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I was reading this post by Brad Linder over at Download Squad, when I spotted this line, “Officially you’re pretty much stuck with Windows XP, Windows Classic, and a Microsoft Zune theme.” I thought to myself, what the heck is the Micrsofot Zune theme.

Well for me and the rest of the uneducated, here’s a post on Download Squad from Nov 2006 talking about the Windows XP Zune theme. Basically it’s a really cool XP theme that doesn’t require any patching or third party apps.

I still run one XP machine at home and two at work and they’re all getting a make over today. Thanks Download Squad. Check it out for yourself at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078

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I’ve already written before about how much I like Windows Live Writer and I am still using Flock, but I’ve found yet another blogging tool that I find both easy & convenient to use. ScribeFire is a Firefox extension that adds a blog editor right into the browser.

Firefox is my portable app browser of choice, but I think I will test out whether or not I can add this to Flock when I get back home. Flock already has a built in blog editor — so it might not work. I will give an update after I attempt it.

Other news of note: Today is Firefox 3 Download Day and Flock has released Flock 2 Beta 1 using the same technology that powers Firefox 3.

Posted under Tech, Web

I screwed around with the webcam a little more yesterday. So far I’ve managed to test out YouTube, Ustream, Mogulus, Stickam, Skype & Yahoo Messenger with varied results. I am definitely a greenhorn, but if you are so inclined you can watch an 8 minute video of my experiences to date. I haven’t tested out Kyte.TV yet, but plan on doing that tonight.

List of services mentioned in the video:

YouTube
Ustream
Mogulus
Stickam
Skype
Pamela for Skype
Yahoo Messnger

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The excitement of having a new webcam hasn’t worn off yet. I decided to try out two more video services, Ustream.tv & Mogulus. I took some pretty crappy video, mispronounced a few names, but all-in-all, enjoyed test driving both of these services. Ustream is definitely the easier of the two to use, but Mogulus has some really cool features. Ustream was also the winner in the live streaming quality department, but as for recording they seem about the same. If you watch the video you’ll see my excitement at finding some new feature midway through the recording.

Ustream also supports embedding your videos on another site, something that I couldn’t figure out how to do with Mogulus. I could embed my Mogulus channel, but if you are not live and don’t have loops setup, it isn’t very useful. If you want to see my video there, you’ll need to head over to my Mogulus page and click “On-Demand” and select the clip to play.

I like Ustream better, but you be the judge. In addition, I’ve posted the blip.tv upload from my AT&T Tilt that I mentioned on the Ustream vid. Oh, and remember, I am a newbie - so be kind if you comment.

Ustream
Live Streaming by Ustream.TV

Blip.TV

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Here I am testing out my new Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000. I want to start doing some video blog posts and video calls. Remember: be kind, I am camera shy!

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