tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2179416561348915162009-12-08T16:35:50.819-05:00interesting thoughts about having a mac media center.Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-46574123530276220782009-07-24T21:30:00.003-04:002009-07-24T21:34:46.219-04:00

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

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-21363885295249233562009-07-24T21:29:00.002-04:002009-07-24T21:29:48.298-04:00

This is a great post about having a mac media center I love tuaw

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-88812782162938769422009-07-21T20:19:00.001-04:002009-07-21T20:19:22.679-04:00

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

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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

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-34029896896680356872009-07-20T00:20:00.000-04:002009-07-20T00:20:09.399-04:00

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

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-66903251955827654792009-07-15T08:09:00.003-04:002009-07-15T08:16:10.552-04:00

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

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-55025261976272865732009-06-19T20:33:00.001-04:002009-06-19T20:34:50.431-04:00

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

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this unclutterer link is great just for the line "Has peeling potatoes got you down?"has peeling potatoes ever gotten you down?

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-7162353415281640032009-06-02T07:06:00.000-04:002009-06-02T07:06:36.171-04:00

so TVrss is down for what looks like ever. so my tvshows app is broke. feedmytorrents.com is down.. so currently the best part of my system, the automation is gone.. will work on it and figure out what works best...

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-84716523056335254762009-05-28T20:12:00.000-04:002009-05-28T20:12:00.376-04:00

Hulu has created it's own app... no wonder they dissabled apps like boxee from acces tuaw reviewed it here i actually think this is a good thing...

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-87285453698627979232009-05-21T20:02:00.000-04:002009-05-21T20:02:09.045-04:00

so i've avoided this because, well really i've just been lazy, but i've wondered for a while. how do you listen to music at home? do you run all your music through an ipod, if so through a stereo or a dock type speaker? do you keep all of it on a mac/pc, and if so do you use computer speakers? a stereo. anyone still using cd's? I have ALL my music on a hard drive hooked up to my mac mini. I

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macosxhints has this great hint for automating your tv shows downloading if you don't want to use the tvshows app or an rss feed inside vuze or something

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-4125930832446375912009-02-27T22:14:00.001-05:002009-05-07T15:05:34.860-04:00

I've previously raved about dropbox, but now they are doing the referral thing - aka if i refer you we each get 250 mb more space- so for the 1.5 of you reading this here's a link btw i use dropbox daily. great for freelancers who don't neccesary have an office. you can upload through the web and it's darn handy. also good for multiple computers... UPDATE: use the link from the person who

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-49918919493061730292009-04-22T10:37:00.000-04:002009-04-22T10:38:13.196-04:00

so one of the things that's annoying my recently about my whole setup is that i plug my ipod in to sync and then to have the podcasts updated and deleted if i've heard them it's a 3 step process.  Plug in ipod - refresh podcasts - resync ipod - eject.which mean i have to go to another computer to do. yuk. i created an automator action/applescript that was supposed to do this but it only wokrs

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-22179405338911597082009-04-16T12:53:00.002-04:002009-04-16T12:57:16.430-04:00

Hey this is becuase of a conversation i had yesterday. here are bittorrent basic from life hacker, instead of writing all the stuff over again i think LH does it betterhere's the basicsthen read the intermediate stepand finish up finish up with some tips, i don't find them as useful, but you may.

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hey so in thinking about all this torrent stuff i realize a flaw/lie or something in all this media center stuff. I have it all automated - shows automatically download, go to their proper folder, and i don't need to do a thing. but i do, i tend to check it often, I futz with it all the time. I don't need to, but i do. It's a little bit of a hobby now. Now it doesn't need to be, if i let it

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-46463732545987287072009-01-14T20:36:00.006-05:002009-04-15T18:32:17.412-04:00

This is totally unrelated to media centers, but if you have more than one computer or need to access some files from work and home, you should signup for dropbox. basically this works like an idisk only better. once you install it you have a folder and anything you drop into it sync up in the internets/clouds/ or magic genie box in the sky. and then it does a bunch of cool things 1) if you have

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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/coming-next-using-your-pc-as-a-cable-box/ btw the most illuminating part "Why should you care? Because ultimately this is what's needed to move from a broadcast world—where you have a choice of a few hundred available channels—to one where your cable system will let you watch any program you want when you want to watch it. (Sort of like the Internet, huh?)

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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/how_bittorrent_.html

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-87270589012469469992009-04-02T15:00:00.001-04:002009-04-02T15:00:46.429-04:00

So i want to go see the Watchmen, and i am looking for a specific theater. It's not on fandango, not on moviefone. so i googled it. Google shows all the movie theaters in town and is such a nicer cleaner interface. gotta love Google

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-15180577800280935072009-04-02T08:55:00.004-04:002009-04-02T08:59:16.523-04:00

so I find that recently "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" torrents on tv.rss haven't been uploaded particularly quick (the torrent files not the seeding speed), so if you need your fix quicker go to The PirateBay or Demonoid and search for elokb (bloke backwards) - who ever he (she?) is the post really quickly with good quality.

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-62827040657496773672009-04-02T08:52:00.001-04:002009-04-02T08:58:46.096-04:00

i'm not the biggest sports fan, but i know many are so i love that one of my favorite sites EZtv - (just?) opened a sports site ezsports.tv.i found out about it as part of their april fools joke, but it seems real.

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-2575516546755245882009-04-01T12:26:00.000-04:002009-04-01T12:27:41.647-04:00

here's an old but great tip to watch cspan on your mac

Invisible Mannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217941656134891516.post-13713440777602398362009-03-30T20:16:00.004-04:002009-03-30T20:21:10.083-04:00

i think it's fun to notice what free swag gets handed out - like at conferences and suchat one point it was ipod shuffles, before that it was those cd business cards that never worked in my slot loading cd drive.Thumb drive are always a big easy one,but now the big give away item seems to be collapsable bags and big canvas bags to, you know, save the earth and use less plastic.interesting (at

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here's a link:http://torrentfreak.com/bartor-enters-bittorrent-barcode-scanning-market-090325/cool article about being able to scan a barcode - search for a torrent based on that bar code and viola

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