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SnapStream TV monitoring now lets OS X users keep tabs on amusing video-blunders
The Daily Show and Colbert Report famously rely upon SnapStream's high-power Windows DVR software to monitor the insanity at the fringes of America's cable spectrum. The media-monitoring software is also used by news services, educators and shadowy government agencies to keep tabs on the subjects discussed on TV. The latest edition (version five) opens the platform up to OS X users, enabling them to run it in Firefox without messy virtualization. The OS X web player comes with a plugin to watch MPEG-2 streams that'll happily sit on top of Snow Leopard or Lion and will even let you set up customized alerts for whenever inappropriate euphemisms emerge from Oprah's mouth.
Live from the Red Carpet: E! Online mobile app relaunched for Oscars
Just in time for the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 7th (when you should be participating in the TUAW Talkcast...), E! Entertainment has relaunched the popular E! Online mobile app. When we say popular, we mean it -- there are apparently over 1.4 million iPhone and Android users who enjoy their celebrity and entertainment news direct from the free app. The new version of the app includes the "E! Talk Box," which gives users a chance to record their own video commentary for possible inclusion on E! and/or E! Online. While your chances of getting your video snippet on the air are probably slim, at least you can finally talk back to the TV. Part of the app update includes a new carousel navigation menu above the news section (see photo at right) that highlights coverage during the award season with special videos and a "Live from the Red Carpet" section. You no longer need to tear yourself away from your iPhone or iPod touch to watch E! shows. The app, for better or for worse, lets you watch complete episodes of such favorites as Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Soup. (Update: According to E!, you can download the episodes from within the app, but you actually watch them in iTunes). If all you want is the scoop on your favorite celebs, you can also create a custom celeb list and get the news delivered directly to your iPhone or iPod touch. The free app is available in the iTunes Store now. Be sure to let TUAW know if your iPhone submission to the E! Talk Box gets on the air.
Joel McHale to host Ubisoft E3 press conference
We love Joel McHale, host of E!'s The Soup. Like, love. If there were such a thing as McHale's Navy, we would join it, even if he was in no way involved with the organization. That's the kind of devotion we're talking about here. The biggest problem with Joel McHale is how rarely video game bloggers get to write about him.You can imagine the kind of joy it brings us then to relate Ubisoft's announcement that McHale will be hosting the company's E3 press conference. You can even watch the whole thing yourself the next morning at Ubisoft's site! We think the release also mentioned some games too, but who cares? Joel McHale!
Found footage: The Soup's iPhone parody
We love a good parody, and E!'s The Soup has produced a winner. For the unfamiliar, The Soup is a television show on the E! network that pokes fun at TV and pop culture in America.Here's a parody iPhone ad that ran on the show earlier this week. It's really funny, with an emphasis on the pricing changes the iPhone has experienced in its first year of existence.While we're on the topic, here are a few other Apple parodies you'll enjoy The "Fruit" ad in Grand Theft Auto The Thinkpad MacBook Air ad Futurama's parody of the 1984 commercial If Microsoft designed the iPod packaging They iScrewed Me Again from MadTV
The Soup shows how stalkers use the iPhone
We loved The Soup way more when it was Talk Soup with John Henson, but we don't need the man's skunk spot to tell us iPhones plus stalker jokes is cheekily droll. Video after the break.[Thanks, Lee]
E! shows added to the iTunes Music Store
I want to make this clear: I am only blogging about some E! shows appearing in the iTunes Music Store (Apple really needs to change that name, by the way) because the more content that one can buy online the better. This post is not to be taken as an endorsement for actually watching any of these shows.Now that we have that all cleared up, Apple and E! Entertainment Television have just announced that starting now you can get several of their shows on the iTunes Music Store. The shows available are: The Girls Next Door The Soup The Simple Life Dr. 90210 Each episode will cost you $1.99.Thanks, Drew.
