HDTV != HD
¶ by Rob FrieselVia /.: 50% of HDTV Owners Don’t Use HD. The lesson here: DON’T SKIMP ON CABLES. currently playing: The Clash “Train In Vain (Stand by Me)”
Via /.: 50% of HDTV Owners Don’t Use HD. The lesson here: DON’T SKIMP ON CABLES. currently playing: The Clash “Train In Vain (Stand by Me)”
Call it one of those “lazy web” requests: Can someone please build a Rendezvous/Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf extension for Firefox? Porchdog made Howl with a Bonjour-esque ZeroConf plug-in for Internet Explorer as an out-of-the-box demo of the API.
Greg Westin has a good redux on semi-securely enabling WebDAV on an OS X box. What’s good about the article is that it uses iCal‘s “private server” publishing scenario as a use case and goes from there. He does a pretty good job of describing how to set up WebDAV in Apache and then how […]
Via Gizmodo: Bios Magazine reports on ION’s unfortunately named “ITTUSB” turntable which apparently pumps the vinyl goodness direct to your Mac/PC over USB. While not priced as low as Griffin’s iMic, at $139 it might be a more than perfectly affordable solution for someone looking to rip down their tracks from vinyl. This will probably […]
Via Smart Mobs: Celebrities Looking Bad in HDTV: Silly Talk or Serious Issue? “With high-definition television facial imperfections and ageing signs are dramatically visible.” [Philip Swann of TVPredictions.com] said many celebrities were “scared to death” by the technology. Poetically judicial, perhaps? Almost makes you wonder if HD is the death knell of “the Media made […]
The headline should have been “TiVo! Inexplicable, Unwanted Features For Everyone!” Wasn’t the point to skip commercials? Or if not the point, at least a major benefit? Or have we officially entered some sort of Wallace/Cronenberg alternate reality? Really and truly frightening.
Downloaded and installed the Bad Behaviour WordPress plug-in to combat some recent spammy comments that have been trying to sneak through. Kinda makes me wish I lived in Russia… UPDATE: So far, no good. It’s tracking failures but I’ve still gotten close to 50 comment spam attempts already this morning… Yargh! So we’ll turn verbose […]
Via TUAW: the Internet iTunes Registry – – upload the XML dump of your iTunes Library and join the info smorgasboard! On first glance, this seems an awful lot like a variation on what I was talking about recently in “programming serendipity” – – it’s a little too soon for it to be “the lazy […]
Paul Thorrott over at “SuperSite for Windows” posts part two of his Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X “Tiger”, breaking down the key parts that are to give two cents about. Best line out of the whole thing: My educated guess is that Vista won’t be as secure as OS X, however, because […]
Hot on the heels of my last rumination on the subject, the (so-called) rumors start flying about the next Mac mini release being A/V-oriented as something of an Apple PVR/media center device. TUAW and Gizmodo both follow-up on the ThinkSecret post that highlights the “Kaleidoscope” Mac mini as scheduled for release come MacWorld in January. […]