Watch Continuous Videos On YouTube With NowBox [iPad]

By Laura Tucker | January 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Ever wish you could just watch YouTube videos continuously without the constant searching in between each find, good or bad? NowBox for iPad makes it all possible.
Sure, within YouTube itself you can save your favorite videos to a playlist to watch in a constant stream, but what about videos that are new to you? Every time you search for a video, YouTube always displays a list of others it thinks you might like. It allows you to go off on several different tangents as you can easily get caught up watching for long lengths of time. But you have to keep searching and clicking and looking. NowBox does the searching, clicking, and looking for you.

Setting NowBox to work with your choices and taste in videos is a simple two-step process. After starting the app, it asks for your interests, for those videos you enjoy watching on YouTube. These cover a wide area of basics, such as entertainment, news, tech, how-to, etc. Simply tap the ones that interest you.

Next, sign in to the services you use. Not only does NowBox utilize your YouTube account, it also uses your accounts with Facebook and/or Twitter. It not only learns of your interests through what you watch and post to social networking sites, it learns from videos that your friends and followers watch and post on Facebook or tweet about on Twitter.

NowBox sets up your channels the way you told it to, and gives you some basic subscriptions as it looks throughout YouTube subscriptions, viewing history, and your friends’ videos that they have posted about. You can choose a channel to start viewing.

Once you start playing a channel, it comes up with a continuous playlist. There is no searching for other videos in between. It’s doing all that work for you. You can also view the videos in a listing below. As with YouTube, you can go full-screen to watch the videos. Just like with many apps, you can post directly to Facebook and share your finds.

While NowBox works with your YouTube subscriptions, it also suggests others you might like. At any time you can get more information on a channel. It gives you a short description and tells you how many videos are in it as well as how many subscribers. You can unsubscribe or subscribe at this point.

You can also get a listing of all the channels NowBox has found for you, which includes ones that you are already subscribed to, ones your friends and followers have posted about, or ones that match your particular interests.

NowBox is always working and checking for new videos for you. Every time you open it up it goes back to your YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to find new videos for you. It allows you to just sit back and relax while you watch. Additionally, it works with AirPlay, so you can view the videos on AppleTV as well, not being confined to your iPad.

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How To Setup, Connect, and Accept Remote Desktop Connections In Windows 7

 

Microsoft Remote Desktop Manager for Windows 7 allows you to connect to any computers in your network. This allows access to files, documents and Network resources on each PC as though you were sitting directly in front of it, regardless of the location.
Begin by allowing access to the workstation. If your OS doesn’t have it already installed, the Standard Edition is free and can be downloaded quickly. It has all the main features most people would need to connect to a remote computer. If you need something more heavy-duty, there is a paid Enterprise version for connection needs such as VPN. Here is a walk through of how to setup the free Standard Edition of Remote Desktop.

Setup For Remote Desktop Connections

1. Go to the “Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts (If they are enabled) -> System & Security“.

2. Under System, select the Allow Remote Access Tab.

3. When you enable the Remote Desktop, you have two options:

• Select “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop” and click Apply. This option is for having more than one version of Remote Desktop enabled.
• If you have a single version of Remote Desktop running, simply select the last option.  “Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication“

4. Click the “Select Users” button, followed by the Add button.

5. Next, we will select the users who will have access to the Remote Manager. Choose ”Advanced -> Find Now”. A drop down list will be displayed where you can select the users, computer or domain name that can be granted access. Click on the name who will be given access and click OK to save your changes.

6.  Click OK 3 times to exit all of the open windows and begin the Connection steps below.
Note: To revoke a users permissions to access Remote Desktop, select the account in the steps above, then select Remove.

Setup For Accepting Remote Desktop Connections

For an administrator to connect to your PC, they must have permission to access your computer. This is particularly helpful in a training situation and is often used for troubleshooting by a technician.
1. Set up access by going to the “Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings”.
2. Select the Remote tab, then select the Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer. At the bottom of the screen, select “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop“. Lastly, select Advanced which will open a new screen. Select ”Allow this computer to be controlled remotely” and press OK.

Note: Before you can connect to a Remote Desktop you will need to configure your Router and Firewall

• Connect behind a Router with a single computer – Configure your Router’s port forwarding to allow port connections on 3389 then type in your IP address supplied by your ISP.
• Connect behind a Router with multiple computers – For each computer you want to remotely connect to, you will need to configure each computer to listen to different ports to avoid port conflicts.
• If you have a Firewall running, you will also need to configure that to allow communication to the port you opened in your Router.

Connect To Your Remote Desktop

Now that you have done all the work to set up the Remote Desktop, you will only have to start at this step each time you want to access the computers in your network.
1. Go to the “Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Remote Desktop Connection”.
2. A box like the one below will open where you will enter the address of your remote computer. Click Connect to enter your credentials.

3. Entering your credentials at sign in, will connect you to the Remote Desktop where you can access the PC in your network

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Another Candidate Campaigning Against SOPA Supporter: Jack Arnold

On Friday we posted about Karen Kwiatkowski running for Congress against Rep. Bob Goodlatte in Virginia using SOPA as a key campaign point. With Goodlatte being one of the key supporters of SOPA this makes a lot of sense. Soon after we posted that, we heard from Jack Arnold (and from his campaign, separately), noting that he's running against Rep. Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee and is also using SOPA as a key campaign issue. His "common sense" writeup about SOPA is absolutely worth reading. Here's a snippet:

As SOPA is drafted at present, no thinking person could possibly support it. It would give unheard-of censorship power to the Department of Justice and would have numerous foreseeable negative consequences. For example, it would cripple the internet as it exists today and would remove Google, Yahoo and Bing from their positions as market leaders in internet searches in favor of less-restricted foreign search engines. Plainly, this would move U.S. jobs overseas.

Worst of all, Congressman Marsha Blackburn claims (in public) to be staunchly anti-regulation, but she co-sponsored this bill. The same woman who is so ?anti-regulation? that she leapt to the defense of Gibson Guitar?s right to use foreign endangered lumber instead of the home-grown kind ? literally jumping in front of an ongoing federal investigation ? now finds herself to be regulation-loving. The same politician who is in the fore of (correctly) lambasting Eric Holder?s mismanagement of The Fast and the Furious wants to turn over our right to use the internet to the management of the same man.

What gives? Well, the answer isn?t hard to find. We?re coming up on an election year. Some heavy-hitting lobbyists are behind SOPA: the MPAA and other media conglomerates, including ones that own record labels, pay their D.C. firms well. And these big corporations and interests are tired of seeing their bottom-line eroded by the theft of their products. These corporations, like Gibson and its Brentwood CEO, have deep pockets and are spreading around a lot of free cash and campaign ads to get the most draconian version possible of an anti-piracy law through Congress. Congressman Blackburn isn?t the only co-sponsor they bought. This bill has a total of 31 of them, from both parties.

I expect that, as other candidates pop up around the country and realize that the incumbent they're challenging is actively supporting a bill that would enable censorship of the internet, hurt the American economy and put online security at risk, we're going to see plenty of others campaigning on this issue as well.

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Hackers Figuring Out How To Set Up Satellites To Route Around Internet Censorship

It's been pointed out over and over again that censoring the internet is no way to deal with things like copyright infringement -- and that people will always figure out ways to route around such censorship. That's why it's interesting to hear that some folks at the famed Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin last week outlined some plans to set up their own satellite system for routing around internet censorship around the globe. And... a key reason given for why this is needed? SOPA, of course:

He cited the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in the United States as an example of the kind of threat facing online freedom. If passed, the act would allow for some sites to be blocked on copyright grounds.

They're obviously a long way from this, but the ability of amateurs to build and launch their own satellites into space has been growing and that's only going to accelerate. On top of that, with efforts like SOPA and other censorship efforts around the globe, it's giving more urgency to folks who believe in freedom of speech and civil liberties to figure out ways to decentralize and move away from systems that can be controlled by governments.

We've noted in the past couple of years that a few big events have started to call attention to the parts of the network that are centarlized and vulnerable to censorship -- and that's resulted in numerous efforts to decentralize those elements and make them censorship-proof. These projects won't all work (and some will certainly fail miserably), but as more and more people realize that these censor-proof systems are needed, it means that they will get created.

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No, Sony Electronics, Nintendo And EA Have NOT Publicly Changed Their Position On SOPA

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by Mike Masnick
Tue, Jan 3rd 2012 7:42am

It's amazing how a little bad reporting turns into a big story. Late last week, we saw a report on Business Insider, by Matt Lynley, claiming that Nintendo, EA and Sony Electronics had dropped... Filed Under:
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It's amazing how a little bad reporting turns into a big story. Late last week, we saw a report on Business Insider, by Matt Lynley, claiming that Nintendo, EA and Sony Electronics had dropped support of SOPA. However, the reporting on this story is highly questionable. It was based on a report from November from Joystiq about how those three companies supported the bill. But, if you read the actual article on Joystiq, you'll see that it notes that these three companies had not specifically come out in favor of SOPA, but rather had signed onto a letter from the US Chamber of Commerce (or, rather, its front group, the Global IP Center) which was sent before SOPA was introduced. While it does urge Congress to support something like SOPA, it was not a direct endorsement of SOPA itself.
Now, jump forward to last week. A number of lists have been put out listing the companies who supposedly support SOPA -- but many of the lists were made up by combining two separate lists. One was the official list from the House Judiciary site, which does, in fact, list out companies who have explicitly said they support SOPA. The other... was that letter that the Global IP Center sent. So, here's the problem. It appears that Lynley just checked the list from the House Judiciary Committee... and saw that Sony Electronics, EA and Nintendo were not on that list... and decided they must have quietly removed themselves from the list.
Here's the problem: those three companies were apparently never on that list. They were on the other list.
You can see an older version of the House Judiciary Committee list of SOPA supporters here. Note that it has GoDaddy on it, as well as all those law firms who demanded removal from the list. This was the original list that the Judiciary Committee came out with. You know what you'll see? Absolutely no mention of EA, Sony Electronics or Nintendo.

And yet... a ton of news sites have picked up on the BI story and written their own versions, claiming that those three companies have quietly dropped their SOPA support: Yet, as far as I can tell, none of these three companies has made any statement suggesting they've changed their position at all. Perhaps they did change their position, but it's not because they're missing from the House Judiciary list... because they were never on that list as far as we can tell. It's kind of amazing to me that people kept demanding specific statements from GoDaddy to prove they'd really changed their position on SOPA but eagerly accept that these three companies have changed their position. It's really quite amazing to me that so many publications (many well respected) all seemed to key off this one, highly questionable, Business Insider report, which was based on someone who never checked the earlier list, and assumed that it must be accurate. 25 Comments | Leave a Comment..

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Gov't Able To Keep Details Entirely Private In 'Public' Hearing Over Twitter Subpoena

We entered the courtroom. I sat in the front row, behind the bar. Presiding Judge Carol Ball called our cooperating attorney Peter Krupp?s name, and the Assistant District Attorney?s name. She did not call out the name of the case to begin the proceedings, as is custom.

The ADA approached the sidebar, the area adjacent to the judge?s perch, far enough away from us, the general public, that we couldn?t hear the content of the hushed conversation spoken there. Krupp objected immediately, before even approaching the bench; he wanted the case heard in open court. (The judge had already sealed the proceedings the day before, pending a hearing this morning.) Krupp?s objection was not granted. Our legal team therefore approached the sidebar, joining the judge and the prosecution.

Then we among the general public, including journalists from all the major media outfits in Boston, listened and heard nothing, as the prosecutors, our lawyers and the judge conversed secretly, in plain sight. I have no idea what they said. I still don?t know, because my colleagues, lawyers at the ACLU of Massachusetts, are prohibited by court order from telling me.

So all I know is what I saw. As Donald Rumsfeld said, there are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. After the proceedings this morning, I?m left with little of the former, and a whole lot of the latter two.

The known knowns: the scrum of lawyers, defense and prosecution, addressed the judge. I saw the judge speak to the lawyers. Then I saw our attorneys return to their bench, closer to where I was sitting, out of earshot of the sidebar. But the ADA stayed with the judge. He spoke to her, with his back to the courtroom, for about ten minutes. Our attorneys didn?t get to hear what he said to her, didn?t have a chance to respond to whatever the government was saying about our client, about the case. It was frankly shocking.

After those ten minutes of secret government-judge conversation, our attorneys were invited back to the sidebar, whereupon the scrum of lawyers spoke with the judge for another ten or fifteen minutes. Then they dispersed. The judge uttered not one word to the open court. And that was it.

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iPad 3 launch rumored for Steve Jobs’ Feb 24 birthday

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