EZtv has been down and hopefully will return soon. luckily there is a twitter link for all my program needs, but this has caused showrss to be super flaky.
I've found though i don't really mind checking the twitter feed and just downloading a show. I check it in the morning or maybe at night and just download the programs i want. actually it's not to much of a pain.
I do miss the automation that TVrss provided with the tvshows app
:(
Friday, July 24, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
i want an itouch
but i can't justify paying 229 because i really just want it as a remote control...
but now that the rumour mills say it will include a microphone, its gets more tempting
but now that the rumour mills say it will include a microphone, its gets more tempting
Monday, July 20, 2009
Too much?
this is a rant of sorts:
i used to collect music. i figured i wanted to have it in case i wanted to listen to anything. i also sometimes use music as temporary guide tracks when editing video so i figured the more the better. i also know people who have hundreds of dvds.
i think this is the interesting thing about streaming movies and music. i am currently in the process of removing music from my itunes and pairing down the movies i keep around on my hard disk.
having so much stuff makes it harder to find and focus on the movie i really want to see or i spend so much time skipping bad music i own, or something i am not in the mood for i end up listening to the same old playlists. because more and more stuff is available online i am less likely to stockpile music and movies for no reason.
I'm not going drastic, but realistically i don't think i am going to watch american buffalo again. or i may need ever miles davis album ever (though i'm not ready to delete those yet)
but i find it interesting, even with the ability to store lots and lots of stuff, sometimes our brain can't parse through with getting a little lost. i read unclutterer.com, who would have thought i needed to unclutter my digital life. i can always re-order it from netflix.
i used to collect music. i figured i wanted to have it in case i wanted to listen to anything. i also sometimes use music as temporary guide tracks when editing video so i figured the more the better. i also know people who have hundreds of dvds.
i think this is the interesting thing about streaming movies and music. i am currently in the process of removing music from my itunes and pairing down the movies i keep around on my hard disk.
having so much stuff makes it harder to find and focus on the movie i really want to see or i spend so much time skipping bad music i own, or something i am not in the mood for i end up listening to the same old playlists. because more and more stuff is available online i am less likely to stockpile music and movies for no reason.
I'm not going drastic, but realistically i don't think i am going to watch american buffalo again. or i may need ever miles davis album ever (though i'm not ready to delete those yet)
but i find it interesting, even with the ability to store lots and lots of stuff, sometimes our brain can't parse through with getting a little lost. i read unclutterer.com, who would have thought i needed to unclutter my digital life. i can always re-order it from netflix.
i love understudy
I have been playing with Understudy and i love it.
it's a little too simple sometimes but that's it's beauty. it is great to watch youtube and hulu and Netflix... simple, legal, and did i mention simple.
it doesn't have all of boxee's features but maybe that's not a bad thing.
it installs into front row seemlessly and just rocks.
i will test if i can make a daily show feed one day soon but i think if i can i may not have a use for boxee.
if it auto-updated that would be great too, but whatever.
it's a little too simple sometimes but that's it's beauty. it is great to watch youtube and hulu and Netflix... simple, legal, and did i mention simple.
it doesn't have all of boxee's features but maybe that's not a bad thing.
it installs into front row seemlessly and just rocks.
i will test if i can make a daily show feed one day soon but i think if i can i may not have a use for boxee.
if it auto-updated that would be great too, but whatever.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
more to come
hello,
i am writing this to let you know more posts are coming. i think there haven't been drastic changes but lots of little things including the death of TVrss and EZtv being down.
along with some other thoughts including my dream of an SSD (solid state drive) instead of SATA (not happenin anytime soon but i can dream), thoughts about a new mac mini, about netflix and hulu. and so on.
life's been busy with work, a vacation and one of the rooms in my apartment not having any walls currently (not a joke - i may upload a picture or two, probably not) but i am still thinking about the whole media center stuff from the small piddly tech stuff, to the bigger implications and how important an internet connection and so on.
hopefully i;ll get some of this down sometime soon
i am writing this to let you know more posts are coming. i think there haven't been drastic changes but lots of little things including the death of TVrss and EZtv being down.
along with some other thoughts including my dream of an SSD (solid state drive) instead of SATA (not happenin anytime soon but i can dream), thoughts about a new mac mini, about netflix and hulu. and so on.
life's been busy with work, a vacation and one of the rooms in my apartment not having any walls currently (not a joke - i may upload a picture or two, probably not) but i am still thinking about the whole media center stuff from the small piddly tech stuff, to the bigger implications and how important an internet connection and so on.
hopefully i;ll get some of this down sometime soon
Friday, June 19, 2009
RSS/automation fun
What a pain in the butt it has been with TVrss gone away and tvshows app not working.
i tried the rss plug in for vuze...horrible experience...
but at this link someone posted a great way to download tv automatically
from the post:
showRSS (http://showrss.karmorra.info) is a website that allows you to create a custom RSS feed of your own TV shows.
Automatic (http://codingcurious.com/automatic/index.html) is an app that monitors feeds and downloads files with elegance. Most importantly it's smart enough to recognize season and episode data as well as repacks.
it took 3 minutes to set up
YAY
i tried the rss plug in for vuze...horrible experience...
but at this link someone posted a great way to download tv automatically
from the post:
showRSS (http://showrss.karmorra.info) is a website that allows you to create a custom RSS feed of your own TV shows.
Automatic (http://codingcurious.com/automatic/index.html) is an app that monitors feeds and downloads files with elegance. Most importantly it's smart enough to recognize season and episode data as well as repacks.
it took 3 minutes to set up
YAY
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