This is awesome software. I’ve been following the development of this “media sharing” tool for some months now. Previous versions were a bit slow and flakey. But now (version 0.7.8) it looks solid enough to begin testing.
Among it’s many cool features is an extension which allows you to browse, post and edit on your blog.
Great move by Apple. Being able to watch movies and TV shows on the seatback displays is huge.
This guy has figured out how to be a marketing juggernaut. Borat, or Mr. Cohen, has combined comedic talent with viral marketing, underground buzz, and blatant promotion to create what will probably be a hugely lucrative stint. I have not yet seen his latest movie, but I plan to.
I mention it here because I have found more often than not, that if I listen to my student assistants (at a university), I will have a better than average sense of the latest craze somewhat ahead of its mainstream media debut. I’ve often come across some very impressive web applications long before they become popular (Flickr, MySpace and Delicous are a few that students turned me on to years ago).
In this case, I discovered Borat several months ago, but was tuned into his sub-culture popularity by an astute (yet misunderstood) high-school student named Jayson. Now that Borat is destined to hit the big-time, I’m sure that Jayson will move on to the next blockbuster, sub-culture craze. And I will be listening to him.
This is an interesting hack of the iSight. It is embedded code to allow local activation of an iSight. I’m not clear on whether or not this represents a security risk, since it isn’t clear if this can be done remotely.
See it here: http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/7409
Apparently, this network connection error has been experienced by more than a few Entourage users in Mac OS X. After scouring several forums, it appeared that the few solutions had to do with contacting an ISP and notifying them of the problem. This sounds suspiciously like MS is passing the buck.
I’ve found the problem seems to be fixed by unchecking both the “Send commands to server simultaneously” box and the “Live Sync” box.
