Pocketable Gear Talk
If your like me I have a Ninja or two on my Christmas list. If someone one your list has a set of those two toed sock shoes I just found you a perfect gift for them.
There not really throwing stars. Well designed magnets. My oldest son is going to love these. No he is not a REAL Ninja.
Anyone else here using the Boxee.tv Alpha? Looks pretty cool. It’s meant for use on the Apple TV. However they have a MacOS X version.
Boxee has a cool idea. It links all your TV/Music and other video in one place. The key here is that it also links you to the network run TV show sites like Hulu, CBS.com, etc. This way you don’t have to URL browse for your favorite shows. A couple clicks through the Boxee UI and your linked to your favorite shows. It has a few minor glitches right, but it’s only a Alpha right now.
I am using it on my MacBookPro. Most of the shows I like are on CBS.com or Hulu. I may be re-evaluating my need for TIVO. Domino’s Pizza is not my favorite anyway.
Boxee also offers Netflix download customers the ability to watch downloaded movies. This is all the rage these days. The PS3, XBOX 360, TIVO and many other set top boxes are signed with Netflix. I use Blockbuster’s service, but it is getting hard not to switch with all the options that NetFlix is offering.
Time will tell if Boxee.tv will last. I frankly believe it will be something I use at first. I’ll enjoy the experiance, but see the lack of a feature or two that something else will offer and I will stop using it.
It’s all over the Internet. AT&T is going to offer iPhone tethering. The only question still outstanding is how much it will cost. Most rumor sites agree somewhere around $30.00.
I don’t really have need for it these days. I used tethering quite bit a few years ago. These days WiFi is almost everywhere. I also find myself using my iPhone for tasks that I use to pull out the lappy for.
I would like to see some info about how the connection is going to be made. A bluetooth connection in combo with a 3G tether will drain the iPhone battery pretty quickly. Let’s hope those of you that decide to subscribe can us it via USB also.
I saw this great tip on Lifehacker via a link from a Facebook friend. My Apple Airport does not have this setting but I thought I would pass it along to your guys that do. Hope it helps.
WEP Wi-Fi security has been known as an easy-to-crack security protocol for a while now, which is why it was superseded by the more secure Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) standard. But now a PhD candidate studying encryption has found an exploit in the WPA standard that would allow a hacker to “send bogus data to an unsuspecting WiFi client,” completely compromising your Wi-Fi security and opening your network to all sorts of hacking. Lucky for you, it’s not terribly difficult to protect yourself against the new exploit.
The key: Just log into your router, switch off Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) as an encryption mode, and use Advanced Encryption System (AES) only. TKIP is the only protocol that the hack applies to, so switching to AES-only will ensure that your Wi-Fi network is safe again. It’s quick and easy, so do yourself a favor and make the adjustment now so you don’t run into any problems in the future.
via [Lifehacker]
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog has started and interesting discussion about a rumored Apple product that has yet to be released.
I think it’s a MacMini without a CD/DVD drive. Built for none laptop users. Built for office situations. Like most of the Dells and IBM machines we had or have at our desks.
Everything has moved to the cloud. No need for huge hard drives and removable media in today’s office situation.
I think it will be about the size of a XBOX360 power supply.
Macenstein via TUAW
The iPhone 2.0 and 3G update tour is now up on the Apple website. Some new fetures came out in this that I did not know about.
Microsoft Exchange
As I understood the previous releases concerning MS Exchange, it was to support .MAC/MobileMe customers. The video confirms that normal Business Exchange accounts can be synced. No word if iCal is getting an update to sync with Exchange. Let’s hope so.
Email Document Support
MS PowerPoint and iWork documents are now supported.
Photo Saving
Photos email to you can be saved in the camera roll area.
Email Deleting and Moving
Emails can now be mass deleted or mass moved. Great!
ooooo, oooooo Mr. Kotter, where has PocketUp been for the past few months?
I was on hiatus. Ok I was working a real job. Yes 50-55 hours a week slaving away like the rest of you slugs. They went belly up so I am bellying back up to the keyboard and blogging for food.
The site got hacked so I yanked everything down back in January. Like that day I realized the Micheal Knight poster on my wall was no longer cool, I ripped it all down. No backed up databases or anything like that, too easy. So I’m starting from scratch.
In the next few days I’ll be diving into my Mac Mini Media Center project again. It’s almost done and boy is it cool. You’ll see 2 terabytes of backed-up DVDs, 52″ of 1080p glory. You’ll all just have to wait.
Looks like I am getting this started again right around iPhone 2.0. What’s next for WindowsMobile, Nokia, and RIM. They all have new things working right now.
I am also opening up the posting to a select few. I will even offer up your very own ad space. So get your adwords.google.com account up and running and drop me a line. I need some WindowsMobile and Nokia geeks to pound away on their keyboards.
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