If you are a politics junkie like me or just a regular follower of news you will always try to find easier ways to access news networks. I watch a variety of channels and on different times, I watch CNN, Aljazeera English, Aljazeera Arabic, BBC World, France 24, MSNBC, Sky News, Alarabiya, and only for laughs I watch FOX News. For a while I used to use P2P programs such as TVU Networks, SOPCast, PPLIVE, PPMate and PPStream to watch various of news channels. Lately I am using LiveStation to watch some News channels, LiveStation provide high quality streaming of a number of news channels and radio news channels too.
For the time being LiveStation provides the following channels:
Some channels might not be available in your location, for example in my location “UAE” the “iTELE” channel is not available, but I guess most of them would be available. The streaming is fast and in great high quality and easy to switch between channels.
LiveStation also allows users to add channels in the website by adding the streaming URL of the channel. You also can add “user added” channels to your LiveStation channels list. Until writing this post 579 channels were added by users, you will find some of those really useful but some might not be in a good video quality like the channels officially provided by LiveStation.
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August 20th, 2008
After seasons and seasons of exclusively airing the UEFA Champions League, ART now loses those rights to Aljazeera Sport Channel. Aljazeera won those rights and for the UEFA cup for at least the next three seasons from 2009 to 2012. Aljazeera also got the rights to broadcast the UEFA Super Cups for 2009, 2010 and 2011.
What is really interesting also is that Aljazeera also got the rights to exploit those competitions on the Internet and Mobiles. It is said that Aljazeera will be selling some of he matches to free-to-air channels, those matches are expected to be in the UEFA Cup and not the UEFA Champions League.
At start there has been a few doubts on how Aljazeera Sports Channel will be able to manage to air big number of matches that play at the same time, as we know Aljazeera has now only two free-to-air channels and two “pay TV” channels, with an additional one to start soon, so to clear those doubts Aljazeera announced that they will be adding new channels that works only on matches times.
In my opinion Aljazeera Sports is better than ART, they respect the championships they have rights to, they create appropriate analysis studios they employ capable analysts and presenters. Simply speaking they are well organized, and willing to go all the way to produce high quality coverage.
In regard to ART Sports future it seems they are doomed, although some rumors say that they will be having the Italian League in FULL starting from next season, if there is any true to this it could save them but I really wish they don’t get it in full, Aljazeera is better capable to give this league the kind of attention it deserves. I really wish this Mary go around thing with the leagues ends, I wish one capable network takes all of them so we can just subscribe to one network.
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February 20th, 2008
InstantStorm is a freeware that allows you to create screensavers from flash movies, with the project wizard its as simple as one, two, three.
InstantStorm has many features and options, it allows you to create an installer for the screensaver where you can have a password and your own custom installer image and text. You will be able to create shortcuts for your desktop and start menu, and if your flash movie requires external files InstantForm will include them in the installer.
[Via Brown Thoughts]
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February 13th, 2008
Its not that pretty, its not advanced, but it sure does what it claims to do. ChatMaker gives you the ability to easily create disposable chat rooms, no registration, no accounts, no logins, simply make a room and users will automatically be given random guest nicknames which can be changed later.
While chatting some IRC-like commands could be used, such as /nick to change the nickname and /me to designate actions, also some HTML codes could be used such as <a> for hyperlinks, <strong> for bold and <I> for italics. As I said it is not advanced, simply just name a chat room and click go and you are in business.
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January 30th, 2008
Ofcourse we all know that AVG provides a full featured AntiVirus suite for free, but they also have a pro version where there is a broader scanning options and scheduling scans more than once a day, and many other features.
Computeractive is giving away free licensed copies, AVG 7.5 Professional is usually sold for $29.95, now you can get it for free until the 18th of January 2008.
But it seems that it is difficult to get the Computeractive download link to work, but CyberNet have provided 2 mirror links, one hosted on Rapidshare and the other on Megaupload, the program is supposed to automatically provide you the serial while the installation.
For residents of the UAE I recommend using the Megaupload link, Rapidshare just does not work well in the UAE.
[Via CyberNet]
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December 27th, 2007
Quickly save $20 now and go get the DivX Pro for free here, and if you are on Mac go here.
This is the second time DivX offers this package for free, the first time was in June 2007. This package includes both DivX Converter and DivX Pro Codec.
[Via CyberNet]
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December 11th, 2007
Camtasia Studio is a great software for screenshots or screencasting. TechSmith is giving away Camtasia Studio 3. It is not the latest version, the latest is Cantasia 5, which costs around $300. Now you can upgrade your Camtasia 3 to 5 and pay 50% of the total amount.
Download your copy here. And ask your registration key from TechSmith here. Have Fun and Happy Downloading.
[Via Digital Inspiration]
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November 23rd, 2007
This is not a joke, actually this is an amazing way to learn new words, and end world hunger. Enrich your vocabulary and donate rice 10 grains per click. You don’t understand?! don’t worry neither did I at first.
Here how it goes, when you visit FREE RICE website you are a given a word and 4 meanings, you have to choose the right one, every time you answer a right answer “Free Rice” will donate 10 grains of rice on your behalf, so 5 words are 50 grains and so on.
The money comes from the advertisements which are shown on the website, the donations are done through the United Nations, this gives a whole new meaning to learning new vocab, and spreads more awareness of world poverty.
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November 17th, 2007
EverNote is a great tool to organize all your notes, web articles, images, parts of office documents and all different kinds of notes. Google Desktop Search can be used for quickly finding your notes, share your notes via email and instant messengers, notes can be categorized manually or automatically and you can synchronize your snapshots from your mobile or PDA. This software is specially useful for Tablet PC users, because it has handwriting recognition.
Normally to get this software you would need to cough up 50 bucks, but only today, and within the next 16 hours from writing this post you can get it for free from Giveaway of the Day. After going to the website carefully follow the instructions to download the software.
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November 15th, 2007
If you are a politics junkie like me or just a regular follower of news you will always try to find easier ways to access news networks. I watch a variety of channels and on different times, I watch CNN, Aljazeera English, Aljazeera Arabic, BBC World, France 24, MSNBC, Sky News, Alarabiya, and only for laughs I watch FOX News. For a while I used to use P2P programs such as TVU Networks, SOPCast, PPLIVE, PPMate and PPStream to watch various of news channels. Lately I am using LiveStation to watch some News channels, LiveStation provide high quality streaming of a number of news channels and radio news channels too. 
