Save the Date for WWDC07: “Join developers and IT professionals from around the globe as they come together for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007.”
Uncle Greg, Can I go? Please, Can I? Come On! Rob will look after me!
My work buddy diatoid just purchased a MacMini for use in the living room, and is pretty happy with using it as a home entertainment system – especially as we just figured out how to stream DivX movies from his linux server to the FrontRow interface: You just mount a network drive and create a symlink from the /Volumes/MountedShare in your /Users/username/Movies/ folder.
I have been pondering a Home PC / Network Entertainment system for a while, especially since I have a load of DivX movies (legal backups). Wouldn’t it be nice to play movies on your big screen plasma just like playing from a DVD jukebox? What about streaming music?
A few months ago I switched from using ZoneAlarm Security suite to Windows Live OneCare. My main motivation was the cost, as I had just bought my lovely wife a laptop, and was not too thrilled about spending more money on a separate security suite for that pc. At the time the I switched I got 90 days free, and so I thought hey, why not.
Since then our main home pc has become so slow, that my wife has stopped using it. Then today I read on the BBC that it has failed *another* security test. Microsoft’s response: “We are working on it”.
On friday I got accepted into the beta program of Joost – which is going to be, I am pretty sure, the next big thing on the internet. The company founders started something called “Skype” a few years ago, and after their 2.6 Billion dollar buyout by Ebay – they took a couple of years off and then began their new project – peer to peer on demand television.
I first saw a potential for this sort of technology when I saw a colleague of mine watching some peer to peer pirate feed of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. I had paid for what I now believe was a pirate feed. I really felt a sucker as his feed seemed more reliable.
