Stuff I didn’t get to this week:
New Breed of Discussion Forums? (Tangler)
The Best Open Source Wiki? (They promise!)
Advertise your blog without completely selling out…
Booxter - the Delicious Library Nemesis?
Pecha-Kucha – Nerds get together
Technology destroying society? (I think not)
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Rants I need to write:
Even with the AppleTV hack, I still don’t get it. I’m not going to by a home entertainment center device that doesn’t do everything. This thing has no optical drive, and has a very small hard drive with little room for upgrading since it’s a 2.5″ laptop drive. So I’m forced to do everything over my network, including buying movies. It all seems very limiting to me.
My plan would be to spend an extra couple hundred on a used Mac Mini, and hack it instead. This way I have my optical drive for DVDs, so I can watch/rip at the same time, I have room for a larger hard drive for local access, so I don’t always have to send stuff over the network or add an external drive, and when it gets outdated, I can use it as a computer! The AppleTV is so limiting because it does one thing, and one thing only.
I don’t get the craze over it except for all the psycho Apple fanboys (hey, I’m a fanboy, just not psycho) wanting something Apple in their living room.
Read the article that started this rant: Apple TV Hacked from Paul Stamatiou
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