Abhi Yerra

[tags]rss, tvshows, downloading, democracyplayer[/tags]

RSS is great for so many things! It’s just a wonderful technology. I mean if there is a technology that can make people even more lazy please then RSS is that technology. It makes the downloading experience of tv shows a whole lot better.

1. We need a RSS player that can automatically download tv shows for us. For this I use the Democracy Player.
2. To get the RSS feeds of tv shows go to tvRSS and find the feed to your show.
3. Next in Democracy Player go to the Channels Menu and click Add Channel.
4. Copy over the RSS feed link from tvRSS and click Ok.
5. That’s it. You can tweak the various settings in Democracy Player to tune how the videos are downloaded and etc.

So now you can be lazy like me and download the latest and greatest shows once they are avaiable via RSS. Now if it played YouTube and Google Videos it’d be awesome!

[tags]iphone, apple, phone,[/tags]

People are complaining that the iPhone is not going to run third party apps with Jobs saying it might
screw with the network service somehow. Although, this seems like a big deal I think by the time the iPhone is release in another
SIX months things will ease a bit.

Although, not quite a apples to apples comparison, no pun intended, I think Widgets are cool. They are programmable using
Javascript and HTML and can easily be ported from the Mac to the iPhone. So that takes a major load off from
me because I can basically create an app that can access any web app from the phone.

I don’t think people understand that the iPhone is giving us a whole new way to access the net. The demos of
Safari were quite cool. All we really need are apps that connect to the net and gives us this experience. Therefore,
I personally think that Widgets are going to play a much more important part than installable apps.

Plus with Google and Yahoo partnering up a lot of the phone is going to be net based.