I studied Networking to become a network admin a while back. Although I never actually went into that line of work, I have been inundated with “my computers not working” comments. I often have to go round to friends houses to fix problems and im starting to wish that I had came across, Tap’s newest sponsor - TechinLine Remote Desktop!

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I really favor simple solutions, and Techinline fits that bill perfectly. It took me litterally just seconds to connect to a remote PC and everything worked without a hitch.

They have a 15 day free trial so I recommend you go give it a test run.

Update: Many of the links in the original post are no longer valid. However, I found a free software application called Graboid that allows you watch most of these episodes for free. Just click here to get the software from our resources directory and download it. Once downloaded, go to the TV section in the software, search for the TV show (for example, The Office), and select play. I was able to watch all of the episodes with no delay in the video streaming.

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In this continuing week of nothingness I will show you where you can watch some of my favorite TV shows and movies online.

Note - If you came here from Digg or other social bookmarking sites you are likely on a cached page hosted somewhere other than our servers. Just click on the posts title to be taken to the non cached page.

Band of Brothers - This was an amazing 11 part series which followed a company of soldiers during WW2. Each episode (which is like a mini movie) was directed by a different director and the Executive Producers were Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Here are the episodes:

Ep1 Currahee - [1] [2]
Ep2 Days of Days - [1] [2]
Ep3 Carentan - [1] [2]
Ep4 Replacments - [1] [2]
Ep5 Crossroads - [1] [2]
Ep6 Bastogne - [1] [2]
Ep7 The Breaking Point - [1] [2]
Ep8 The Last Patrol - [1] [2]
Ep9 Why We Fight - [1] [2]
Ep10 Points - [1] [2]
Ep11 We Stand Alone Together - [1] [2]

The Office - As Im in Australia, I only discovered how great The Office was by watching it online. I have watched all three seaons online and have loved every single one of them. I will only post season three here and will update it as new episodes are screened.

Ep1 Gay Witch Hunt - [1]
Ep2 The Convention - [1]
Ep3 The Coup - [1]
Ep4 Grief Counseling - [1]
Ep5 Initiation - [1]
Ep6 Diwali - [1]
Ep7 Branch Closing - [1]
Ep8 The Merger - [1]
Ep9 The Convict - [1]
Ep10 A Benihana Christmas (1) - [1] (Still searching)
Ep11 A Benihana Christmas (2) - [2] (Still searching)
Ep12 Back From Vacation - [1]
Ep13 Traveling Salesman - [1]
Ep14 The Return - [1]
Ep15 Ben Franklin - [1]
Ep16 Phyllis’ Wedding - [1]
Ep17 Business School [1]
Ep18 Cocktails - [1]
Ep19 The Negotiation - [1]
Ep20 Safety Training - [1]

Prison Break - I got sucked into this series thinking that it was a 1 off series instead of something that would drag on and on like Lost. But it came out with a Second Series and you can watch them all online too. Here is that second series. I havnt finished watching it so don’t spoil it!

Ep1 Manhunt - [1]
Ep2 Otis - [1]
Ep3 Scan - [1]
Ep4 Firstdown -[1]
Ep5 Map - [1]
Ep6 Subdivision - [1]
Ep7 Buried - [1]
Ep8 Dead Fall - [1]
Ep9 Unearthed - [1]
Ep10 Rendezvous - [1]
Ep11 Bolshoi Breeze - [1]
Ep12 Disconnect - [1]
More coming soon

Saving Private Ryan - While I was watching Band of Brothers I remembered the epic Saving Private Ryan and so I decided to do a search for it online. You can watch the entire movie on YouTube. However, im betting that it will be taken down fairly soon.

Movie: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]

Hot Fuzz - This is one of my favorite movies. It is an extremely well directed film Unfortunately I was only able to find a link which has a bit at the beginning missing and the quality isnt amazing.

Movie: [1]

The Da Vinci Code - I actually thought this movie was pretty good, probably because I never read the book.

Movie: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

300 - This was a good movie but I didn’t find that I was able to really get involved with the characters. None the less, this was another example of a great Director.

Movie: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Casino Royale - I found this was a fresh new take on the bond franchise. The all new Bond, Daniel Craig is very talented and a great choice to fill the role.

Movie: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

I will continue to add more links over the coming days. Remember, if you liked any of these shows/movies go out and buy the DVD. I know I will be buying season 3 of The Office!

The Tap Blog has been kindly nominated for the best geek blog at the 2007 Blogger’s Choice Awards.    Thanks to everyone who has voted for us so far.  But heres an invitation to all those who havnt to get out there and vote.

Visit this page to cast your vote for the best geek blog.  You will have to register at the website but hey, that should only take a few seconds!

So get out there and vote!

Google’s new My Maps alreadly looks to be a hit with these mashed up maps appearing all over the place. With this new feature you can easily create customized maps with placemarks, lines and shapes and then share the map using a unique URL. It is even possible to add hosted images and video through html.

Now adding placemarks has existed for long time in Google Earth, but this new feature allows you to quickly and easily share these maps with others. There have also been a number of startups which offer a similar product. It will be interesting to see if these can survive.

To start creating customized maps, head on over to Google Maps and click the My Maps tab. Once done adding maps you can share it using a unique URL or exporting it as a .kml file.

I have checked out similar services including Windows Live Maps, but nothing seems to be quite as simple and user friendly.

Technorati Tags: Google, Google Maps, Mashup, Web 2.0

Well after a few days off over Easter, im back and ready to start reviewing more of the great web 2.0 apps.  It looks like I was the only one to take a break as so much happened while I was away.

However, being on holidays without my regular internet connection I was able to test run some other ways to access the net like Opera Mini.  More on this in the coming weeks.

Remember, if you have an web 2.0 site or app you would like reviewed you can contact me here. 

I will also be posting the latest editions of the hottest 100 web 2.0 apps here over the coming days.  So stay tuned and keep those comments rolling in

Satudays (on Sunday here is Australia) are the days where I find there is nothing to write about. So I might as well post about this weeks Supahstar.

This week its Marcus Williford  from My Thoughts. Marcus has one those blogs that feature bits and pieces of everything and obviously “everything” means Marcus’s thoughts. And yes ladies apparentelly he’s single (Or should I say lady as 99% of our readers are men).

To keep the Tap Blog running we offer sponsored posts to advertisers.  We make sure we let you know that each post is sponsored using a disclosure statement that we place at the top of each sponsored post.

We need you to come up with a creative message we can place at the top of each sponsored post.  We will give $5 (via PayPal) for each one we use.

Make sure its no longer then 50 words.  Just post your disclosure statement in the comments and if we like it $5 will be yours!

PayPerPost which offers a uniqe form of blog marketing has released an interesting take on the traditional affiliate program. Instead of just getting a % of a sale or similar PayPerPost’s “Review my Post” will not only pay the person clicks through but the blogger as well.

Here is how it works. The blogger (obviously a member of PPP) adds a few lines of code to their blog which will display an image saying “Review My Post”. When someone clicks through they will need to register with PPP and a special posting opportunity will be created where they are paid $7.50 to review one of your posts. Whats more, once they complete this opportunity you will be paid $7.50 too!

This will not only be a great little income earner but you are effectively paying people to market and promote your website…..ooops….thats right PPP is paying bloggers to promote your site.

This program could be extremely popular! If you still have doubts about PayPerPost then here is my take on the site. What is wrong with placing ads in your blog. PPP requires disclosure so your going to know if its sponsored. Dont forget many blogs including Techcrunch include the odd sponsored post (Techcrunch calls it a commercial break).

So I encourage you to at least take a look at this and tell me what you think.

Yaplet is simple. Yaplet works.  Yaplet is chat for any website.

If you read this blog regularly you will now I’m a big fan of web 2.0 sites that take what could be a complex solution and make it simple.  And Yaplet has done just this.   So what does it do? Yaplet allows you to chat on any website.  To see what im talking about take a look at this here and have a chat. This URL will bring up a frame on the right hand side of this page.  To see the chat on other site take a look at Yaplet.com.

I talked about a similar product Zpeech.com and although I was very impressed with their site Japlet has one major advantage, registration is not required to chat!

So take a look and why not tell me what you think of Japlet, using the chat app itself.  You can do it here 

Now I know this isn’t directly related to web 2.0 but after reading this article I knew I had to mention it.

Downunder, here in Australia and number of dotcoms have turned out creating large signs in an attempt to be on Google Maps. This is the first time that the public has been aware of such an exercise (A Google plane flying at 600m).

Anyway take a look at the full story which also mentions the spoof dating site DarwinDating.com which is also got me chuckling.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/dotcoms-line-up-for-a-free-plug/2007/01/26/1169594482989.html

Now if you think that was good then you will love this article as well about an Australian IT worker who attempted to save his marriage  through the same technique.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/marriage-going-down-the-googler/2007/01/26/1169594473491.html