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So after two people from team Boxee graced my comboxes in this post, I felt compelled to give it another shot. I bought a new 2GB Sandisk Cruzer Micro USB stick, ran the Patchstick creator, plugged it into the back of my Apple TV, and it worked. Further, I am glad that I [...]
On Sunday I spent a few hours trying to install Boxee on my Apple TV. Among other uses, Boxee allows you to watch various streaming web content providers through your Apple TV (ATV) on your television. The experience was very disappointing. To install Boxee on an ATV, you create a bootable [...]
This morning I clicked on a link that was supposed to go to a page on the Apple.com website, but I ended up on a Washington Post 404 “page not found” page. I went back to the referrer, checked the link, and it was properly set to go to apple.com. So I typed”www.apple.com” in my [...]
This is a quick one.
I bought a Kindle in late July, and immediately fell in love with it. It is light, very easy to use and to read, and buying content is almost too easy — you really have to exercise impulse control. One feature that isn’t exactly a secret but that does not get [...]
It’s not throttling. Since we don’t churn through our Netflix account, we’ve never really been subject to it.
Rather, it’s that they don’t process on Saturdays. It’s bugging me more this weekend because I forgot to mail a disc back on Thursday, and by mailing it on Friday instead I lose as much as [...]
In one of my earliest posts, I discussed my dissatisfaction with changes announced with my current hosting option for personal family photos, Phanfare. Months later, and it is coming close to the time when they are going to make everyone switch to the new version and shut down the old service.
I think I’m going [...]
My friend Joe recently wrote about a way to view the movies and other media you have stored on your computer on your TV. So now I feel I should finally get around to writing at least a brief Apple TV review.
The first thing to note is that this is called “Apple TV,” [...]
It is with considerable regret that I find myself looking, probably, for a new family photo hosting service. For little more than a year, I’ve used the Phanfare service, which I absolutely adore. The problem is that their business model hasn’t worked out, and they recently announced they will undergo significant changes. Much of [...]
My friend Joe has been doing research on home data storage, and sharing it on his blog. Separately, he emailed me about this 1 terabyte Western Digital drive. I am probably more interested in this version of the product, because it has an Ethernet connection, allowing access to the data from multiple [...]
