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		<title>Prism as a TV</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I said that the next Prism related post I would be doing was one on manually installing an addon, but it&#8217;s taking me more time to get to than I had hoped. However, I do have another use for Prism that I&#8217;d like to share right now. I&#8217;ve been using Prism as a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.luckydisasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/capture_02252009_194641.jpg"rel="lightbox" ><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-331" style="padding:5px;" title="capture_02252009_194641" src="http://www.luckydisasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/capture_02252009_194641-150x150.jpg" alt="capture_02252009_194641" width="150" height="150" /></a>I know I said that the next <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism" rel="nofollow"  target="_blank">Prism</a> related post I would be doing was one on manually installing an addon, but it&#8217;s taking me more time to get to than I had hoped. However, I do have another use for Prism that I&#8217;d like to share right now. I&#8217;ve been using Prism as a tool for creating TV show specific browsers for video sites. <a href="http://www.veoh.com" rel="nofollow"  target="_blank">Veoh</a> specifically, but I&#8217;m pretty sure you can do this for other video sharing sites as well.</p>
<p>Basically what I&#8217;ve done is used Prism to create a new webapp that points to the search URL of Veoh with a single program as the search term. For instance, right now I&#8217;m following the anime <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toradora!" rel="nofollow"  target="_blank">Toradora</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.luckydisasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/capture_02252009_194818.jpg"rel="lightbox" ><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-330 alignright" style="margin: 5px;" title="capture_02252009_194818" src="http://www.luckydisasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/capture_02252009_194818-150x150.jpg" alt="capture_02252009_194818" width="135" height="135" /></a>To create the webapp, I&#8217;ve chosen to place a link on my desktop, used the search link above, and enabled the navigation keys for Prism:</p>
<p>Alt+Back Arrow = Back in History<br />
Alt+Forward Arrow = Forward in History<br />
Alt+Home = Home Page for webappX<br />
etc.</p>
<p>Veoh Search Link:</p>
<p>http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/<strong>your+search+here</strong></p>
<p>Prism automatically pulls the site&#8217;s favicon as the desktop icon (has anyone else experienced problems with Prism not correctly installing the icon from pre-bundled webapps?).</p>
<p>Other places where this could be useful (other than setting up your own custom television station on your desktop with play-on-demand access)? The instructors for the courses I&#8217;m taking right now at ECU via the web often put class lectures on both YouTube and ECU&#8217;s own servers (depending on the class and the web-savvy-ness of the instructor). This would be a perfect way to distribute these movies to students, simply by placing the right URL into Prism and bundling the webapp, you can create a feed specific video channel for student consumption.</p>
<p><strong>Other thoughts on this process:</strong></p>
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<li> The ability to uninstall webapps would be useful. Manual uninstalls, while not difficult, are a pain.</li>
<li> An addon or webapp script for Prism to load into the sidebar with links or buttons corresponding to pre-configured feeds/pages to change the currently viewed page so that you can &#8220;change channels.&#8221;</li>
<li> Along those same lines, an addon with FF3&#8242;s built-in feed reader which would load into the sidebar would be a nifty means of navigating a number of pre-configured links&#8230; yes that would be nifty indeed&#8230;</li>
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