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March 12, 2008March 12, 2008

Hulu is the real deal.. Youtube beware – Hulu Review

To my shock and pleasant surprise, there is a site to challenge Youtube’s dominance in market.Unlike most other youtube and youtube like sites this is with a big twist.The content is really quality.I will say this is a very bold and progressive move by NBC corporation. Instead of allowing others to make money by using your content on net, why cant you make the money by ad supported system and giving all your content “FREE”.. That’s right it is free.

Hulu gives all of Time Warner’s serials (like Simpsons, Ghost hunters, Dexter ) everything for free on the net in a youtube like platform called Hulu.Did I forget to mention Movies as well ??? Yes I started watching Ice Age for nth Time in Hulu.com , and there are many quality movies.You can watch movies in Hi Resolution in Fullscreen as well.Though Every video has 2 or 3 ad breaks of 15 seconds, you will not mind this as the quality of content is really great. Till now only way to watch these episodes, if you miss it on TV(or you dont have one 🙂 ) is through Pirate Bay or some other sites. So NBC’s has started a great thing, Imagine watching all your favorite TV programs after coming home whenever you wish ?? (Doesn’t it sound great ?)

More than anything its the concept, This is really a start that will catch up soon among other broadcasters, Quality content site like Hulu can easily make few millions every month by ad revenues alone. Why allow others to exploit your content? Everybody knows its next to impossible to bring down the Piracy sites, instead provide them with quality and legally.Time Warner has taken a leaf out of Google’s ideas “Bigger,Better and Free” This concept will eventually succeed. All the best for Hulu.com to succeed and Stay free(Ohh the corporate greediness shudn take over)

Other Free content Include Saturday Night Live ,Family Guy, Arrested Development, Super Bowl XLII Ads, The Office, The Simpsons,30 Rock, American Dad!,It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and House and Me Myself and Irene (Movie)

http://www.hulu.com/?from=signup

Hulu.com today entered the launch stage from Beta. So they allow direct signup and no need to wait for invites anymore 🙂 . It seems they allow only US users to signup. So if you face any problem in signing up or If they prevent other countries IP’s from signing up you know what to do right ?

Mail me at admin@dexternights.com I will get a account for you 🙂

March 7, 2008March 12, 2008

Will Microsoft do a Millenium(Me) on Windows VISTA?

I happened to get a copy of Long Horn Beta when I was still in college in 2003; it was supposed to have evolved into Windows VISTA. I installed and ran for few days; it was very different feel from Windows XP. The main feature of the OS was its WinFS the index able and searchable File System which was said to be revolutionary. Whenever I met Microsoft guys they will pull out a presentation and explain the advantages. Later Even I started doing the same. Windows Longhorn Was developed based on Windows XP code base.

But in 2004 Microsoft made a Managerial decision to scrap the Original design and start using Windows 2003 code base. And who what they should have done is to extend the developmental cycle as well, which the top guns at Microsoft were not happy at. Hence the present Windows VISTA was shipped to public with all changes going even in the final stages. They even removed the WinFS for a fast shipment.

This is exactly what developers face in any software company, there is always this line between developers and Managers .Managers want a product at any cost within the budget within the timeframe. This is where Microsoft went wrong Windows VISTA out too quickly; Even now I wouldn’t say VISTA is totally bad product. But If Microsoft hadn’t bowed to media pressure and waited for few more months, VISTA wouldn’t have faced this much criticism.

I have been running VISTA in my machine for past 4 months and never faced any crashes except the odd IE crash. I haven’t seen any blue screen deaths(Are these still occur in VISTA).But what I have seen is my external Hard disk doesn’t work with VISTA, but works very well in XP.Driver issues??

When Everybody’s is complaining about VISTA, Microsoft has reduced VISTA prices and silently working on Windows 7. Windows 7 will have WinFS and all announced features of original VISTA. So it makes me wonder Is VISTA just a stop gap measure?. If you would remember Microsoft brought the famous(Not so ) Windows Me (Millenium edition) after Windows 2000. It had lots of features but the core was a crap. You can imagine putting all your costly features in a bullock cart. The OS was based on Windows 95/98 model but promised many features of XP. It soon went into hiding after a year of its launch and Microsoft brought out Windows XP based on Windows 2000 core. It had many features of Windows Me but in a much better core.
So Is Microsoft really doing Millenium on Windows VISTA? And the more the news comes out about Windows 7 it resembles promise Microsoft made about longhorn.. Win FS , Win Min(Minimal and efficient core)

So Are we all supposed to change our computers in near future again for Windows 7 ??
Windows 7 Windows Me

March 6, 2008March 6, 2008

Browser Statistics for this site..

I really wanted to see how many users still use IE 6 and its pretty much 50-50 for IE6 and IE7. There is quite a number of Firefox users as well. Then there is screen resolutions im pretty surprised to See equal number of 1024*768 and 1280*1024… Hmm widescreen laptops ehh? . So the 800*600 era is pretty much over and I dont have to worry abt the site’s width at 1024.

Another important factor is almost 98% of users use either one or other version of Windows as far as this site is concerned.And 75% has sticked to Windows XP at that. Some cool new findings for the day.