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Wookiee The Chew: Winnie The Pooh Retold With Star Wars Characters.
Wookie the Chew is a book by James Hance, where the Winnie the Pooh is combined with Star Wars-themed illustrations. Very cool!
(via Laughing Squid)
Plex and the Future of Television
September 3rd, 2010
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Plex » Plex and the Future of Television.
Great news from the Plex camp: Plex will be in next year’s LG Netcast TVs and Blu-ray players, giving those users access to a cloud based setup for all of the online content, as well as access to any local Plex media servers. Very cool!
This year’s Netcast Blu-ray players look to be around $160, which is very reasonable compared to the other options out there (Apple TV, Boxee Box, Roku, Google TV, etc.) and much cheaper than hooking up a Mac Mini to your TV.
The Plex team has also committed to bringing their software to other platforms in the future.
With all these announcements and upcoming launches of all platforms listed above, it’s an exciting time if you are interested in streaming content.
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Apple TV and AirPlay
September 1st, 2010
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After another cable purchase and the resulting failure to hook my iPad to my TV, I decided to order the new Apple TV. It fits my three needs: easy to use, streams Netflix, and streams my movies and TV shows off my main computer – all on the big screen. Rentals, YouTube, Flickr and I’m sure more to come are all icing on the cake. And for $99. Yes, please!
Speaking of “I’m sure more to come…”, this afternoon, after totally geeking out and watching the Jobs keynote in the car on my iPad with internet courtesy of my Android phone, I was thinking: what if the apps everyone had in their rumors is really AirPlay from your iOS4 iPhone or iPad?
A lot of the current apps wouldn’t make sense, but what about the ones that output video, like Hulu Plus, MLB.tv, ABC, and the coming HBO app? Totally would make sense. Games and many other apps? Not so much, but did you really think you’d be playing games through Apple TV? I sure didn’t — at least this next version.
And then this evening, Gruber said pretty much the same thing in a post on Roku vs Apple TV:
Roku does have other content, like, for example, MLB.tv. And the Apple TV doesn’t have an API for an App Store. But: what if Apple opens up AirPlay to iPhone and iPad apps? Then the iPhone/iPad MLB At Bat app could stream video to the Apple TV.
So I’m not crazy…
Anyway, something to think about if you are considering an Apple TV.
I’ll follow up with a review once I get it… sometime this month.
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The New Pornographers – Crash Years
September 1st, 2010
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I heart Neko Case.
I heart The New Pornographers.
(via Merlin)
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Link Noted on August 31, 2010
» Speech Accent Archive
» Speech Accent Archive
Listen to samples of text read by speakers from various regions of the United States and world. Very cool.
Link Noted on August 31, 2010
» Arcade Fire video for We Used to Wait off their new album... all in HTML5.
» Arcade Fire video for We Used to Wait off their new album... all in HTML5.
Amazing. If you haven't seen this yet, please do yourself a favor and check it out. Should work in any HTML5 compliant browser, but I'd recommend Google Chrome for the best experience.
Link Noted on August 30, 2010
» Your Brain on Computers - Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime - NYTimes.com.
» Your Brain on Computers - Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime - NYTimes.com.
Research has shown that downtime gives your brain the opportunity to take in experiences and create long-term memories... and that people learn significantly better after experiencing nature versus the information and noise barrage of an urban environment.
Nothing earth shattering and both seem pretty obvious, but I also think it's something we overlook pretty easily in today's tech dominant culture. I definitely need to break away more than I do -- especially to set a precedent for my girls.
Plex/Nine & Plex App Announced
August 30th, 2010
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Exclusive Hands-On With Plex/Nine For Mac OS X & Plex App For iOS Devices. (CrunchGear)
Amazing news!
Loved Plex when we had our Mac Mini attached to the HDTV. Incredible app. Now that the Mini is our main home computer, I’ll get Plex 9 on both the Mini and iPad so I can once again enjoy all of my media on the big screen.
Cannot wait to check out the iPad app – from the screenshot above and the CrunchGear article, it looks great.
I’ll report back once I can put both through some daily usage.
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Google Voice spiting out hip hop lyrics?
August 28th, 2010
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My wife accidentally dialed me while taking the girls across the street to play. Here’s the Google< Voice transcript. It is pretty close to being great hip hop lyrics. I can see it going well with the music from Soulja Boy. Word up!
All the phone here at of some of the before the 4th, alright. I’m going 5 right now, hey gimme the all, hey. 5th this evening. I’m getting if you’ve hello, the positions. Yes, bye date. Please. Hope you had with Sanford something out bye bye hey. Hey, what the plan, alright, I’ll, call go. Ohh, Ohh yeah I don’t know, ohh okay. Love you girl hey. Please get what you’re gonna be. Hey, Yes. What you gonna be fun. Alright, it’s for. I don’t know what I have somewhere. I’m gonna put in there bye. Hello. Hello.
First person to make this into a rap song gets a prize!
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Link Noted on August 26, 2010
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Leaked Screenshot Shows a Cleaner, Simpler IE9 | Webmonkey | Wired.com.
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Leaked Screenshot Shows a Cleaner, Simpler IE9 | Webmonkey | Wired.com.
So the next version of IE is going to look like Chrome?