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Making TV Work

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How to Make Money From BitTorrent

I was thinking about torrents in regard to the PSP. Assuming you were inclined and had the equipment and a capable internet connection, you could very easily stuff any TV show you wanted into a memory stick-sized package and watch it on the PSP at your leisure.

All you need is Videora and PSP Video 9, which will find the shows you want on the torrent sites, download them via torrent, transcode them for the PSP, and move them onto your memory stick. All you need to do is switch sticks in the morning, and you’ve got fresh video mobile every day.

The point of this PSP talk is that the technology is available for doing this today - right now. I imagine that you might even be able to do something like this with the ZVue, which is last year’s $99 tech. The TV and movie companies are falling behind technically because they’re not cashing in on this surge of interest.

Why is this a problem for us? What can they do to fix it?

Meetup.com changes fees

Meetup has added fees to their group memberships. I suppose they have to stay afloat somehow, but this is going to kill any group that’s just getting started. And to think I just sent a writeup to Lorelle yesterday about how great Meetup has been for the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group.

Well, it’s not all doom and gloom. Fortunately, as unwise as it seemed at the time, I signed up for an M+ membership at Meetup. It was only for three months, and expires in June. As a result, the group’s dues are paid until then.

Popup Blocking!!

Can someone please explain to me how the “Block Popup Windows” checkbox option keeps turning off in Firefox without me unchecking it?

Every so often it just unchecks itself and I end up racing around trying to turn it back on before my desktop is cluttered with popups. Very aggravating.