A long time reader of Ghacks mailed me yesterday evening asking me if I knew a way to download the multimedia streams from the BBC website. He used dialup to connect on the Internet and it was painfully to watch the streams online and far better and smoother to download them and watch them offline.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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BBC Opens up Archives. Looking for Testers
If you are living in the United Kingdom, have a broadband Internet connection and are at least 16 years of age you can apply to become a beta tester for the BBC Archive. The BBC is looking for 20000 testers that use the system for a period of six months exploring the vast archive that will be available for download (probably mean streaming). Testers will have to take surveys from time to time to improve the service during the test.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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The Best Stories of 2006 That Shouldn’t Have Happened
My friend Everton has compiled a list of the best stories of 2006 that should not have happened on his connected internet blog. If you want to read again about the guy who wanted to apply as a cleaner at the BBC but was mistaken for an Apple iTunes expert or the 15 year old Google employee then it is time to pay his excellent site a visit.
I know that this article is a little bit short but the real one is not here but at his website, go there now and enjoy the read.