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  • More thoughts on the Info Pyramid

    Stephen Downes noticed my post among others yesterday with regards to the info pyramid. He commented that there was “still no learning” even though I offered an alternative. In my defense, I am of the mind that one can learn from just about anything, but more to the point, the consumption of information at home…

  • Setting up your Mac to stream to an X360 or PS3

    SMB is certainly the easiest way to get media shared out to playback devices. Setting up an SMB share is quite trivial on Windows, Mac and even Linux. This makes it easy to get all your content in one place and then access it where you want to. This is great for most devices, except…

  • AppleTV experiment continues

    A while back there was an Airport update (7.4 I think) that while it added all sorts of features if you were a MobileMe user, it basically cratered the speed of the network for doing useful things like SMB mounts and streaming video. Thankfully on the Airport, it is easy to roll back drivers. One…

  • AppleTV sales boom

    It seems that I caught the wave of a boom in AppleTV sales (which explains why they were hard to find as well). I agree with ATVHacks that it might have something to do with people staying home and Boxee/XBMC, but I think there is another factor. The easy of hackability and integration into a…

  • Thoughts on Audio and Video

    It is interesting to see that Hollywood has had its head in the sand for the last few years as the Music industry has been dealing with pirates and is only now starting to try to put the genie back into the bottle (NYT). Worried more about streaming than downloading, the Studios seem to be…