BBC's (Beta) Multiplatform iPlayer Downloader

I've tried the Beta BBC iPlayer AIR app (which you can find out about here). It allows UK people (or those with proxy servers) to download those iPlayer files via an Adobe air app.

This the Mac OS is are being drawn into the BBC fold. Platform agnostic is the way to go. Web apps, Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight (is Silverlight available on Linux?.

A nice idea as I was sometimes having problems streaming. Alas not much good to me as my poor G5 PowerPC can't really keep up and the video is laggy (their specs suggest Intel Macs only). I hear there is some programme found here that can download files which you can play in quicktime - so don't have to use the air app to play the files, haven't tried it yet.

I guess it works for Linux too? I don't know, hope so.

A dull post. Doh.

Another Site Bites the Dust?

No, No, not Demonoid!

Internet

I still love the Internet. I still marvel at it brilliance. I'm still in awe at how it has affected my life. Remembering Before Internet, the world seemed so much harder, things were difficult to find out, you needed sets of encyclopedia, huge books of "stuff you oughta know" things like that.

Oh, the amount I've managed to teach myself on the web and how easy it is to get hold of stuff that I never could have got my beak on Before Internet.

If you wanted to read French newspapers, or listen to Spanish radio you had to do a lot more than do a few searches.

Amazing new ways to perceive and interact with the world, yourself, your friends.

I'm still in love and in awe.