"XPlay can copy music and video off iPhone, iPod touch, Nano (5th generation), and Shuffle (3rd generation, but cannot copy music and videos to the those devices for playback."
I said sync, not copy the music off the device but can't add music. I would suggest you read before posting.
Did you read it before you posted the link?
I'm already using MGtek's plugin on MCE (works fine, but I have to pay for something that should be drag&drop and free in MCE)
http://www.mgtek.com/dopisp/
I dock the iPhone, and it syncs on MCE, popping the green "new stuff detected do you want to sync" or something similar, I just press the button on the MCE remote.
I bought it a couple of years ago, but why should I have to pay to have my Media payer behave like all others do.
Thanks to Steve and his reality distortion field...
1- lifting the stupid Rogers 10MB limit on 3G. I have a 6GB/mo plan, I want to use it as I want. (Skype works now on 3G) 2- Better tethering from PDAnet than from Apple. faster too 3- Background apps 4- I can customise and remove unneeded icons from the springboard 5- Allows me to install *FREE* apps that are not available in Canada's store but elsewhere (kinda stupid restriction) 6- Homebrew software. 7- better control over the device 8- can now use it as a USB key 9- many others...
Guess what device will be jailbroke next by those guys? iPad.
Cydia fixes it for you, if you're willing to spend 2 minutes to jailbreak the thing.
Blackra1n, WinPwn, and many others, I jailbroke mine with something else on OS X running on a PC netbook (10.6.2, Atom, even if Steve doesn't want it to run)
Last time I used Quickpwn I think (modified the firmware on my netbook and flashed it on my PC)
That proprietary music player will never catch on. Yet all the younger people I meet have a iPod Touch or a standard iPod. I myself used to have a 40GB iPod, and now own an iPhone.
iTunes might seem evil on some platforms (and on Windows it's a bloated &*^%$%^& piece of *&^%$, but on a MAC (or Hackintosh), it's really nice.
Now, what they need to do is two little things.
Make the freaking player look like a standard USB drive to the computer. if it's DRM'd, fine, go with iTunes, but for other stuff, let it act as a USB key (like other MP3 players)
And allow an iPod to sync with other media players, like Media Center...
Like it or not, MCE is really nice and gets the job done, not like Snapstream who promised integration 3 years ago and ditched all their customers. (i've got two licenses here, sitting on my mail server, BTV and Beyond Media bought on a promise that Snapstream would merge the product in 5.x, along with their Firefly remote).
That one really cracked me up. in TFA it says that file gets replaced by a newer version. Guess which anti-virus couldn't make heads or tails about waht to do with it?
My netbook runs XP, Linux and OSX. It has a non-reflective screen and can multitask.
The iPad doesnt' multitask, can't run plugins, and has a *I can see myself in the screen* screen.
Besides, it has an IPS screen, much too expensive since it doesn't have anti-glare. Give me a TN screen at a much lower price and anti-glare. We don't need IPS for a disposable device...
Back in CEGEP (college) we had something similar. It was a stand-alone transparent LCD monitor that was used with a overhead projector. That was for Autocad R12, so around '94 if memory seems right.
The difference is OLED screens emit their own light. thus no need for a backlight. I'm wondering if we'll still have glowing apples when Apple switches to OLED.
The rear-view mirror on my Grand Marquis does that when some moron is following me with his high-beam on. And Boeing is using something similar to replace shades in the new 787.
Another genius idea from the studios. And how's this supposed to reducepiracy how exactly? THat's just giving people *another* reason to download instead.
Weird, because on both XP and 7 (on two different machines), the external USB drives are set for quick removal by default (meaning cache is disabled by default).
Slashdot Mirror
I use those on mine, and can use it in the sun
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27882
I hate glossy screens...
Using Paint Shop Pro 7 here :) Does the job fine...
The splashscreens are from MAC, but the screenshots from Windows :)
"XPlay can copy music and video off iPhone, iPod touch, Nano (5th generation), and Shuffle (3rd generation, but cannot copy music and videos to the those devices for playback."
I said sync, not copy the music off the device but can't add music. I would suggest you read before posting.
Did you read it before you posted the link?
I'm already using MGtek's plugin on MCE (works fine, but I have to pay for something that should be drag&drop and free in MCE)
http://www.mgtek.com/dopisp/
I dock the iPhone, and it syncs on MCE, popping the green "new stuff detected do you want to sync" or something similar, I just press the button on the MCE remote.
I bought it a couple of years ago, but why should I have to pay to have my Media payer behave like all others do.
Thanks to Steve and his reality distortion field...
They can't have even the TV right...
I jailbroke mine for a couple of reasons.
1- lifting the stupid Rogers 10MB limit on 3G. I have a 6GB/mo plan, I want to use it as I want. (Skype works now on 3G)
2- Better tethering from PDAnet than from Apple. faster too
3- Background apps
4- I can customise and remove unneeded icons from the springboard
5- Allows me to install *FREE* apps that are not available in Canada's store but elsewhere (kinda stupid restriction)
6- Homebrew software.
7- better control over the device
8- can now use it as a USB key
9- many others...
Guess what device will be jailbroke next by those guys? iPad.
Cydia fixes it for you, if you're willing to spend 2 minutes to jailbreak the thing.
Blackra1n, WinPwn, and many others, I jailbroke mine with something else on OS X running on a PC netbook (10.6.2, Atom, even if Steve doesn't want it to run)
Last time I used Quickpwn I think (modified the firmware on my netbook and flashed it on my PC)
Works fine...
Kinda like iTunes...
That proprietary music player will never catch on. Yet all the younger people I meet have a iPod Touch or a standard iPod. I myself used to have a 40GB iPod, and now own an iPhone.
iTunes might seem evil on some platforms (and on Windows it's a bloated &*^%$%^& piece of *&^%$, but on a MAC (or Hackintosh), it's really nice.
Now, what they need to do is two little things.
Make the freaking player look like a standard USB drive to the computer. if it's DRM'd, fine, go with iTunes, but for other stuff, let it act as a USB key (like other MP3 players)
And allow an iPod to sync with other media players, like Media Center...
Like it or not, MCE is really nice and gets the job done, not like Snapstream who promised integration 3 years ago and ditched all their customers. (i've got two licenses here, sitting on my mail server, BTV and Beyond Media bought on a promise that Snapstream would merge the product in 5.x, along with their Firefly remote).
Already does this using the hardware in the phone. I use it on my iPhone. It's also available for Android, Palm, Blackberries and Winmo.
(can also use USB for tethering, works better than Apple's own)
http://www.junefabrics.com/index.php
That one really cracked me up. in TFA it says that file gets replaced by a newer version. Guess which anti-virus couldn't make heads or tails about waht to do with it?
:)
Microsoft's own...
MSE offered me to report it to MS, which I did
Skynet sends a terminator to kill Sarah Connor...
Coming from a religion where a Camel is worth more than a woman, it really doesn't surprise me.
They force their women to wear tents over their heads, and have no respect for other cultures.
I am not surprised at all... Bring it on, flame me, insult me, I don't even fscing care.
Between killing someone (or myself) or blowing my engine, i'll kill the engine. It can be replaced. A life can't...
My netbook runs XP, Linux and OSX. It has a non-reflective screen and can multitask.
The iPad doesnt' multitask, can't run plugins, and has a *I can see myself in the screen* screen.
Besides, it has an IPS screen, much too expensive since it doesn't have anti-glare. Give me a TN screen at a much lower price and anti-glare. We don't need IPS for a disposable device...
Darn you, Beat me to it... :)
Like the Apollo 13 reference :)
midi-chlorians prety muched killed it for me
So just use one of them.
(hint: I'm typing this on a PC running OSX and never even touched rebelEFI)
Back in CEGEP (college) we had something similar. It was a stand-alone transparent LCD monitor that was used with a overhead projector. That was for Autocad R12, so around '94 if memory seems right.
The difference is OLED screens emit their own light. thus no need for a backlight. I'm wondering if we'll still have glowing apples when Apple switches to OLED.
The rear-view mirror on my Grand Marquis does that when some moron is following me with his high-beam on. And Boeing is using something similar to replace shades in the new 787.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochromic_devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochromatic
Use it at the top of the windshield then. for non-vital info (ie: don't replace the instrument cluster)
Another genius idea from the studios. And how's this supposed to reducepiracy how exactly? THat's just giving people *another* reason to download instead.
2GiB max file size on HPFS.
Like it or not, NTFS is here to stay, and can be read by almost all modern OSes. (write support is available trough NTFS-3G on Linux & OS X)
Okay, works in Finder too, but again, why the limitations?
no 64-bit love for OS X...
Mac OSX 10.5 and above (Intel and PowerPC) 32bit kernel only (from the website)
Since it works within the browser, why the limitation?
Weird, because on both XP and 7 (on two different machines), the external USB drives are set for quick removal by default (meaning cache is disabled by default).