Windows XP Welcome Tune: Dignified

I’m sure you’re sick of the start up tune that Windows XP plays. I am. Well, this video actually makes the XP tune beautiful. It was composed/played by Jim of Seattle who makes his music available for free download over the Internet, and some of them are quite good.

The MP3 of this tune is available directly from the composer’s site.

Filed in Entertainment, Video.

Music Made Solely from Windows XP/98 Sounds

Here’s an amusing video featuring music made from sounds found in every Windows XP and 98, you know, the start up sounds and so on.

Due to my perverse sense of humor, or maybe because I spend so many hours in front of a Windows computer, I found it rather funny.

Filed in Entertainment, Video, Humor.

Stage6 - The Plot Thickens: DivX Refuses $11 million Buy Out Of Dead Site

If you were to have a site that you planned to close, so that it will make you exactly $0 - zero dollars - will you refuse an offer from someone to pay $11 million for the dead site? The dead site in question is Stage6, a popular video sharing site that closed at the end of February this year. Well, DivX did exactly that. They ignored an $11 million offer to buy Stage6 five days before it closed. They’re still refusing it to-date - even though Stage6 is no longer generating any income for its founders and the offer is still open.

Is this weird or not? This continues the mystery that began with rumor that they were making millions from the Stage6 site at the time they closed.

Filed in News, Video.

Weep: DivX’s Stage6 to Close at the End of February

This is really sad news: Stage6, the free video sharing using DivX, is going to close at the end of February. It’s really sad, because it was one of the better video sharing sites around. Unlike YouTube’s crappy video quality, Stage6’s videos are high quality, and you can zoom to full screen without seeing any pixelation if the person who created the video uploaded a good quality version. YouTube’s videos can never be anything but crappy since the resolution is restricted to 320×240.

I guess with the demise of Stage6, I can finally uninstall my DivX. The only reason I installed it was to watch Stage6, which doesn’t work with the free Xvid codec.

Updates:

• Stage6 - The Plot Thickens: DivX Refuses $11 million Buy Out Dead Site
• Incompetence of DivX Owners Killed the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg: Stage6
• Stage6 Closure Shows that Many People Feel the World Owes Them a Living

Filed in Video, Entertainment, News.

“Share. It’s Fair” (File Sharing Video)

Here’s an interesting video from a European political alliance, the Greens/European Free Alliance. It’s part of the “I Wouldn’t Steal” campaign.

Filed under: Video, Entertainment.