If it were about protecting AT&T's SMS cash cow, then why would Apple be offering a free push notification service in September? That'll work well for notification capability of lots of apps, not just IM.
One of my clients has DirecWay - their offices are in a warehouse row where DSL and cable companies aren't available... and this is in L.A.! The speeds are so-so, but the download cap is annoying. In any case...
At CES last week, DataBahn announced a satellite dish that provides satellite TV, unlimited broadband Internet access and up to ten telephone lines. It's the equivalent of a T1 telephone line (ostensibly, much faster than what DirecWay offers.)
They have a portable unit (for boaters, RV'ers, etc.) for $4,000 and $79 a month.
The company also has a permanently mounted dish for around $650 with $59 a month charges.
Congo made $81 million in the US alone... I'd hardly categorize it as a flop. I'm not saying the movie didn't suck balls (which it probably did) but Paramount doesn't regret making it.
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To sort the Now Playing list, hit these button on the remote, in this order:
Slow-mo ("S") Zero ("0") Record ("R") Thumbs-Up ("T")
"The documentation for iTunes has always stated that streaming outside of one's subnet was not possible, it isn't until now that this has been implemented. When I frist read about people being able to connect to iTunes outside of the system's subnet I thought it was total BS because it was contrary to the documentation."
Absolutely positively FALSE.
"Show Package Contents" of (the original) iTunes 4. Open the following file(s) in Safari:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Englis h.lproj/iTunes Help/pgs/695.html.
There you will see a note from the original help file: "You can also share your music with a computer that is not in the same subnet as you by setting up the other computer to look for shared music at your computer's IP address. "
Also:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Englis h.lproj/iTunes Help/pgs/705.html...where you will see: "To see the shared music on a computer that is not in the same network subnet as your computer, choose Advanced > "Connect to Shared Music," then enter the IP address for the computer."
This was an intended *feature* of iTunes 4! Not widely hyped for obvious reasons, taken advantage of website owners and hackers, blown out of proportion by the press, and ultimately removed by an overly cautious Apple. Ignorance wins out over elegance. The fact is, Apple did what they had to do for the iTMS to succeed. It's not like the hackers and pirates of the world will give up, they'll just turn to other (more efficient, I might add) methods. And the "regular folk" amongst us just lost a very cool tool.
Ironic that a Windows app (t Media Jukebox Plus) has had this feature for years and no one says a peep. http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/plus.ht ml (Check out the "Media Server" description.)
This program has offered this capability for a while, and not one eyebrow is raised! (Check out the "Media Server" description.) Leave it to Apple to intro a update with such grand fashion, that it gets everyone all hot and bothered about something that's nothing new.
Okay, now this is my coolest discovery in iTunes 4 yet: the library sharing works seamlessly *outside of your local subnet!* Yes, you read that right: you can easily share your entire music library with your friend in another location! Rendezvous is cool, but music sharing is even cooler when the person you're sharing with is in across the country. (Broadband is probably a prerequisite here, as network congestion could be a buzz-killer.)
In order to activate this, turn on sharing in the iTunes preferences. Also be sure to open port 3689 in your router or firewall (this is iTunes' port for sharing). Then, tell your buddy across town to open iTunes 4 and choose "Connect to shared music" from the Advanced menu. Then he types in your public IP address.
Voila! S/he will have full interactive access to your music library, as well as any playlists you decided to share. (The collection shows up in the left column, the same way local machines would show up via Rendezvous.) Let me reiterate, this is *not* merely a stream of what you are playing... this is your full library, with full listening priveleges. They can pick any song, pause, play, etc.
I imagine that some folks with the largest MP3 collection and a nice fat broadband pipe will share their libraries with friends this way!
(For those not already trying this, the iTunes sharing preferences allows you to select any or all your playlists, as well as dictate a password.)
Note also that this only works with current MP3's, as any purchased (AAC) files are authorized to work on up to 3 machines with your account only.
Now, once you enable sharing in your iTunes 4 preferences, create a playlist, and control-click it. Select "Copy Sharing URL."
Paste this into an email, and change the part after "daap://" to your actual external IP address.
Now you can send this *particular* playlist with a friend. Instruct them to paste this into "Connect to Shared Music" and they'll have immediate and full interactivity with the songs in that playlist. This works with individual songs too. Basically it's like emailing a "bookmark" to a particular playlist or song or your Mac, so you don't have to direct them where the song that you want them to check out, is.
This is a very big paradigm shift. I can't believe how easy it is. Too good to be true?
*Barely* a cell phone. Holding the thing to your ear feels weird, so the earbud is a necessity. Not to mention the voice plan prices suck. It's meant to be a data device, not a cell phone - and if it *is* a cell phone, then that's how they make their money back... by raping you on the voice usage.
Okay, if it's more than 700 MB of data, then a DVD-R would certainly be handy, but how long would it take to transfer all of that data to the laptop in the first place? Over Ethernet? Not to mention that DVD-R burning is decidedly slow these days, compared to 48x burning of CD-R's.
Yeah, it's a nice add-on for a laptop, but certainly not worth a premium price tag if you're looking for a way to back up a SEPERATE machine. You'd do it once and never want to waste all that time again.
Sure, everyone says, "I'm sure it exists," but I have yet to find ONE reputable service that accepts a shoebox of snapshots, scans them all in for you, and sends you back the shoebox along with a CD-ROM filled with high quality JPEGs.
A friend was looking for this type of service about a year ago, to assemble a huge family album online. He eventually gave up the search and scanned in everything himself.
I don't want to spend 6 months doing it myself, and I'm sure my equipment isn't the best for it. I'm not looking for software to help manage the arduous scanning process, I'm looking to pay someone to do it for me.
I'm thinking this is the perfect time for such a "transition" type of service. Too much labor involved? Not enough of a demand, or the costs don't work out right? Who knows -- but for now, I've looked into finding a company that offers this type of service, and constantly am coing up empty handed.
I'm not talking about printing digital pics, or even scanning in negatives. I'm talking about scanning in a shoebox filled with old snapshots, in the best and most efficient manner possible.
"For the first time, all the great features available on your main TV can be enjoyed on any TV in the home. With Moxi, your family can...
* enjoy digital cable in the living room
* watch last week's favorite sitcom in the den
* pause the ballgame in the bedroom
* listen to music in the study
...all at the same time!
The Moxi Media Center supports up to four TVs, each with their own dedicated audio or video stream. "
From the NewsExpress link:
"A user in one room could watch a television program - live or recorded - while someone in another room could watch the same program but also be able to pause it or otherwise control the video recorder. At the same time, yet another person in the house could use the media centre to listen to music files. "
These streams are independent from from each other. (Thus further alienating the family members. At least with TiVo, we gather 'round and watch our shows together.) In any event, this is a cool box, and I'm certainly drooling for one.
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If it were about protecting AT&T's SMS cash cow, then why would Apple be offering a free push notification service in September? That'll work well for notification capability of lots of apps, not just IM.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/iphone-push-notification-service-for-devs-announced/
This will change in September when Apple's free push notification service launches.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/iphone-push-notification-service-for-devs-announced/
OP here, I shopped around and found it for $570 after rebate:
t go &l=shopcart
http://www.abesofmaine.com/viewproduct.asp?id=t
$900 is just the "MSRP."
Here it is for $570 after rebate:s p?id=ttgo &l=shopcart
http://www.abesofmaine.com/viewproduct.a
MSRP, indeed.
This show wasn't cancelled... "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent" is still on G4TechTV.
Not that I *watch* it. I just wish they'd kept some sort of "general tech" news type show, like TechLive.
One of my clients has DirecWay - their offices are in a warehouse row where DSL and cable companies aren't available... and this is in L.A.! The speeds are so-so, but the download cap is annoying. In any case...
At CES last week, DataBahn announced a satellite dish that provides satellite TV, unlimited broadband Internet access and up to ten telephone lines. It's the equivalent of a T1 telephone line (ostensibly, much faster than what DirecWay offers.)
They have a portable unit (for boaters, RV'ers, etc.) for $4,000 and $79 a month.
The company also has a permanently mounted dish for around $650 with $59 a month charges.
888-GET-DATA
Congo made $81 million in the US alone... I'd hardly categorize it as a flop. I'm not saying the movie didn't suck balls (which it probably did) but Paramount doesn't regret making it.
To sort the Now Playing list, hit these button on the remote, in this order:
Slow-mo ("S")
Zero ("0")
Record ("R")
Thumbs-Up ("T")
You'll then get a new option at the bottom...
yes it works in DirecTiVo as well.
Anyone else watch the two MPEG videos of the presentation (linked 2/3 of the way down, on the right side of the Watch article?)
Damn, that UI looks damn sweet to me. A nice 3-D browser for selecting video content, even a passable visualizer for music playback.
Yep, I want one. I'd trade my (hacked) DirecTivo and (modded) Xbox for one of these babies!
"The documentation for iTunes has always stated that streaming outside of one's subnet was not possible, it isn't until now that this has been implemented. When I frist read about people being able to connect to iTunes outside of the system's subnet I thought it was total BS because it was contrary to the documentation."
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Englis h.lproj/iTunes Help/pgs/695.html.
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Englis h.lproj/iTunes Help/pgs/705.html ...where you will see: "To see the shared music on a computer that is not in the same network subnet as your computer, choose Advanced > "Connect to Shared Music," then enter the IP address for the computer."
t ml
Absolutely positively FALSE.
"Show Package Contents" of (the original) iTunes 4. Open the following file(s) in Safari:
There you will see a note from the original help file: "You can also share your music with a computer that is not in the same subnet as you by setting up the other computer to look for shared music at your computer's IP address. "
Also:
This was an intended *feature* of iTunes 4! Not widely hyped for obvious reasons, taken advantage of website owners and hackers, blown out of proportion by the press, and ultimately removed by an overly cautious Apple. Ignorance wins out over elegance. The fact is, Apple did what they had to do for the iTMS to succeed. It's not like the hackers and pirates of the world will give up, they'll just turn to other (more efficient, I might add) methods. And the "regular folk" amongst us just lost a very cool tool.
Ironic that a Windows app (t Media Jukebox Plus) has had this feature for years and no one says a peep.
http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/plus.h
(Check out the "Media Server" description.)
Here's the link to Media Jukebox: http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/plus.html
This program has offered this capability for a while, and not one eyebrow is raised! (Check out the "Media Server" description.) Leave it to Apple to intro a update with such grand fashion, that it gets everyone all hot and bothered about something that's nothing new.
Okay, now this is my coolest discovery in iTunes 4 yet: the library sharing works seamlessly *outside of your local subnet!* Yes, you read that right: you can easily share your entire music library with your friend in another location! Rendezvous is cool, but music sharing is even cooler when the person you're sharing with is in across the country. (Broadband is probably a prerequisite here, as network congestion could be a buzz-killer.)
In order to activate this, turn on sharing in the iTunes preferences. Also be sure to open port 3689 in your router or firewall (this is iTunes' port for sharing). Then, tell your buddy across town to open iTunes 4 and choose "Connect to shared music" from the Advanced menu. Then he types in your public IP address.
Voila! S/he will have full interactive access to your music library, as well as any playlists you decided to share. (The collection shows up in the left column, the same way local machines would show up via Rendezvous.) Let me reiterate, this is *not* merely a stream of what you are playing... this is your full library, with full listening priveleges. They can pick any song, pause, play, etc.
I imagine that some folks with the largest MP3 collection and a nice fat broadband pipe will share their libraries with friends this way!
(For those not already trying this, the iTunes sharing preferences allows you to select any or all your playlists, as well as dictate a password.)
Note also that this only works with current MP3's, as any purchased (AAC) files are authorized to work on up to 3 machines with your account only.
Now, once you enable sharing in your iTunes 4 preferences, create a playlist, and control-click it. Select "Copy Sharing URL."
Paste this into an email, and change the part after "daap://" to your actual external IP address.
Now you can send this *particular* playlist with a friend. Instruct them to paste this into "Connect to Shared Music" and they'll have immediate and full interactivity with the songs in that playlist. This works with individual songs too. Basically it's like emailing a "bookmark" to a particular playlist or song or your Mac, so you don't have to direct them where the song that you want them to check out, is.
This is a very big paradigm shift. I can't believe how easy it is. Too good to be true?
Get this: you can play music off ANY system... the sharing works over TCP/IP! Just unblock port 3689.
Standard restrictions on AAC files apply (you need to be "authorized") but MP3 files play fine.
Share with friends and family!
*Barely* a cell phone. Holding the thing to your ear feels weird, so the earbud is a necessity. Not to mention the voice plan prices suck. It's meant to be a data device, not a cell phone - and if it *is* a cell phone, then that's how they make their money back... by raping you on the voice usage.
A CD-R would do just as well. Or 2. Or 3.
Okay, if it's more than 700 MB of data, then a DVD-R would certainly be handy, but how long would it take to transfer all of that data to the laptop in the first place? Over Ethernet? Not to mention that DVD-R burning is decidedly slow these days, compared to 48x burning of CD-R's.
Yeah, it's a nice add-on for a laptop, but certainly not worth a premium price tag if you're looking for a way to back up a SEPERATE machine. You'd do it once and never want to waste all that time again.
Sure, everyone says, "I'm sure it exists," but I have yet to find ONE reputable service that accepts a shoebox of snapshots, scans them all in for you, and sends you back the shoebox along with a CD-ROM filled with high quality JPEGs.
A friend was looking for this type of service about a year ago, to assemble a huge family album online. He eventually gave up the search and scanned in everything himself.
I don't want to spend 6 months doing it myself, and I'm sure my equipment isn't the best for it. I'm not looking for software to help manage the arduous scanning process, I'm looking to pay someone to do it for me.
I'm thinking this is the perfect time for such a "transition" type of service. Too much labor involved? Not enough of a demand, or the costs don't work out right? Who knows -- but for now, I've looked into finding a company that offers this type of service, and constantly am coing up empty handed.
I'm not talking about printing digital pics, or even scanning in negatives. I'm talking about scanning in a shoebox filled with old snapshots, in the best and most efficient manner possible.
www.tivo.com
Everything you've described sounds exactly the new Moxi Media Center, announced yesterday at CES.
http://www.moxi.com/
From Moxi.com's description page:
"For the first time, all the great features available on your main TV can be enjoyed on any TV in the home. With Moxi, your family can...
* enjoy digital cable in the living room
* watch last week's favorite sitcom in the den
* pause the ballgame in the bedroom
* listen to music in the study
...all at the same time!
The Moxi Media Center supports up to four TVs, each with their own dedicated audio or video stream. "
From the NewsExpress link:
"A user in one room could watch a television program - live or recorded - while someone in another room could watch the same program but also be able to pause it or otherwise control the video recorder. At the same time, yet another person in the house could use the media centre to listen to music files. "
These streams are independent from from each other. (Thus further alienating the family members. At least with TiVo, we gather 'round and watch our shows together.) In any event, this is a cool box, and I'm certainly drooling for one.
Back to the question at hand, one Dr. Strange has compiled very detailed reviews and comparions of TiVo and Replay, as DirecTiVo and UltimateTV:
http://tivonews.com/features/comparison/
DirecTiVo is the way to go.
Unfortunately, Shenmue 2 never made it to the U.S. for Dreamcast! It was pulled at the last minute, and will now be an "X-Box Exclusive."
That's Microsoft for ya.
The Palm m500 and m505 have vibrating alerts too, you know.