Latest Updates and News
Welcome back to Binary Outcast. The site is once again undergoing a restructuring that we feel will increase useability without sacrificing sustainability. During the next few days content may not be available but rest assured it will make a return very quickly.
We hope you enjoy this latest incarnation of BinOC and apologize for any inconvenience this process may have caused.
Due to recent issues such as the bulk of the BinOC Staff attending school and hitting the books very hard so our updates are not frequent as we would like them to be.
We do have many things in the works but it will take more time then we expected to get that content up onto the internet for everyone to enjoy.
There is good news. Binary Outcast has created a separate entity (not controlled or apart of Binary Outcast) called BinOC Network. It operates on much the same idea of an old style web ring.
For more information head to BinOC Network!
Youtube:
Well this was fun… I did get the Binary Outcast YouTube channel disconnected from my personal Google account and reactivated and access restored and linked to another account… However, the damage is done and the videos will have to be re-uploaded. Not to mention that I have decimated my personal Google account in the process causing me to loose access to my Google Voice number and anything else that was part of my personal account… In addition lost the ability to have a YouTube account on my Google Apps account due to multiple sign-in failure on my part.
However it is not all bad…
Mobile Central/Productions/Blip.tv:
Now that the YouTube account is restored to working order save for the videos we can start to use that account again. Enter Blip.tv… During this downtime Binary Outcast made the decision to upload all videos to a Blip.tv account. A move that is already benefiting BinOC greatly. Blip.tv has many advantages over YouTube, including the the lack of a time limit and ease of uploading. Blip.tv also allows for greater customization of the embeddable player where YouTube does not. At all.
Most of all as we work to break into our Productions division Blip.tv understands a little thing called “Fair use”. Good for productions but what about our normal to the point reviews for Mobile Central? Well they will be hosted on Blip.tv as well as on YouTube. Since they will not contain anything that may be questionable to so called “Copyright Nazis”. The Mobile Central reviews embedded on Binary Outcast of course will be the Blip.tv versions but we will still need to post on YouTube for convenience to our mobile users who have enough problems because we do not currently have a working optimized mobile version of the site. (This is in the works.)
For convenience to the average video going person unfortunately Productions may or may not be on YouTube as the issues with Fair Use and time restrictions may make Blip.tv the better choice. If a video is going to be on Blip.tv a small preview video will be uploaded to YouTube with a link to watch the full version.
Confusing I know, but why not save your self some time and trouble and just head here instead. We here at Binary Outcast work quite hard to provide a clean and modern web interface for everything that we offer (yeah, I know, just go with it).
Conclusion:
We look forward to serving you the best content possible so stay tuned!
Mobile Central:
Our Mobile Central Reviews are temporarily offline due to a YouTube error. Please bare with us as we work to restore the review videos.
UPDATE:
All reviews should now be up again but this time on blip.tv! We are going to try and work with YouTube to get our channel back up as well. Stay tuned for more on this…
ADDITIONAL NOTE:
We forgot to mention we have new menu code with proper drop down menus! We are aware of the Internet Explorer issues but if you turn OFF compatibility on IE 9 they should work properly. Keep in mind Binary Outcast only officially supports Firefox 3.6 and up and latest versions of Chrome (somewhere around Chrome 8 and higher). Safari support is up to how often Apple bothers to update it’s Webkit core (Mac Safari should be fine in most cases) and Internet Explorer support is always fun. However, Binary Outcast does not and will never support the presto rendering engine (Opera) due to it lacking features even IE has and for it’s complete unpredictability in rendering.
In any case you should always use the latest browser version available to keep up on security fixes and enhancements. BinOC categorically recommends Mozilla Firefox or the SeaMonkey All in one Internet Suite.
Mobile Central:
Matt A. Tobin has completed his review for the Samsung Gem from US Cellular.
Other News:
You are full of bombs and/or keys.
UPDATE (with onions):
As you can tell Binary Outcast has yet again received a design update. This is now Binary Outcast v21 codenamed “Aura”. It is a drect successor to the previous design and the great experiment that was “Cascade”. It is still in beta at the moment but is nearly complete. As always when we redesign Binary Outcast, watch out for falling code!
Mobile Central:
Mobile Central staff member Flashfire (Dave) has completed his LG Revolution video review. Click here to get the low down on this device from the good people at Verizon Wireless.
Expect a text review very soon for those who want more detail…
Also Binary Outcast Commanding Officer Matt A. Tobin has gotten his first review device from the folks at US Cellular and will be working to provide a video review for the Samsung Gem as soon as possible.
Partnership:
Binary Outcast is happy to announce a formal partnership with Datalore.TV! We have been charged with hosting and developing the website for long time Irish techie affiliate Datalore.TV. The Binary Outcast Design Works has been working very hard at getting the foundation for the site ready. More Info as it happens.
Code Works:
The BinOC Code Works is still partnered with long time affiliate and strategic partner NasuTek Enterprises and we expect that to start showing it’s benefits very soon.
Design Works:
The Binary Outcast Design Works as mentioned above is hard at work on the new home for Datalore.TV.
Breaking News from Mobile Central:
As we work to get more partnerships with Mobile Phone carriers Binary Outcast (Conan Kudo) has already completed it’s first review which happens to be of a Blackberry Playbook. Check it out at the following [Link].
The rest of Binary Outcast:
We are still working to setup content for Binary Outcast other then our prestigious Mobile Central division, the main reason that it is not up yet is because Mobile Central requires the most work so it has been the focus of all of us here at BinOC. Please stay tuned for upcoming updates to Productions, Code Works, and Design Works.
News Source
Unfortunately the Binary Outcast News Source has not worked out as expected. Though BinOC has grown quite a bit recently we do not have the dedicated staff to properly serve such a section.
Productions
However, it is not all bad news. Binary Outcast is proud to announce the reopening of the Productions section. Keep in mind we are still working on getting all the bugs worked out but we have a few people lined up to contribute their video series to it.
I for one will most likely resume my insane video rants. A rebirth of the concept of ranting about things that irritate me.
Mobile Central employee, Flashfire, has also signed on to do Movie Reviews as well. More on this as it happens.
Mobile Central
But wait, there’s more!
Mobile Central very soon will be uploading video reviews. We are starting off with an unboxing of a device. This video is currently in post-production and should be up very soon. Check Mobile Central for more information.
-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast
