MTV have refused to play Lady GaGa’s new music video “Telephone” on their channel! Their claims were that the video was too “Raunchy” .
To be honest now the video is nowhere near as “Raunchy” as other video that MTV play, many videos on music channels have complete nudity in them and yet they still get played! It makes no sense.
The music video for “Telephone” is set in a prison, the video is nine and a half minutes in length! Which is crazy. But I don’t think it is bad enough to be banned from television.
The video was eventually released online on Thursday (11th March) morning and by Thursday night it had received over 1.5 million views !
Now the video currently has over 13 million views and is still rising!
The video has a lot of references to different shows such as the classic batman television shows when a fight breaks out the animated words pop up on screen. Also the getaway car that Beyoncé and Lady GaGa use is the “Pussy Wagon” that is in the Kill Bill films.
In a short while YouTube will be updating the video section of their website. At first when I saw it I was a bit taken back, it is very simple and a lot less cluttered than it is currently. YouTube is now full of ajax!
The image above has the old version on the left and the new version on the right. The main differences are that the video is much more prominent, the video also now has a grey background behind it which makes you focus more on the video.
A big notable difference with this new update is that the old 5 star rating system is now gone, instead it has been replaced with two thumbs, thumbs up for “I like this”, thumbs down for “I dislike this”. Originally when you thumbed up a video it would automatically add it to your favourites, I and most other people did not like this, because usually when you watch a video online you would rate it but not favourite it, with the auto favourite method your favourites box would be too overcrowded with videos you do not “love”! Now they have rectified this and you have to separately rate and favourite a video .
Another nice feature on the new video page is a auto-play feature, there used to be a version of the auto-play feature in playlists in the old version of the video page but it was a little less obvious. Now however it is located on the bottom right of the video box. If you are watching a playlist, the next video will start immediately after the current one playing ends. The auto-play also works for all your favourites and your subscriptions. I like how it works with subscriptions because when you have multiple new videos you save time by not having to click back all the time!
And finally they have added a great feature. If you are currently watching a video and you want to browse for more, you can now keep watching the video while searching at the same time! Just type something into the search box, hit enter, and the video you are watching just slides to the left and becomes smaller and you can watch the video while you search! From the results that are displayed you can add as many videos as you want to a queue and then go back to the video page and the queued videos will play after the current one! You can also save the queue (as a playlist) to watch back later.
So my impression on it is that it is a great change for YouTube, it shows that they still have interest, and this new improvement will improve page load speed and most likely save YouTube some extra bandwidth! Once YouTube release their new HTML 5 video player which they are working on, YouTube will be extremely fast, videos load instantly in the new HTML 5 Player!
If you want to try out the new YouTube video page, Click Here.
A problem with having dual monitors is when you try to watch a flash video in full screen on one monitor and then try to work away on the other monitor. As soon as you click on the second monitor the full screen video will close!
I was looking around the lifehacker website the other day and came across this article, there is a small program that you run that will make your flash video’s stay in full screen when you are working away on another monitor.
If you want to download this flash hack then go here and follow the download instructions.
I went to see Alice in Wonderland last Friday (March 5th) when it was released. I had not booked my tickets in advanced and thought that there was going to be no chance of me getting to see it. But to my surprise there was lots of shows on for the first day.
There was a showing on almost every hour! And lucky for me the screen I got to see it in was Screen 1 (The biggest one ), I watched it in 3D, gotta love the 3D .
I thought the film was brilliant, it was really well done, and it is definitely a Tim Burton film, just the style in which it was done is just how most of Tim’s films are done.
Alice in Wonderland is set a few years after the first time Alice visited Wonderland, she is now 19 and has no recollection of being there before and is convinced she is dreaming again as wonderland is the same as the place that she dreams of!
Watching it in 3D has very small disadvantages, the colours look much darker, so something that is supposed to be white looks more grey, and when I watch a 3D film for a long period of time the glasses begin to irritate me but that is not something that you would really care about when you are watching it.
When I was watching the film previews before the film began I saw a preview of Toy Story 3, it looks brilliant and hilarious, and seems to be keeping with the same style as the previous 2 films which were great, the preview was also in 3D and looks brilliant, everything seems so large or to have more depth Toy story 3 is not out in Ireland until July 23rd though that is almost a month from when it will be released in America!
Today I had an exam in System Administration, and I definitely done really well in it . I am not usually this confident on my result but I just feel that it was fairly straight forward.
System Administration is basically setting up and configuring a server that will allow client computers to connect to it, also we learn how to set up print servers and dns servers. The exam was broken down into two parts. The first part was to create 20 users and set up user folders and create a login script so that once the user logs in they will be mapped to their own home folder, a group shared folder and be able to print from the client pc through the server.
For the second part of the exam, we were given a page of script and an excel spreadsheet and had to find out why the code was not working, once we found all the mistakes it was just a matter of fixing them, describe what was happening in the code and then executing the code. The end result would be more users created on the server.
I think System Administration is one of the more interesting subjects that I do. Last semester we done the first section of this Module and it was more GUI based, we went through all the menus to create groups, members etc. However this semester (second semester) we are doing scripting, since we have done .vb code before in previous years in college, the scripting was welcome as we were used to writing it.
So much more can be done with scripting such as creating logon scripts and setting what programs open as soon a user logs on.
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that is almost a month from when it will be released in America!
