PanaGeek

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Just a quick post to talk about a cool website called Hulu.  This is a great and legal place to see video clips, full length TV shows, and even movies.  As I said, it is a legal service (there are others out there that look a little questionable) that is supported by a few short ads in each show.

One of the things I really like about it is that the site can remember where you were in watching a show, so you don’t have to watch a show from beginning to end in one sitting.

There are only two (very small) negatives: first, the selection is currently limited – not every episode of every show is available.  Second, you can’t save what your watching, so downloading a show to watch on a plane isn’t possible.

Overall, the plusses are strong and the negatives aren’t show stoppers.  Hulu is a great way to catch up on some great shows!

Shoes, as I’ve mentioned before, is a great little GUI for ruby applications. I ran across an article last week about Google Translate and a command line interface for Linux called tw, and thought that I might be able to build something in Shoes with it. Well, I couldn’t get tw to build on OS X, but I found a ruby gem called rtranslate that works great! So, over an hour or so, I threw a quick little translator together in Shoes. It’s over at the ShoeBox. Please let me know if you try it (and like it – I don’t like criticism).