Television as we know it is becoming more and more prevalent on the web. If you miss your favorite program when it originally airs and didn’t set your DVR or VCR to record it, chances are you can still catch it a few days (or insome cases just a few hours) later on the world wide web. If you’re new to watching television on your computer, here are some of the best sites to catch all your favorite television shows.

Want to create your own website, but don’t want to mess around with HTML? NetObjects Fusion came out years ago promising to make web design easy, and although it has gone through at least a couple of owners over the last 10 versions, it’s still a great way for people wanting a ‘normal’ website (and not a blog site) to create one easily.

Want to see what the search engine of the future might look like? Microsoft has it up and running now. And while the results are from Microsoft, and not Google, which might make you want to not use it, at the very least, this is a search engine you need to see!

TV Party has a fascinating site on TV bloopers from famous US television shows that’s worth visiting on a trip down memory lane.

The rumours are flying thick and fast that Apple is set to introduce two new iPhones at the US Macworld expo in early January, and it’s threatening to change the world of mobile phones and music as we know it.

Grey goo has infected the virtual world, with golden rings visible that once touched, start replicating. Second Life had to be shut down and cleansed of the problem before users could get access again.

With millions of MySpace pages featuring commercial music tracks, Universal Music have decided that they’ve had enough. Licensing negotiations between Universal and MySpace have failed, and now the lawyers have been called in to sort out the mess. 

The latest browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla, IE7 and Firefox 2.0, promise to protect you from phishing sites trying to steal your data. But a new report shows just how hopeless and unreliable both browsers are at this task. Psst… we’ve found a product that does the job much, much better - and it’s free!

Remember the Opera browser? Now in version 9 for PCs, it’s free and has advanced features you won’t find in Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. It also works with a range of devices and not just PCs, meaning that ‘a night at the Opera’ can now be a 24×7 browsing experience!

Remember when Google boasted of over 8 billion pages in its index, and then the tit-fot-tat skirmishes with Yahoo on whose index was biggest? Now a figure on the number of sites online has been released, and it’s in the millions, not billions. What gives?

Sites like Digg.com, which let users choose the most popular news stories, have exploded onto the scene amidst a mass of Web 2.0 and social media hysteria. With nearly 350 Digg-style sites on just about any news topic you can imagine, including sites in other languages, the user-ranked and user-generated content revolution won’t be going away any time soon.

A web designer of 10 years has put together an interesting website on the process he takes to create a new site from scratch.

After several beta and release candidate versions, the final version of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has been released and is now available for download, although the first bug has already been reported.

While many parts of the world, including Australia, won’t be seeing a PS3 in stores until March 2007, the US and Japanese launch is still set for November and final preparations are well underway, while the Wii’s online service, which is launching worldwide in November and December with the Wii itself, is also being finalised. While new online services for the Wii and PS3 show great potential, what is some of the history, and where are they going?

It’s quite likely to be illegal, so chances a new virtual gaming system, featuring 1980s Nintendo games, will be taken off the Internet quite soon. But it’s one way of experiencing what retro games from the original NES (Nintendo Entertainement System) from the 80s will be like to play on the Nintendo Wii - without needing to actually buy one yet (as they’re not available!), buying an actual old console with all the cartridges, or fiddling around with emulation software and downloading roms and games. What is it? The Virtual Nintendo Entertainment System with 395 games!

Fox is now offering recently run epsiodes of a number of its television shows on MySpace.

Just to see what would come up, I typed in ‘cool web 2.0 sites’ into Google. One of the results took me here, to a San Francisco Chronicle newspaper article on this very topic, with my search term as the name of the article!

Have you ever had the urge to tell everyone what you’re watching on television? Me neither. But just in case you have, the MeeVee TV-guide/program information site now allows you to generate and embed code in your blog that does exactly that.

Despite reports that the 2nd-generation iPod Nano can’t record audio, it turns out that indeed… it can with a microphone attachment designed for the 5G iPod Video.

Bubblesnaps is a fun site that allows you to add thought or speech balloons to your photos, which you can then email to your friends, or post on your blog or social networking profile.