graphics card configuration. Choosing the terminal from accessories logs you out of the desktop (the xserver crashes?). The workaround solution is to login to a fail-safe [...]
