Hulu Comes to the Desktop
Hulu , the popular online destination for streaming TV shows and movies, just open up its new Labs project and one of the first projects to come out of the Hulu lab is a desktop application for viewing Hulu’s content on Mac and Windows desktops instead of in a browser. In addition, Hulu also released a new video panel designer that allows users to customize Hulu’s embed code , a new recommendations engine , and a new way to browse videos by when they aired on live TV. Sponsor Hulu Desktop The crown jewel of these new apps, though, is clearly the Hulu Desktop application, which works exceptionally well and is extremely well designed. A lot of similar applications have relied on Adobe AIR and were often nothing more than just the web app packed into a stand-alone browser, but Hulu actually developed native apps for both Windows and Mac, and the result is noticeable better than what the Hulu team could have achieved by using AIR.
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