Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Tom Hannen
My mum too - she keeps telling me that I should encourage the BBC to use fewer DRM restrictions... All the time... On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mother hates unnecessary technical complications (she finds computers and gadgets are complicated enough as

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Hannen
Most people just call it Egton... On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Woods wrote: By BHX you mean Birmingham, right? (just doublechecking) And is everything moving for News (studios AND live broadcast coordination, all that stuff, and not just

Re: [backstage] Film Reviews

2008-05-29 Thread Tom Hannen
They should link it to an audio-indexed version of the Kermode film rants too... On 5/29/08, Dan Brickley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Bowden wrote: I see the film reviews are nolonger being updated on the BBC site. Does anyone know why and will this mean that the film reviews xml feeds

Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Hannen
But wouldn't you need Netstumbler for the Wii, if the problem is the Wii's Weedy Wifi chip? Tom On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen that changing the channel to a few down the line helps, so if it's on 1 or 3, try 6 or 9/vice versa. If you want to

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-11 Thread Tom Hannen
website, just that if I had any programming skills whatsoever, I'd like to make it! Tom On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/11 Tom Hannen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been thinking about a nice idea for a Today programme web-app. When clicked

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-11 Thread Tom Hannen
I've been thinking about a nice idea for a Today programme web-app. When clicked, it would start playing the most recent Today programme (from 6:30am or whenever it starts now), and then whenever you hear an item that is boring you, you could hit a button / space bar / wiimote / etc, and you would

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-13 Thread Tom Hannen
An option for the iplayer to pop-out to an always on top widow, would be lovely actually - I would't want it all the time, but for people who watch whilst using their computer, it would be much easier than re-opening the same tab in a new window, then resizing and scrolling it around until it

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-13 Thread Tom Hannen
That's great news! On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:43 PM, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enjoying this thread so far. As the man in charge of the Coyopa project, which'll be fiddling with a lot of our streams, could I pop in and make the following points (given you know we're making

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - why the missing TV channel?

2008-07-09 Thread Tom Hannen
The iPlayer is great, but in terms of HD, Vimeo now seems to be the place to look at. Their HD channel is amazing, but unfortunately relegates the BBC's iPlayer into looking like yesterday's technology... Their HD channel is here: http://vimeo.com/channel778e An example: http://vimeo.com/775442

[backstage] Ubiquity

2008-08-28 Thread Tom Hannen
Has anyone been playing with Ubiquity? It is kind of a command-line for Firefox, a bit like Quicksilver for the mac... It only works on Firefox 3, but looks really interesting .. http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ A get-bbcnews verb would be a wonderful thing - someone

Re: [backstage] Newstime on BanterTV

2008-10-29 Thread Tom Hannen
Stefan, BanterTV looks really good - would it be able to handle non-english scripts - right-to-left languages, like Arabic and Persian? Thanks, Tom On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:25 PM, James Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (first post to this list – hello everyone!) Previously known as the

Re: [backstage] Greedy BBC Blocks External Links

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Hannen
I like the BBC Blocks.. I don't think they're greedy. Stylish and understated maybe... On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Gavin Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep it all server-side is what I say J. Won't affect the SEO, and won't limit users without JS. However the OnClick would almost

Re: [backstage] not quite in the Backstage spirit?

2008-12-22 Thread Tom Hannen
The BBC reader app isn't rubbish, functionally speaking. It is aesthetically dubious though. However, it the people who created it are offering it for free and it functions well as an offline reader. If the BBC had enough dev effort on hand to create a New York Times or Bloomberg app, I'd