gHacks technology news » soccer http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Watch the UEFA Euro 2008 Online http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/18/watch-the-uefa-euro-2008-online/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/18/watch-the-uefa-euro-2008-online/#comments Sun, 18 May 2008 15:51:38 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4178 The UEFA Euro 2008 cup is just 20 days ahead and I thought I give everyone a head start by listing the possibilities to watch the games online. The tournament takes place in Switzerland and Austria from 7-29 June 2008 and will be aired live in many countries throughout the world. That does not help much if no TV is around and your team is playing. Chances are good that you can still watch the games if you have a computer that is connected to the Internet around.

Several applications will be needed to watch the games. The so called P2P apps stream different tv stations, mostly from Asia, which generally means that the language will be Chinese, but some are in English as well. I would suggest to download the applications as soon as possible because servers will definitely be overrun when the UEFA Euro 2008 begins.

Applications that allow you to watch the UEFA Euro 2008 Online:

Sopcast (Linux Version)
TVAnts
TVU Player

Those three applications should make a good start. It’s a bit difficulty to tell yet which stations will broadcast which games and I will definitely update this thread (or link to a new one) listing the games and the stations that broadcast them. You can be sure that most of the games will be available in one of these applications. Most channels overlap anyway and are available in most of these applications.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/18/watch-the-uefa-euro-2008-online/feed/ 18 Become an owner of a football club http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/09/become-an-owner-of-a-football-club/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/09/become-an-owner-of-a-football-club/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:07:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/09/become-an-owner-of-a-football-club/ Democracy at it’s finest I would say. The project My Football Club has the goal to raise enough money to buy a real world football club in the United Kingdom. Every member pays an annual fee of £35 which in turn gives him an equal share in the football club. All important management decisions such as buying and scouting new players and team selection are democratically decided by counting all member votes with each member having exactly one vote.

The project has more than 53000 members already who are currently deciding on the club that they would like to buy. The most popular club will be bought if it meets the requirements which are: 51% or more of the football club shares can be bought, it has no or a manageable debt, potential to reach the Premiership and the size of the stadium and public transport situation.

The idea is intriguing and it really could work. A social experiment so to speak of. I especially like the idea that the members decide where the money will be spend. All profits will be reinvested and it will be nice to see how that money is spend. Owners not only decide about new players but also on Youth Policy, Stadium and Infrastructure.

What I don’t like is the fact that it is possible to join at any time giving you the same voting power as someone who was there from day one on. It is a risk to invest the money at the moment, it might be not a risk at all in five years from now on. Some way to give members of the first hour a special position would have been nice. (hall of fame or something perhaps)

I also think that the whole project looks a bit like scam as well. While it surely is not with all the media coverage it got it remains hidden from the members who the initiators of the project are.

Read More:

My Football Club

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/09/become-an-owner-of-a-football-club/feed/ 3 TVU Player 2.3 out http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/22/tvu-player-23-out/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/22/tvu-player-23-out/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:04:42 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/22/tvu-player-23-out/ TVU Networks have quietly released a new version of their acclaimed TVU Player which makes it possible to watch many popular tv stations from the internet. You can watch channels such as ESPN, ESPN2, FOX, NBC, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central using TVU Player. It does not deliver the same experience than watching the shows on a big tv though. Due to limited bandwidth the channels look fine if you keep the output window small, if you go fullscreen it becomes pretty blurry.

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I can’t see many changes in this version. TVU Networks are unfortunately not publishing release notes so I have to compare the old and new version by myself. The only change that I was able to find is a link to the program of that network that you could click on. Some stations are not there for the moment, I’m missing ABC for instance.

If you run into errors with TVU Player you should take a look at my tvu player faq which addresses some of the most common problems that are encountered. Please note that you do need a broadband connection for most channels, only the channels marked with low could probably be viewed without one.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/22/tvu-player-23-out/feed/ 22 Unbelievable Football moments on video http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/02/unbelievable-football-moments-on-video/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/02/unbelievable-football-moments-on-video/#comments Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:48:26 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/02/unbelievable-football-moments-on-video/ Yes, I´am a football fan. Football, that is European football which is called soccer in the United States of America. I decided to post a collection of great football moments on video here at ghacks. Hope that everyone will enjoy the movie clips and see some that he did not knew of. Videos include goals, painful situations, some fun videos and goalkeeping.

I decided to add ten videos, if you want more let me know, I might add a second part soon then ;)

Should be something for everyone, let us start, shall we ?

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/02/unbelievable-football-moments-on-video/feed/ 1 How to view the football worldcup online http://www.ghacks.net/2006/06/06/how-to-view-the-football-worldcup-online/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/06/06/how-to-view-the-football-worldcup-online/#comments Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:40:22 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/06/06/how-to-view-the-football-worldcup-online/ Some tv stations, like the BBC in Britain, will provide their fellow countrymen with an opportunity to watch the football world cup 2006 in germany live in a streamed version from their webpages. They said on their webpage that “The service will be available to UK broadband users and will mirror terrestrial and interactive coverage.” I assume it is free of charge but maybe my loyal British readers could enlight me how they plan on streaming the content.

They most likely will scan your IP and lookup your country from it. That means people from outside Britain won´t be able to view the matches on the BBC homepage. (or other homepages of other countries, you get my point I hope.) So, it would be impossible for an englishman, who is supporting his team in Germany, to view the live coverage on the BBC pages. As you all know, there are always ways to circumvent country checks, here is the one I suggest.

Last time it was ABC who did not allow their series to be viewed by people from outside the USA and the method that I described back then is still valid for the World Cup (or any other streaming content on the internet).

But this time I want to introduce a faster method which should work most of the time for you. Visit a website like whatismyproxy.com to check on your own IP. Remember this IP, you will come back to this site and check the IP again with a proxy enabled.

Search google using strings like “country proxy list”, “england proxy list” and the like. You will come up with search results like publicproxyservers.com or proxy server list. All show a table with proxies including the country the proxy is hosted. Browse for proxies that are located in the same country as the content provider of the streams.

Copy one of the IPs and remember the port. In Firefox open Tools –> Options. Select Connection Settings and select Manual Proxy Configuration. Add the IP to the HTTP Proxy Row and enter the Port in the field next to it. Click Use this proxy server for all protocols and test it by navigating to the whatismyproxy.com website again.
See if the page loads fast and the IP is different from the one the website displayed earlier when you checked your real IP.

If you see a different IP it means two things. First, the proxy is working (assuming it does not take ages to load pages) and second your are surfing relativly anonymous. The BBC website will check your IP and detect that you are coming from Britain and display their treasures for you. Note that it is still possible to detect your real IP by the means of Java for example.
If you have questions let me know, I´ll be glad to help out. The great advantage of this method is that you can check and use proxies no matter what operating system you are using. A disadvantage is that it could take a while until you find a fast working proxy that is located in the country you need. If you have troubles try charon to verify proxies, the how to is available from my ABC article.

Update:

Take a look at my worldcup preparations article for a working method that involves downloading a software. You will be able to see the matches live with english commentary.

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“World Cup KickOff is all you will ever need for knowing all the match details for the upcoming World Cup 2006. Whether you use your mobile phone, MS Outlook, Apple iCal or Mozilla Calendar, you can download and keep all the fixtures you are interested in so you will never miss a single game! Just download the calendar file and install it on your favoured software following the instructions on the left.”

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/23/world-cup-match-details/feed/ 0 Ronaldinho showing some great football skills http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/08/ronaldinho-showing-some-great-football-skills/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/08/ronaldinho-showing-some-great-football-skills/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:08:15 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=113 From time to time i add some fun movies to my site and this one definatly deserves to be added. It shows brasilian football star Ronaldinho in a practice session. He does some tricks, comes to the 16m area, shots at the goal four times and everytime he hits the Bar and the ball reflects back to him.

This is really astonishing, great football skills if you ask me.. Enjoy it

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