Livestation OSX beta client 2.0.13 released

I want to bring to your attention a recent update done to the OS X Livetation beta client.

The new beta client version 2.0.13 has received some minor but quite important updates.

The most noticeable update is to the user channels feature. In the previous beta release a separate tab was used to present a list of [...]

Georgia crisis sees surge in demand for live TV over broadband

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Viewing figures for Russia Today’s live streaming service have increased ten fold during the two weeks of fighting in South Ossetia.

20 August 2008

Viewers spent an average of 25 minutes a visit watching Russia Today’s live coverage [...]

OSX shredded to bits my network iTunes music library

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OK, I am not just mad… I am really really really MAD! It is the 1st time I find myself hating Apple OS X. Why? Simple, it partially destroyed my music library that I access over an smb share!

What happen? I seriously can’t beleive that it actually happen in such a silly dumb way! I mean, who the hell is the Apple engineer that coded this stupid behavior! I am not sure what to blame yet… the finder, the trash feature, both? Maybe it is the desktop “finder” feature… but one thing for sure it has to change.

I can’t beleive I am the 1st one running into this nasty bug. Any way, here is how it happen. Let me know if you think it is my fault or the OS because I can’t see how I could blame myself for getting to this point.

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LiveStation 2.0.9 Now Available on Mac OS X, Linux Next

I reported on Saturday that LiveStation was about to release a pre-release version of it’s client for Mac OS X.

I was happy to find an email in my inbox this morning with details about the upcoming pre-release. The client run natively on Mac intel platform for now under both Tiger and Leopard. A PPC version is apparently in the work.

The OS X client is the most advanced client to date for LiveStation. It is the 1st to sport the new “Carousel” look and feel for channel surfing.

The feature is reminiscent of Coverflow but with an nice 3D addition. Windows users don’t worry, the new look and feel will be brought to the platform very soon. I was told that all three clients will be kept on par with features. The mean Linux, Mac and Windows. Continue reading LiveStation 2.0.9 Now Available on Mac OS X, Linux Next

Joost brainstorming about future of content distribution

Remco (Blikkie?) wrote in a blog post that Joost employee have been meeting a lot recently recently regarding the future of Joost content distribution.

Apparently Joost might want to focus more of it’s content distribution as a mechanism that enables small, back-of-the-shed-operations, to put their professionally produced content online and make a decent buck from it.

It is [...]

Livestation beta client for OS X next week? iPhone a possibility?

Last100 is reporting that Livestation will release it’s OS X beta client to a small set of testers (I think I am one of them) as early as next week.

Livestation has been available in beta for Windows users since September 2007. Since then Mac OS X users have been able to run the Windows client via VMWARE or Parallels virtualization. The experience was less than perfect. It is therefore a welcomed announcement for those running on Mac.

Livestation Paras Shas is reporting that the OS X version will not just be on par with it’s Windows counterpart… but will in fact have more features. Continue reading Livestation beta client for OS X next week? iPhone a possibility?