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Today NBC launched there Media Center app, that will show all of the Olympic converge in your windows computer. I downloaded it to my Vista machine today, and acutely enjoyed my experiences. Now the Olympics do  not start until 8/8/08, but they do offer the Olympic trails. The videos that I say was fairly high quality, and their saying that most of the content will be in HD. However to get the full experiences you must download the videos to your computer, but you can watch it while it downloads. The menu system in this app was created using the tvtonic.com, app. Acutely it is the same beside the video. Over all it is worth downloading if you have a Vista media center PC, and are really into the Olympics.

PS. I tride to do a video on the app, but it did not turn out to well, I will try agin.

Image via Wikipedia

So I come across a image of Jesse Owens I wanted to use on the web. So I said lets get this image (in the hype of the Olympics and all). So I checked out the price on Gettyimages to see. I was expecting for it to cost. I found out it coast $50.00, for what I wanted to use it for, and I could only use it up to 3 months. Well that was a drag. Well for old pictures like this I could just use sites like Wikipedia to find pictures in the public domain. This one to the right is in public domain. But I still wanted to use the picture I found, and not at the price or time limit. So I jumped on to picapp.com. This site buys the images from places like Gettyimages.com, and allow you to embed them on your blog or website for free. Of course you do have to have a ad with it, a drag but its free. You can also get really resent images to once from that day for example. Take a look below for a samples. (If you see a small image below click on it)

Image details: Jesse Owens served by picapp.com
This image for example below is from today’s hockey game.

Image details: Dallas Stars v Anaheim Ducks - Game Two served by picapp.com

How much it would coast me to buy off of gettyimages…