Miso app for the iPhone to synchronize with the pay-TV

Miso app for the iPhone to synchronize with the pay-TV

Twitterverse TV, so full of clatter, of course, the number of companies (including SocialGuide.com and Yap.tv) Network Programming "has been trying to convert their content into a stream of tweets have been added.

Miso There are different approaches: This is a call to move to its own platform. It is not only a big challenge, and potentially high returns.

San Francisco startup, interactive media and supporters as Hearst Ventures, Google will provide Web sites and applications, users should check TV shows, read the comments about the program, have been made to tell their friends what you can see them. . That difference is not much more than our competitors, depending on the event and the flow can be a little more than parade check-in comment.

However, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Somrat Niyogi miso, I believe the company is willing to take a second screen entertainment to a significant new direction. One reason: miso, soybean paste application for iPhone with a set-top boxes, announced an integration agreement with DIRECTV, pay TV companies are synchronized. In other words, a user track miso miso app calls the show once the page dedicated to the program automatically. And this, regardless of the synchronization program of work, whether live or recorded, Niyogi said.

This is the first such deal has been expected to announce a pay-TV operators and content providers miso, said Niyogi, only the beginning of the development of services. In future applications, beef and miso provide interactive entertainment, and, even more content.

For example, he said, "Green" Please imagine watching the episodes and characters sing. Miso application provides information about characters and actors, you can identify the song after the song ended, and guests can determine the performance. Or it could be very fun to share with your friends on the work.

This application may be talking about the program and go back to the criminals, Niyogi said. In Entourage, "maybe I who wear the product, I figure if they are displayed on the TV they can these actors, all I want to know the gossip behind all, I get why I do not care can not "when I saw" I'm watching TV, "rather than on the Web, you can search later?

The company, at least initially, as the provider of the platform, looking at himself as curator of what is happening in it. Long-term, Niyogi, said in an open choice of miso platform for people - fans, networks, advertisers, etc. - the content is to create a program to completion.

"We are a technology company," he said. "Consider us as a platform, so as not to activate the experience of the screen, the second for the others anyone, we are super fun, content owners, appears in working with the network., The best thing is to verify that there are benefits to the audience. "

It's an exciting prospect. However, the comments of the flood, rather than importing them from the miso with Twitter, won the audience as his rival to do difficult and time will start from the beginning has been maintained. Contract with Direct TV, for technical support, to be more interesting than Twitter's still light, and television studios and networks to transform the common platform with a partnership of several soybean You can.

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Homo erectus forgot to pack its best tools when it left Africa

An Acheulian hand axe

Given that chimps have demonstrated the ability to make and use tools in the wild, chances our that our human ancestors inherited some of that ability from the ancestor both humans and chimps have in common. But, starting with the australopithecines, our ancestors started making permanent tools from rocks, and investing increased effort into shaping. Oldowan tools were later used by the first members of the genus Homo, and were carried out of Africa during the global spread of Homo erectus.

By 1.4 million years ago, African Homo erectus was using the far more involved and sophisticated Acheulian tool technology, which later made its way out of Africa. But the transition between the two tool types has remained unclear. Now, scientists are reporting the first find where Oldowan and Acheulian tools have been found at the same site, one that's old enough to indicate that Acheulian tools were available when Homo erectus first left Africa.

The site in question lies near Lake Turkana in Kenya, which was already famous for finds relevant to human origins, including the Turkana Boy Homo erectus skeleton, which dates from 1.5 million years ago. The slopes near the northwest shore of the lake contain an extensive sedimentary record that can be matched with others in the nearby area, including some that have been dated using radioactive decay. A few meters below the sediments that contained the tools lies a feature that has been dated to 1.9 million years ago; above them, a different feature sets a younger limit at 1.5 million years. That last figure is rather significant, given that there are no reliably dated Acheulian tools older than 1.4 million years.

Extrapolating based on the depth of the deposits between, the authors estimate that the tools are roughly between 1.72 and 1.81 million years old. That lets them start zeroing in on a more precise date based on reversals in the Earth's magnetic field. This provides a firmer estimate: 1.76 million years, 350,000 years older than the previous site that had been dated so precisely. It also lines up with one of the earliest Homo erectusfossils, reinforcing the link between the two.

Since both toolmaking technologies were present in the same sediments, the site provides a clear indication that one set of techniques didn't simply replace the others. Either the Acheulian tools were developed by people who continued to use their earlier techniques, or the Acheulian technology was imported without its displacing the native one. In either case, the site suggests a more gradual transition than previous evidence had indicated.

The age of these tools also suggests that displacement was very, very gradual. It hadn't spread far enough to be in use by the first members of Homo erectus that left Africa at about the same time, and we don't have reliable dates on Acheulian tools in the Middle East that are much older than a million years. So, even if our ancestors were avid tool users, they weren't all that fond of adopting new technology.

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Sony Alpha SLT-A65: Sony's new camera lineup

Sony Alpha SLT-camera system A65 

Sony Alpha SLT-camera system A65: Sony's exciting new models for serious photo enthusiasts and advanced amateur photographers - to expand the appeal of a semitransparent mirror camera series with a camera mount.

Recent technological improvements, which is semi-transparent mirror, Sony Cyber-shot Sony - A65, the fastest in the corresponding class will be the most interchangeable lens cameras. True organic EL finder new high-resolution SXGA "eyes" such as designing a new layout and tactile buttons for a comfortable contour grip to manipulate the view of the ergonomic Sony's revision A65.

The new Sony Alpha cameras AF system 65 provides a continuous shooting performance at full-resolution image capture of 10 frames per second explosion, has exceeded almost all semi-professional camera.

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MP3 Quality Modifier: Easy Way to Compress mp3 Files

To squeeze more music in a lesser space, the best way is to reduce or compress the size of music files so you can store more media files in limited space. The reason why I’m saying this is that i have a 1 GB mp3 player, and I finally found a way to make it hold about double the number of music files in it without much change in the quality. Quality Modifier is the useful tool to do this task for me.

How to Use

1 – Download Mp3 Quality Modifier (or use This page for more download mirrors)

2 – Click Add Files or Add Folders, but if you want to save time , then Drag and Drop works fine ( for both folders and files)

3 – Change the destination (Optional, otherwise, the converted files will be placed on the desktop)

4 – Change rate (Kbps) . I use 130 and it gives really good results. you can use less than 130 , it will give you less size but the quality is not guaranteed.

5 – Change Sample Frequency (optional, if you didn’t check the box next to it. the best settings will be chosen automatically) you can reduce it if you want, but I recommend you leave that box and let the best settings be chosen automatically.

6 – Click process. and wait till it’s done.

The file size change as in the screenshot below. From 7.74 MB to 2.86 MB and the change in quality is barely noticeable.

Note: I recommend you test it first on one file to make sure that the quality is satisfying enough before you go on and convert the whole album or folder.

The program may seem to be not responding while converting a bunch of files, that behavior is normal and you should let it complete until it finishes.

So, are you planning to use Mp3 Quality Modifier? Or you have a better alternative to do it? please share in comments.

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