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In honor of Valentine’s Day, Spreety has compiled a list of romantic TV shows to watch online.

In honor of Valentine’s Day, Spreety TV Online has compiled a list of romantic TV shows online to enjoy.

Among the highlights, ABC’s The Bachelor has full episodes in high definition online, with additional interviews with the ladies.

For the classic fair, the 1977 The Love Boat is fun, campy, and available for free online with CBS Classics. For the “once upon a time is now” crowd, the 1987 Beauty and the Beast is also online for free at CBS.

For a comedic take on a matchmaking service, Lifetime has free full episodes of Lovespring International online.

For the dating scene, HoliDate takes people from one city to another in search of love, and is available with a SOAPnetic subscription (free with AT&T hosting).  Lastly, Wingman, a dating advice show from Fine Living, is online for free.

There’s plenty more to watch. If you would like to learn more about romance TV online, please visit the Spreety TV Online site, and look under TV Genres, Romance.

Romance TV Online

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A new Spreety.com video gives tips and tricks to watch PBS Kids TV online.

For the little ones, Spreety TV Online has created a new video highlighting tips and tricks for watching PBS Kids TV online.

To start, from the main Spreety TV Online site, select “TV Sites”, then “PBS Kids”. The PBS Kids video player will appear. The player defaults to the “Channels” tab. It is recommended to switch to the “Shows” tab. Each of the shows will randomly re-order each time the shows tab is selected, so if you do not see your show, use the down arrow to scroll for additional shows.

Once a show has been selected, it is recommended to click on the “Full Episodes” on the list. For each full episode, the player has a pause, slider bar for forward / rewind, a “Big” button for full screen, and a “CC” button for closed captions. When watching multiple full episodes in full screen, unfortunately, the PBS Kids player will reduce back down to the small size between episodes, so just be ready to click “Big” a second time.

The shows with full episodes online are Animalia, Arthur, Cyberchase, Dragonfly TV, The Electric Company, FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman, Fizzy’s Lunch Lab, Kratts’ Creatures, Martha Speaks, Maya & Miguel, Postcards from Buster, SciGirls, Wilson & Ditch Digging America, and Wordgirl.

As for PBS Sprout TV shows online, not much is available as full episodes on the PBS site. As alternatives, for Sesame Street, use the SesameStreet.org website, and for Caillou, use Netflix video on demand.

There’s plenty more to watch. If you would like to learn more about kids TV online, please visit the Spreety TV Online site, and look under TV Genres, Kids.

PBS Kids TV Online

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In honor of Valentine’s Day, Spreety has compiled a list of romantic TV shows to watch online.

In honor of Valentine’s Day, Spreety TV Online has compiled a list of romantic TV shows online to enjoy.

Among the highlights, ABC’s The Bachelor has full episodes in high definition online, with additional interviews with the ladies.

For the classic fair, the 1977 The Love Boat is fun, campy, and available for free online with CBS Classics. For the “once upon a time is now” crowd, the 1987 Beauty and the Beast is also online for free at CBS.

For a comedic take on a matchmaking service, Lifetime has free full episodes of Lovespring International online.

For the dating scene, HoliDate takes people from one city to another in search of love, and is available with a SOAPnetic subscription (free with AT&T hosting).  Lastly, Wingman, a dating advice show from Fine Living, is online for free.

There’s plenty more to watch. If you would like to learn more about romance TV online, please visit the Spreety TV Online site, and look under TV Genres, Romance.

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Enjoy the season with these classic TV specials and more online.

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The holidays bring a variety of TV specials. This may be the first season where more holiday shows are available online than via the old TV.

As examples, ABC Family has a library of streaming holiday movies as part of their “25 Days of Christmas” web page. Charlie Brown as multiple specials online for free, including “I Want A Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown” and the classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. The Muppets are not to be out done, as they have “A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa” online.

For holiday musicals, online TV has “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All”, Carrie Underwood’s “An All-Star Holiday Special”, ABC’s “Christmas at the White House” and “Jennifer Hudson: I’ll Be Home for Christmas”.

Martha Stewart has a free series of podcasts on iTunes full of tips for the holidays, including food and crafts. The History channel has additional specials about Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve.

Classic TV episodes are also online, such as 30 Rock “Ludachristmas”, Adam-12 “Log #46-The Pilgrimage”, ALF “Oh, Tannerbaum” and “Alf’s Special Christmas”, Alfred Hitchcock Presents “Back for Christmas”, Arrested Development “In God We Trust”, Benson “Snowbound”, Beverly Hills, 90210 “Somewhere in the World It’s Christmas”, Chicago Hope “Love and Hope”, D.C. Follies “Reagan Accidentally Gives Fred a Nuke for Christmas”, Dilbert “Holiday”, Dragnet “The Christmas Story”, Family Ties “A Christmas Story” and “A Keaton Christmas Carol”, Father Knows Best “The Christmas Story”, Friends “The One With The Holiday Armadillo”, Futurama “Xmas Story”, Gilligan’s Island “Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk”, How I Met Your Mother “The Limo” and “How Lily Stole Christmas”, In Living Color “Fire Marshall Santa”, Journeyman “Home By Another Way”, Lou Grant “Christmas”, Major Dad “The Gift of the Major”, Married… with Children “Christmas”, McHale’s Navy “The Day They Captured Santa”, Melrose Place “A Melrose Christmas”, News Radio “Xmas Story” and “Stupid Holiday Charity Talent Show”, Party of Five “Christmas”, Perfect Strangers “A Christmas Story”, Picket Fences “High Tidings”, Silver Spoons “The Best Christmas Ever”, South Park “Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo”, South Park “Red Sleigh Down”, Square Pegs “Child’s Christmas in Weemawee”, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip “The Christmas Show”, The Donna Reed Show “A Very Merry Christmas”, The Mary Tyler Moore Show “Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid”, The OC “The Chrismukkah Bar Mitz-vahkkah”, The Office “Christmas Party” and “A Benihana Christmas”, The White Shadow “A Christmas Present” and “Christmas Story”, Twilight Zone “The Night of the Meek”, and Welcome Back, Kotter “A Sweathog Christmas Special”.

All of the links to the above are available at Spreety TV Online at http://Spreety.com . Spreety is a fun and free television guide for the Internet.

Holiday Shows Online

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Spreety TV Online announces a fun way to integrate online TV with your web site.

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When Microsoft architected Windows Communication Foundation, little did they know it would be this much fun.

The flexibility of WCF enabled Spreety TV Online to cost effectively implement the Open Spreety project. Spreety tracks the legal places to watch TV, news, sports, and movies online, and the Open Spreety project shares the links with everyone via services for reuse into their web sites and blogs.

While Spreety utilized WCF, other web sites can use a variety of service technologies, including WCF, Web Services, and Javascript, giving people the empowerment for best fit opportunities.

For example, a web site about the 1950’s could spice up their site with links to 1950’s TV shows. The same is true for genre web sites, like western, science fiction, home & garden, sports, mystery, and more.

Fan sites of TV shows would enjoy the zero maintenance aspect of the online TV links. For example, ABC, NBC, and FOX recently changed their links for watching TV shows, and the Spreety database kept in synch. Certain shows switched from one place to another, like Pushing Daisies (ABC to WB) and Medium (NBC to CBS), and the Spreety database kept in synch.

“When I learned service oriented architecture (SOA), the available examples were boring”, according to Spreety co-founder Ron Laughton. “Working with online TV via services is much more fun. I would encourage programmers everywhere to try out the Web Services and WCF with Spreety.”

Training videos and a custom code generator are available at the following link: http://www.spreety.com/Membership-APIs.aspx

The WSDL is at the following link: http://ws.spreety.com/TvOnline2009.svc?wsdl

If you would like to learn more about free TV online, please visit Spreety TV Online at the http://Spreety.com site.

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Spreety TV Online announces an easy way to integrate online TV with your web site.

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Wouldn’t it be great if most web sites included relevant links to TV shows online? Now there is an easy way to add legal links to top TV shows with Spreety TV Online.

Spreety TV Online is pleased to announce the Open Spreety project, which empowers web sites to include dynamically updating links from the Spreety database into their web sites with a simple script.

The Spreety code generator builds custom scripts for quick insertion into a web site’s html. The code generator can deliver visual links via many categories, including Search, Movies, New & Recently Added, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Action & Adventure, Art & Entertainment, Business, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama & Thriller, Family, Games & Competitions, History, Home & Garden, Horror & Suspense, Kids, Medical, Music & Radio, Mystery, News & Commentary, Reality, Religion & Spirituality, Romance, SciFi & Fantasy, Science, Shopping, Soap Operas, Sports, Superheroes, Talk Shows, Variety, Western, and Youth TV shows.

Display formats are in two sizes: the 670 pixel wide format with show details, and the 93 pixel wide graphic only format to conserve space.

For example, a web site about the 1960’s could spice up their site with links to 1960’s TV shows. The same is true for genre web sites, like western, science fiction, home & garden, sports, mystery, and more.

Fan sites of TV shows would enjoy the zero maintenance aspect of the online TV links. For example, ABC, NBC, and FOX recently changed their links for watching TV shows, and the Spreety database kept in synch. Certain shows switched from one place to another, like Pushing Daisies (ABC to WB) and Medium (NBC to CBS), and the Spreety database kept in synch.

“This is a win-win for everyone involved”, according to Spreety co-founder Ron Laughton. “We created Spreety to educate people about the legal places to watch free TV online, and now we can share through top notch technology.”

Training videos and a custom code generator are available at the following link: http://www.spreety.com/Membership-APIs.aspx

If you would like to learn more about free TV online, please visit Spreety TV Online at the http://Spreety.com site.

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Learn how to enhance or replace your TV with the free Spreety.com e-book.

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Have you ever wanted to enhance or replace your TV with the latest technology? Would you like to know how?

The founders of Spreety’s Guide to Watch TV Shows Online, who replaced their TV with a PC in 2007, have posted a free e-book titled, “The Entertainment PC: A How To Guide”.

The visually appealing e-book is on the Spreety.com site, and was written in five sections. The “Introduction” section explains why many TV shows and movies are legally available online for free. The “What’s Online” section discusses the best places to watch TV online. The “What to Buy” section discusses the hardware to fully enjoy high definition online TV. The “How to Configure” section discusses the optimal viewing configuration for a Windows Vista machine. The “Usage Tips” section wraps up the document with miscellaneous viewing advice.

“I enjoy our entertainment PC,” says Ron Laughton, co-founder of Spreety. “We use it for TV shows, sports, movies, music, home videos, video games, and photo slideshows. Our new e-book empowers those who are interested in doing the same with their entertainment center.”

As the case for watching TV online becomes stronger, incorporating a PC into the entertainment center may become more common. For those with a taste for the new, the free Spreety e-book is worth a look.

Spreety@spreety.com

www.Spreety.com

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Growth is a nice problem to solve.

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Growth is a nice problem to have for any small business. What if your business went from 20 people a month to 200,000 a month in less than a year?

Spreety’s Guide to Watch TV Shows Online (http://Spreety.com) did just that, and 5 server upgrades later, decided to try something new: cloud computing.

With traditional server upgrades, the process was labor and planning intensive. Typically, the upgrade would involve a code and data freeze, extensive reinstallation, and patience while the domain name updates trickled through the Internet. While the upside of traditional servers is control, the downside is that the hardware had to be expensive enough to handle the peaks of activity.

Enter the cloud computing server solution. The cloud is an amorphous collective of computing power that is inexpensive and handles peak activity gracefully. Billing is based on usage.

“For a growing business, we no longer have to buy powerful machines in anticipation of peaks,” remarks Spreety co-founder Ron Laughton. “Spreety can now grow without interruption, and we simply pay as we go for only what we need.”

The vendor of choice was Mosso’s Rackspace Cloud. Other cloud solutions, such as Microsoft’s Azure, are coming soon.

Spreety@spreety.com

www.Spreety.com

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According to Spreety.com, the Internet has surpassed TV in content and delivery.

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A wireless computer stands where the TV once was. Gone are the cable box, DVR, DVD, AM/FM radio tuner, and multi-CD player. “The extra shelf space is nice,” comments Krista, co-founder of Spreety.com, “plus I enjoy home videos, photo slideshows, and e-mails from the comfort of my couch.”

What started in 2007 a way to save money by replacing cable TV pleasantly turned into an enhanced entertainment experience. During the next year, most of the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, MTV, etc.) decided to publish their shows online. The message is that anytime, anywhere is the future of entertainment.

For kids shows, Nick Jr., Cartoon Network, and Disney provide more than enough Dora, SpongeBob, and Mickey to suite any little one’s tastes. For Showtime and HBO, episodes are available on iTunes for $1.99. For classic shows, there are Scooby-Doo, Bewitched, Gilligan’s Island, and hundreds of others.

Beyond shows, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, ABC, etc. provide live news coverage. For sports, MLB, NHL, and the NBA have live games online for a nominal price. Sunday night NFL is free, as well NCAA football, basketball, NASCAR, and much more.

“There’s more than anyone can watch,” explains Ron, co-founder of Spreety.

So how does one find the great places to watch online? Spreety’s Guide to Watch TV Shows Online was invented for just that purpose, and is the first couch friendly guide for online TV.

Judging by the many people who have visited the Spreety site, it may be the beginning of a new trend. Will your next TV be a PC?

Spreety@spreety.com

www.Spreety.com

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How to find and watch TV shows on your iPhone with Spreety’s guide.

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The Spreety team is pleased to share that NBC, CBS, CW and others have limited full episodes and clips available to stream to your iPhone. They are free, legal, and do not consume the precious iPhone memory.

Full episodes include 30 Rock, Beverly Hills 90210, Buck Rogers in the 25^th Century, Crusoe, Days of our Lives, Heroes, Kath & Kim, Knight Rider, Life, Lipstick Jungle, MacGyver, My Own Worst Enemy, The Office, Smart Girls at the Party, Star Trek, and The Young and the Restless.

Webisodes and segments include Battlestar Galactica, Cartoon Networks’s, Flapjack, Disney’s Pixar Mater’s Tall Tales, The Late Show with David Letterman, Mythbusters, Criss Angel’s Mindfreak, as well as other selections on the ABC, Animal Planet, Biography, Discovery, E! Online, Food Network, G4 TV, and Travel Channel sites.

Previews, sports, and news clips are also available on CBS News, CBS Sports, ESPN, FOX Sports Network, MSNBC, and The Weather Channel.

Go to http://iphone.spreety.com/< with your iPhone Safari browser, and navigate to find the best mobile TV content. The content with stars will work on an out of the box iPhone, and the ones without may require PC / Macs from the main http://spreety.com/ site.

For additional information, watch the training video and visit http://Spreety.com

About Spreety, Inc.:

Spreety.com is the first couch friendly guide for online TV, and focuses on high production quality U.S. video and audio content. The new iphone.Spreety.com is the first iPhone friendly guide for online TV.

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With Hollywood, knowing the talk is part of walking the walk.

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With Hollywood, knowing the talk is part of walking the walk. So where can you learn the dynamic terminology of such a trendy industry?

Enter Hollywords, an encyclopedic dictionary of thousands of entertainment terms. Hollywords has been meticulously compiled since 2002, and a three thousand term subset is available on Spreety.com.

The terms span the sophisticated (i.e. avant-garde), to the technical (i.e. variable bit-rate encoding), to the pop-culture (chick flick). Everyone from a casual fan to a chiseled industry expert will find something new to learn.

“At Spreety, we were looking for a quality glossary to compliment our free Entertainment PC e-book. The Hollywords knowledge and depth far exceeded our expectations”, Ron Laughton, co-founder of Spreety’s Guide to Watch TV Shows Online.

“People often use slang and technical jargon to exclude the uninitiated from the inner circle. Hollywords breaks down these barriers and Spreety is an ideal platform to help us spread the word”, Richard W. Kroon, founder of Hollywords.

One question remains: will a word like Spreety ever make the Hollywords list? Only time will tell.

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www.Spreety.com

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