Live TV on Google Personalized Homepage
This entry was posted on 3/28/2007 10:38 PM and is filed under This Is Useful.
Convergence 
We've all heard about it for a long time...the holy grail of technology. Well, this isn't the be all, end all, but it is as good an example as any for the casual user; the convergence of the Internet and television on your computer.
If you are using the Google personalized homepage for your start page, you can now add a new widget to your personalized page that gives you access to live tv right in the page! To add the widget to your Google personalized home page go here and get the widget Update: the widget originally featured is longer working...a better one is now available.
While you can't you can add channels to the new widget. To add channels click on the settings button at the bottom of the widget's tv screen and add your own channels to the widget, the widget comes preloaded with a number of live channels in several categories; news, entertainment, kids, movies, educational, sports, music and financial. Personally, I like the Sky hereNews Channel because the Great Britian coverage is a refreshing change from US-centric news coverage.
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If you are using Firefox, you may get an error message about missing plugins. This is due to some missing dll files that should be part of Windows Media Player, but often go missing. Head on over go to dlldump.com and download copies of npdsplay.dll and npwmsdrm.dll and place copies of those files in your c:\program files\mozilla firefox\plugins directory. That should make it work and should fix many other pages where you get the missing plugin error message for video.
