Archive | March, 2007

Three days of Apple TV: pros and cons

Posted on 31 March 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!After three days using it, here are my first comments.
Pros:- finally, I can watch video podcasts. While I’m in front of my laptop, I’m usually distracted by other tasks, while on my sofa I can really enjoy them. ScobleShow [...]

Apple TV: software update

Posted on 30 March 2007

Playing with my new Apple TV I’ve found what I think to be a feature that will become more and more important in the near future: Software Update.
Prediction: many of the hacks we are reading about during these days will turn into reality pretty soon. What exactly? New video codecs and the ability to buy [...]

Apple TV arrived

Posted on 29 March 2007

Today my AppleTV has finally arrived.

It looks exactly as I expected and it’s really plug and play, for everyone not only for geeks.
Unfortunately the wireless sync process takes much time, that’s the reason why I would have preferred to have the ability to make the first synchronization through USB.
Will I substitute the 40HDD with a [...]

Jajah numbers

Posted on 29 March 2007

The 2M registered users that Jajah announced a few days ago is really a great success.
On the other hand, I ask Jajah’s guys:
- active users: how many of those 2M have logged in during the last month ?- paying users: how many of those 2M have paid (charged their credit) in the last month ?
I’m [...]

Barablu mobile VoIP, I give up

Posted on 29 March 2007

After having received three or four comments on this blog from (I think) people from Barablu who recommended that service to me, I finally tried to sign up and use it.
Unfortunately, I have to give up. The signup process is painful and the download of the application for my mobile phone through a SMS is [...]

Joost works on AppleTV

Posted on 28 March 2007

It’s confirmed. What does it mean ? It means that AppleTV, for only 299$, can become much more that what is supposed to be.
tutorialninjas.net has reported success in running Joost on the Apple TV. There are currently some problems with fonts but I am sure this will be fixed in a near future… [...]

Video library ready for Apple TV

Posted on 28 March 2007

Using this tip, it took two nights to convert all my video library, that is 110 MPEG 2 videos, made with my Panasonic camcorder, 8GB total. I kept quality high.
Now everything is ready for my Apple TV, that I should receive tomorrow.
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